Vercel AI SDK starter kits
40 kits in our catalog use Vercel AI SDK for ai. 19 of them had commits in the last 90 days. Ranked by grade, then maintenance and dependency freshness. Method. Evidence checked .
| Kit | Grade | Verdict | Category | Last activity | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-mercato | A | ActiveCurrent deps | Business tool starters | Oct 16, 2026 | Free |
| sandbase-harness | A | ActiveCurrent deps | AI agent starters | Oct 12, 2026 | Free |
| b2b-saas-starter | A | ActiveCurrent deps | SaaS starters | Oct 18, 2026 | Free |
| lms-front | A | ActiveCurrent deps | SaaS starters | Oct 17, 2026 | Free |
| saas-starter | A | ActiveCurrent deps | SaaS starters | Oct 19, 2026 | Free |
| pg-aiguide | A | ActiveCurrent deps | MCP server starters | Oct 7, 2026 | Free |
| deer-flow | B | Active1 major behind | AI agent starters | Oct 19, 2026 | Free |
| sentry-mcp | B | Active1 major behind | MCP server starters | Oct 17, 2026 | Free |
| nextcrm-app | B | Active1 major behind | Business tool starters | Oct 18, 2026 | Free |
| ecommerce-template | B | Active1 major behind | E-commerce starters | Oct 7, 2026 | Free |
| LangChain + Next.js Template | B | Active1 major behind | AI app starters | Oct 12, 2026 | Free |
| ai-reliability-copilot | B | Active1 major behind | AI app starters | Oct 18, 2026 | Free |
| productplate | B | Steady1 major behind | SaaS starters | Aug 22, 2026 | Free |
| Cloudflare Agents Starter | B | Steady1 major behind | AI app starters | Jul 24, 2026 | Free |
| Vercel AI Chatbot | B | SlowingCurrent deps | AI app starters | Jul 8, 2026 | Free |
| Velobase Harness | C | Active2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Oct 15, 2026 | Free |
| Fragments (E2B) | C | Active2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Oct 13, 2026 | Free |
| mkdirs | C | Steady2+ majors behind | Website templates | Aug 9, 2026 | Free |
| better-chatbot | C | Steady2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Aug 17, 2026 | Free |
| Extro (browser extension starter) | C | Steady2+ majors behind | Full-stack starters | Aug 21, 2026 | Free |
| Awesome Nest Boilerplate | C | Slowing1 major behind | API starters | Jun 9, 2026 | Free |
| ChatGPT Your Files (Supabase) | D | Slowing2+ majors behind | AI app starters | May 12, 2026 | Free |
| Gemini Chatbot (Vercel) | D | Slowing2+ majors behind | AI app starters | May 27, 2026 | Free |
| deep-research | D | Slowing2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Jun 18, 2026 | Free |
| evo-ai | D | Dormant1 major behind | AI agent starters | May 24, 2025 | Free |
| lc-studylab | D | Dormant1 major behind | AI agent starters | Nov 19, 2025 | Free |
| infinite-monitor | D | Dormant1 major behind | AI agent starters | Apr 5, 2026 | Free |
| firesearch | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI agent starters | Jun 2, 2025 | Free |
| Magick | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI agent starters | Jun 24, 2025 | Free |
| gpt-instagram | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI agent starters | Dec 19, 2024 | Free |
| Weaver | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI agent starters | Apr 9, 2026 | Free |
| Chatbot UI | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Jun 22, 2024 | Free |
| Vercel AI Chatbot (SvelteKit) | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Jun 6, 2025 | Free |
| Supabase AI Chatbot | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Jul 28, 2023 | Free |
| Coding Agent Template (Vercel) | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Feb 12, 2026 | Free |
| AI SDK Computer Use | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Mar 3, 2026 | Free |
| scira-mcp-chat | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Dec 11, 2025 | Free |
| tinykit | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | AI app starters | Jan 9, 2026 | Free |
| Next.js Starter Kit (Michael Shimeles) | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | SaaS starters | Dec 14, 2025 | Free |
| ai-saas-starter-kit-nextjs | F | Dormant2+ majors behind | SaaS starters | Apr 2, 2026 | Free |
"Uses Vercel AI SDK" means the package is in the kit's declared dependencies, or the kit's stack was declared by hand where code can't show it.
Other stacks
- Tailwind CSS 297
- Next.js 204
- Vite 144
- Radix UI 113
- FastAPI 82
- node-postgres 63
- Stripe 62
- Express 62
- OpenAI SDK 59
- LangGraph 55
- Drizzle 54
- LangChain 50
- MCP SDK 50
- PostgreSQL (psycopg) 49
- SQLAlchemy 48
- Prisma 44
- Nodemailer 42
- Vue 40
- Better Auth 35
- Astro 35
- Auth.js 31
- Supabase 30
- Anthropic SDK 29
- Alembic 29