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Macaly Pro is now $30/mo for 5 published apps and 10M credits (was $25/mo with unlimited published apps). A new Max plan is $90/mo for 15 apps and 30M credits. Team plans with client workspaces are Team $150/mo, Agency $350/mo (10 members, 50 sites) and Scale $750/mo. Free and Starter ($10/mo) are unchanged.
Rewrote the Macaly vs Lovable comparison (What you pay and both FAQs) for the new plans, removing the old Pro $25/mo unlimited-apps wording.
Updated the Greptile vs CodeRabbit comparison (pricing, small-team math and the per-developer FAQ) and the testing and code review category guide to Greptile’s credit-only Pro plan: $1 per credit, shared across the organization, unlimited developers, no seat fees. The startup offer now reads 500 free credits a month for 6 months for pre-Series A teams.
Greptile Pro is now prepaid credits at $1 each, shared across the organization, with unlimited developers and no seat fees (previously $30 per active developer a month with 50 credits each). Starter stays free for 1 developer with 50 credits a month, and pre-Series A startups now get 500 free credits a month for 6 months. Score unchanged.
The CopilotKit vs Vercel AI SDK compare and the Agent frameworks guide now describe CopilotKit Intelligence pricing (free hosted 1,000 interactions/org/mo, free local Developer Edition, Pay as you go $49/mo with 10,000 interactions) instead of the retired Copilot Cloud plans.
CopilotKit replaced its Copilot Cloud Developer/Pro/Team plans with CopilotKit Intelligence: free hosted use with 1,000 interactions per organization a month, a free local Developer Edition, Pay as you go at $49/mo including 10,000 interactions, and custom Annual plans. The SDKs stay MIT and free. Score unchanged.
Hero now has Build my stack, Browse categories and Compare tools buttons; homepage search falls back to guides and comparisons and supports arrow keys and Escape.
New Buyer guides block and a refreshed Popular comparisons row (with a link to all comparisons); category cards show the top tool’s score.
Lighter muted text for contrast, visible keyboard focus outlines, and tighter mobile spacing. The /advertise/ page explains how we measure traffic (Cloudflare Web Analytics).
New guide at /best/auth-pricing-at-100k-mau/: monthly cost at 100,000 users for WorkOS ($0), Better Auth and Auth.js ($0 per user), Supabase Auth ($25 on Pro), Firebase Auth with Identity Platform (about $275), Clerk (about $1,025), Kinde (about $1,534 to $1,601), Descope (about $4,549 to $4,749), plus Auth0 and Stytch, which don’t publish a self-serve price at that volume.
New /compare/kinde-vs-workos/: user pricing (WorkOS free to 1M MAU; Kinde 10,500 MAU then $0.0151 to $0.0175 each), SSO (Kinde Plus $75/mo with unlimited SSO vs WorkOS $125 per connection) and billing.
All prices re-checked on the official pricing pages on 2026-10-25. No scores changed.
Upstash Redis free tier corrected to 250 MB of data and 500K commands a month (previously listed as 256 MB). Confirmed on upstash.com/pricing/redis on 2026-10-25.
Re-checked Amazon SES, Mailgun, Vibe Otter and Xata against their official pricing pages on 2026-10-25: no pricing changes.
Paveo now lists a Free plan for anyone ($0 forever), Team at $15 per developer a month for up to 25 developers, and Custom pricing above 25 developers. The earlier Developer, Company, Team $99 and Business $299 tiers are no longer shown. Confirmed on paveo.dev on 2026-10-24.
Parallax (Conifer) now sells plans from $5/mo: Parallax $5/mo, Plus $10/mo with $10 of API credit, and Pro $50/mo with $55 of API credit. Sign-up includes free DeepSeek and GLM models and 5 free reviews. Confirmed on conifer.build/parallax on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked Firebase Authentication, Loops, Matt Pocock Skills, MongoDB Atlas, Plausible, Playwright MCP and Plunk against their official pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
GBrain now sells two plans: Personal $49/mo (AI Password Manager, shared memory and skills) and Teams $199/mo per workspace with $100 of AI credit each month. The separate $19/mo Tools license is no longer listed. Confirmed on gbrain.io/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Lium price snapshot refreshed: on 2026-10-24 listings included H100 80GB from $1.70/hr, a B200 at $5.50/hr, and GPUs from $0.30/hr. Confirmed on lium.io/pricing.
Re-checked Drento, Flowmaps, Gemini CLI, GitHub MCP Server, Glxymesh, Google Analytics, Gumroad, Hivelane and Loops against their official pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
Kinde charges 0.7% per transaction on Free and Pro, 0.6% on Plus and 0.5% on Scale when you bill your customers through Kinde. Confirmed on kinde.com/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked Context7, Creem, Descope, Dodo Payments and Fathom against their official pricing pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
Polar now lists four plans: Starter (free, 5% + 50¢), Pro $20/mo (3.8% + 40¢), Growth $100/mo (3.6% + 35¢) and Scale $400/mo (3.4% + 30¢). Confirmed on polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/fees on 2026-10-24.
QA Wolf now publishes pay-per-run pricing: $1 per test run on web and Electron on Linux, $2 on mobile or desktop, up to 5 minutes per run, with retries and AI included; new teams get free runs to start. Confirmed on qawolf.com/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked Playwright, Pydantic AI, Qodo and Railway against their official pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
Momentic now lists its paid plan: Pay-as-you-go at $125/mo with 10,000 credits, then $0.01875 per credit; Enterprise is custom. Confirmed on momentic.ai/pricing on 2026-10-24.
OpenAI Codex pricing now shows ChatGPT Pro at $100, $200 or $500/mo and Business at $20/seat/mo annual or $25 monthly. Confirmed on developers.openai.com/codex/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked OpenAI Agents SDK, OpenUI, Paddle and PlanetScale against their official pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
GitHub Copilot Free now reads 2,000 completions a month plus limited chat and agent usage. GitHub's plans page no longer lists a fixed 50 chat requests. Confirmed on github.com/features/copilot/plans on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked Figma Make, Firebase, Firebase Studio, Fly.io, Framer and Kiro against their official pricing pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
Devin Teams now shows the per-seat price: $80/mo for the team plan plus $40/mo per full dev seat, up to 200 users. Confirmed on devin.ai/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Agent-Native is MIT-licensed (not ISC), per the LICENSE file in the official BuilderIO/agent-native repo linked from agent-native.com.
Re-checked Base44, Bolt, Browserbase, Claude Code, Cloudflare Workers and Cursor against their official pricing pages on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
Arcmira now shows its permanent Free plan (1,000 credits a month, 2 monitored names, no card; the newest 30 days of media are withheld) alongside the 7-day Pro trial. Confirmed on arcmira.com/pricing on 2026-10-24.
Re-checked Aider, Auth0, Better Auth, Cline, Convex and CrewAI against their official sites on 2026-10-24: no pricing changes.
New 3-way guide at /best/supabase-auth-vs-clerk-vs-auth0/ comparing free tiers, cost at 50,000, 100,000 and 200,000 users, and SSO. Clerk, Supabase and Auth0 pricing pages re-checked on 2026-10-23.
The Best Firebase alternatives and Best Supabase alternatives guides now quote Appwrite’s plans, re-checked on appwrite.io/pricing on 2026-10-23: Free covers 75,000 MAU across 2 projects (paused after a week idle); Pro is from $25/mo per project (+$15 per extra project) with 200,000 MAU, 150 GB storage and 2 TB bandwidth, then $3 per 1,000 extra users.
Worked example at 300,000 MAU: Appwrite Pro about $325/mo, Supabase Pro about $675/mo, Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform about $1,195/mo. No scores changed.
Five tools added as normal listings after the makers were offered a free spot. Each was scored with the standard rubric from its own site, README, npm and GitHub data checked on 2026-10-23 (no hands-on testing). Nobody paid; none carries a Sponsored label.
Pizza Bot is the open-source Amazon-developed inbox (github.com/pizza-bot-app/pizza-bot, Apache-2.0), not the unrelated Slack bot at pizzabot.app.
Three new "In the news" items from official sources: Supabase apps can ship their own MCP server (Oct 22), Supabase Agent prompts for checking production with a coding agent (Oct 20), and Cursor cloud agent canvases plus a beta Environments API (Oct 16).
Shorter search titles on pricing pages for tools with long names. Autumn sources now point to its docs (the github.com/useautumn/autumn repo returned 404 on Oct 23). No score changes.
New /compare/appwrite-vs-firebase/ page: free plans (Appwrite 75,000 MAU and 2 GB storage, idle free projects pause after 1 week; Firebase Spark with Firestore 1 GiB, 50K reads and 20K writes a day and 50,000 auth MAU, but Cloud Functions and new Cloud Storage buckets need Blaze), paid pricing, cost at 300,000 MAU (Appwrite Pro about $325/mo vs about $1,195/mo for Firebase auth with Identity Platform), and which to pick. firebase.google.com/pricing checked on Oct 22, 2026. Linked from the Firebase alternatives guide and the Supabase vs Appwrite compare. No score changes.
New /compare/supabase-vs-appwrite/ page: free plans (Supabase 50,000 MAU and 500 MB database; Appwrite 75,000 MAU and 2 GB storage; both pause idle free projects after 1 week), Pro pricing (both from $25/mo; Supabase 100,000 MAU then $0.00325 each, Appwrite 200,000 MAU then $3 per 1,000), cost at 300,000 MAU, and which to pick. supabase.com/pricing and appwrite.io/pricing checked on Oct 22, 2026. Linked from the Supabase and Firebase alternatives guides. No score changes.
New /compare/supabase-auth-vs-auth0/ page: user pricing (Supabase Free 50,000 MAU, Pro from $25/mo with 100,000 MAU then $0.00325 each; Auth0 Free to 25,000 MAU, then per-MAU tiers), cost at 10,000, 40,000 and 100,000 MAU, MFA and SAML SSO pricing, and which to pick. supabase.com/pricing and auth0.com/pricing checked on Oct 22, 2026. Linked from the Auth0 alternatives guide. No score changes.
Appwrite pricing re-checked on 2026-10-22: Pro is from $25/mo per project (+$15 per extra project) with 200,000 MAU included, then $3 per 1,000 users, plus $10 a month of database compute credits; Free covers 75,000 MAU, 2 GB storage, 5 GB bandwidth and 750K executions, with 2 projects that pause after a week idle. Clerk Pro now includes 1 enterprise SSO and 1 Directory Sync connection per app ($75/mo per extra connection). No scores changed.
New /best/firebase-auth-alternatives/ guide ranking Clerk, Better Auth, Supabase Auth, WorkOS, Kinde, Auth.js, Auth0, Descope and Stytch against Firebase Authentication, with why people leave (Spark-plan email quotas, per-message SMS on Blaze, $0.015 per SAML/OIDC user, lock-in), cost at 10,000 and 100,000 MAU, moving users with Firebase’s scrypt hash parameters, and FAQs. Identity Platform pricing, Firebase Auth limits, the Firebase CLI export docs and the Clerk, WorkOS and Supabase Firebase migration docs re-checked on 2026-10-22. Linked from the Auth category guide and the Clerk, Auth0 and Firebase alternatives guides. No scores changed.
New /compare/clerk-vs-workos/ page: user pricing (Clerk free to 50,000 retained users per app, then $0.02 each; WorkOS free to 1 million active users), SSO and SCIM connection pricing (Clerk Pro includes 1 of each, then $75/mo; WorkOS $125/mo each), free-plan features, and which to pick. Prices checked on clerk.com/pricing and workos.com/pricing on Oct 22, 2026. No score changes.
New /best/auth0-alternatives/ guide ranking Clerk, Better Auth, Supabase Auth, WorkOS, Kinde, Firebase Authentication, Auth.js, Descope and Stytch against Auth0, with why people leave Auth0 (per-MAU paid plans, B2B features gated, Okta ownership), free plans, cost at 10,000 and 50,000 MAU (from published rates and Auth0’s own pricing calculator), moving users with bcrypt password hashes, and FAQs. Prices and limits re-checked on auth0.com/pricing, clerk.com/pricing, better-auth.com/pricing, supabase.com/pricing, workos.com/pricing, kinde.com/pricing, firebase.google.com/pricing, cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing, descope.com/pricing and stytch.com/pricing, plus the Auth0 export docs and the WorkOS, Kinde, Better Auth, Supabase, Descope, Clerk and Firebase migration docs, on 2026-10-17. Linked from the Auth category guide and the Clerk alternatives guide. No scores changed.
Turso’s tool page now notes that Turso announced on Oct 2, 2026 that it is being acquired by Supabase (Turso says its platform keeps running and Turso Database stays open source). No score change.
New /best/neon-alternatives/ guide ranking Supabase, Prisma Postgres, Turso, Nhost, Cloudflare D1, Xata and PlanetScale against Neon, with Free-plan CU-hour suspension and scale-to-zero cold starts, free plans, cost for an always-on 8 GB app (computed from list rates), pg_dump and logical-replication migration notes, and FAQs. Prices and limits re-checked on neon.com/pricing and Neon docs (plans, scale to zero, backups), supabase.com/pricing, prisma.io/pricing, turso.tech/pricing, Cloudflare D1 pricing, nhost.io/pricing, xata.io/pricing and planetscale.com/pricing, plus the Supabase and PlanetScale Neon migration docs and Turso’s Oct 2 Supabase announcement, on 2026-10-17. Linked from the Databases category guide and the Supabase alternatives and database guides. No scores changed.
New /best/clerk-alternatives/ guide ranking Better Auth, Supabase Auth, WorkOS, Kinde, Firebase Authentication, Auth.js, Auth0, Descope and Stytch against Clerk, with why people switch, free plans, cost at 100,000 users (computed from list rates), moving users with bcrypt password hashes, using Clerk with Supabase, and FAQs. Prices and limits re-checked on clerk.com/pricing, better-auth.com/pricing, supabase.com/pricing, workos.com/pricing, kinde.com/pricing, firebase.google.com/pricing, cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing, auth0.com/pricing, descope.com/pricing and stytch.com/pricing, plus the Clerk, Better Auth, WorkOS, Kinde, Descope, Supabase and Firebase migration docs, on 2026-10-17. Linked from the Auth category guide. No scores changed.
New /best/supabase-alternatives/ guide ranking Neon, Convex, Prisma Postgres, Appwrite, PocketBase, Firebase, Nhost and Xata against Supabase, with project pausing, free plans, cost at small and medium scale, pg_dump migration and auth user export notes, and FAQs. Prices and limits re-checked on supabase.com/pricing and Supabase docs, neon.com/pricing, prisma.io/pricing, convex.dev/pricing, appwrite.io/pricing, nhost.io/pricing, firebase.google.com/pricing, xata.io/pricing and the PocketBase FAQ on 2026-10-17. Linked from the Databases category guide and the Firebase alternatives and database guides. No scores changed.
New /best/vercel-alternatives/ guide ranking Cloudflare Workers, Railway, Netlify, Render, Coolify and Dokploy against Vercel, with Hobby vs Pro limits, free tiers, first paid steps and FAQs. Prices re-checked on vercel.com/pricing, vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby, Cloudflare Workers pricing, netlify.com/pricing, railway.com/pricing, render.com/pricing, coolify.io/pricing and dokploy.com/pricing on 2026-10-17. Linked from the Hosting category guide and related lists on cheapest-hosting, Heroku alternatives and deploy guides. No scores changed.
Vitest (87, Testing & code review) was added at ~4:40 PM PT, verified on 2026-10-17 from vitest.dev (v5.0.5), its GitHub repo (MIT) and npm. The Testing category guide gained a unit and component tests section and an FAQ on unit vs end-to-end tests. 150 tools.
Cloudflare Web Analytics (75, Analytics & monitoring), free cookieless traffic stats with real-user Core Web Vitals, was added at ~2:40 PM PT, verified from cloudflare.com/web-analytics and the Cloudflare Web Analytics docs (about, limits, FAQs, get started) on 2026-10-17. Added to the Best web analytics guide and the Analytics category guide, plus a new /compare/cloudflare-web-analytics-vs-vercel-web-analytics/ page. 146 tools.
New /best/firebase-alternatives/ guide ranking Supabase, Convex, Appwrite, PocketBase and Nhost against Firebase, with free-tier limits, first paid plans, official migration paths and FAQs. Prices re-checked on firebase.google.com/pricing, supabase.com/pricing, convex.dev/pricing, appwrite.io/pricing and nhost.io/pricing on 2026-10-17. No scores changed.
New /compare/openpanel-vs-umami/ page with cost at 100K, 1M and 10M events, session replay, self-hosting licenses and FAQs. Prices re-checked on openpanel.dev/pricing and umami.is/pricing on 2026-10-17. No scores changed.
Greptile (79, Testing & code review), an AI code reviewer that indexes your whole codebase, was added at ~12:30 PM PT, verified from greptile.com/pricing and the Greptile docs on 2026-10-17. Added to the Best AI code review tools guide, plus a new /compare/greptile-vs-coderabbit/ page. 145 tools.
New /compare/dokploy-vs-railway/ page: self-hosted Dokploy (77) vs managed Railway (80), with plans, per-second usage rates, what running your own VPS involves, and 3 FAQs. Prices checked on dokploy.com/pricing and railway.com/pricing on 2026-10-17. No scores changed.
ThumbGate (68, MCP servers), an MIT-licensed pre-action firewall that checks Claude Code, Cursor and MCP agent tool calls in the PreToolUse hook, was added at ~10:35 AM PT, verified from thumbgate.ai, GitHub and npm on 2026-10-17. Its outbound link is a partner link (rel="sponsored"); that does not affect its score. 144 tools.
Dokploy (77, Hosting & deploy), OpenPanel (78) and Rybbit (77) (Analytics & monitoring) were added at ~9:20 AM PT, verified from official pricing pages, docs and GitHub on 2026-10-17. 144 tools.
New compares with sourced pricing and FAQs: Dokploy vs Coolify, OpenPanel vs PostHog, Rybbit vs Plausible and Rybbit vs Umami. Prices re-checked on 2026-10-17 on the Dokploy, Coolify, OpenPanel, PostHog, Rybbit, Plausible and Umami pricing pages.
The web analytics guide now includes OpenPanel and Rybbit, plus new sections on free plans, cost at 100K a month, self-hosting, replays and MCP access. The cheapest-hosting and Heroku alternatives guides add Dokploy (it can build with Heroku buildpacks). The Hosting and Analytics category guides are updated.
New guide ranking Railway (80), Render (79), Coolify (78), DigitalOcean App Platform (75), Northflank (72) and Fly.io (68) as Heroku replacements, with how each one handles Procfiles, release commands, scheduled jobs and Postgres.
Facts checked on 2026-10-17 against Heroku’s pricing and Feb 2026 update, the Railway, Render and DigitalOcean Heroku migration guides, and each host’s pricing page. Fly.io Managed Postgres pricing ($38/mo Basic) is noted.
The Hosting category guide and the cheapest-hosting guide now link to it.
Added bolt.diy (74) and Open Lovable (63) to AI app builders, verified from their GitHub repos, docs and Firecrawl’s pricing page on 2026-10-17. 141 tools.
bolt.diy is the MIT-licensed, self-hosted version of Bolt that works with 22+ model providers including local models. Open Lovable is Firecrawl’s MIT example app that builds React apps from chat or rebuilds an existing website, using your own Firecrawl, model and sandbox keys.
New guide: Best open-source Lovable alternatives (Dyad, bolt.diy, Open Lovable, OpenCode, Kilo Code, Cline). New compares: bolt.diy vs Bolt, bolt.diy vs Dyad and Open Lovable vs Lovable. The free AI app builders guide and App builders category guide are updated.
Added Nhost (76) to Databases & backends and Emergent (74) and Macaly (70) to AI app builders, verified on official pricing pages on 2026-10-17. 139 tools.
Nhost is an MIT-licensed Postgres backend with GraphQL, auth, storage and functions: free Starter (1 project, 1 GB database), Pro from $25/mo with $15 compute credits.
Emergent: Free 10 credits/mo, Standard $20/mo ($17 annual), Pro $200/mo ($167 annual). Macaly: Free 1 published app, Starter $10/mo, Pro $25/mo, Agency $350/mo.
New compares: Supabase vs Nhost, Emergent vs Lovable, Macaly vs Lovable and Coolify vs Railway. The free AI app builders and database guides gained the new picks.
Added Rork (78), Dyad (78), Bubble (71) and Anything (70) to AI app builders, verified from official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-17. 136 tools.
Rork builds native SwiftUI and Kotlin apps for both app stores (Free designs only, Pro $20/mo); Dyad is a free, open-source desktop builder that uses your own model keys (Pro $20/mo); Bubble is free to build with 500 AI credits a month, with web plans from $32/mo and mobile from $49/mo; Anything has no free building plan, with Pro at $24/mo ($19 annual).
Best AI app builder for mobile apps now covers 6 builders. New compare pages: Rork vs Anything, Rork vs Replit, Bubble vs Lovable, Dyad vs Lovable. The App builders category guide and the free AI app builders guide are updated.
Added Kilo Code (83), Jules (74) and Augment Code (70) to Coding agents, verified from official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-17. 132 tools.
Kilo Code is MIT-licensed and free for individuals (inference billed separately, with free models available); Jules gives 15 free cloud tasks a day, with more through Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo); Augment Code has no free plan and starts at $20/mo flat for up to 50 seats with $20 of usage.
New compare pages: Kilo Code vs Cline, Jules vs OpenAI Codex, Augment Code vs Claude Code. The Coding agents category guide and the free and best AI coding agent guides are updated. Roo Code is not listed: its open-source repo was archived in May 2026.
Kilo CodeAdded · score 83 · AI coding editors & agents
JulesAdded · score 74 · AI coding editors & agents
Added Coolify (78), DigitalOcean App Platform (75), Northflank (72) and Heroku (66) to Hosting & deploy, verified from official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-17. 129 tools.
Coolify is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host (Coolify Cloud $5/mo for 2 servers); DigitalOcean App Platform hosts 3 static sites free and containers from $5/mo; Northflank’s Sandbox has 2 free always-on services and 1 free database; Heroku has no free plan (Eco $5/mo, sleeps after 30 min) and moved to sustaining engineering in February 2026.
Cheapest way to host a vibe-coded app now covers 10 hosts, with a new section on running many apps on one server and free tiers that never sleep. The Hosting category guide is updated. New compare pages: Heroku vs Render, Heroku vs Railway, Coolify vs Vercel, DigitalOcean App Platform vs Render.
New three-way guide at /best/stripe-vs-lemon-squeezy-vs-paddle/: what each takes on a $20 subscription, who handles sales tax and VAT, international and subscription surcharges, and which to pick for a new app. Fees re-checked on Stripe, Paddle and Lemon Squeezy pricing pages on Oct 17, 2026.
New comparisons: Stripe vs Paddle, Stripe vs Lemon Squeezy, and Lemon Squeezy vs Stripe Managed Payments. Scores are unchanged.
The last three category pages now open with a short buyer intro and a "How to choose" section: MCP servers for any stack vs for services you use, plus safety tips; full-process skills vs single habits, stack-specific skills and how to install them; TypeScript vs Python agent frameworks, agents that reply with UI, and what you actually pay.
Each page adds an FAQ with FAQPage structured data. All 13 category pages now carry buyer guidance. Facts come from tool data verified Oct 15–16, 2026; scores are unchanged.
AI coding agents, AI app builders and Testing & code review category pages now open with a short buyer intro and a "How to choose" section: editor vs terminal vs cloud agents, free ways to start and lock-in; which builder fits which app, free plans and how paid usage is billed; E2E tests, AI pull-request review and guardrails for agents.
Each page adds an FAQ with FAQPage structured data and links to the matching guides. All prices come from tool data verified Oct 15–16, 2026; scores are unchanged.
Hosting, Databases and Auth category pages now open with a short buyer intro and a "How to choose" section: frontend cloud vs server host, free-plan catches and first paid step; backend platform vs database only, Postgres vs SQLite vs documents; hosted auth vs library, free monthly users and SSO costs.
Each page adds an FAQ with FAQPage structured data and links to the matching full guide. All prices come from tool data verified Oct 15–16, 2026; scores are unchanged.
Payments, Email, Analytics and Design category pages now open with a short buyer intro and a "How to choose" section: processor vs merchant of record, free tiers, cost at 50,000 emails, and which tool fits which job.
Each page adds an FAQ with FAQPage structured data. All prices come from tool data verified Oct 15–16, 2026; scores are unchanged.
New guide: Cheapest way to host a vibe-coded app (2026), comparing free plans and first paid steps on Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, Render, Vercel, Railway and Fly.io, with hard limits, sleeping and commercial-use rules.
New guide: Best free AI coding agents (2026), ranking OpenCode, OpenAI Codex, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity CLI, Amp, Windsurf, Kiro and Aider by what is really free, and explaining why Gemini CLI’s free sign-in is gone.
New compare pages: Bolt vs Replit, Windsurf vs GitHub Copilot, Kiro vs Cursor, Cline vs OpenCode, Neon vs PlanetScale, Vercel vs Cloudflare Workers, Render vs Fly.io.
Added Prisma Postgres (81), PocketBase (77), MongoDB Atlas (76), Cloudflare D1 (75) and Xata (71) to Databases & backends, verified from official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-16.
Prisma Postgres is free for 200K operations/mo (2 GB, 50 databases), then Starter $10/mo; PocketBase is MIT-licensed and free to self-host; MongoDB Atlas M0 is free forever with 512 MB; Cloudflare D1 includes 5M rows read/day free and comes with the $5/mo Workers Paid plan; Xata Cloud is pay as you go from $0.012/hr after a 14-day trial.
Best database for vibe-coded apps (2026) is now a full guide with 10 picks, Postgres vs document vs SQLite tradeoffs, free-tier and pricing comparisons, and FAQs. New compare pages: Neon vs Prisma Postgres, Supabase vs PocketBase, Supabase vs MongoDB Atlas, Turso vs Cloudflare D1, Neon vs Xata.
Added Stripe Managed Payments (78), Dodo Payments (77), Creem (75), Autumn (72) and Gumroad (62) to Payments, verified from official pricing pages on 2026-10-16.
Stripe Managed Payments adds 3.5% per transaction on top of standard Stripe fees; Dodo Payments starts at 4% + 40¢ (+1.5% outside the US, +0.5% for subscriptions); Creem is a flat 3.9% + 40¢ with no monthly fee; Autumn is free up to 8K monthly billing volume and Apache-2.0 open source; Gumroad charges 10% + 50¢ on direct sales.
New guide: Best payments for vibe-coded apps (2026). New compare pages: Stripe vs Stripe Managed Payments, Polar vs Dodo Payments, Polar vs Creem, Dodo Payments vs Creem, Paddle vs Lemon Squeezy.
Added Supabase Auth (85), Kinde (76), Firebase Authentication (74), Auth.js (73) and Descope (70) to Auth, verified from official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-16.
Supabase Auth includes 50,000 MAU free (100,000 on Pro, then $0.00325 per MAU); Kinde is free for 10,500 MAU; Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform is no-cost up to 50K MAU; Descope Free Forever covers 7,500 MAU and 3 SSO connections; Auth.js is free and now part of Better Auth.
New guide: Best auth for vibe-coded apps (2026). New compare pages: Clerk vs Supabase Auth, Supabase Auth vs Firebase Authentication, Clerk vs Kinde, Better Auth vs Auth.js. The Next.js SaaS auth guide now covers 8 picks.
Added Umami (84), Vercel Web Analytics (74), Google Analytics 4 (73), Fathom Analytics (69) and Simple Analytics (68) to Analytics & monitoring, verified from official pricing pages on 2026-10-16.
Umami Cloud has a free Hobby plan (100K events/mo, 1 site) and is MIT-licensed for self-hosting; Vercel Web Analytics includes 50,000 events/mo on Hobby, then $0.03 per 1,000 on Pro; Fathom starts at $15/mo with no free plan; Simple Analytics is free for hobby sites (badge required).
New guide: Best web analytics for vibe-coded apps (2026). New compare pages: Plausible vs Umami, Plausible vs Fathom, PostHog vs Google Analytics, Umami vs Vercel Web Analytics.
Added Amazon SES (75), Plunk (73), Mailgun (70) and SendGrid (65) to Email & transactional, verified from official pricing pages on 2026-10-16.
SendGrid no longer has a permanent free plan (60-day trial at 100 emails/day); Amazon SES is the cheapest at volume ($0.10 per 1,000 à la carte) but needs a production-access request; Plunk is open source (AGPL-3.0) with 1,000 free emails a month.
New guide: Best email API for vibe-coded apps (2026). New compare pages: Resend vs Postmark, Resend vs SendGrid, Resend vs Amazon SES.
New Agent skills category: SKILL.md skill packs for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other agents. Superpowers (90), Matt Pocock's Skills (89), Skills CLI / skills.sh (88), Vercel Agent Skills (83), Supabase Agent Skills (82) and Anthropic Agent Skills (81), verified from official repos and skills.sh install counts on 2026-10-16.
Each page lists the key skills, the install command per agent and the license (Anthropic's document skills are source-available; Vercel's repo has no license file yet).
New guide: Best agent skills for coding agents (2026). New compare page: Superpowers vs Matt Pocock's Skills. Badge label "Agent skills"; search, alternatives, pricing pages, sitemap and llms.txt pick up the tools from data.
Tool rows on category, guide, alternatives and tool pages now show the day each tool was last verified.
The homepage shows the latest verification date, how many tools were checked that day and in the past week, and links to the most recently checked tools.
Makers can now claim their listing for free at /verify/ and confirm or correct pricing, free tier and details.
Verified listings get a "Maker verified" mark. Verification is never for sale and never changes a score; any corrections are re-checked against the official pricing page and logged here.
New /pricing/ hub with current plans and free tiers for all ranked tools, grouped by category.
Every tool now has its own pricing page (for example /pricing/cursor/) with the verified price, a value score out of 15, how it compares on price with the rest of its category, cheaper or free alternatives, and its pricing history from this changelog.
One-day offer on /advertise/: a 30-day Featured Listing for $29 (reg. $49), limited to the first 5 makers, ending Oct 16 at 11:59 PM PT.
Featured placements are labeled Sponsored, sit at the top of the category with a badge, and never change scores or rankings. Listing a tool is still free.
New /deals/ page: labeled partner deals (20% off Bolt Pro via our referral link, Railway Hobby) plus the two highest-scoring free plans in every category, pulled from our verified tool data.
Partner links are affiliate or referral links marked rel="sponsored" and never change scores. Makers can offer a reader deal for free.
Every tool page now has a "Claim this listing / Get featured, $49" box for makers: 30 days of a clearly labeled Featured card at the top of the category plus a badge. Checkout passes the tool slug so we know which listing to feature.
Featured placement is labeled and separate from scores. Rankings are never pay-to-rank; see the methodology page.
New MCP servers category with GitHub MCP Server (88), Playwright MCP (87), Context7 (86), Supabase MCP (84), Stripe MCP (80) and Neon MCP (78), verified from official repos and docs on 2026-10-16. Each page notes hosted vs local setup, license and supported agents.
Added Antigravity CLI (75) to AI coding editors & agents: Google's terminal agent that replaced Gemini CLI for consumers, with a free individual plan (weekly quota) verified from Google's Antigravity plans docs.
New guide: Best MCP servers for coding agents (2026). New compare page: Supabase MCP vs Neon MCP. Badge short label "MCP servers"; search, alternatives, sitemap and llms.txt pick up the tools from data.
Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) or / anywhere, or tap the search button in the header, to jump to any tool, category, best-of guide, head-to-head comparison or alternatives page.
Results show the tool score and type, and work with the keyboard (arrows, Enter, Esc). Links like prompttoprod.app/?q=supabase open search pre-filled.
New Analytics & monitoring category with PostHog (91), Sentry (84), Better Stack (81) and Plausible (79), verified from official pricing pages on 2026-10-16.
Stack picker now includes an Analytics layer for code, no-code and AI-agent use cases (after email, before hosting).
New compare pages: PostHog vs Plausible and Sentry vs Better Stack. Badge short label "Analytics"; category chips, alternatives, sitemap and llms.txt pick up the tools from data.
Added Claude Code Review (65) to Testing & code review after it became generally available for Claude Team and Enterprise on Oct 15, 2026. Verified from claude.com and the Claude Code docs. It scores low on pricing and vibe-coder fit because it is Team/Enterprise-only with token-based costs per review.
CodeRabbit pricing refreshed from its pricing page: Essentials $24/user/mo annual ($30 monthly), Team $48 annual ($60 monthly), new Advanced tier at $72/user/mo, plus $0.25 per reviewed file for usage-based reviews. Score unchanged.
New guide: Best AI code review tools (2026), comparing CodeRabbit, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Qodo and Claude Code Review.
Homepage "New this week" now has an "In the news" list of verified builder launches (official sources only), also included in llms.txt.
Added four terminal/CLI coding agents to AI coding editors & agents, verified from official sites, pricing pages, GitHub and npm on 2026-10-16: OpenCode (87), Amp (80), Warp (79) and Gemini CLI (64).
OpenCode debuts as the top-scored coding agent: free, MIT-licensed, model-agnostic and ~214k GitHub stars. Gemini CLI scores low because Google moved free and Google AI Pro/Ultra users to Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026.
New compare pages: OpenCode vs Claude Code and Claude Code vs Amp. The Best AI coding agents guide now includes OpenCode and Amp.
New tool pages list their source URLs under the pricing facts.
OpenCodeAdded · score 87 · AI coding editors & agents
New /stack/ picker: choose use case, budget (any vs start free), and optional open-source preference; returns the top-scored tool per layer plus runners-up.
Shareable URLs (?use=nocode&budget=free&oss=1), copy-link and Share on X; default stack is server-rendered for SEO.
Picks are score-based only; sponsors cannot buy a slot. Affiliate outbound links keep disclosed sponsored rel attributes.
Every tool page now has FAQPage JSON-LD plus a visible FAQ built only from existing fields (free tier, pricing, open source, score, best-for, last verified).
dateModified (from lastVerified) added to SoftwareApplication and WebPage schema on tool pages; best-of pages gained WebPage dateModified.
Initial directory live at prompttoprod.app: evidence-based scores out of 100 across coding agents, app builders, databases, auth, payments, hosting, design, testing, and agent frameworks.
All tools in the first catalog share added and lastVerified dates of 2026-10-15; affiliate status never affects scores (see /methodology/).
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