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Open SaaS vs Visualith
Open SaaS is an open-source SaaS starter kit, not a cloud-native Kubernetes deployment platform.
Open SaaSAn open-source, 100% free, production-grade, React & Node.js SaaS starter!
VisualithSave 60% on AWS(EKS) deploymentSide by side
- What it is
- Open SaaS:Open SaaS is a free, open-source full-stack React + Node.js starter kit with built-in auth, payments and AI-ready features.
- Visualith:Visualith provides a platform to deploy cost-optimized AWS EKS clusters with GitOps-based CI/CD in minutes.
- Best for
- Open SaaS:Full-stack SaaS starter with built-in payments
- Visualith:Cost-optimized EKS clusters
- Who it’s for
- Open SaaS:Developers building SaaS products who want a ready-made, type-safe stack.
- Visualith:DevOps engineers and teams deploying Kubernetes on AWS.
- Pricing
- Open SaaS:Freemium
- Visualith:Freemium
- Plans
- Open SaaS:Hobby $9.99/month per month · Pro $19.99/month per month · 10 Credits $9.99
- Visualith:—
- Open source
- Open SaaS:Yes, 16,015 GitHub stars
- Visualith:—
- Works with
- Open SaaS:React, Node.js, Prisma, Stripe, Polar.sh, Lemon Squeezy, Plausible, Google Analytics
- Visualith:AWS, EKS, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Terraform, Docker, Kube Prometheus Stack, Prometheus
- DevHunt upvotes
- Open SaaS:98
- Visualith:6
- Launched on DevHunt
- Open SaaS:Jan 2024
- Visualith:Jan 2023
Open SaaS features
- Full-stack Type Safety. TypeScript types are auto-generated across the entire stack without extra configuration.
- Pre-configured Auth. Ready-to-use authentication flow that you own and can customize.
- Payment Provider Integration. Stripe, Polar.sh and Lemon Squeezy checkout and webhook setup out of the box.
- Admin Dashboard & Analytics. Built-in dashboard with graphs, tables and Plausible/Google Analytics support.
- File Uploads via AWS S3. Example code for presigned S3 uploads, fully documented.
- Built-in Blog with Astro. Markdown-based blog powered by Astro, with SEO-friendly rendering.
- E2E Tests & CI. Playwright tests and GitHub Actions CI pipeline included.
- Deploy Anywhere. No vendor lock-in; deploy yourself or use Wasp’s one-click deploy.
Visualith features
- Spot Instance Automation. Automatically selects spot instances via Karpenter to reduce node costs.
- Bin-Packing & Downscaling. Removes unused capacity and packs workloads efficiently.
- GitOps CI/CD Pipeline. Deploys applications using ArgoCD and GitOps principles.
- Real-Time Cost & Workload Monitoring. Shows live cost, CPU, memory, and storage metrics per namespace.
- Self-Healing Infrastructure. Uses Karpenter and KEDA to auto-scale and rebalance nodes.
- Infrastructure as Code. Provisioning done with Terraform and Helm, with exported configs.
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.