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24 alternatives to Payload 2.0
TypeScript headless CMS + app framework
Payload 2.0 is an open-source TypeScript framework that combines a headless CMS with an app framework for building backends and admin interfaces. Written entirely in TypeScript with no abstraction layers, it allows… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier. Payload 2.0 launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Payload CMS▲143Developer-first TypeScript & React headless CMS
2021 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS▲176The best TypeScript CMS developer experience there is
2022 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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mcp-usefree tier, from $25/mo▲581Hi HN, Luigi here. We maintain mcp-use an open-source TypeScript framework for building MCP servers and MCP Apps: https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use MCP is now (finally) stateless so we rewrote mcp-use v2 from scratch for the 2026-07-28 MCP spec revision: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/ Thanks to the rebuild: - Throughput: +27% → from 8,615 to 10,982 median ops/sec - Cold launch: 2.2x faster → from 151.6 ms to 68.1 ms - Clean install: 82% smaller → from 404.6 MiB to 74.4 MiB Benchmark with methodology here:…
2025 · manufact.com · its alternatives →
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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 6RWRocket – Web Framework for Rustfree▲484
2016 · rocket.rs · its alternatives →
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Open SaaS▲505Open-source & 100% free React & Node.js SaaS starter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Serverless Cloud▲283Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else
2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →
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Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.com · its alternatives →
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Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services. - serverless/serverless
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unubo 2.0▲324Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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Bedrock▲257Full-stack Next.js & GraphQL boilerplate for SaaS products
2021 · bedrock.mxstbr.com · its alternatives →
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1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Marble▲280Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex
Dec 2025 · marblecms.com · its alternatives →
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Quarkly 2.0▲250No-code platform for creating websites and web apps on React
2021 · quarkly.io · its alternatives →
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Contentrain▲218Headless CMS that combines Git & Serverless platforms
2024 · contentrain.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL for authorization. With Convex I loved how your server "lives" in your code, but disliked the DB model and the realtime-first defaults. With Typebase you just write TS files inside a typebase/ folder in your existing repo. You can define your DB tables inside a schema.ts file and export server functions that your frontend calls like local functions, fully typed. Auth is built in. Then one…
Aug 2026 · typebase.io · its alternatives →
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2025 · mackow.ski · its alternatives →
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2022 · thin.dev · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS blocks installed wired, not pasted
Jun 2026 · payload-components.xyz · its alternatives →
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Local-first collaboration SDK for React, Vue, and Svelte. Batteries-included: Rich text, undo/redo, cursors, and presence. - Dancode-188/synckit
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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