Yes. MIT-licensed. NextBento is $59 one-time for a single Next.js + Supabase app. Clerk, Neon, Stripe, and other next-forge services have their own pricing.

Is next-forge a single Next.js app?

No. It is a Turborepo with multiple apps (web, app, api, docs, email, Storybook). NextBento is one Next.js App Router codebase.

Which has programmatic SEO templates?

NextBento. Comparison, integration, and glossary pages are generated from JSON. next-forge includes a marketing site and SEO-ready docs; you build that page factory yourself.

NextBento vs next-forge: Paid Single App or Free Turborepo?

next-forge is a free MIT Turborepo template: marketing site, app, API, docs, email, Storybook. NextBento is a $59 single Next.js app with Supabase auth, Stripe, teams, and programmatic SEO templates. Free vs $59 is the wrong first question. Clone-and-ship vs operating a monorepo is the first question. Free means you still wire Clerk, Neon, and six apps.

Quick Answer

If you want one Next.js 16 app with Supabase auth, Stripe, owner/admin/member teams, eight AI skills, and JSON programmatic SEO templates, NextBento is the one. next-forge is a free MIT monorepo (Clerk, Neon/Prisma, Stripe, Resend, PostHog, Sentry). You operate several apps in Turborepo and you still pay Clerk and Neon later. Saving $59 to fight a six-app repo is a bad weekend. If you need Storybook, a separate API app, or Clerk orgs as the tenancy model, this is not that kit.

Pricing and license

next-forge (github.com/vercel/next-forge and next-forge.com, verified 2026-09-02): free, MIT, no paid tiers. You still pay third-party services as you scale (Clerk, Neon, Stripe fees, Sentry, and so on). NextBento: $59 one-time for the kit; infra starts on Vercel + Supabase + Resend free tiers. next-forge wins on license price. NextBento wins if you do not want a six-app monorepo or Clerk as your auth vendor.

Architecture

next-forge is Turborepo: separate apps for the dashboard, marketing site, API, docs, email previews, and Storybook, plus shared packages. That is the point. NextBento is one Next.js App Router codebase: marketing, dashboard, docs, and pSEO routes in one deploy. If you want clone-and-ship on Vercel as a single project, NextBento matches. A monorepo is a team architecture. Most indie launches do not need it on night one.

Auth, data, and billing

next-forge uses Clerk for auth (orgs available through Clerk), Neon + Prisma for data, Stripe for billing, Resend for email. NextBento uses Supabase for auth and Postgres (RLS), Stripe for subscriptions and the Customer Portal, Resend + React Email. Switching NextBento off Supabase is a rewrite. Switching next-forge off Clerk is also a rewrite. If you already wanted Supabase, do not start on Clerk to save the $59 license.

AI tooling and SEO

NextBento ships eight in-repo skills and a JSON pSEO engine (compare, integrations, glossary). next-forge is production-grade on SEO for its marketing app (type-safe site, blog, legal). It does not ship NextBento's comparison-page factory. You can prompt against next-forge. You do not get NextBento's skills inventory or pSEO JSON.

Evidence and Last Verified

Last verified: 2026-09-02. NextBento: www.nextbento.dev/pricing and www.nextbento.dev/docs. next-forge: next-forge.com and github.com/vercel/next-forge (MIT, Turborepo, Clerk, Stripe, Neon, Prisma, Resend). Confirm init steps with `npx next-forge@latest init` docs before you commit.

Best For / Not Ideal For

NextBento is for solo founders who want one Next.js + Supabase repo with SEO templates. next-forge extras are a free Vercel-backed monorepo and Clerk orgs, with Clerk/Neon bills later. If you need Storybook, a separate API app, or Clerk orgs as the tenancy model, NextBento is the wrong kit.