MkSaaS
Next.js 16 SaaS kit with AI features and three payment options
- Best for
- Solo builders shipping an AI-flavored SaaS who want billing, auth, i18n and an admin panel already wired together instead of assembled from scratch.
- Skip if
- You want to read the code before paying, or need a proven support and community track record - the repos are private and independent discussion of it is nearly nonexistent.
MkSaaS is a paid Next.js starter built on React 19, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth and shadcn/ui, sold as a single $139 lifetime license with no free tier. Beyond the usual auth-plus-billing baseline it ships AI text, image and chat demos on the Vercel AI SDK, a credits and API-key system, an admin dashboard, i18n via next-intl, a newsletter, and blog/docs pages through Fumadocs. Payments can run through Stripe, Creem or Waffo rather than a single hardcoded provider. The code lives in private repositories released after purchase, so nothing about its internals can be checked before you pay.
Pros
- Unusually wide bundle for the price: AI text/image/chat, credits and API keys, admin dashboard, i18n, newsletter, blog and docs are all included rather than sold as add-ons or left to you
- Three payment integrations (Stripe, Creem, Waffo) instead of one, which matters if Stripe won't onboard you in your country or you want to switch processors later
- The advertised stack is current as of this review (Aug 2026) — Next.js 16 and React 19 — rather than a kit coasting on an older major version
- $139 one-time with unlimited end products and client work permitted under the license, so agencies can amortize it across projects
Cons
- Everything is private until you pay. There's no public repository — the MkSaaSHQ GitHub org exists but publishes zero repos — so code quality, test coverage and commit cadence are all unverifiable before purchase. The docs describe bundled claude.md, agents.md and .cursor/rules files for AI coding assistants, but you cannot inspect them until you have paid.
- The vendor's own materials disagree with each other: $139 at checkout versus $159 in the machine-readable pricing.md feed, and 5 included repositories in the docs versus '7+' on the pricing page. Small things, but they're the details you'd want a starter kit's maintainer to be precise about.
- Almost no organic community. We found no Reddit threads, Hacker News discussion or Product Hunt page for it — just comparison-style listing sites. That cuts both ways: no complaints surfaced, but there's also nobody to ask when you get stuck, and no track record on how support requests are handled.
- It's a solo operation. MkSaaS's own site never names its maker (only tracing a sister product's about page identifies Fox, who also runs TanStarter, Mkdirs, MkImage and MkExt), and support runs through a shared email and Discord rather than a dedicated team. For a proprietary product, future updates depend on one person continuing to ship across several products at once.
Features
Auth and access
- Auth included
Payments and billing
- Payments included
- Subscriptions
- One-time payments
- Customer portal
- Invoicing
AI capability
- AI chat
- Image generation
- Credits / metering
AI-friendliness
- Cursor rules
- AGENTS.md
What's in the box
- Landing page
- Admin dashboard
- User dashboard
- Blog / CMS
- Docs site
- Pricing page
- Account settings
- API routes
Growth and ops
- SEO-optimized
- Sitemap generation
- i18n
- Email marketing
Licensing and commercial
- Source-available
- One-time license
- Unlimited projects
- Lifetime updates
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