SaaS picks
Dev SaaS picks with real notes
We are starting this section to evaluate dev SaaS the way indie makers actually use it. Pages are English-only and focused strictly on real free tiers — paid plans or untested capabilities are explicitly marked not tested. Affiliate commissions never change our rankings or verdicts; see our methodology and affiliate disclosure for how we work.
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Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages vs Netlify
Hosted Vercel Hobby HTML and API checks from US-East/IAD, a Cloudflare Pages recheck, and Netlify local evidence with current credit math. Hosted Netlify not tested.
Netlify Free: local Functions and the credit budget
50 local Function requests returned 200 with a 161 ms median. Routing checks, current credit arithmetic and an explicit hosted-signup blocker.
n8n Cloud vs self-hosted Community
50 local webhook requests, a 5.703-second restart with the workflow intact, and the operational work behind free Community hosting. Cloud execution not tested.
Auth.js vs Clerk vs Supabase Auth
50 local Auth.js session reads at a 3.405 ms median, plus negative checks, Clerk retained-user billing and Supabase’s default-email restriction.
Better Stack vs UptimeRobot free tiers (2026)
Free-plan limits side by side, plus scheduled outages against Better Stack Free: probe timing, alert emails, status page lag and signup gotchas. UptimeRobot was tested only up to its signup captcha.
Cloudflare Pages free plan, hands-on
A real free-plan deploy from the command line: timings, latency from Singapore, gotchas we hit, and when Workers static assets is the better pick.