VendorIndex — verified pricing & comparisons for developer infrastructure
Generated 2026-11-02 01:10 UTC
VendorIndex scores competing vendors per use case from verified pricing, nightly-tested integration snippets, and an agent-friction score — so an agent can pick the right one in a single fetch. Rank is never for sale.
Categories
Authentication
Top pick for app user authentication:
Better Auth (score 68.5).
Comparing 5, ranked:
Better Auth (68.5)
, Supabase (68.01)
, WorkOS (65.5)
, Clerk (45.5)
, Auth0 (n/a)
Object storage
Top pick for app file & asset storage:
Cloudflare R2 (score 66.86).
Comparing 5, ranked:
Cloudflare R2 (66.86)
, Tigris (64.3)
, Backblaze B2 (63.25)
, Amazon S3 (38.75)
, Vercel Blob (36.49)
Payments
Top pick for saas subscription billing:
Stripe (score 68.5).
Comparing 4, ranked:
Stripe (68.5)
, Polar (51.35)
, Lemon Squeezy (38.75)
, Paddle (38.75)
Postgres hosting
Top pick for small production database:
Railway (score 68.5).
Comparing 5, ranked:
Railway (68.5)
, Neon (56.61)
, Amazon RDS for Postgres (51.89)
, Supabase (48.5)
, Crunchy Bridge (47.95)
Transactional email
Top pick for transactional email:
Resend (score 92.33).
Comparing 5, ranked:
Resend (92.33)
, Twilio SendGrid (82.85)
, Mailgun (79.91)
, Amazon SES (67.75)
, Postmark (63.25)
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