Use case
Best SaaS Boilerplate 2026
There is no best SaaS boilerplate, and any list with a number one is selling the thing it names. There are four corners of a market, and the right kit depends on which corner your product lives in.
We sell one of the kits on this page, so read the last section as interested and the rest as the map we wish someone had drawn for us. The question "what is the best saas boilerplate" gets asked as if the kits were interchangeable and only the feature count differed. They are not. ShipFast and Supastarter are both excellent, and picking one for the other's job is the single most common way to end up rewriting in month four.
The useful move is to sort the market by what each kit optimises for. Four corners cover almost everything sold in 2026.
The map
The market, by what each kit optimises for
Finished app you prune / One surface
B2C speed
One Next.js repo, a landing page, a checkout, and a first sale this week. Small on purpose, so one person can hold the whole thing in their head.
- ShipFast
- Divjoy
Finished app you prune / Web, mobile, extension
Multi-platform kits
Web, Expo mobile, and a browser extension from one monorepo, every feature present from the first clone.
- TurboStarter
Empty app you compose / One surface
B2B depth, and free scaffolds
Organizations, roles, seat billing, super admin, five payment providers. Or, at the free end, a typed empty project you fill in yourself.
- Supastarter
- MakerKit
- create-t3-app
Empty app you compose / Web, mobile, extension
Compose and multi-surface
An MIT template with web, admin, mobile, extension, and desktop already wired, and a CLI that writes only the features you ask for.
- Hype Stack
Placement is our judgement from each product's own pages, and the bottom-right cell is ours, so weight it accordingly. Nothing in the other three cells is a foil: each is the right answer for the product it names.
Two things about that map are worth saying out loud. First, the bottom-right cell is nearly empty because composing features on request needs a CLI, a registry, and codemods, which is machinery a cloned kit does not need. Second, the top-left cell has the most customers, because most products that get started are one web app made by one person, and for those ShipFast's refusal to add structure is exactly right.
Side by side
The four paid kits people actually shortlist, on the questions that separate them. Cells where a competitor wins are marked as wins, because a table that only ticks one column is a brochure. create-t3-app is left out of the table on purpose: it is a free scaffold, so every row after the first would read "yours to write", which is the point of it and not a mark against it.
Prices are as listed on each vendor's page at the time of writing, most of them shown as discounts from a higher regular price, and all of them move. Treat the row as the shape of the market rather than a quote.
Entry price for one developer
Open source. You write the features.
One-time, listed as a discount from $299.
One-time, listed as a discount from $349. Lifetime updates.
One-time, one developer seat.
Template free under MIT. Paid packs downloaded in the year stay yours.
Figures from each product's pricing page as listed at the time of writing. Team tiers run higher on every kit that has them: Supastarter to $1,499 for ten seats, Hype Stack to $1,399 a year for unlimited seats.
How to choose
Four questions decide it, and the order matters, because the first one that returns a clear answer usually settles the rest.
Ask these in order
Is this product one web app, or a product that happens to have one?
If a mobile app or a browser extension is on the roadmap, only the right-hand column of the map applies. Bolting Expo onto a web kit later means a second codebase talking to an API designed for one client, and that port costs more than any kit.
Do customers sign up as people or as companies?
Companies mean organizations, roles, invitations, and billing per seat, and retrofitting tenancy touches most of the data layer. If the answer is companies, ShipFast and create-t3-app are the wrong start regardless of price.
Would you rather delete or compose?
A full kit is faster on day one and heavier on every day after. A composable template is slower to a first screen and never holds code you did not ask for. Teams that know their feature list tend to prefer the first; teams that expect it to change prefer the second.
Who is going to write the second half?
Every kit here covers auth and billing. None of them covers the feature that is your actual product, and if a coding agent is going to write that part, the kit's rules for agents matter more than its component library.
The belief that sends people to the wrong cell
The kit with the longest feature list is the safest choice, because I can always delete what I do not use.
Every feature you remove is a diff you own and a merge conflict you will meet on the next upstream update. A kit with six billing providers is six providers in your tree until you prune it. Buy for the features you will ship, not the ones you could.
A free scaffold is a toy, and a real product needs a paid kit.
create-t3-app and the free Hype Stack template both give you a typed, tested project with a database and an auth hook. What free does not cover is the second layer: organizations, billing webhooks, admin. Roughly thirty working days of it, which is the layer paid kits actually sell.
A one-time price beats a yearly one, full stop.
A yearly licence that gates new downloads, not code you already have, costs $299 for a team that installs what it needs in month one and stops. A one-time kit costs less over three years if you keep merging its updates. Do the sum for how often you expect to want the next feature.
The first belief is the expensive one. It is how a two-person B2B tool ends up on a B2C kit with a rewrite in month four.
Where we sit, stated as interested
Hype Stack is the bottom-right cell. The template is MIT and ships a React 19 web app, a Hono backend on Postgres, a separate admin app, an Expo mobile app, and a Chrome, Edge, and Firefox extension, all typed against the same routes. Five packs are free on top of it, including a Better Auth starter, teams, and projects. The paid catalog covers the SaaS starters with organizations and roles, three billing providers, notifications, calendar, AI chat, whiteboard, and newsletter, each written into your repository as source by one command.
That shape is worse at the thing ShipFast is built for. Three deployables and a local setup that starts with Docker are a real cost for a product that never grows past one box. It is better at the thing the other cells do not cover: a second surface and a second developer without a port.
Below is the stack this page recommends for a B2B product: the WorkOS starter, the basic dashboard layout, and Stripe billing. If the map put you in a different cell, the comparison pages linked above are written to send you there.
What is Hype Stack?
Every product starts with the same month of work nobody pays you for: sign-up and login, teams and permissions, taking payments, notifications, an admin panel to run the business. Hype Stack is that month, already built and tested. Start from the free open-source app, add the pieces you need with one command, and keep going on the part that is actually your idea.
Everything lands as real code in your own repository, so there is nothing to rent and nothing anyone can switch off. For the engineers: React 19, Hono, Postgres, and a desktop build, typed end to end.
See it running
Templates are curated project starters built on this stack: a layout, feature packs, a custom theme, and bonus pages. The previews below are recordings of the real apps.
Packs in this stack
Every pack ships real source code: frontend, backend, and admin surfaces where the feature needs them. The ones this stack installs come first; the rest can be composed in later.
Two ways to install features
Same features underneath, different starting point. Either command resolves what the packs depend on, copies the source into your repository, and merges the Prisma schema.
Take a template
A landing page, a design system, a themed layout, and the features already wired into it. Rebrand it, put your product in the middle, ship.
npx @hype-stack/cli template$ hype-stack compose
Compose your own design
Your design and your choices, without rebuilding auth, billing, or notifications. Tick the packs you want and the CLI wires them into the open-source starter.
npx @hype-stack/cli composeQuestions, answered
More stacks
Turn your ideas into
Real applications.
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