Hexclave
by Hexclave · Open-source auth, payments, email and analytics building blocks
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Overview
Hexclave is an open-source platform of modular building blocks for user-facing infrastructure: authentication and RBAC, payments and billing, transactional emails, analytics and session replays, webhooks and API keys. It runs as managed cloud or entirely self-hosted on your own infrastructure, and imports existing accounts from Clerk, Auth0, Firebase Auth and Supabase Auth.
- Best for
- Startups wanting auth, payments, emails and analytics as one open-source, self-hostable platform.
- Pricing
- Free tier, then $49/month (Team) or $299/month (Growth), with self-hosting free and extra dashboard admins at $29/month each.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Self-hostable free; MIT client SDKs, AGPLv3 server
- Free tier covers 10,000 auth users and 1,000 emails/month
- Imports from Clerk, Auth0, Firebase Auth and Supabase Auth
- Growth tier removes the auth user cap entirely
Trade-offs
- Email cap stays at 25,000/month on both Team and Growth
- Session replays capped at 2,500/month on every tier, including $299 Growth
- Only 4 dashboard admins included; each extra is $29/month
- Server is AGPLv3, so closed-source use needs a commercial licence
How Hexclave markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Hexclave’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Hexclave is the open-source platform for everything user”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Animated walkthrough
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Hexclave’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
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