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Budibase pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Budibase (budibase.com) is a internal tool builder. Monthly cloud subscription per tier, with creator seats fixed per tier (Pro 1; Premium 1 plus paid extras; Business 3 plus paid extras), a paid add-on per end user, and monthly action caps.. Free plan: Open Source edition is free to self-host with unlimited actions and no time limit; there is no free cloud plan, and the 14-day trial does not count..

What Budibase costs

  • 2 builders + 8 users: $166.80/mo (Premium monthly $58.80 (annual $49 +20%) + 1 extra creator $60 (annual $50 +20%) + 8 end users x $6 (annual $5 +20%) = $166.80. Pro is fixed at one creator; Business would be $406.80. Annual billing would be $139. Premium's 20K actions cover ~10K runs.)
  • 1 builder: $22.80/mo (Pro monthly $22.80 (annual $19 +20%): one creator, 5K actions, the cheapest paid cloud plan. Free self-host edition ignored.)
  • 5 builders + 45 users: $604.80/mo (Premium 50K-action tier $94.80 (annual $79 +20%) + 4 extra creators x $60 = $240 + 45 end users x $6 = $270, total $604.80. Premium's 20K tier cannot cover ~50K runs; Business would be $748.80 (3 included + 2 extra creators x $60, + 45 x $6). Annual billing would be $504. Assumes the 50K tier has the same seat rules.)

Plan compared: Premium (cloud, 20K-action tier) with one extra creator and eight end-user add-ons.. 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 Budibase does

Core: Internal app builder, Built-in database, Self-hosting, Open-source edition.

Important: Live SQL database connections, API and SaaS connectors (partly), Auto-generated admin panel (partly), Custom code and components (partly), Backend workflows and jobs (partly).

Also has: Forms and approval processes (partly), Prompt-to-app generation (partly), AI agents and LLM actions (partly), Granular permissions (partly), Git and environments (partly), External portals on data (partly), SSO, audit logs and compliance (partly).

Budibase price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to Budibase

At a 10-person team (2 builders, 8 app users), Budibase costs $166.80/mo. 2 internal tool builders cost less:

  • Retool: $80/mo (Team plan, monthly billing: 2 builders at $12 and 8 internal users at $7 per user per month.), covers 79% of Budibase; missing or partial: Built-in database (partly), Self-hosting (partly), Open-source edition
  • Appsmith: $150/mo (Business plan at $15/user/mo, 10 users (2 builders + 8 users), billed monthly), covers 91% of Budibase; missing or partial: Built-in database (partly), Prompt-to-app generation

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

Other kinds of products that cover part of Budibase

  • Lovable (AI app builders): covers 66% of Budibase; missing or partial: Internal app builder (partly), Built-in database (partly), Self-hosting, Open-source edition, Live SQL database connections (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Jul 2, 2026 · Limits cut: Business and Enterprise cloud plans no longer include on-premise self-hosting; self-hosted Enterprise is now a separate tier.
  • Jun 1, 2026 · Limits cut: Business is now offered on cloud only.
  • Jun 1, 2026 · Repriced: A free self-hosted Open Source plan with unlimited actions was added. The pricing page now separates cloud and self-hosted options.
  • Apr 1, 2026 · Limits cut: Business support moved from AI and human support to email support.
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Limits cut: New monthly action caps: 5K on Pro, 20K on Premium, 250K on Business, custom on Enterprise. Business was also set to 3 included creators, 30-day logs and unlimited workspaces.
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Limits cut: Premium's included creators fell to one (previously unlimited), with extra creators sold as an add-on, and workspaces were capped at 10 (previously multiple). Premium logs were set to 7 days.
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Limits cut: Pro creators were fixed at one (previously unlimited) and automation log retention was cut to one day (previously unlimited).
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Price cut: Premium moved from $50 per app creator plus $5 per app user per month to a flat $49 per month, with one creator included. For one creator, the new price is lower at any user count.
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Price increase: Pro moved from $10 per app creator plus $2 per app user per month to a flat $19 per month. One creator with no app users now pays $19 instead of $10 (+90% at list price); the new price is higher up to four app users and lower from five.

Sources

Pricing page: budibase.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Pricing page (checked 2026-10-17) lists Pro $19, Premium $49 and Business $299 per month, with add-ons at $5 per end user and $50 per extra creator on yearly billing; its FAQ says monthly values are yearly +20%, so monthly figures here are derived. Change history comes from PricingSaaS's log, which starts 2026-02-26; WebSearch was unavailable (budget used up), so no vendor announcement was checked.