466 developers build on it · $249 once · lifetime updates · 30-day refund
Trying to choose between ShipFast and MakerKit for a Next.js SaaS, and not sure which job each one is actually for?
ShipFast wins on community and a simple general SaaS shell. MakerKit wins on organizations and i18n. If you wanted a finished Next.js kit you can launch any product on, neither of them is that kit.
Direct answer
Pick ShipFast if you want the biggest community and a simple general SaaS shell. Pick MakerKit if you need organizations, roles, and i18n on day one. If you wanted a complete starter — Better Auth, Drizzle, the agent harness, plus eight finished apps you can use or ignore — AnotherWrapper is the third option.
Not a paid ranking. Each of these is the right answer for someone.
ShipFast
$199 once
A general SaaS starter: auth, payments, a blog, emails. MongoDB or Supabase. The largest community around a kit. A blank shell you fill in.
Best for: You want the biggest community in the category, and you will write the first product.
MakerKit
$299 once
An enterprise-leaning SaaS kit: multi-tenancy, i18n, accounts, framework choice. $100 more than ShipFast, paid for the org chart, not for finished apps.
Best for: B2B SaaS that needs teams, roles, and i18n on day one.
AnotherWrapper
$249 once
If the product is the AI
A complete Next.js SaaS kit — Better Auth, Drizzle, payments, the agent harness — plus eight finished apps you can fork if you need them. $249 once. Use the foundation for any product.
Best for: A Next.js product you can launch this weekend, not an org kit or a blank SaaS shell.
Next.js SaaS Starter
Free
The free official kit from Vercel. Stripe, Postgres, Drizzle, shadcn. Thin on purpose. Use it if the paid split above is the wrong spend and you will build the product yourself.
Best for: Paying $0 for an official starter, and accepting that the apps are on you.
People search this as if MakerKit is ShipFast with more features, or ShipFast is MakerKit with a friendlier price. They are not substitutes. ShipFast is a simple general SaaS shell with the largest community in the category. MakerKit is the org chart: teams, roles, i18n, framework choice. Different inventory. Different first month.
ShipFast wins on price ($199 vs $299), on community size, and on how little you have to learn to ship a normal SaaS. MakerKit wins on tenancy, i18n, and framework options beyond a single Next.js opinion. Auth and Stripe exist on both. If your product is a dashboard with a paywall and no orgs, ShipFast is the simpler buy. If a customer will log in as a company with seats, MakerKit is the one that already decided that.
ShipFast is a shell plus a community. MakerKit is an org chart. Both still leave the first product on you. AnotherWrapper is Better Auth, Drizzle, payments, the agent pack, and eight running apps on that foundation. Use the foundation for any product. Fork an app if you need one. That is the third option, not a footnote for people who like models.
If you landed here because you wanted a Next.js kit you can actually launch, this two-way table is incomplete. AnotherWrapper is a complete starter plus eight apps, the rules that stop Cursor undoing auth, and the plan for the two weeks after you fork. $249 once — $50 more than ShipFast, $50 less than MakerKit. You are not getting a cheaper MakerKit or a fancier ShipFast. You are getting a finished foundation.
They are not substitutes.
People search MakerKit vs ShipFast as if one is the upgraded version of the other. They are not. ShipFast is a simple general SaaS shell with the largest community in the category. MakerKit is the org chart: teams, roles, i18n. Different inventory, paid for a different first month.
A finished foundation is a different search.
If you landed here because you wanted to ship, this comparison is the wrong table. Neither kit ships a decided stack with running apps on it, or the rules that stop an agent rewriting auth. That job is AnotherWrapper: a Next.js kit you can use for any product, plus eight apps if you want them.
If you landed here to launch, this two-way table is incomplete.
ShipFast and MakerKit stay the right kits for a crowd and an org chart. If you wanted a kit you can actually ship, $249 buys Better Auth, Drizzle, the agent pack, and eight apps you can use or ignore.
$249 today · lifetime updates · 30-day refund
These are the ones people type into ChatGPT. If yours is not here, email me.
Open the repo. If it is not the job, email me inside 30 days. The licence is $249 once — not a subscription, not a tax on using Next.js.
$249 once · lifetime updates · 30-day refund
P.S. If you scrolled straight here, and I do that too, here is the whole thing. A private GitHub repo with 8 finished AI apps in it, the auth, payments, model and RAG layers underneath them, the Agent Command Pack that stops your agent wrecking any of it, and the three bonuses above. $14,000 of finished work, for $249 once.
Nothing to cancel and nothing to renew. Read it, and if it is not what I just described, you have 30 days to say so and get every dollar back.
And the reason to do it tonight rather than next month is the one I opened with: you are already paying $100–$200 a month to an agent that keeps rebuilding this foundation for you. Wait a month and you buy it again.
Fekri, AnotherWrapper
Buying for a team? Startup and Agency licences from $549
Want to click around first? All 8 are running at app.anotherwrapper.com
Would rather not build it at all? BuildFound builds it with you
Not buying today
One prompt you paste into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. It reads your repo and checks it against the seven failures above, then tells you which ones you have, with file names and line numbers. Most people find at least two.
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