Best alternatives to Typebase in 2026

Adding a backend to a frontend project usually means standing up a separate service, wiring up an ORM, and gluing together auth — or reaching for a backend-as-a-service platform and accepting its lock-in. Typebase takes a third path: you define your database schema, server actions, and authentication inside a typebase/ folder in your existing app, written in plain TypeScript, and one CLI command deploys it as a fully-typed backend your frontend code can call like local functions. It's built on established pieces rather than reinventing them — Drizzle ORM for the database layer, oRPC for type-safe procedure calls, and better-auth for authentication — which gives it end-to-end type safety from database to frontend. It deploys to Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, or Deno Deploy, works with Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, or Expo, and is designed explicitly to avoid vendor lock-in. Pricing isn't stated on the homepage.