Achromatic Review: What You Get and What You Don't (2026)
This page summarises what we know about Achromatic: the stack it uses, the 6 integrations it ships with, how its price sits against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Verdict
At 6 integrations against a catalog average of 7, Achromatic competes on focus rather than breadth. With a free tier there is no purchase decision to agonise over: clone it, read the code, and judge for yourself.
What Is Achromatic?
A slick boilerplate that handles the heavy lifting—Auth, Payments, Database, Email, Analytics, and full responsiveness—so you can focus on scaling your business, not fiddling with infrastructure. Just plug in your vision and launch with confidence. If you’re collecting these for a comparison sheet or pitch deck, I can align the tone across all entries to make it look pro. Just nudge me!
Achromatic Tech Stack
Achromatic uses NextJS, Supabase, Prisma and Drizzle. NextJS is one of the most common foundations in our catalog (31 kits use it), which means plenty of alternatives exist if Achromatic doesn't fit, but also that the ecosystem around this stack is well documented.
What's Included in Achromatic
Achromatic lists 6 integrations: Analytics, Auth, Database, Email and Payments and 1 more. For context, the catalog average is 7 integrations per kit, so Achromatic is on the leaner side. Leaner is not automatically worse; fewer integrations also means fewer dependencies to maintain or rip out.
Achromatic Pricing
Achromatic has a free tier, with paid options up to $180. The median paid kit in our catalog costs $129, so a free starting point is a real outlier here. The practical implication: you can evaluate the actual codebase before any money changes hands, which is not true for most kits in this category.
Who Should Use Achromatic
Fit depends on your project more than on the kit itself. Achromatic makes sense if you are starting a new project on NextJS and the included integrations match your requirements list. Since authentication and payments are both wired up, Achromatic covers the two integrations that consume the most setup time in a typical SaaS build. Skip it if you want full control over every dependency choice; a boilerplate is by definition a set of decisions someone else made for you.
How Achromatic Compares
Pros
- ✓ 6 pre-built integrations including Analytics and Auth
- ✓ Auth and payments both wired up, the two slowest pieces to build from scratch
- ✓ Free tier, so the codebase can be evaluated before paying
- ✓ NextJS stack with a large ecosystem of comparable kits and documentation
Cons
- ✗ Locked into the stack and architecture decisions the maker chose
Ready to try Achromatic?
Free tier available
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Achromatic worth the price?
Achromatic has a free tier, so the question answers itself: clone it and read the code. Most comparable kits cost around $129, so even if you outgrow the free tier you started ahead.
What tech stack does Achromatic use?
NextJS, Supabase, Prisma, Drizzle. 31 kits in our catalog use NextJS, so if the rest of this kit doesn't fit, the stack itself won't limit your alternatives.
What's included in Achromatic?
6 listed integrations: Analytics, Auth, Database, Email, Payments, Responsive. The catalog average is 7 per kit.
Who is Achromatic best suited for?
Anyone starting a new NextJS project whose requirements overlap heavily with the included integrations (Analytics, Auth and Database). The worse the overlap, the weaker the case: a boilerplate you fight against costs more time than it saves.
Are there good alternatives to Achromatic?
Yes. We maintain a ranked list of Achromatic alternatives based on shared stack and feature overlap. 30 other kits in the catalog use NextJS. See the alternatives page linked below.