cut 2026-10-01

CITATION.cff

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ type: dataset
 authors:
   - name: "Compound Labs"
     website: "https://thecompound.tech"
-version: "2026-09-04"
-date-released: "2026-09-04"
+version: "2026-10-01"
+date-released: "2026-10-01"
 license: CC-BY-4.0
 url: "https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services"
 repository: "https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets"
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ identifiers:
   - type: url
     value: "https://huggingface.co/datasets/kyisaiah47/stacktab-services"
     description: "The same cut on Hugging Face."
+  - type: url
+    value: "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kyisaiah47/stacktab-services"
+    description: "The same cut on Kaggle."
 keywords:
   - stacktab
   - open data

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ configs:
   - config_name: default
     data_files:
       - split: train
-        path: stacktab-services-2026-09-04.csv
+        path: stacktab-services-2026-10-01.csv
 ---
 # StackTab: the developer services under price watch
 
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ One row per developer service whose pricing StackTab reads: its category, its ho
 |---|---|
 | Rows in this cut | 29 |
 | One row is | one service |
-| Cut | 2026-09-04 |
+| Cut | 2026-10-01 |
 | Refreshed | Monthly, on the first of the month |
 | Measured by | [StackTab](https://stacktab.thecompound.tech) |
 | Method | [https://toolproof.thecompound.tech/methodology](https://toolproof.thecompound.tech/methodology) |
 | Licence | [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
 | Publisher | [Compound Labs](https://thecompound.tech) |
-| Also on | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/kyisaiah47/stacktab-services) · [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/22844097) |
+| Also on | [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/kyisaiah47/stacktab-services) · [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kyisaiah47/stacktab-services) · [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/22844097) |
 
 ## How it is measured
 
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ The pricing page is fetched and the plan figures are read from the page that sta
 
 | File | Format | Size |
 |---|---|---|
-| `stacktab-services-2026-09-04.csv` | CSV | 0.01 MB |
-| `stacktab-services-2026-09-04.json` | JSON | 0.01 MB |
+| `stacktab-services-2026-10-01.csv` | CSV | 0.01 MB |
+| `stacktab-services-2026-10-01.json` | JSON | 0.01 MB |
 
 Every cut is also a [GitHub release](https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/releases) with the same files attached, so a
 citation can pin the exact edition it quoted.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ citation can pin the exact edition it quoted.
 ## Cite it
 
 ```
-Compound Labs (2026). StackTab: the developer services under price watch. StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech. Cut of 2026-09-04. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services
+Compound Labs (2026). StackTab: the developer services under price watch. StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech. Cut of 2026-10-01. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services
 ```
 
 ```bibtex
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Compound Labs (2026). StackTab: the developer services under price watch. StackT
   year      = {2026},
   publisher = {Compound Labs},
   url       = {https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services},
-  note      = {Cut of 2026-09-04. Measured by StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech},
+  note      = {Cut of 2026-10-01. Measured by StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech},
   license   = {CC-BY-4.0}
 }
 ```

schema.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "dataset": "stacktab-services",
-  "cut": "2026-09-04",
+  "cut": "2026-10-01",
   "columns": [
     {
       "column": "slug",

stacktab-services-2026-10-01.csv

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+slug,name,category,tagline,homepage_url,pricing_url,attrs,rank
+clerk,Clerk,auth,Drop-in auth with pre-built React components and organisations.,https://clerk.com,https://clerk.com/pricing,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",1
+stripe,Stripe,payments,"The default PSP. You stay the merchant, so sales tax and VAT stay yours.",https://stripe.com,https://stripe.com/pricing,"{""payouts"":""you"",""handles_vat"":false,""handles_sales_tax"":false,""merchant_of_record"":false}",1
+supabase,Supabase,database,"Postgres with auth, storage and realtime bolted on.",https://supabase.com,https://supabase.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""postgres"",""open_source"":true,""bundles_auth"":true,""self_hostable"":true,""bundles_storage"":true}",1
+vercel,Vercel,hosting,"The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.",https://vercel.com,https://vercel.com/pricing,"{""runtime"":""serverless"",""free_tier"":true,""nextjs_first"":true,""byo_container"":false}",1
+better-auth,Better Auth,auth,Open-source TypeScript auth that runs inside your own app and database.,https://www.better-auth.com,https://www.better-auth.com/docs/introduction,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":false,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":true,""own_your_users"":true}",2
+firebase,Firebase,database,"Google's document store, auth and functions on one bill.",https://firebase.google.com,https://firebase.google.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""document"",""open_source"":false,""bundles_auth"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""bundles_storage"":true}",2
+netlify,Netlify,hosting,"The other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.",https://www.netlify.com,https://www.netlify.com/pricing/,"{""runtime"":""serverless"",""free_tier"":true,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":false}",2
+paddle,Paddle,payments,Merchant of record — Paddle is the seller and files the tax.,https://www.paddle.com,https://www.paddle.com/pricing,"{""payouts"":""paddle"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",2
+auth0,Auth0,auth,"The incumbent identity platform, now inside Okta.",https://auth0.com,https://auth0.com/pricing,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",3
+lemon-squeezy,Lemon Squeezy,payments,"Merchant of record for digital products, now owned by Stripe.",https://www.lemonsqueezy.com,https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/pricing,"{""payouts"":""lemon-squeezy"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",3
+neon,Neon,database,Serverless Postgres that scales compute to zero and branches like git.,https://neon.com,https://neon.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""postgres"",""open_source"":true,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":false,""bundles_storage"":false}",3
+railway,Railway,hosting,"Containers billed by the second, with a database next to them.",https://railway.com,https://railway.com/pricing,"{""runtime"":""container"",""free_tier"":false,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":true}",3
+planetscale,PlanetScale,database,Vitess-backed MySQL and Postgres with online schema changes.,https://planetscale.com,https://planetscale.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""mysql"",""open_source"":false,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":false,""bundles_storage"":false}",4
+polar,Polar,payments,"Merchant of record built for developers, with paid tiers that cut the rate.",https://polar.sh,https://polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/fees,"{""payouts"":""polar"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",4
+render,Render,hosting,Predictable instance sizes — the closest thing left to old Heroku.,https://render.com,https://render.com/pricing,"{""runtime"":""container"",""free_tier"":true,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":true}",4
+workos,WorkOS,auth,AuthKit free to a million users; the money is in SSO and Directory Sync.,https://workos.com,https://workos.com/pricing,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",4
+convex,Convex,database,"Reactive TypeScript backend — database, functions and realtime in one.",https://www.convex.dev,https://www.convex.dev/pricing,"{""engine"":""document"",""open_source"":true,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":true,""bundles_storage"":true}",5
+creem,Creem,payments,"Merchant of record at a flat 3.9%, aimed squarely at indie SaaS.",https://www.creem.io,https://www.creem.io/pricing,"{""payouts"":""creem"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",5
+fly-io,Fly.io,hosting,"Micro-VMs you place in specific regions, billed by the second.",https://fly.io,https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/,"{""runtime"":""container"",""free_tier"":false,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":true}",5
+stytch,Stytch,auth,Auth plus device fingerprinting and fraud tooling in the same SDK.,https://stytch.com,https://stytch.com/pricing,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",5
+cloudflare-workers,Cloudflare Workers,hosting,Edge functions with no egress charge at all.,https://workers.cloudflare.com,https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/,"{""runtime"":""edge"",""free_tier"":true,""free_egress"":true,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":false}",6
+dodo-payments,Dodo Payments,payments,Merchant of record covering 220+ countries at 4% + 40¢.,https://dodopayments.com,https://dodopayments.com/pricing,"{""payouts"":""dodo"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",6
+kinde,Kinde,auth,Auth with billing and feature flags bundled in.,https://kinde.com,https://kinde.com/pricing/,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",6
+turso,Turso,database,"SQLite on the edge, one database per tenant without the bill exploding.",https://turso.tech,https://turso.tech/pricing,"{""engine"":""sqlite"",""open_source"":true,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":true,""bundles_storage"":false}",6
+digitalocean-app,DigitalOcean App Platform,hosting,Flat-rate app containers with a predictable monthly number.,https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform,https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform,"{""runtime"":""container"",""free_tier"":true,""nextjs_first"":false,""byo_container"":true}",7
+gumroad,Gumroad,payments,"Merchant of record with a storefront attached, at a flat 10%.",https://gumroad.com,https://gumroad.com/pricing,"{""payouts"":""gumroad"",""handles_vat"":true,""handles_sales_tax"":true,""merchant_of_record"":true}",7
+mongodb-atlas,MongoDB Atlas,database,Managed MongoDB with a genuinely free shared tier.,https://www.mongodb.com/atlas,https://www.mongodb.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""document"",""open_source"":true,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":true,""bundles_storage"":false}",7
+propelauth,PropelAuth,auth,B2B auth priced per user with org management built in.,https://www.propelauth.com,https://www.propelauth.com/pricing,"{""b2b_orgs"":true,""sso_addon"":true,""nextjs_sdk"":true,""self_hostable"":false,""own_your_users"":false}",7
+upstash,Upstash,database,"Serverless Redis and Kafka billed per request, not per hour.",https://upstash.com,https://upstash.com/pricing,"{""engine"":""redis"",""open_source"":false,""bundles_auth"":false,""self_hostable"":false,""bundles_storage"":false}",8

stacktab-services-2026-10-01.json

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+[
+{"slug":"clerk","name":"Clerk","category":"auth","tagline":"Drop-in auth with pre-built React components and organisations.","homepage_url":"https://clerk.com","pricing_url":"https://clerk.com/pricing","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":1},
+{"slug":"stripe","name":"Stripe","category":"payments","tagline":"The default PSP. You stay the merchant, so sales tax and VAT stay yours.","homepage_url":"https://stripe.com","pricing_url":"https://stripe.com/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"you","handles_vat":false,"handles_sales_tax":false,"merchant_of_record":false},"rank":1},
+{"slug":"supabase","name":"Supabase","category":"database","tagline":"Postgres with auth, storage and realtime bolted on.","homepage_url":"https://supabase.com","pricing_url":"https://supabase.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"postgres","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":true,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":true},"rank":1},
+{"slug":"vercel","name":"Vercel","category":"hosting","tagline":"The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped.","homepage_url":"https://vercel.com","pricing_url":"https://vercel.com/pricing","attrs":{"runtime":"serverless","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":true,"byo_container":false},"rank":1},
+{"slug":"better-auth","name":"Better Auth","category":"auth","tagline":"Open-source TypeScript auth that runs inside your own app and database.","homepage_url":"https://www.better-auth.com","pricing_url":"https://www.better-auth.com/docs/introduction","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":false,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":true,"own_your_users":true},"rank":2},
+{"slug":"firebase","name":"Firebase","category":"database","tagline":"Google's document store, auth and functions on one bill.","homepage_url":"https://firebase.google.com","pricing_url":"https://firebase.google.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"document","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":true,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":true},"rank":2},
+{"slug":"netlify","name":"Netlify","category":"hosting","tagline":"The other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.","homepage_url":"https://www.netlify.com","pricing_url":"https://www.netlify.com/pricing/","attrs":{"runtime":"serverless","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":false},"rank":2},
+{"slug":"paddle","name":"Paddle","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record — Paddle is the seller and files the tax.","homepage_url":"https://www.paddle.com","pricing_url":"https://www.paddle.com/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"paddle","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":2},
+{"slug":"auth0","name":"Auth0","category":"auth","tagline":"The incumbent identity platform, now inside Okta.","homepage_url":"https://auth0.com","pricing_url":"https://auth0.com/pricing","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":3},
+{"slug":"lemon-squeezy","name":"Lemon Squeezy","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record for digital products, now owned by Stripe.","homepage_url":"https://www.lemonsqueezy.com","pricing_url":"https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"lemon-squeezy","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":3},
+{"slug":"neon","name":"Neon","category":"database","tagline":"Serverless Postgres that scales compute to zero and branches like git.","homepage_url":"https://neon.com","pricing_url":"https://neon.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"postgres","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false},"rank":3},
+{"slug":"railway","name":"Railway","category":"hosting","tagline":"Containers billed by the second, with a database next to them.","homepage_url":"https://railway.com","pricing_url":"https://railway.com/pricing","attrs":{"runtime":"container","free_tier":false,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true},"rank":3},
+{"slug":"planetscale","name":"PlanetScale","category":"database","tagline":"Vitess-backed MySQL and Postgres with online schema changes.","homepage_url":"https://planetscale.com","pricing_url":"https://planetscale.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"mysql","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false},"rank":4},
+{"slug":"polar","name":"Polar","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record built for developers, with paid tiers that cut the rate.","homepage_url":"https://polar.sh","pricing_url":"https://polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/fees","attrs":{"payouts":"polar","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":4},
+{"slug":"render","name":"Render","category":"hosting","tagline":"Predictable instance sizes — the closest thing left to old Heroku.","homepage_url":"https://render.com","pricing_url":"https://render.com/pricing","attrs":{"runtime":"container","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true},"rank":4},
+{"slug":"workos","name":"WorkOS","category":"auth","tagline":"AuthKit free to a million users; the money is in SSO and Directory Sync.","homepage_url":"https://workos.com","pricing_url":"https://workos.com/pricing","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":4},
+{"slug":"convex","name":"Convex","category":"database","tagline":"Reactive TypeScript backend — database, functions and realtime in one.","homepage_url":"https://www.convex.dev","pricing_url":"https://www.convex.dev/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"document","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":true},"rank":5},
+{"slug":"creem","name":"Creem","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record at a flat 3.9%, aimed squarely at indie SaaS.","homepage_url":"https://www.creem.io","pricing_url":"https://www.creem.io/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"creem","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":5},
+{"slug":"fly-io","name":"Fly.io","category":"hosting","tagline":"Micro-VMs you place in specific regions, billed by the second.","homepage_url":"https://fly.io","pricing_url":"https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/","attrs":{"runtime":"container","free_tier":false,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true},"rank":5},
+{"slug":"stytch","name":"Stytch","category":"auth","tagline":"Auth plus device fingerprinting and fraud tooling in the same SDK.","homepage_url":"https://stytch.com","pricing_url":"https://stytch.com/pricing","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":5},
+{"slug":"cloudflare-workers","name":"Cloudflare Workers","category":"hosting","tagline":"Edge functions with no egress charge at all.","homepage_url":"https://workers.cloudflare.com","pricing_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/","attrs":{"runtime":"edge","free_tier":true,"free_egress":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":false},"rank":6},
+{"slug":"dodo-payments","name":"Dodo Payments","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record covering 220+ countries at 4% + 40¢.","homepage_url":"https://dodopayments.com","pricing_url":"https://dodopayments.com/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"dodo","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":6},
+{"slug":"kinde","name":"Kinde","category":"auth","tagline":"Auth with billing and feature flags bundled in.","homepage_url":"https://kinde.com","pricing_url":"https://kinde.com/pricing/","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":6},
+{"slug":"turso","name":"Turso","category":"database","tagline":"SQLite on the edge, one database per tenant without the bill exploding.","homepage_url":"https://turso.tech","pricing_url":"https://turso.tech/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"sqlite","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":false},"rank":6},
+{"slug":"digitalocean-app","name":"DigitalOcean App Platform","category":"hosting","tagline":"Flat-rate app containers with a predictable monthly number.","homepage_url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform","pricing_url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform","attrs":{"runtime":"container","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true},"rank":7},
+{"slug":"gumroad","name":"Gumroad","category":"payments","tagline":"Merchant of record with a storefront attached, at a flat 10%.","homepage_url":"https://gumroad.com","pricing_url":"https://gumroad.com/pricing","attrs":{"payouts":"gumroad","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true},"rank":7},
+{"slug":"mongodb-atlas","name":"MongoDB Atlas","category":"database","tagline":"Managed MongoDB with a genuinely free shared tier.","homepage_url":"https://www.mongodb.com/atlas","pricing_url":"https://www.mongodb.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"document","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":false},"rank":7},
+{"slug":"propelauth","name":"PropelAuth","category":"auth","tagline":"B2B auth priced per user with org management built in.","homepage_url":"https://www.propelauth.com","pricing_url":"https://www.propelauth.com/pricing","attrs":{"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false},"rank":7},
+{"slug":"upstash","name":"Upstash","category":"database","tagline":"Serverless Redis and Kafka billed per request, not per hour.","homepage_url":"https://upstash.com","pricing_url":"https://upstash.com/pricing","attrs":{"engine":"redis","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false},"rank":8}
+]