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All projects · The concept page's worked example: a subscription app for small studios, paid for by the studio, around 400 users at launch, with a service picked for every job.

Stack

Job	Service	Free tier stops at	Alternatives
Sign-in	Clerk	10 000 monthly active users	Auth0, Supabase Auth
Billing	Stripe	no platform fee, no customer ceiling	Paddle, Lemon Squeezy
Email	Resend	3 000 emails a month, 100 a day	Postmark, Amazon SES
Feature flags	PostHog Flags	1 000 000 flag requests a month	Flagsmith, Unleash
File storage	Cloudflare R2	10 GB stored, no egress charge	Backblaze B2, Supabase Storage
Background jobs	Upstash QStash	500 messages a day	Inngest, Trigger.dev
Admin panel	Ships in the kit	no seat ceiling, runs in your project	Retool, Forest Admin
Status page	Better Stack	10 monitors, 1 public status page	Instatus, Uptime Kuma
Analytics	PostHog	1 000 000 events a month	Plausible, Fathom

Job

Service

Free tier stops at

Alternatives

Sign-in

Clerk

10 000 monthly active users

Auth0, Supabase Auth

Billing

Stripe

no platform fee, no customer ceiling

Paddle, Lemon Squeezy

Resend

3 000 emails a month, 100 a day

Postmark, Amazon SES

Feature flags

PostHog Flags

1 000 000 flag requests a month

Flagsmith, Unleash

File storage

Cloudflare R2

10 GB stored, no egress charge

Backblaze B2, Supabase Storage

Background jobs

Upstash QStash

500 messages a day

Inngest, Trigger.dev

Admin panel

Ships in the kit

no seat ceiling, runs in your project

Retool, Forest Admin

Status page

Better Stack

10 monitors, 1 public status page

Instatus, Uptime Kuma

Analytics

PostHog

1 000 000 events a month

Plausible, Fathom

Changes

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Who

What

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Choosing a different service clears the slot's ceiling: that figure was written for the service it replaces.