Comparison
Comparisons
Every side-by-side we have written, grouped by the question it answers. We sell three starters, so most of these are the decisions we get asked about — including the ones where another option is the better one.
Start here — deciding what to buy
Read these first if the question is which starter to buy rather than how to build.
- Multi-tenant SaaS starter kit: 5 features before you buy
The canonical buying checklist: organization isolation, RBAC, invitations, seat billing, and audit logging — the five things free boilerplates skip.
- VerdantStack vs CMSaasStarter
Head to head against a free open-source Supabase starter: what each ships, what each does not, and which fits your build.
Framework
Deciding the framework before anything below it matters.
- SvelteKit vs Next.js for SaaS
Performance, pricing, developer experience, and the cases where each one is the right answer.
Database and ORM
The decision our three kits differ on. All three ship the same service layer above it.
- SQLite vs Postgres for a multi-tenant SaaS
Concurrency, connections, migrations, row-level security, and the replica threshold at which you should switch.
- SvelteKit + Postgres vs Supabase
Auth, RLS, pooling, realtime, storage, lock-in, and cost — the honest version, from a vendor that sells both.
- Supabase vs Neon
Managed Postgres two ways: bundled Auth/RLS/Realtime versus connections you own. Which one fits a multi-tenant app.
- Supabase vs Drizzle
They are not competitors: Supabase is a managed Postgres platform, Drizzle is an ORM for any Postgres including Supabase’s.
- Drizzle ORM vs Prisma for SvelteKit
Query API, migrations, type safety, performance, and the learning curve each one asks you to pay.
Full stack combinations
The pairs that change more than one variable at once.
- SvelteKit + Postgres vs Next.js + Prisma
Framework ergonomics and ORM tradeoffs together — for a multi-tenant SaaS built either way.
Where to go instead
- Best SvelteKit SaaS Starters in 2026 — the kits compared side by side
- SaaS architecture — data models and tenant isolation
- All three starters — what we sell
- All documentation — guides, deep dives, and evaluations