Security & compliance tools: the tech stack of 43 real products
Application security, secrets, compliance automation and audits.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend Framework | 18 of 28 · 64% | — | |
| Database | 11 of 25 · 44% | — | |
| Backend Framework | 6 of 17 · 35% | — | |
| LLM API | 12 of 17 · 71% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Hosting | 8 of 16 · 50% | $12/mo · Workers Paid | |
| AI SDK & Agent Framework | 6 of 13 · 46% | — | |
| Transactional Email | 5 of 12 · 42% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| Background Jobs & Cron | 4 of 9 · 44% | — |
Monthly bills add up to about $42 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the security & compliance tools that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Database Access & ORMs (SQLAlchemy 4, Prisma 2) · Vector Database (pgvector 2, Chroma 2) · AI App Builders (Lovable 3, Bolt 2) · Authentication (Clerk 2, Auth0 1) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 4) · File Storage (Amazon S3 2, MinIO 2) · Payments (Stripe 2, Polar 1) · Web Analytics (Plausible Analytics 1, Umami 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 3)
Security & compliance tools we track
25 makers' products and 18 open-source projects. Makers' products first.