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What you'd pay, and what you'd get.

Boilerplates charge $199–$299 up front for the code half. Research APIs charge per call for web pages, not market data. StartupKit gives the code away and sells the structured data and launch work your agent uses on top.

Prices and features verified against each vendor's own pricing page on September 2, 2026.

StartupKit at a glance

Price — Free (1 project). Pro $28/mo (unlimited projects)

Agent tooling — MCP server (16 tools), CLI (npx startupkit), agent handoff prompt + skill

Research — Structured data: DataForSEO, Google Trends, NameBio, Appfigures, SERP, registrars

Launch — /kit listing page in every scaffold: paste-ready copy, brand assets, 15-directory tracker

Projects — 1 free forever, unlimited on Pro

vs. SaaS boilerplates

They sell you the code. We give you the code and add the data.

ShipFast

$199 once

The most-known Next.js boilerplate for indie makers.

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Supastarter

$299 once

A serious Next.js SaaS starter with orgs, i18n, and agent skills.

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vs. research APIs for agents

They return web pages and answers. We return the numbers an agent needs to validate a market — and the tools to build and launch on it.

Exa

Web search API for agents — real-time results with page contents.

$7 / 1k searches

Perplexity (Sonar API)

Answer-engine API — LLM answers with web citations.

Usage-based

Firecrawl

Turn any website into clean markdown for LLMs — scrape, crawl, map.

Free 1k credits/mo; $16–$83+/mo

The honest version of this page

If you only need scraped web pages, Firecrawl is good. If you only need answers, use Perplexity. If you only need a codebase and never want data or launch tooling, buy a boilerplate. StartupKit exists because starting a company needs all three — as structured tools your agent can call.

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