Tools we point people at
Every one of these was opened and read before it was written down, and each card says what it actually charges. Where something has a condition that changes whether you would pick it, that is on the card too: this list is only worth the click if it saves the ten minutes of finding that out.
What is in here
12 blocks, and what each one is actually for. The page runs long, so this is the map.
- Design and frontend9What a page is built out of when nobody is drawing it from scratch.
- Reference, and other people’s work5Everything in this block reproduces something somebody else made. That is a rights question before it is a technical one, and the answer differs between reading a competitor’s A/B test and shipping their markup, so each card says which of the two it is.
- Skills and prompts for agents6Instructions a coding agent reads before it starts, so it arrives with a direction instead of a template.
- AI: models, agents, context11What a coding agent reads before it writes, and what you build on when the agent is the product.
- Sound and video4Making, converting and reading media. Two of these clone a voice, which needs the owner’s written permission before it needs a GPU.
- Where it runs5Servers and deploys. The bills here come from the provider and not from us, which is the same rule the price page states.
- Data and backend4The part you would otherwise write by hand before anything else can work.
- Monitoring5Finding out something is broken from a machine rather than from a client.
- Backups3Three copies, two kinds of media, one off site. And a restore checked on a schedule rather than on the day of the fire.
- Running agents and servers7Several agents at once without losing track of which one changed what, and the machines they run on.
- SEO and documentation2Checking what a thing actually does and whether anybody is finding it.
- A company abroad4Taking money from clients outside your own jurisdiction. Every figure below is a starting fee and none of them is the whole cost.
Design and frontend
What a page is built out of when nobody is drawing it from scratch.
Motionfree, MITAn animation library for React, JavaScript and Vue. It covers transforms, scroll, gestures, layout animation and spring physics, which is most of what a second library normally gets pulled in for. The library itself is MIT and free; the paid Motion+ adds examples, ready components and a visual transition editor, and nothing breaks without it.has a free tierruns on your machineOriginkitfreeA library of animated components: copy the code into your own project, use it in Framer, or reach it through MCP. It is for the case where a page gets assembled from ready blocks rather than drawn from nothing. The components are free and whole templates are sold separately, which is what the template under this site is.has a free tierthey run it
21st.devfrom $6/moA registry of React components, marketing sections and shadcn themes that you copy into your own repository. It is for when you need one specific block rather than a whole kit. Browsing is free and so are two copies a day, after which it is a subscription; its public repository has had no commits in over a year while the hosted product keeps shipping.has a free tierthey run itCraftworkPro from $199 a yearA paid marketplace for design assets: UI kits, illustrations, mockups, fonts, icons and templates for Figma, Framer and Webflow. It is for buying a finished asset rather than drawing it, one pack at a time or on an all-access subscription. These are commodity files, so anything from a pack can appear verbatim on a competitor site, and on every licence tier an asset may not be the main part of something you sell to a client as a product.paidthey run itlicence unclear
Framerfree tier, from $10/siteA hosted site builder where AI agents edit the canvas, the CMS and code components. It covers the whole path from layout to a live site, with hosting, CMS, SEO and A/B testing included. There is no code export and no self-hosting: the published site depends on their backend for pre-rendering, images and fonts, so whatever is built there stays there.has a free tierthey run it
Unicorn Studiofree tier, $14/mo paidA browser editor for shader and WebGL effects that exports a 49kb JS embed, a video or JSON. It lets a designer build animated backgrounds reacting to scroll, hover and pointer without writing GLSL, then ship them into Framer, Webflow or their own app. The free tier carries their logo, caps video at 720p and comes with no commercial licence at all, so client work starts on the paid plan.has a free tierthey run itnot for client work
Brikfree tier, then $15/moA hosted tool from Wix, marked beta, that turns a written prompt into a parameterised visual effect: a shader, kinetic type, a 3D scene or an animated logo, with the sliders you choose to expose. It is for handing a client a scoped control panel instead of a flat file they must send back for every edit. Work is metered in credits whose cost is only known after each action runs, and code export, embedding and removing their branding are all paid-only.has a free tierthey run itmetered on top
shadcn studiolicence is contradictoryA catalogue of ready blocks, themes and a theme editor built on top of shadcn/ui. It is for assembling an interface from prepared pieces rather than styling each primitive yourself. Its own licensing contradicts itself: the README advertises MIT while the licence file carries a Commons Clause forbidding redistribution of the components alone, bundled or ported, so what you may actually do with the output cannot be stated in one sentence.price unclearthey run itlicence unclear
Website Starter Kitpay once, price on siteA production starter kit for web apps and sites built with a coding agent, whose backgrounds page is a catalogue of animated canvas and WebGL effects that ship with it. It is for starting a project with the hero band, the dark sections and the motion already solved. It is sold once rather than by subscription and the price is not on a page a script can read, and it shares its icon here with getdesign.md because it is published by the same people.paidruns on your machine
Reference, and other people’s work
Everything in this block reproduces something somebody else made. That is a rights question before it is a technical one, and the answer differs between reading a competitor’s A/B test and shipping their markup, so each card says which of the two it is.
abtest.designfree, no accountA directory of documented A/B tests from consumer apps: a before and after pair, the reported result, and a link to the write-up the number came from. It is for arguing a paywall or onboarding change with a precedent instead of a preference. Every figure is quoted from somebody else public post rather than measured here, and sample sizes and durations are absent, so it is a source of hypotheses to test rather than a benchmark to promise.freethey run itsomebody else’s work
Refero Stylesprice not publishedA library of design systems extracted from live product websites and published as DESIGN.md files for coding agents to read. It is for handing an agent a described visual direction instead of describing one yourself. What it contains is other companies brand identities, tokens and typography reformatted for reproduction, and the site publishes no licence, no terms and no price, so treat it as reference and never as something to point at a client build.price unclearthey run itlicence unclearsomebody else’s work- getdesign.mdfree browsing, $99/mo passA catalogue of design systems and background packs written as DESIGN.md files for AI coders, with a paid all-access pass. It is sold as a way to match a style you like from any reference site. That is its own description of itself, so the same rights question applies as to anything else in this block, and the monthly pass buys access rather than any licence to the brands being described.has a free tierthey run itsomebody else’s work
dittofree, MITAn open pipeline that loads a public URL in a real browser and emits what rendered as a self-contained Next.js or Vite project, with tokens, fonts, breakpoints and hover states. It is for taking a live page and getting componentised code back instead of rebuilding the markup by hand. It is deterministic rather than model-driven, so runs repeat, and what it produces is a copy of whatever site it was pointed at, which its own README limits to targets you have the right to copy.freeruns on your machinesomebody else’s work
ai-website-clonerfree, templateA template repository whose own description is to clone any website with one command. It scrapes a target page and rebuilds it as a local project for an AI coder to continue from. It is a thin template rather than a maintained tool, and using it as advertised breaches most target sites terms of use, which is the whole of what there is to know about it.freeruns on your machinesomebody else’s workbreaches somebody’s termsnot maintained
Skills and prompts for agents
Instructions a coding agent reads before it starts, so it arrives with a direction instead of a template.
Taste Skillfree, MITA set of open SKILL.md files you install into a coding agent so it infers a design direction from the brief instead of reaching for a template. It ships thirteen variants for specific jobs: brutalist, minimalist, soft, image to code, and a redesign audit pass. The default install is the version its own authors label experimental and say may change wording before a stable cut, so anything depending on exact output has to pin the previous one.freeruns on your machine
Impeccablefree, Apache 2.0A design skill for coding agents that adds commands like polish, distill and audit, plus deterministic rules detecting the visual tells of AI-generated frontends. It can iterate variants against a page running live in a browser rather than against a description of one. It reads the design system it enforces from DESIGN.md and PRODUCT.md in your repository, so without those two files it applies its own defaults instead of yours.freeruns on your machineSceneAI$29 or $49 a monthA paid library of AI prompts for landing page sections, with separate catalogues of animated backgrounds and gradients. You browse finished designs, copy the prompt behind one and paste it into an AI tool to reproduce the section. The cheaper plan is headed as unlimited access to all assets and the animated backgrounds and gradients are excluded from it, so read which plan covers what before paying.paidthey run it
scroll-worldfree skill, paid rendersAn installable agent skill that builds a landing page where scrolling scrubs a camera flight through AI-generated isometric scenes, shipping the stills, the clips and a scrub engine. It is for a promo page whose whole point is the motion. The skill is open but the pictures are not: it drives two paid CLIs and the README puts a six-scene 1080p chain at roughly USD 27, paid again on every re-render.you pay per useruns on your machinemetered on top
EvoSkillfree, you pay tokensA framework that runs a coding agent over a benchmark, reads the attempts it failed and writes skill files and prompt rewrites aimed at those specific failures. It is for turning a general agent into one tuned to a narrow task set, keeping only the variants that score better on held-out data. It needs a benchmark you already own because generating one is still listed as unbuilt, and every iteration costs a full set of agent runs in model tokens.you pay per useruns on your machinemetered on topaitmplfree, MITAn online catalogue of ready templates, configurations, agents and commands for Claude Code. It is for finding a prepared configuration instead of writing one from scratch. A large part of the catalogue is other people work re-hosted, credited in its own README to Anthropic and several independent authors, so it is a place to discover a source rather than the source itself.freethey run itsomebody else’s work
AI: models, agents, context
What a coding agent reads before it writes, and what you build on when the agent is the product.
Context7free to 1 000/moA service that feeds current library and framework documentation into LLMs and AI code editors over MCP. It exists because a model knows a library as of its training date rather than as of today, which is where most confidently wrong code comes from. Free to 1 000 calls a month and public repositories only, and it is a hosted service, so an agent notices immediately when it is down.has a free tierthey run it
Awesome MCP ServersfreeA directory of Model Context Protocol servers, official and community, for Claude, Codex, Cursor and other agents. It is where you look before writing an integration that already exists. It is not a neutral index: paid placements sit inline among the ordinary entries under a sponsor label.freethey run it
Difyfree self-hostedA platform for building LLM applications: agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, prompt management and monitoring in one workspace. It is what a prototype moves onto when real users are about to see it and somebody needs observability. The licence is not a standard open-source one but Apache 2.0 with conditions on offering it as a multi-tenant service and on keeping Dify branding.freeyou run itlicence unclear
AnythingLLMfree self-hostedA self-hosted workspace putting RAG, agent workflows and document management in one application, for teams building internal tools on their own data. It is what you reach for when the documents must not leave your infrastructure. It is MIT, and self-hosted installations send anonymous telemetry by default, which is one environment variable to turn off and worth knowing before promising a client otherwise.freeyou run it
Simfree self-host, cloud from $25/moA visual builder for agent workflows: pipelines are drawn as executable graphs and a built-in assistant can generate or change them for you. Its execution tracing is what makes a long chain debuggable instead of mysterious. It is Apache 2.0 and genuinely free to self-host, while their own hosted version is a subscription.has a free tiereither way
Open Agent Platformarchived by the vendorA web interface over LangGraph that shows an agent execution as nodes and edges instead of hiding it, so routing, loops and multi-agent coordination can be steered without writing the graph. It was for building and running agents with the control flow visible. The repository is archived and read-only, and its own README opens by saying it is deprecated and recommending the vendor hosted builder instead, so it is here as history rather than as a choice.price unclearyou run itnot maintained
AutoAgentfree, MITA framework meant to take a goal written in plain language and do the planning, decomposition and execution itself, turning a prompt into a working set of agents. It was aimed at people who would rather describe an outcome than assemble a pipeline. Its last code commits are from October 2025 and its news section stops earlier than that while the page still presents the project as current, so treat it as a paper with a repository rather than something to build on.freeruns on your machinenot maintainedHugging Facefree tier, PRO $9/moA hosting platform for machine learning models, datasets and demo apps, built on git repositories with large-file storage. You pull a model or dataset from it, publish your own, run a demo as a Space, or call the inference API that fronts several providers behind one token. Licensing is per repository rather than per platform, so a freely downloadable model can still be gated or barred from commercial use and has to be checked one by one.has a free tierthey run itlicence unclear
Noiz AILite $6, Pro $19A hosted text-to-speech service with voice cloning from a few seconds of audio, voice design from a prompt, and one-click dubbing into other languages. You paste text, pick a stock or cloned voice and get audio back, with sound effects and short video from the same account. Commercial use of the output is allowed only from the Pro tier upwards, so the cheap plan cannot be used for client work at all.paidthey run itnot for client workneeds consent
ScrapeGraphAIfree, you pay tokensA Python library that builds a scraping pipeline as a graph of steps and uses a model to pull the fields out instead of CSS selectors written by hand. You pass a URL and a sentence naming the fields and get structured JSON, which survives markup changes that break a selector-based parser. It calls a model on every page, so the per-page token bill is what decides whether it beats a parser you write once, and telemetry is on until you turn it off.you pay per useruns on your machine
OpenReplyfree, MIT, self-hostedA self-hosted comment-to-DM automation for Instagram: somebody comments a keyword under a post and gets a private reply with your link, with tracked links, a follow gate and per-account rate limiting. It is the one feature people pay ManyChat a monthly fee for, running on your own infrastructure with no seat limits. It goes through Meta official private replies rather than scraping or driving a browser, so the account stays inside the rules, and the cost of that is a Meta developer app whose approval takes longer than the deploy does.freeyou run it
Sound and video
Making, converting and reading media. Two of these clone a voice, which needs the owner’s written permission before it needs a GPU.
FFmpegfree, licence set at buildA set of C libraries and command line tools for decoding, encoding, filtering and remuxing audio and video. It is what a project uses when it has to read arbitrary media, convert formats, cut or scale footage, pull audio out or inspect stream metadata. Its licence is decided by the build flags: LGPL by default, GPL the moment components like x264 are enabled, and not redistributable at all with nonfree parts, so the build has to be pinned and recorded rather than assumed.freeruns on your machinelicence unclear
WhisperXfree, needs a GPUA Python tool that wraps Whisper with batched inference, forced alignment against phoneme models and optional speaker labelling. It turns audio into a transcript with per-word timestamps and, with diarization on, an indication of who spoke each segment. The code is permissive but diarization depends on models sitting behind a token and a separate terms acceptance, so that half is a per-deployment credential rather than a dependency you bake into an image.freeruns on your machinelicence unclearneeds hardware
VoxCPMfree, needs a GPUA text-to-speech model that generates speech as continuous representations rather than discrete tokens, across thirty languages, and can clone a voice from a reference recording or build one from a written description. It is for putting synthesis on your own hardware instead of a metered API. It is a two-billion-parameter model wanting roughly 8 GB of video memory, and cloning a voice is a consent question first: its own README forbids impersonation and asks that output be marked as generated.freeruns on your machineneeds consentneeds hardware
Pikaexperiment, not a productA video generation service: the address redirects to an experimental page the vendor themselves banner as temporary rather than to a product. It is aimed at short generated clips in different languages. What is behind the link is an experiment the operator has not committed to keeping, so anything built on it is built on something with no stated lifetime.price unclearthey run it
Where it runs
Servers and deploys. The bills here come from the provider and not from us, which is the same rule the price page states.
Hetznerpriced on siteA German provider of dedicated and cloud servers, storage, load balancers and DNS. It is what you take when the job needs real hardware cheaply and for a long time, rather than autoscaling. Alongside the standard plans it runs an auction for used machines, where the same hardware costs noticeably less.paidthey run it
Railwayfrom $5/mo + usageA platform that builds, runs and networks applications, databases and jobs straight from a Git repository. It takes the environment, the networking and the certificates off your hands, so nobody administers a server. The plan figures are a fee that includes the same amount in credits, and what you actually run is billed per second on top, so the monthly number is a floor rather than a price.paidthey run itmetered on top
Coolifyfree self-hostedAn open-source platform for self-hosting: sites, databases and ready services deploy onto your own server in a couple of clicks. It replaces Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for anyone who would rather not pay somebody else’s rate for traffic and compute. On your own server it is free forever; their hosted version starts at USD 5 a month for two servers.has a free tiereither wayVercelfree personal, $20/seatHosting from the company that develops Next.js: you connect a repository and every push is built and served from their CDN, with a preview address per branch. It is what a Next.js application deploys to without anybody writing configuration by hand. The free Hobby plan is non-commercial under their own terms, so client work starts at USD 20 per seat, and traffic past the allowance is billed by usage rather than capped.has a free tierthey run itmetered on topnot for client work
DigitalOceanfrom $4/mo, meteredA commercial cloud selling virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage and a git-push app platform. It is for putting an application somewhere other than your own hardware, with a much smaller product surface and a flatter published price list than the big three. The advertised entry price buys 512 MB of memory: a realistic small production setup means a larger machine plus a managed database and object storage, with outbound traffic billed past the included allowance.paidthey run itmetered on top
Data and backend
The part you would otherwise write by hand before anything else can work.
RapidAPIper API, plus bandwidthA marketplace of other people’s HTTP APIs behind one account and one key, which now runs as Nokia API Hub and opens by saying it was previously known as Rapid. It is for renting a piece of data or a service you would otherwise build or negotiate for: you take a provider’s tier, try the endpoint in the playground and paste the generated snippet in. Its own terms leave the contract with whoever listed the API rather than with the platform, make that provider alone answerable for support, product liability and intellectual property, and reserve the right but not the obligation to check a listing at all.has a free tierthey run itmetered on topsomebody else’s work
Supabasefree tier, then $25/moA hosted Postgres that raises a REST and realtime API straight from your schema, with auth, file storage and edge functions in the same project. It replaces the backend you would otherwise write before a client can see anything at all. The stack is Apache 2.0 and can be self-hosted, but a free project is paused after a week without traffic, so anything a client will actually open starts at USD 25 a month.has a free tiereither way
PocketBasefree, MIT, self-hostedOne Go binary holding a SQLite database, a REST API, auth with OAuth2 providers, file storage and an admin panel. You put it on a server and the backend exists; it also imports as a Go package when you need routes of your own. It is pre-1.0 with no backward-compatibility promise, and the embedded SQLite means one instance rather than a cluster, which makes it right for an internal tool or an MVP and wrong for anything that has to scale out.freeyou run it
listmonkfree, AGPLv3, self-hostedA self-hosted mailing list manager: subscribers, segmentation in SQL, campaigns from templates, sent through your own SMTP provider. It does the list-keeping and the delivery bookkeeping a hosted service does, on your server and with no per-subscriber pricing. It needs Postgres and a working SMTP relay, and it sends the mail without solving deliverability, so SPF, DKIM and sender reputation stay your work.freeyou run itlicence unclear
Monitoring
Finding out something is broken from a machine rather than from a client.
Sentryfree tier, from $26/moError and performance monitoring: an SDK ships exceptions, traces and session replays, and Sentry groups them into issues carrying the stack trace, the release and the commit. It answers which deploy broke what, for whom and how often. Its licence is the Functional Source License rather than an open-source one: self-hosting is free and internal use is allowed, and each release only becomes Apache 2.0 two years after it ships.has a free tiereither waylicence unclear
GlitchTipfree to self-hostAn error tracker that speaks the Sentry protocol, so existing Sentry SDKs point at it by changing a URL and nothing else. It is the way off a per-event bill when the volume of errors is what costs the money. It is MIT and free to run yourself, the project asks a suggested USD 5 per user a month, and it covers error tracking and uptime rather than everything Sentry does.freeyou run it
Umamifree tier, from $20/moWeb analytics counting visits, sources and conversions without cookies and without collecting personal data. It is the answer when a full analytics suite is more than the question needs and a cookie banner is a cost of its own. It is MIT and self-hostable, and their hosted version has a free tier with paid plans above it.has a free tiereither way
Uptime Kumafree, MITA self-hosted uptime monitor: it polls sites, APIs and containers on a schedule and alerts through Telegram, email and about ninety other channels. It is the cheapest way to hear about a failure from a machine rather than from a client. There is no hosted option, so somebody has to run and patch it, and if it sits on the same server it watches then it dies with it.freeyou run itGoogle Search Consolefree, Google accountGoogle reporting panel for how a site appears in its search results: the queries and pages that produced impressions and clicks, which URLs were indexed or rejected and why, plus sitemap submission and recrawl requests. It is the only place the actual search queries reaching a site can be read. It costs nothing but reports only on properties whose ownership you verified through DNS, a file or a tag, and its tables stop at a thousand rows, so larger sites pull data through the API.freethey run it
Backups
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off site. And a restore checked on a schedule rather than on the day of the fire.
resticfree, BSD 2-ClauseEncrypted incremental backups to another server, to S3 or to any cloud, with deduplication built in. It is the engine rather than the interface: everything happens from the command line and on a schedule you write yourself. Its repository format is incompatible with Kopia, so this is a choice of camp made once rather than a tool swapped later.freeruns on your machine
Backrestfree, GPL-3.0A web panel on top of restic: schedules, the status of every backup, notifications when one fails, and restores you can start from a browser. It is not a backup tool, it is what turns restic into a service somebody can actually operate. It runs restic underneath and inherits that choice of format, and GPL-3.0 is fine to use and a question the moment you want to bundle it into something you sell.freeyou run itlicence unclear
Kopiafree, Apache-2.0A backup tool with its own engine, its own web interface and integrity checks in one package. It solves the same problem restic does and the difference is the packaging: one box instead of an engine plus a panel. Its repository format is incompatible with restic, so pick the assembled one or the constructor and do not plan on moving between them.freeruns on your machine
Running agents and servers
Several agents at once without losing track of which one changed what, and the machines they run on.
Orcafree, MITAn editor for running Codex, Claude and other coding agents in parallel, each in a branch of its own. It exists because two agents in one working tree fight over the same files, which is a problem you meet on the second agent rather than the first. It is MIT and made by a commercial company, and the download site and the source repository are different addresses.freeruns on your machine
Paperclipfree to self-hostAn orchestration layer over a group of coding agents: it hands out work, keeps their state and gives one place to see what each of them is doing. It is for the point where you stop running one agent and start running several with overlapping tasks. It is open source and self-hosted, and the project describes itself in far larger terms than that, which is worth discounting before you evaluate it.freeyou run itroadmap.shfree tier, Pro $10/moVisual roadmaps showing what to learn in what order for backend, frontend, DevOps, AI and about forty other tracks. It is useful less for learning than for scoping: a fast way to see what a role actually consists of before hiring for it or quoting for it. It lives on GitHub with a very large number of stars and is not open source, because the licence is a custom personal-use one, so its material cannot be moved into yours.has a free tierthey run itlicence unclear
Beszelfree, MIT, self-hostedA self-hosted server monitor: a web hub plus a small agent on each machine, collecting processor, memory, disk, network, temperature and container statistics with history and alerts. It is the lightweight answer when a full observability stack is more than a handful of servers deserve. It is agent-based, so you have to be able to install and run a binary on every host you want to see, which rules out infrastructure you only reach through an API.freeyou run it
Dozzlefree, MIT, self-hostedA web viewer for container logs: one small binary that attaches to the container runtime and streams logs into a browser with search, regex queries and split screen for several containers at once. It is for looking at what a container is saying right now without shelling into the host. It stores nothing, so there is no retention and nothing to search once a line has rotated away, and it needs the Docker socket, which is effectively root on that machine.freeyou run it
Agent Reachfree, your own accountsA command line tool that pulls content out of Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub and several other platforms and hands it to a coding agent as plain text. It exists so an agent can read sources that have no usable free API. The platforms it leads with are reached by replaying a browser session you export yourself, against endpoints those platforms gate behind paid APIs, and its own README advises pointing it at a throwaway account because the real one can be banned.freeruns on your machinebreaches somebody’s terms
free-claude-codefree, breaches provider termsA local proxy with an admin panel sitting between coding clients and whatever model backend you point them at. It is presented as a way to run those clients without paying for them. It gets there by routing a consumer subscription through a proxy for automated agent use, which is exactly what the providers subscription terms exclude, so the saving is borrowed against an account that can be closed.freeruns on your machinebreaches somebody’s terms
SEO and documentation
Checking what a thing actually does and whether anybody is finding it.
OpenSEOfree, data billed separatelyA self-hostable application for SEO work: keyword research, rank tracking, competitor and backlink analysis, site audits, plus an MCP server so a coding agent can query the same data. It covers the job people buy a Semrush or Ahrefs seat for, on metered per-query cost instead of a monthly subscription. It holds no data of its own, so every feature runs on a third-party data account you open and fund yourself, and without that key the install does nothing.you pay per useyou run itmetered on top
MDN Web Docsfree, optional $5/moMozilla reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the browser APIs, maintained in the open since 2005. You check there what a property, method or header actually does and which browsers implement it, instead of inferring behaviour from a blog post. The documentation is free and needs no account, and its prose is share-alike licensed, so quoting it on your own pages carries an attribution and licensing obligation.has a free tierthey run itlicence unclear
A company abroad
Taking money from clients outside your own jurisdiction. Every figure below is a starting fee and none of them is the whole cost.
Stripe Atlas$500 once, $100/yrRegisters a US company, gets the tax number, opens the bank account and issues the founder shares, from one form. It is the shortest route from an idea to being able to invoice a client in dollars. The USD 500 is the registration and not the whole cost: the Delaware franchise tax and the annual report recur every year, and it registers in Delaware only.paidthey run itmetered on top
doolafrom $297/yr plus state feeCompany formation with the bookkeeping attached: registration, a registered agent, the tax number and accounting on an annual subscription. It is the option for somebody who would rather not keep the yearly obligations in their own head. The starting figure is the service alone with the state fee charged on top, and the higher tiers carry a permanently struck-through discount, which makes it a list price rather than an offer.paidthey run itmetered on top
Firstbaseconfirm the priceAnother company formation service: registration, a registered agent, the tax number and the bank account, with compliance handled afterwards. It is a direct alternative to the two above and is worth comparing against them rather than read on its own. Their own homepage and pricing page showed different figures on the same day, so treat any number there as something to confirm before paying.price unclearthey run itHarvard Business Servicesfrom $229 plus renewalsA Delaware formation and registered-agent firm that has been filing since 1981, trading on the domain delawareinc.com. It files the certificate for an LLC or a corporation and then acts as the registered agent for the life of the entity. Packages start at USD 229 including the state fee and the first year of agent, and from the second year there is an annual agent fee plus Delaware own tax, which the site states as USD 400 for an LLC and USD 225 for a minimum-stock corporation.paidthey run itmetered on top