CREA.MBATwo boilerplates with multi-tenancy, two different approaches. MakerKit (mature, B2B-first) vs CREA.MBA (AI-native). Which one fits depending on how you work with AI.
MakerKit and CREA.MBA are two Next.js boilerplates that share an important feature: both ship with multi-tenancy out of the box. But that's where the similarities end.
If you've narrowed it down to these two as finalists, this comparison helps you decide.
MakerKit: designed for classic B2B SaaS. Gives you complete structure, teams, plans, decisions made. If you build a tool that's purchased per company and then used by teams, MakerKit is the shortcut.
CREA.MBA: designed for builders who build with AI. Gives you the same multi-tenancy but the entire repo is optimized so that Claude Code or Cursor understand the project from the first prompt.
CREA.MBA is half a step ahead in stack. MakerKit is more conservative and that brings stability.
Both ship with organizations, roles, and invitations. The difference is the abstraction.
Has its own layer on top of Supabase Auth. Customizable roles. Plans per organization. The most complete on the market for B2B.
Uses Better Auth Organizations directly. Standard owner / admin / member roles. Slightly simpler but more aligned with the Better Auth API.
If your product needs very specific roles (beyond the three classics), MakerKit gives it to you more easily.
This is where they diverge.
Nothing AI-native. The AI has to guess the repo conventions every time you use it.
The operational difference is huge. You ask the AI "add an endpoint to export users", and in CREA.MBA the AI knows which pattern to follow, which helpers to use, where to put the file. In MakerKit, the AI has to guess.
CREA.MBA is notably cheaper.
Steep. The structure is opinionated and stepping out complicates things. But in exchange, everything is thought out.
Medium. The structure is more standard Next.js. If you know Next.js + Prisma + Better Auth, you find yourself at home quickly.
If you value having thousands of users around, neither will give you that. ShipFast is still the community king. Both lose here.
There's no absolute winner. They're two products focused on different problems.
MakerKit wins if your bottleneck is modeling a complex B2B SaaS. CREA.MBA wins if your bottleneck is working productively with AI.
Ask yourself what slows you down most day-to-day and the answer comes out by itself.
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