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Appsmith pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Appsmith (appsmith.com) is a internal tool builder. Business is billed per user per month at $15 (up to 99 users), with a flat $2,500/month Enterprise plan and no per-app or usage fees listed.. Free plan: $0 cloud plan: up to 5 users, 5 workspaces, 3 Git repos, unlimited apps, Discord community support..

What Appsmith costs

  • 2 builders + 8 users: $150/mo (Business $15/user/mo x 10 users (2 builders + 8 users) = $150. Free caps cloud users at 5, so it cannot cover 10. Enterprise is $2,500/mo flat, which costs more. No usage quotas listed; database connectors are not listed as paid add-ons (assumed included).)
  • 1 builder: $15/mo (Business $15/user/mo x 1 seat = $15. No minimum seat count stated; Free is ignored for this point.)
  • 5 builders + 45 users: $750/mo (Business $15/user/mo x 50 users (5 builders + 45 users) = $750, within the 99-user cap. Enterprise at $2,500/mo flat costs more. No usage quotas listed.)

Plan compared: Business plan at $15/user/mo, 10 users (2 builders + 8 users), billed monthly. Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the vendor's hosted plan: a team where 2 people build apps and 8 use them (or 5 and 45), or one builder on the cheapest paid plan. A free plan counts as $0 only if it connects your PostgreSQL or MySQL database and shares apps privately with every user; free self-hosted open-source editions are not priced.

What Appsmith does

Core: Internal app builder, Live SQL database connections, Self-hosting, Open-source edition.

Important: API and SaaS connectors (partly), Custom code and components (partly), Granular permissions.

Also has: Built-in database (partly), Auto-generated admin panel (partly), Backend workflows and jobs (partly), Forms and approval processes (partly), AI agents and LLM actions, Git and environments (partly), External portals on data (partly), SSO, audit logs and compliance (partly).

Appsmith price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to Appsmith

At a 10-person team (2 builders, 8 app users), Appsmith costs $150/mo. 1 internal tool builder costs less:

  • Retool: $80/mo (Team plan, monthly billing: 2 builders at $12 and 8 internal users at $7 per user per month.), covers 83% of Appsmith; missing or partial: Self-hosting (partly), Open-source edition

Appsmith alternatives: 2 internal tool builders compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Appsmith

  • Lovable (AI app builders): covers 60% of Appsmith; missing or partial: Internal app builder (partly), Live SQL database connections (partly), Self-hosting, Open-source edition, Granular permissions (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Jan 2025 · Repriced: Business moved to per-user pricing at $15 per user per month. Environments, Git repos and workspaces became unlimited, and workflows left beta. The prior billing model is not stated.
  • Jul 2024 · Limits cut: Business gained a cap of 2 environments (staging and production). The source lists no environment cap before this and states no price change.
  • Apr 2024 · Limits cut: Embed Private Apps moved up to Enterprise only. The source does not name the plan it came from.
  • Oct 2023 · Repriced: Business was framed as a 'Free 100-Hour Trial': the first 100 hours are uncharged, then $0.40 per hour. The prior billing model is not stated.

Sources

Pricing page: appsmith.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Business at $15/user/mo and Enterprise at $2,500/mo are confirmed on the official pricing page and PricingSaaS (USD assumed; no annual Business price shown). Change history is PricingSaaS-only with quarter-level dates and mostly no prior prices; a 2025 free-plan limit note has no figures, so no free-tier cut is recorded, and WebSearch and archive fetches were unavailable.