By product
What are you paying for?
Start from the invoice. Every line below has at least one Rails engine that covers what it does — inside the app you already run, on your own data.
4 line items
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Retool
Drag-and-drop internal tools over your database
$10/mo
sqlite_dashboard
9 options
- Forest Admin Forest Admin Hosted admin panel for your database Free tier, paid tiers scale madmin 6 options
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Airtable
Spreadsheet-database hybrid used as an internal tool
$20/mo
rails_db
2 options
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Cloudinary
Media storage, transformation and a hosted media library
$89/mo
active_storage_dashboard
1 option
4 line items
6 line items
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Datadog
Infrastructure and application monitoring
$15/mo
rails_performance
3 options
- Hosted job monitoring Hosted job monitoring Background job dashboards as a service Varies mission_control-jobs 3 options
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Grafana Cloud
Hosted dashboards for metrics and logs
Free tier, then usage-priced
pghero
2 options
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Sentry
Error tracking and performance monitoring
$26/mo
rails_performance
2 options
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Bugsnag
Error monitoring and stability scores
$39/mo
solid_errors
1 option
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LaunchDarkly
Feature flag management
$10/mo
flipper
1 option
7 line items
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Metabase Cloud
Hosted SQL dashboards and business intelligence
$85/mo
sqlite_dashboard
3 options
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Google Analytics
Web and product analytics
Free; GA360 is enterprise-priced
active_analytics
2 options
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Plausible
Privacy-friendly website analytics
$9/mo
active_analytics
2 options
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Amplitude
Product analytics for behavioural cohorts
Free tier, paid tiers scale
ahoy_matey
1 option
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Matomo
Self-hostable web analytics
$26/mo
active_analytics
1 option
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Mixpanel
Product analytics and funnels
$28/mo
ahoy_matey
1 option
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PostHog
Product analytics, replays and flags in one suite
Free tier, usage-priced
ahoy_matey
1 option
4 line items
- Crisp Crisp Live chat widget and shared team inbox $25/mo livechat 2 options
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Intercom
Live chat, shared inbox and in-app messaging
$39/mo
livechat
2 options
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Help Scout
Shared inbox and knowledge base for small teams
$50/mo
livechat
1 option
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Zendesk
Support ticketing and help centre
$19/mo
chatwoot
1 option
2 line items
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5 line items
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Chromatic
Hosted component review and visual testing
$149/mo
lookbook
1 option
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Codecov
Coverage reporting for pull requests
$10/mo
coverband
1 option
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ReadMe
Hosted API documentation portals
$99/mo
rswag
1 option
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Storybook
Component workshop and preview browser
Open source
lookbook
1 option
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SwaggerHub
Hosted OpenAPI design and documentation
$25/mo
rswag
1 option
2 line items
4 line items
- Courier Courier Notification infrastructure across channels Free tier, then usage-priced noticed 1 option
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HubSpot
CRM, marketing email and forms
Free tier, paid tiers scale steeply
mailkick
1 option
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Mailchimp
Newsletters and marketing email
$13/mo
mailkick
1 option
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Mailtrap
Email sandbox for development and staging
$15/mo
letter_opener_web
1 option
2 line items
Entry price of everything above
$2,284 /mo
Nobody pays for all of it at once, and the engines that replace these are not free to run either — they use your servers and your time. But every line here is one you could be hosting yourself.
Open requests
Nobody has replaced these yet
These products are tracked but have no engine mapped to them. If you have written one, submit it.
