auxiliar-mcp 0.16.0 → 0.18.0
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"description": "The most popular hosted search-as-a-service. Fastest query speeds, largest ecosystem with InstantSearch UI widgets, but pricing scales aggressively.",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Algolia Inc. $2.25B valuation, founded 2012. Powers search for Stripe, Twitch, Slack, and thousands more. Risk: near zero for availability; pricing complexity is the main concern.\n\n**Verdict.** Use Algolia when you need the fastest, most feature-rich hosted search and can afford the pricing — always negotiate.\n\nAlgolia is the most established hosted search solution. Sub-millisecond queries, the best UI widget ecosystem (InstantSearch), built-in analytics, and A/B testing. The tradeoff is cost — pricing scales aggressively, and vendor lock-in is real. Always negotiate pricing (30-60% off is standard) and evaluate Typesense as an alternative before committing.\n\n**Best for.** E-commerce, SaaS dashboards, documentation sites, and any app where search quality directly impacts revenue\n\n**Avoid if.** You're cost-sensitive, want to self-host, or your search needs are simple enough for PostgreSQL FTS",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Founded 2021, $7.6B+ raised. Strong safety focus. Notable customers include Amazon, Notion, DuckDuckGo. Leading in coding benchmarks. Risk: smaller ecosystem than OpenAI.\n\n**Verdict.** Use Anthropic for coding, analysis, and safety-critical applications where quality and privacy matter more than ecosystem breadth.\n\nAnthropic's Claude models lead in coding benchmarks and long-context analysis. The company has the strongest privacy commitments and safety practices among frontier labs. The main limitation is a smaller third-party ecosystem compared to OpenAI. For coding agents, Claude is the top choice.\n\n**Best for.** Coding agents, long-document analysis, safety-critical applications, privacy-sensitive workloads\n\n**Avoid if.** You need the broadest plugin ecosystem (use OpenAI) or cheapest inference (use Groq)",
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"description": "Enterprise-grade identity platform. Feature-rich but expensive — pricing has drifted upward since Okta acquisition in 2022.",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Acquired by Okta in 2022. Enterprise-stable but developer trust declining due to pricing increases and product direction changes post-acquisition.\n\n**Verdict.** Use Auth0 only when you need enterprise compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SAML) — for everything else, choose Clerk or Auth.js instead.\n\nAuth0 remains the most feature-complete auth platform — SAML, LDAP, HIPAA, FedRAMP, every social provider. But the Okta acquisition has led to pricing increases and developer trust erosion. For new projects, Clerk offers better DX and Auth.js offers zero vendor lock-in. Auth0's strength is still enterprise compliance — if you need HIPAA or FedRAMP, it's one of few options.\n\n**Best for.** Enterprise apps needing SAML/LDAP, regulated industries (HIPAA, FedRAMP)\n\n**Avoid if.** Startup on a budget, or you don't need enterprise compliance features",
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"description": "MAINTENANCE MODE: Auth.js team joined Better Auth in Sept 2025. v5 never left beta. Use Better Auth for new projects.",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** MAINTENANCE MODE. Auth.js team officially joined Better Auth (Sept 2025). v5 will never leave beta. For new projects, use Better Auth instead. Existing v4/v5 projects continue to work but no new features.\n\n**Verdict.** Do NOT use Auth.js for new projects — it is in maintenance mode. Use Better Auth instead. Only use Auth.js to maintain existing NextAuth v4/v5 projects.\n\nAuth.js is the right choice for teams that want to own their auth stack. Zero cost per user, no vendor lock-in, and works with any database. The trade-off is real: you build the UI, you handle security hardening, you manage the infrastructure. For experienced teams this is a feature, not a bug. For teams that need to ship fast, Clerk or Firebase Auth will get you there faster.\n\n**Best for.** Experienced teams, open-source-first projects, cost-sensitive apps at scale, projects needing full data ownership\n\n**Avoid if.** Small team needing to ship fast, no security expertise, or you need enterprise SSO (SAML/LDAP) out of the box",
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"description": "OCR / PDF extraction / NFS-e invoice tool ranker. Top pick Surya 76.9% word accuracy on 10-doc Brazilian corpus (NFS-e, boletos, phone receipts). Also ranked: Tesseract 5, Google Document AI. Via auxiliar-mcp solve_task.",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Amazon (AWS). Maximum stability. Not going anywhere. Risk: complex pricing with many hidden dimensions, vendor lock-in to AWS ecosystem.\n\n**Verdict.** Choose AWS RDS when you need enterprise-grade reliability on AWS and have the ops capacity to manage its complexity.\n\nAWS RDS is the most battle-tested managed database option. Multi-AZ, read replicas, automated backups, point-in-time recovery — everything you need for production. The trade-off is complexity: pricing has many dimensions, setup requires VPC/security group configuration, and you need RDS Proxy for serverless apps. For teams already on AWS with ops capacity, it's the reliable choice. For small teams and startups, Neon or Supabase get you running faster.\n\n**Best for.** Production apps on AWS, regulated industries, teams with ops capacity\n\n**Avoid if.** Small team wanting fast setup, not on AWS, or budget-constrained without reserved instances",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Amazon Web Services, subsidiary of Amazon. Launched 2006. The original cloud storage. Zero risk.\n\n**Verdict.** Use AWS S3 when you need the full feature set, are already on AWS, or require specific compliance certifications.\n\nS3 is the industry standard with the most features, biggest ecosystem, and broadest compliance coverage. Every tool, library, and service supports S3. The downsides are egress fees ($0.09/GB), IAM complexity, and a free tier that expires. For most new projects not already on AWS, Cloudflare R2 provides 80% of the functionality at 50% of the cost. Use S3 when you need its unique features or are committed to the AWS ecosystem.\n\n**Best for.** AWS-native projects, enterprise compliance (HIPAA/FedRAMP), archival (Glacier), event-driven architectures\n\n**Avoid if.** You want simple file storage with predictable pricing (use Cloudflare R2)",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Polar (Sweden). Open-source, Apache 2.0 license. Raised $10M+, growing fast in developer/OSS niche. Risk: young company, support responsiveness issues reported.\n\n**Verdict.** Use Polar for developer tools and OSS monetization where GitHub integration and low fees matter — but model the real cost with international and subscription surcharges.\n\nPolar is the best MoR choice for indie developers, open-source maintainers, and developer-tool creators. The GitHub-native workflow is a genuine differentiator no other MoR offers, the SDKs are well-documented (TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby), and the open-source codebase builds trust. The real risk is hidden fees: international subscriptions cost 6% + $0.40 (not the advertised 4% + $0.40), card-only payments limit conversion outside the US/EU, and support has been flagged as slow. For US-focused developer tools, it's excellent. For international SaaS with diverse payment needs, Paddle or Stripe remain safer choices.\n\n**Best for.** Developer tools, open-source monetization, indie SaaS with primarily US/EU card-paying customers\n\n**Avoid if.** You need non-card payments, tax-inclusive pricing, proven enterprise support, or global payout coverage",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** PostgreSQL Global Development Group. Open-source, 35+ year track record. FTS is a built-in feature, not a separate product. Risk: zero for availability (it's your database); limited compared to dedicated search engines.\n\n**Verdict.** Use PostgreSQL FTS when you want search without adding another service — it's free, built-in, and good enough for many use cases.\n\nPostgreSQL Full-Text Search is the most pragmatic choice when your search needs are straightforward. No extra service to manage, no extra cost, no extra latency from network calls. It supports stemming, ranking, phrase matching, and boolean operators. The tradeoffs are real — no typo tolerance, basic relevance ranking, and you need to manage tsvector columns. But for admin panels, internal tools, blog search, and apps under 1M rows, it's often all you need.\n\n**Best for.** Apps already on PostgreSQL that need basic search without adding infrastructure — blogs, admin panels, internal tools, small e-commerce\n\n**Avoid if.** You need typo tolerance, faceted navigation, instant search-as-you-type, or search quality that directly impacts revenue",
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"long_description": "**Vendor.** Railway Corp. Well-funded startup, growing fast. Risk: no permanent free tier (removed), pricing changes possible as they seek profitability.\n\n**Verdict.** Use Railway for backend APIs where usage-based pricing makes sense — but there is no free tier, so budget at least $5/month.\n\nRailway is the simplest way to deploy a backend service with usage-based pricing. Push your code and it runs. The lack of a permanent free tier is the main drawback. For hobby projects, Render's free tier (with sleep) is cheaper. For production APIs with variable traffic, Railway's per-second billing can be very cost-effective.\n\n**Best for.** Backend APIs, microservices, side projects you're willing to pay $5/month for\n\n**Avoid if.** Need a free tier, deploying a Next.js frontend, or need enterprise features",
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