AI app & website builders: the tech stack of 36 real products
Building whole apps or sites from a description (vibe coding).
What sets them apart
Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM API | 26 of 30 · 87% | $10/mo · Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
| Frontend Framework | 20 of 23 · 87% | — | |
| Database | 8 of 19 · 42% | $25/mo · Pro | |
| Hosting | 8 of 14 · 57% | $12/mo · Workers Paid | |
| Transactional Email | 10 of 13 · 77% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| Authentication | 7 of 10 · 70% | $0/mo · Hobby | |
| Product Analytics | 8 of 10 · 80% | $0/mo · Pay-as-you-go | |
| Payments | 7 of 8 · 88% | fees on revenue · $410 on $10,000/mo |
Monthly bills add up to about $67 at the calculators' default usage, list prices; fees on revenue (Stripe) come on top. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the AI app & website builders that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: AI SDK & Agent Framework (LangChain 2, AI SDK 2) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 5, Customer.io 1) · Web Analytics (Google Analytics 5, Plausible Analytics 2) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 4) · Backend Framework (Hono 1, Express 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 2, Cloudinary 1) · LLM Observability & Evals (Langfuse 1, Helicone 1)
AI app & website builders we track
34 makers' products and 2 open-source projects. Makers' products first.