Bubble pricing and review
Bubble is a no-code platform for building full web applications with a visual editor, database and workflow logic, used to ship MVPs, internal tools and marketplaces.
- Starts at
- $59 a month
- Free plan
- Yes
- Skills needed
- Low code
- Our score
- 4.5 out of 5
By StackZen desk. Prices checked 20 October 2026.How we check prices
Bubble plans and limits
As listed by the vendor on 20 October 2026, in US dollars.
Free
Free
- 1 app editor
- 50K workload units
- No custom domain
Starter
$59 a month
- Custom domain
- 175K workload units
- billed yearly
Growth
$209 a month
- 2 app editors
- 250K workload units
- billed yearly
Team
$549 a month
- 5 app editors
- 500K workload units
- billed yearly
Is Bubble right for you?
Good for
- MVPs
- Internal tools
- Marketplaces
Skip it if
- You just need a marketing site
- You want a gentle learning curve
Pros and cons
Pros
- Build real SaaS apps without code
- Large plugin ecosystem
Cons
- Performance tuning needed at scale
- Workflow logic gets complex
Integrations: stripe, zapier, api-connector
Questions
Can Bubble replace a developer?
For many MVPs and internal tools yes, though complex apps still benefit from technical help.
Can I build something real on the Bubble free tier?
You can build it; running it in front of users is the paid part. That split is the right way to evaluate Bubble, because the question that decides adoption is not whether you can assemble the app but whether the workflow logic stays legible once it grows — and that only shows up after a few weeks of building.
When is Bubble the wrong choice?
When you just need a marketing site, and when you want a gentle learning curve — Bubble names both. Its listed drawbacks follow the same line: performance tuning becomes necessary at scale, and workflow logic gets complex. It is a tool for building an application, and it costs what building an application costs in effort.
Why does Bubble score 4.5 out of 5 here?
The score is computed, not assigned: 32 of 35 for documented capabilities, 22 of 25 for published pricing, 20 of 20 for free access and 15 of 20 for the integration list. It loses capability points for not publishing a mobile app. The number measures how much you can verify before paying, not how good the tool is to use.
Alternatives to Bubble
Bubble is the most capable no-code tool in this directory and the one most often bought by mistake. Its own guidance says to look elsewhere if you just need a marketing site, or if you want a gentle learning curve, and those two sentences account for most searches for an alternative. The other reason people leave is scale: complex workflow logic gets hard to maintain, and performance becomes something you tune rather than something you are given. The ranking below is therefore not a list of Bubble clones, because there are none in this directory and pretending otherwise would waste your time. It is a list of narrower tools that each do a specific slice of what Bubble does with far less construction, ordered by how much of a real Bubble project each one could honestly absorb.
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