B2B Seed Stage

The professional stack for seed-stage B2B startups. Balances cost with capability, choosing tools that scale to Series A and beyond. Built for small teams who need reliability and speed.

$117/mo
monthly
8
tools
3h 55m
setup time

Best For

Business Type
B2B SaaS, API Product
Technical Level
Developer, Technical
Team Size
Tiny Team, Small Team
Budget
$50-200/mo, $200-500/mo
💻

Development

$74/mo

Vercel

$20/moeasy

Pro tier unlocks team features, better performance, and priority support.

Setup time: 15 minPro: $20/mo per member, includes more bandwidth and builds
Integrates with: planetscale, clerk, stripe
Alternatives:
Railway — Better for monorepos and backend services
Render — More traditional hosting, good for non-Next.js apps
Quick start guide →

PlanetScale

$29/momedium

Serverless MySQL with branching. Zero-downtime schema changes for fast-moving teams.

Setup time: 30 minScaler: $29/mo, 10GB storage, 100M row reads
Integrates with: vercel, clerk
Alternatives:
Supabase — Postgres with auth included, less scaling features
Neon — Serverless Postgres, generous free tier
Quick start guide →

Clerk

$25/moeasy

Drop-in auth with beautiful UI components. SSO, MFA, and user management built-in.

Setup time: 20 minPro: $25/mo + $0.02/MAU over 10K
Integrates with: vercel, planetscale, stripe
Alternatives:
Auth0 — More enterprise features, more expensive
Supabase Auth — Free with Supabase, fewer features
Quick start guide →
💳

Payments

Free

Stripe

Freemedium

Enterprise-grade payments with invoicing, tax calculation, and revenue recognition.

Setup time: 1h2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, volume discounts available
Integrates with: planetscale, clerk, postmark
Alternatives:
Chargebee — Better for complex billing, adds ~0.5% fee
Quick start guide →
⚙️

Operations

$35/mo

Postmark

$15/moeasy

Best-in-class deliverability for transactional emails. Your important emails land in inbox.

Setup time: 20 min$15/mo for 10K emails, excellent deliverability
Integrates with: vercel, stripe
Alternatives:
Resend — Modern API, React Email support, free tier
SendGrid — More marketing features, lower deliverability
Quick start guide →

HelpScout

$20/moeasy

Professional shared inbox with knowledge base. Feels personal at scale.

Setup time: 30 minStandard: $20/mo per user, includes Docs
Integrates with: stripe, slack
Alternatives:
Intercom — More features, significantly more expensive
Freshdesk — Free tier available, less polished
Quick start guide →
🤝

Collaboration

$8/mo

Linear

$8/moeasy

Fast, keyboard-driven issue tracking. Built for modern development teams.

Setup time: 15 min$8/mo per user for Standard tier
Integrates with: github, slack
Alternatives:
Jira — More customizable, much slower
GitHub Issues — Free, less features but simpler
Quick start guide →
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Growth

Free

Mixpanel

Freemedium

Product analytics for understanding user behavior. Funnels, cohorts, retention.

Setup time: 45 minFree up to 20M events/mo, more than enough for seed stage
Integrates with: vercel, stripe
Alternatives:
Amplitude — Similar features, better for enterprise
PostHog — Open source, includes feature flags
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Monthly Cost Breakdown

Development$74/mo
Vercel$20/mo
PlanetScale$29/mo
Clerk$25/mo
PaymentsFree
StripeFree
Operations$35/mo
Postmark$15/mo
HelpScout$20/mo
GrowthFree
MixpanelFree
Collaboration$8/mo
Linear$8/mo
Total$117/mo

Estimated monthly cost based on typical usage

Pro tip: Many tools have generous free tiers. Your actual cost may be lower when starting out.

Setup Guide

Total: ~3h 55m
1
Vercel~15 min

Set up Vercel

Start here
2
PlanetScale~30 min

Set up PlanetScale

3
Clerk~20 min

Set up Clerk

4
Stripe~1h

Set up Stripe

Requires: planetscale, clerk

5
Postmark~20 min

Set up Postmark

Requires: vercel, stripe

6
HelpScout~30 min

Set up HelpScout

Requires: stripe

7
Mixpanel~45 min

Set up Mixpanel

Requires: vercel, stripe

8
Linear~15 min

Set up Linear

Steps: 8
Estimated time: 3h 55m

Tags

seed-stageb2b-saassmall-teamscalableprofessional

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