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Lovable turns a prompt into a React app with a Supabase backend and login wired in, and you keep the code. A research-based look at the credit model and the security work it leaves you.
Adalo actually publishes native apps to the App Store and Google Play, which most no-code tools cannot. The ceilings to understand first are records, user counts and the complete absence of code export.
Appsmith is genuinely open source and free to self-host, and reviewers rate it highly. The commercial detail that decides your bill is that anyone added to a workspace counts as a billable user.
Typeform makes the best-looking forms in the category and charges accordingly. The limit that catches people is that responses are shared across all your forms — and they stop collecting when you hit it.
Replit gets you from idea to running prototype faster than almost anything. The recurring complaint isn't the product — it's effort-based Agent pricing, and what it costs to finish.
ToolJet's free self-hosted option is real, and its cloud free tier covers two builders. Above that, per-builder rates climb from $23 to $199 — an 8.6× escalation worth understanding.
Budibase Pro is $19 a month — until you add end users at $5 each and creators at $50 each. The free self-hosted open-source version is the honest bargain here.
Neon brings Git-style branching to Postgres, and its free tier includes 100 projects. One detail to plan around: the Scale tier's compute rate is more than double Launch's.
Strapi Cloud charges per project from $35 a month. The useful finding: paying overage on the Starter plan stays cheaper than upgrading until you approach the next tier's own allowance.
Feathery now positions as an AI decisioning system for financial services, not a general form builder. Its free plan is clear; everything above it is unpriced, and we say so rather than guessing.