---
name: Refine
domain: refine.dev
kind: product
relation: substitute
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.37
---

# Refine

An internal-tool builder that turns REST APIs and Supabase backends into React-based admin panels, CRMs, and dashboards.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → substitute to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** A team evaluating Vercel for deploying a full-stack React app could instead use Refine to generate a self-hosted internal tool directly from their API, replacing the need to build and deploy on Vercel's platform.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Turn your APIs into production-grade, React-based internal apps.

> Connect to your existing REST APIs or Supabase projects.

**Edges:**

- competitor [[react-dev]]
- competitor [[surge-sh]]
- competitor [[expo-dev]]
- competitor [[redis-io]]
- competitor [[aws-amazon-com]]
- competitor [[render-com]]
- competitor [[netlify-com]]
- competitor [[github-com]]
- competitor [[vercel-com]]
- discusses [[dev-to]] *(inferred)*
