Known Services

Known Services Library

Condensed profiles for commonly used services in modern software architecture. Each profile includes what you need to get started: signup, setup steps, credentials, free tier, and documentation.

For the full extended library, see references/service-profiles.md.

Authentication

Auth0

• Signup: https://auth0.com/signup
• Setup: Create tenant → Create application → Configure callback URLs → Install SDK
• Credentials: Domain, Client ID, Client Secret
• Free tier: 25,000 MAU, unlimited logins
• Docs: https://auth0.com/docs

Clerk

• Signup: https://clerk.com/sign-up
• Setup: Create application → Install @clerk/nextjs → Add middleware → Add <ClerkProvider>
• Credentials: Publishable Key, Secret Key
• Free tier: 10,000 MAU
• Docs: https://clerk.com/docs

Firebase Auth

• Signup: https://console.firebase.google.com
• Setup: Create project → Enable auth providers → Install Firebase SDK → Initialize app
• Credentials: Firebase config object (apiKey, authDomain, projectId)
• Free tier: 50,000 MAU for most providers
• Docs: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth

Supabase Auth

• Signup: https://supabase.com/dashboard
• Setup: Create project → Auth is included → Install @supabase/supabase-js → Configure providers
• Credentials: Project URL, Anon Key, Service Role Key
• Free tier: Included with Supabase free tier (50,000 MAU)
• Docs: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth

Kinde

• Signup: https://app.kinde.com/register
• Setup: Create business → Choose framework → Install SDK → Configure redirect URIs
• Credentials: Domain, Client ID, Client Secret
• Free tier: 10,500 MAU
• Docs: https://docs.kinde.com

Payments

Stripe

• Signup: https://dashboard.stripe.com/register
• Setup: Create account → Get API keys → Install stripe SDK → Create products in dashboard
• Credentials: Publishable Key, Secret Key, Webhook Signing Secret
• Free tier: No monthly fee, 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
• Docs: https://docs.stripe.com

Paddle

• Signup: https://www.paddle.com/signup
• Setup: Create account → Approval process (1-3 days) → Configure products → Install Paddle.js
• Credentials: Vendor ID, Auth Code, Public Key
• Free tier: No monthly fee, 5% + $0.50 per transaction (merchant of record)
• Docs: https://developer.paddle.com

LemonSqueezy

• Signup: https://app.lemonsqueezy.com/register
• Setup: Create store → Create products → Install SDK → Configure webhooks
• Credentials: API Key, Store ID, Webhook Secret
• Free tier: No monthly fee, 5% + $0.50 per transaction (merchant of record)
• Docs: https://docs.lemonsqueezy.com

Databases

Supabase (PostgreSQL)

• Signup: https://supabase.com/dashboard
• Setup: Create project → Choose region → Database is ready immediately → Install client
• Credentials: Project URL, Anon Key, Service Role Key, Database Connection String
• Free tier: 500 MB database, 2 projects, 50K MAU auth
• Docs: https://supabase.com/docs

MongoDB Atlas

• Signup: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register
• Setup: Create cluster → Choose M0 free tier → Create database user → Whitelist IP → Get connection string
• Credentials: Connection String (includes user/password)
• Free tier: M0 shared cluster, 512 MB storage
• Docs: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas

Neon (PostgreSQL)

• Signup: https://neon.tech
• Setup: Create project → Database is ready → Copy connection string → Install client
• Credentials: Connection String
• Free tier: 0.5 GB, 1 project, 100 compute hours/mo
• Docs: https://neon.tech/docs

PlanetScale (MySQL)

• Signup: https://planetscale.com
• Setup: Create database → Create branch → Connect with connection string
• Credentials: Host, Username, Password
• Free tier: 1 database, 5 GB storage, 1B reads/mo
• Docs: https://planetscale.com/docs

Upstash (Redis)

• Signup: https://console.upstash.com
• Setup: Create database → Choose region → Copy REST URL and token
• Credentials: REST URL, REST Token
• Free tier: 10K commands/day, 256 MB
• Docs: https://upstash.com/docs/redis

Turso (SQLite)

• Signup: https://turso.tech
• Setup: Install CLI → turso db create → Create auth token → Copy URL
• Credentials: Database URL, Auth Token
• Free tier: 9 GB total storage, 500 databases
• Docs: https://docs.turso.tech

Email

Resend

• Signup: https://resend.com/signup
• Setup: Create account → Verify domain (add DNS records) → Get API key → Install SDK
• Credentials: API Key
• Free tier: 3,000 emails/mo, 1 domain
• Docs: https://resend.com/docs

SendGrid

• Signup: https://signup.sendgrid.com
• Setup: Create account → Verify sender → Create API key → Install SDK
• Credentials: API Key
• Free tier: 100 emails/day
• Docs: https://docs.sendgrid.com

Postmark

• Signup: https://postmarkapp.com/sign_up
• Setup: Create server → Verify sender domain → Get API token → Install SDK
• Credentials: Server API Token
• Free tier: 100 emails/mo
• Docs: https://postmarkapp.com/developer

AWS SES

• Signup: Via AWS Console
• Setup: Verify domain → Request production access → Configure SMTP or API
• Credentials: SMTP credentials or AWS Access Key + Secret
• Free tier: 3,000/mo free (from EC2), $0.10/1,000 otherwise
• Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses

SMS & Messaging

Twilio

• Signup: https://www.twilio.com/try-twilio
• Setup: Create account → Get phone number → Install SDK → Send messages
• Credentials: Account SID, Auth Token
• Free tier: Trial balance (~$15)
• Docs: https://www.twilio.com/docs

Hosting & Deployment

Vercel

• Signup: https://vercel.com/signup
• Setup: Connect GitHub repo → Auto-detect framework → Deploy
• Credentials: None needed for basic deploy (uses GitHub OAuth)
• Free tier: Hobby (personal, non-commercial), 100 GB bandwidth
• Docs: https://vercel.com/docs

Netlify

• Signup: https://app.netlify.com/signup
• Setup: Connect GitHub repo → Configure build settings → Deploy
• Credentials: None needed for basic deploy
• Free tier: 100 GB bandwidth, 300 build minutes/mo
• Docs: https://docs.netlify.com

Railway

• Signup: https://railway.app
• Setup: Connect GitHub → Select repo → Configure environment variables → Deploy
• Credentials: None needed (uses GitHub OAuth)
• Free tier: $5 trial credit
• Docs: https://docs.railway.app

Render

• Signup: https://render.com
• Setup: Connect GitHub → Create service → Configure → Deploy
• Credentials: None needed for basic deploy
• Free tier: Free web service (sleeps after 15 min inactivity)
• Docs: https://render.com/docs

Fly.io

• Signup: https://fly.io/app/sign-up
• Setup: Install flyctl CLI → fly launch → Configure → Deploy
• Credentials: Fly API Token
• Free tier: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs, 3 GB persistent storage
• Docs: https://fly.io/docs

Storage

AWS S3

• Signup: Via AWS Console
• Setup: Create bucket → Configure CORS → Create IAM user → Get access keys
• Credentials: Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, Bucket Name, Region
• Free tier: 5 GB, 20K GET, 2K PUT (12 months)
• Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3

Cloudflare R2

• Signup: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
• Setup: Enable R2 → Create bucket → Generate API token
• Credentials: Account ID, Access Key ID, Secret Access Key
• Free tier: 10 GB storage, 10M reads/mo, 1M writes/mo, no egress fees
• Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2

Uploadthing

• Signup: https://uploadthing.com
• Setup: Create app → Install SDK → Configure file router → Add upload components
• Credentials: API Key, App ID
• Free tier: 2 GB storage
• Docs: https://docs.uploadthing.com

Monitoring & Analytics

Sentry

• Signup: https://sentry.io/signup
• Setup: Create project → Install SDK → Configure DSN → Capture errors
• Credentials: DSN (Data Source Name)
• Free tier: 5K errors/mo, 10K performance events
• Docs: https://docs.sentry.io

PostHog

• Signup: https://posthog.com
• Setup: Create project → Install snippet or SDK → Events auto-captured
• Credentials: Project API Key
• Free tier: 1M events/mo, 5K session recordings/mo
• Docs: https://posthog.com/docs

Datadog

• Signup: https://www.datadoghq.com
• Setup: Create account → Install agent on servers → Configure integrations
• Credentials: API Key, Application Key
• Free tier: 5 hosts, 1-day retention
• Docs: https://docs.datadoghq.com

Search

Algolia

• Signup: https://www.algolia.com/users/sign_up
• Setup: Create app → Create index → Push records → Install InstantSearch SDK
• Credentials: Application ID, Search API Key, Admin API Key
• Free tier: 10K search requests/mo, 10K records
• Docs: https://www.algolia.com/doc

Typesense

• Signup: https://cloud.typesense.org
• Setup: Create cluster → Create collection → Index documents → Query
• Credentials: API Key, Host, Port
• Free tier: Typesense Cloud free tier available
• Docs: https://typesense.org/docs

Meilisearch

• Signup: https://cloud.meilisearch.com
• Setup: Create project → Get credentials → Install SDK → Index documents
• Credentials: Host, API Key
• Free tier: Meilisearch Cloud free plan (100K documents)
• Docs: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs

Elasticsearch

• Signup: https://cloud.elastic.co
• Setup: Create deployment → Get endpoint → Install client SDK → Create index
• Credentials: Cloud ID or URL, API Key
• Free tier: 14-day trial; self-hosted is free (OSS)
• Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Azure Cognitive Search

• Signup: https://portal.azure.com
• Setup: Create Search service → Create index → Load data → Query
• Credentials: Endpoint URL, Admin Key, Query Key
• Free tier: Free tier (50MB, 3 indexes)
• Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/

Vector Databases

Pinecone

• Signup: https://www.pinecone.io
• Setup: Create index → Choose dimensions/metric → Upsert vectors → Query
• Credentials: API Key, Environment, Index name
• Free tier: Starter plan (1 index, 100K vectors)
• Docs: https://docs.pinecone.io

Qdrant

• Signup: https://cloud.qdrant.io
• Setup: Create cluster → Create collection → Upload vectors → Search
• Credentials: URL, API Key
• Free tier: 1GB free cluster
• Docs: https://qdrant.tech/documentation/

Weaviate

• Signup: https://console.weaviate.cloud
• Setup: Create cluster → Define schema → Import objects → Query
• Credentials: URL, API Key
• Free tier: Sandbox cluster (14-day)
• Docs: https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Message Queues

RabbitMQ (CloudAMQP)

• Signup: https://www.cloudamqp.com
• Setup: Create instance → Get AMQP URL → Install client (amqplib/pika) → Publish/consume
• Credentials: AMQP URL (includes host, port, vhost, credentials)
• Free tier: Little Lemur (1M messages/mo, 20 connections)
• Docs: https://www.rabbitmq.com/documentation.html

Amazon SQS

• Signup: https://aws.amazon.com
• Setup: Create queue → Get queue URL → Install AWS SDK → Send/receive messages
• Credentials: AWS Access Key, Secret Key, Region, Queue URL
• Free tier: 1M requests/mo
• Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/

Apache Kafka (Confluent Cloud)

• Signup: https://confluent.cloud
• Setup: Create cluster → Create topic → Get bootstrap server → Install client
• Credentials: Bootstrap servers, API Key, API Secret
• Free tier: $400 credit for 30 days
• Docs: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/overview.html

Azure Service Bus

• Signup: https://portal.azure.com
• Setup: Create namespace → Create queue/topic → Get connection string → Install SDK
• Credentials: Connection string
• Free tier: No free tier; Basic tier starts at ~$0.05/M operations
• Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

• Signup: Included with GitHub
• Setup: Create .github/workflows/ directory → Add workflow YAML files
• Credentials: Automatic GITHUB_TOKEN, custom secrets via repository settings
• Free tier: 2,000 minutes/mo (free plan)
• Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions

Vercel (CI/CD)

• Signup: Included with Vercel account
• Setup: Connect repo → Auto-deploys on push → Preview deploys on PR
• Credentials: None needed
• Free tier: Included with Hobby plan
• Docs: https://vercel.com/docs/deployments

Maps & Location

Google Maps

• Signup: https://console.cloud.google.com
• Setup: Enable Maps JavaScript API → Create API key → Restrict key → Install SDK
• Credentials: API Key
• Free tier: $200/mo credit (~28K map loads)
• Docs: https://developers.google.com/maps

Mapbox

• Signup: https://account.mapbox.com/auth/signup
• Setup: Create account → Get access token → Install SDK
• Credentials: Access Token
• Free tier: 50K map loads/mo, 100K geocoding requests/mo
• Docs: https://docs.mapbox.com

Push Notifications

OneSignal

• Signup: https://onesignal.com
• Setup: Create app → Configure platform (web/mobile) → Install SDK
• Credentials: App ID, REST API Key
• Free tier: Unlimited push notifications (mobile), 10K web push subscribers
• Docs: https://documentation.onesignal.com

Novu

• Signup: https://web.novu.co/auth/signup
• Setup: Create account → Install SDK → Configure notification templates
• Credentials: API Key, Application ID
• Free tier: 30K events/mo
• Docs: https://docs.novu.co