Base44 Pricing Explained: Every Plan, Credit and Real Cost in 2026

Base44 plans and prices at a glance

The annual prices are what Base44 shows by default, with a 20% discount applied for paying yearly. The monthly column is the same plan without that discount. If you are not sure you will still be building in six months, the monthly price is the safer bet even though it costs more per month.

How much does Base44 cost per year?

If you are budgeting for a full year, annual billing is where the 20% discount shows up. Here is what each paid plan costs over 12 months, billed annually versus paying month to month:

There are no setup fees on any plan, and the Free plan stays $0 for as long as you use it. The only real extra cost is running out of credits mid-month, which is why picking the right plan matters more than the headline price. If you want to stretch credits before you upgrade, see Base44 credits explained, or compare Base44 Free vs Starter.

What each plan actually gets you

Free: $0

The Free plan includes Base44's core features: the AI builder, a built-in database, user authentication and analytics. You can keep up to 5 apps. The limit that matters is 25 message credits a month, which is enough to build and test one small idea, not enough to iterate on something you plan to run every day. Our full breakdown of the Base44 free trial and free plan covers what those credits really buy.

Starter: $16/month annually, $20/month monthly

Starter is the plan most solo builders end up on. It unlocks unlimited apps, in-app code edits, connecting your own domain, and it quadruples message credits to 100. The bigger jump is integration credits: 2,000 a month instead of 100, a 20x increase. That is what you need the moment your app sends emails, calls an AI model, or talks to another service.

In our own Starter workspace, 100 credits a month covered a booking app (24 credits) plus three other demo apps (12 credits combined), with 63 to spare (screenshot, October 2026).

Builder: $40/month annually, $50/month monthly

Base44 labels Builder as its popular plan. It adds 250 message credits, 10,000 integration credits, the ability to choose which AI model builds your app, GitHub integration (see Base44 export code), and 25 credits to share with a friend. It makes sense if you are building several apps at once or iterating on one app most days. Builder is also the plan that gives a Superagent its own phone number, which is what you need for an AI receptionist on Base44.

Pro: $80/month annually, $100/month monthly

Pro doubles Builder's allowances (500 message credits, 20,000 integration credits) and adds early access to beta features. This is for people running real products with real users who need the credit headroom.

Elite: $160/month annually, $200/month monthly

Elite brings 1,200 message credits and 50,000 integration credits, plus premium support, the only plan that lists it. Base44's security page also notes that Elite and Enterprise workspaces can choose to store app data outside the US, which matters if you have data residency requirements.

Enterprise: custom pricing

Enterprise is quoted by sales. Base44 describes it as custom credits, a dedicated architect, SSO, advanced security controls and an account team. If you are searching "Base44 enterprise" because your company wants to roll it out to a team, this is the plan to ask about; nobody outside a sales conversation can tell you the price.

Message credits vs integration credits

Base44 describes credits as your monthly usage allowance for AI messages and integration actions, and notes that exact usage varies with the action and the AI model selected. For costs per action, daily limits and rollover rules, see Base44 credits explained. In practice:

• Message credits are spent while you build: each time you ask the AI to create, change or fix something in your app.
• Integration credits are spent while your app runs: sending an email, calling an AI model from inside the app, uploading files, or using a connected service.

This split explains most pricing surprises. A builder who spends a weekend fixing a bug the AI introduced burns message credits fast, and that is the single most common complaint in Base44's public reviews (see Is Base44 legit? for the full picture). An app that is finished but busy, say a booking tool sending confirmation emails, burns integration credits instead.

Which Base44 plan do you actually need?

• Testing an idea or learning the tool: Free. You will know within a day or two whether Base44 suits the way you work.
• Building one real tool for your own business (a CRM, booking system, client portal or store): Starter. Unlimited apps, your own domain and 2,000 integration credits remove the ceilings that stop a real build.
• Building several apps, or iterating daily: Builder. The jump to 250 message credits is what you are paying for.
• Running a product with paying users: Pro or above, mainly for the credits headroom and premium support.

Most people building one or two tools for their own business never need more than Starter. Start on Free, and upgrade the day the credit counter becomes the thing slowing you down.

Discounts: annual billing, students, promo codes and vouchers

Annual billing is the one discount everyone gets: 20% off any paid plan, which is how Starter drops from $20 to $16 a month.

Students, teachers and staff at accredited academic institutions can get 50% off a Starter or Builder plan by verifying a school email address, according to Base44's academic discount documentation. It applies once, to your first paid subscription.

Promo codes and vouchers: plenty of coupon sites advertise "30% off" Base44 codes. We could not verify any public code beyond the annual and academic discounts above, so be sceptical of anything that asks you to sign up somewhere else first. We keep a checked list in our Base44 promo code guide.

Is Base44 good value compared with alternatives?

At $20 a month, Base44 Starter sits at the low end of the AI app builder market. Lovable's Pro plan starts at $25 a month and Replit Core at $20 a month, but their units (credits, tokens, dollars of usage) are not directly comparable, so the headline price only tells you part of the story. We compare them properly in Base44 vs Lovable and the best Base44 alternatives. Superagent, the background AI agent included on every plan, has no separate price; see our Base44 Superagent review for what it costs in credits.

The better value test is what you stop paying for. A typical solo business stack of scheduling, CRM, invoicing, forms and email tools runs around $100 a month. If one Base44 app replaces even two of those, Starter pays for itself. Whether that is realistic for you is the question our honest Base44 review tries to answer.

Frequently asked questions

How this guide was checked

• Every price, credit allowance and plan feature in the tables was read from base44.com/pricing on 2026-10-12, with the yearly toggle (the default) and the monthly toggle both checked. Base44 labels Builder as its popular plan; we copied that rather than ranking plans ourselves.
• Per-year totals and the 20% annual saving are our arithmetic from those prices, not figures Base44 publishes.
• The academic discount and the cancellation terms come from Base44's billing documentation. Promo codes were checked against Base44's coupon instructions and our affiliate dashboard, which lists no partner codes.
• What we have not done: pay for every tier and benchmark credit burn. Where we say which plan fits which project, that is a judgement from the allowances and from public user reviews, not from a timed test.
• DoitWithAI is a Base44 affiliate and earns a commission on upgrades. Base44 does not review these pages.

About the author

Shlomi is the founder of DoitWithAI and has sent readers to Base44 as an affiliate since early 2026, which means he reads the pricing page, the changelog and the complaint threads more often than most paying users. These guides are written from Base44's published pricing and documentation plus public reviews, not from a sponsored brief, and the money facts are rechecked whenever Base44 changes them. DoitWithAI earns a commission if you upgrade after clicking a link here; Base44 does not see or approve these pages before they go live. Spotted an error? Email guru@academy.doitwithai.guru and it will be fixed.

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