velobase-harness vs open-saas
Two of the top saas boilerplates, side by side: score, setup, license, activity and what each review found.
velobase-harness
Next.js AI SaaS base with credits, usage billing, workers and anti-abuse
open-saas
Wasp SaaS template with auth, three payment providers, OpenAI demo app
| What we compare | velobase-harness | open-saas |
|---|---|---|
| Score parts, out of 100 | ||
| Adoption | 31, known | 63, popular |
| Freshness | 100, active | 100, active |
| Maintenance | 68, fair | 61, fair |
| Easy to run | 33, some setup | 0, hard |
| Agent-ready | 70, partly | 0, none |
| Facts from GitHub and the README | ||
| Stars | 609 | 16.1k |
| License | MIT (permissive) | MIT (permissive) |
| Last commit | Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Last release | Sep 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| Language | TypeScript | MDX |
| Docker | Yes | No |
| GPU | Not needed | Not needed |
| arm64 or Apple Silicon | Not stated | Not stated |
velobase-harness
A Next.js 15 and tRPC application with Prisma on Postgres and BullMQ on Redis that already has accounts, subscriptions, a credit ledger, Stripe and NowPayments, entitlement checks, affiliate accounting, server-side attribution, anti-abuse controls (rate limits, Turnstile, disposable-email checks), lifecycle email, an admin area and a multi-provider AI chat module. One command starts Postgres and Redis in Docker. For builders turning an AI prototype into a paid product.
Who it is for: Builders turning an AI prototype into a paid product
Strengths
- Credit ledger, usage metering and entitlements are built in, not left to you
- Anti-abuse for free credits: rate limits, Turnstile, disposable-email checks, clawbacks
- Runs as one process or split web, worker and API by SERVICE_MODE
- Docker compose, English and Chinese docs, AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md
Weaknesses
- No unit-test script; only service-mode smoke tests
- Large surface area; the framework guide asks for domain design before coding
- Payments are Stripe and NowPayments; others need adapters
- Seed shows 607 stars; young project
- TypeScript, ai-sdk, openai, anthropic, google
- Needs postgres, redis, docker, stripe, model-api-keys
- GitHub template
- Docker
- env example file
- sign-in: Auth.js
open-saas
A Wasp (React, Node, Prisma) SaaS template: email-verified and social auth, Stripe, Polar or Lemon Squeezy payments, cron jobs, S3 uploads, SendGrid, Mailgun or SMTP email, an admin dashboard, an Astro Starlight docs and blog site, Playwright end-to-end tests and an example OpenAI function-calling app. Scaffold with wasp new -t saas and deploy to Railway or Fly with one command. For teams that accept Wasp for a complete SaaS base.
Who it is for: Teams that accept Wasp for a complete SaaS base
Strengths
- Three payment providers and three email providers are switchable
- Playwright e2e tests, admin dashboard and docs site included
- One-command deploy to Railway or Fly
- Live demo at opensaas.sh and a dedicated docs site
Weaknesses
- Wasp is the framework; its config DSL and release cadence become your dependency
- AI part is one OpenAI example app; no usage metering or credits
- Pulling template updates after forking is a documented manual process
- No Docker files
- MDX, openai
- Needs wasp-cli, postgres, stripe-or-polar-or-lemonsqueezy, openai-api-key, aws-s3, email-provider