15 Best shadcn/ui SaaS Starter Kits 2026 (Free + Premium)

Looking for the best shadcn/ui SaaS starter kits to launch your next product? These 15 production-ready boilerplates ship with auth, billing, multi-tenancy, and the polished shadcn/ui design system — so you can spend your time on the actual product, not the plumbing.

shadcn/ui has quietly become the default React component layer for serious SaaS founders. It’s not a dependency you install — it’s source code you own, built on Radix primitives and styled with Tailwind. That ownership is exactly what production SaaS apps need: full control over component behavior, no version-lock surprises, and a design system that ages with your product.

The 15 starter kits below pair shadcn/ui with the rest of the modern SaaS stack — Next.js 16 App Router, TypeScript, Stripe or Lemon Squeezy billing, Supabase or Postgres + Drizzle, and authentication that actually handles MFA. We’ve split the list into premium kits (faster to launch, paid licenses) and free open-source kits (more setup, MIT or Apache-2.0). Every demo URL was tested live; every GitHub repo is actively maintained as of May 2026.

For broader admin-template options beyond pure SaaS starters, see our best shadcn/ui templates & starter kits roundup and our free admin panels collection.

1. Apex Dashboard

Built on Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript 5, and Tailwind CSS v4 with 35 vendored shadcn/ui components. Five distinct dashboard variants share one codebase. Includes Chat, Mail, File Manager, Kanban, Calendar, full CRUD with TanStack Table v8, ten Recharts 3 chart types, billing & invoicing pages, Stripe-ready settings, command palette, internationalization scaffold, and a live theme customizer with six color presets and three density modes. The 2FA-ready auth flow and notification system make it production-grade out of the box.

2. Zenith Dashboard

Zenith strips the SaaS dashboard pattern down to its essentials: achromatic palette, light typography, and disciplined spacing. You still get six dashboard variants (Overview, Analytics, eCommerce, CRM, SaaS, Sales), 50+ pages, full auth flow, billing, settings, AI chat scaffold, Kanban, and calendar. The live theme customizer lets clients pick an accent color without breaking the achromatic system. Ideal when you want a SaaS that feels editorial — not generic admin chrome.

3. MakerKit

MakerKit is the most architecturally serious option here. You pick your stack at install — Supabase, Drizzle, or Prisma — and get organizations with role-based access control, email-based team invitations, per-organization billing, a super-admin dashboard, an AI chatbot module, and a documented plugin system. The codebase supports personal-only, organizations-only, and hybrid modes as a switchable setting, so the same template ships B2C and B2B products. Lifetime access, no subscription, with continuous updates.

4. Achromatic

Built on Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, tRPC, Better Auth, Prisma or Drizzle, and Vercel AI SDK. Includes email + social sign-in with MFA, organization/team management, an admin panel, billing & subscriptions, AI chatbot, file storage, marketing pages, and a tightly composed shadcn/ui design system. At $180 one-time for unlimited projects and developers, it undercuts MakerKit and ShipFast by a wide margin while shipping the same core feature set.

5. Supastarter

Supastarter ships a serverless Next.js stack with Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, and Stripe or Lemon Squeezy as drop-in payment options. Multi-tenancy and team management are baked into the architecture with organization switching, RBAC, team invites, and per-organization billing. Comes with an admin panel, internationalization scaffold, and an AI integration module. Trusted by thousands of founders and one of the most polished options when localization is a hard requirement.

6. ShipFast

ShipFast is the fastest path from purchase to a deployed SaaS for solo founders. The philosophy is deliberate minimalism — Google OAuth + magic links, Stripe or Lemon Squeezy checkout, MongoDB or Supabase, transactional email with DNS-correct deliverability, a blog and SEO scaffolding. Skips multi-tenancy, admin panels, and role-based access control intentionally, which is why deployment in under a day is realistic. If you outgrow it later, MakerKit or Supastarter is the natural upgrade.

7. Next.js SaaS Starter (official)

Maintained by the Next.js team itself, this is the reference free SaaS starter for the App Router era. Includes a marketing landing page with an animated terminal, a pricing page wired to Stripe Checkout, dashboard pages with full CRUD, role-based access control, subscription management, email/password auth with JWT cookies, middleware-based route protection, and activity logging. The drop-in choice when you want a free starter you can trust to be kept current.

8. Open SaaS

Powered by the Wasp full-stack framework, Open SaaS bundles auth (email, Google, GitHub, Slack, MS), Stripe and Polar.sh payments, transactional email, background jobs, an admin dashboard, S3 file uploads, and a working AI demo app. The v2.0 release moved the entire UI to shadcn/ui. Tailored AGENTS.md instructions and a Claude Code plugin make it the most LLM-friendly free SaaS template available, and the live demo at opensaas.sh lets prospective users log in, run test payments, and explore the admin panel before cloning.

9. SaaS Boilerplate by ixartz

Ships with Next.js 16 App Router, Drizzle ORM, Clerk authentication (social login, MFA, passkeys), Stripe billing, multi-tenancy with team support, role-based access control, internationalization via next-intl + Crowdin, Sentry error monitoring, Pino logging with Better Stack, and a complete test pyramid (Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright). Bundles Storybook, ESLint, Prettier, Husky, and CI workflows. Premium Pro and Max tiers add Stripe templates, dark mode, and Better Auth, but the free tier alone is the cleanest reference for production-grade Next.js SaaS patterns.

10. Encore.ts SaaS Starter

Encore.ts gives you typed RPC endpoints, automatic API documentation, built-in observability, and infrastructure-as-code primitives without a separate IaC tool. Pair that with a Next.js + Tailwind + shadcn/ui frontend, Clerk for authentication, and Stripe for subscriptions, and you have an end-to-end TypeScript SaaS template that compiles your backend, frontend, and infrastructure as one system. Maintained by the Encore team and a strong choice when you want a sharper backend story than what Supabase or Drizzle alone provide.

11. next-supabase-stripe-starter

KolbySisk’s starter focuses on the integration layer most free SaaS templates skip over: webhook-driven sync between Stripe and Supabase Postgres, with idempotent handlers and clean subscription state management. Includes Supabase Auth, Stripe Checkout and Customer Portal, transactional email via Resend with React Email, accessible pre-built pages, and a typed shadcn/ui component layer. 90% TypeScript and one of the cleanest reference implementations for Stripe-Supabase synchronization on the public internet.

12. Hikari

Hikari is one of the rare free SaaS starters with a complete documentation pipeline included via Fumadocs (MDX). Next.js 14 App Router with tRPC for end-to-end type-safe APIs, Supabase for auth, database, and storage with built-in image compression, Stripe subscription billing with hardened webhooks, and shadcn/ui components throughout. Test setup uses Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright. A great pick when you know you’ll need a public docs site shortly after launch.

13. Horizon AI Boilerplate

Built specifically for AI-first SaaS products. Ships with Next.js, Supabase Auth and Postgres, OpenAI API integration, 30+ pre-built shadcn/ui components, and a polished ChatGPT-style chat UI. Dark/light theme switching, accessible primitives, and TypeScript throughout. The boilerplate-shadcn variant is MIT-licensed and free; Horizon also sells a Pro tier with extended AI templates if you outgrow the free version. Strong starting point when your product idea is “ChatGPT for X” and you don’t want to rebuild the chat shell.

14. Basejump

Basejump is the only entry on the list that’s not a full app — it’s an auth and billing layer designed to drop into any Supabase project. Adds personal accounts, team accounts with role-based permissions, Stripe subscription billing, and Supabase Row-Level-Security policies that enforce permissions at the database layer. Optional shadcn/ui React components are provided for account switching and billing pages. Use it as a standalone SaaS starter or paste it on top of an existing Supabase app.

15. next-forge

A production-grade Turborepo template designed for teams that already know they’ll outgrow a single Next.js app. Six deployable surfaces: marketing site, app, API, docs, email previews, and Storybook. Sixteen-plus integrated packages including Clerk auth, Stripe payments, PostHog analytics, Resend email, Sentry monitoring, Trigger.dev webhooks, Knock notifications, and shadcn/ui components. Opinionated about tooling so you stop bikeshedding and start shipping. Started by Hayden Bleasel and now adopted across multiple production codebases.

How to Choose the Right shadcn/ui SaaS Starter Kit

The 15 options above split cleanly along three dimensions. Pick along whichever matters most:

By budget

• $0: Next.js SaaS Starter for the canonical reference, Open SaaS for AI-first, ixartz SaaS Boilerplate for the cleanest production patterns, next-forge for monorepo architecture.
• $69-$199 one-time: Apex Dashboard or Zenith Dashboard for the most feature-complete shadcn/ui foundations, Achromatic for the lowest-priced premium with B2B features, ShipFast for the fastest path to launch.
• $299-€349 lifetime: MakerKit or Supastarter for the most architecturally serious B2B SaaS foundations.

By target customer

• B2C / solo founder: ShipFast, Next.js SaaS Starter, Open SaaS.
• B2B / teams: MakerKit, Supastarter, Achromatic, ixartz SaaS Boilerplate.
• AI products: Horizon AI Boilerplate, Open SaaS, Achromatic.

By database

• Supabase: Open SaaS, next-supabase-stripe-starter, Hikari, Horizon AI, Basejump, Supastarter (option), MakerKit (option).
• Postgres + Drizzle: Next.js SaaS Starter, ixartz, Supastarter, MakerKit (option).
• Postgres + Prisma: Achromatic, MakerKit (option), Open SaaS.

Whatever you pick, the underlying truth is that shadcn/ui has crowded out the proprietary component libraries (MUI, Ant Design, Chakra) for greenfield SaaS in 2026. Owning your component source code is no longer a power-user choice — it’s the default path.

If you’ve outgrown free starters or want a polished foundation rather than a skeleton, our DashboardPack Next.js + shadcn/ui catalog is where to look — Apex and Zenith are the same templates listed above.