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How Sailor compares

Sailor 与其他起步方案的对照，只写能查证的事实。

Five ways to start a TypeScript product, side by side. Every cell is a fact from the project's own README, pricing page or source code. Where a project does not say, the table says so.

Side by side

Facts checked on 2026-10-16. Prices are what each site showed that day, including any promotion.

Sailor compared with vibestart, ShipFast, Supastarter and create-t3-app
AspectSailorvibestartShipFastSupastartercreate-t3-app
LicenseApache-2.0: the monorepo, the npm packages and every scaffolded projectMITCommercial licence; private GitHub repository after purchaseCommercial licence; GitHub access after purchaseMIT
PriceFree. Paid tiers sell support and SLAs, not permission.FreeOne-time, from $199One-time, from $349 for one developerFree
FrameworkNext.js 16 and a Hono gateway in one pnpm monorepoReact SPA (TanStack Router), TanStack Start or Next.js; Electron and Expo optionalNext.js, App Router or Pages Router, JavaScript or TypeScriptNext.js, Nuxt or TanStack StartNext.js
AuthBetter Auth, with organizationsBetter AuthNextAuth, with Google OAuth and magic linksBetter Auth, with passkeys and two-factorNextAuth.js or Better Auth, optional
PaymentsCreem for cards worldwide (merchant of record), plus WeChat Pay and AlipayNot in its stack listStripe or Lemon SqueezyStripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem or Dodo PaymentsNot included
Multi-tenancyOrganizations, with Postgres row-level security generated from the Prisma schemaNot in its stack listNot statedOrganizations, invites and member roles; database row-level security not statedNot included
API layerHono gateway with oRPC, mounted inside Next or deployed on its ownHono or the framework's own server, with oRPC, OpenAPI or noneNext.js API routesHono and oRPC, with an OpenAPI spectRPC, optional
i18n and China launchnext-intl. NEBUTRA_LOCALE=cn puts WeChat Pay and Alipay first at checkout and Aliyun first for SMS; an ICP footer ships. Phone sign-in is not wired yet.Not in its stack listNot statedLocales, a language switcher and translatable email templatesNot included
Agent integrationAGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and DESIGN.md in every project, an Agent Skill, and lint ratchets that fail CIAGENTS.md in every project, an Agent Skill, and one command that runs every checkSays the codebase gives AI editors context; no AGENTS.md or skill listedBuilt on the AGENTS.md and Agent Skills specificationsNo agent files in the template
How you startnpx create-sailor@latest my-appnpx vibestart-cli my-appClone the private repositoryClone the repository after purchasenpm create t3-app@latest
Best forProducts that must take money worldwide and in China, with tenants isolated in the databaseComposing your own TypeScript stack, web to desktop and mobile, for a coding agentA solo founder shipping a first paid product fastTeams and agencies who want a paid kit, a choice of payment providers and supportA small, typesafe Next.js app that you extend with your own libraries

When to pick something else

Sailor makes the choices for you and ships the production layer whole. That is the wrong trade for some projects.

  • vibestartPick vibestart when you want to choose each layer yourself, including MySQL, MongoDB, Electron or Expo, and start from a few dozen files.
  • create-t3-appPick create-t3-app when you want the smallest typesafe Next.js start with tRPC, and you will choose the rest. It has the largest community of the five.
  • ShipFastPick ShipFast when you are one founder launching on Stripe or Lemon Squeezy with MongoDB or Supabase, and the course that comes with it helps you.
  • SupastarterPick Supastarter when you need Nuxt or TanStack Start, want to choose among five payment providers, or want paid seats with support.
  • SailorPick Sailor when you charge in China and worldwide, need tenant isolation enforced by Postgres, and want a gateway, audit and metering from the first commit.

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