Bubble pricing, features & alternatives

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What Is Bubble?

Bubble io combines visual interface design, application data and workflows in a hosted no-code app builder. It supports browser applications and native mobile projects, with shared backend logic when they belong to one project. Evaluate it as an application platform: a working customer portal or booking flow needs consistent data rules, access controls and a maintainable release process as well as an attractive interface.

How to Evaluate Bubble

Build one complete journey on Free, such as a customer submitting a booking and an operator updating its status. Check access with two separate accounts and inspect which queries or workflows consume resources. Separate essential workflows from repeated polling and expensive bulk actions. Before launch, choose Web, Mobile or Web & Mobile deliberately, review overage settings and document a rollback procedure. This is a suggested evaluation, not a hands-on performance test.

Keeping Bubble Workload Costs Down

• Search for data with constraints instead of loading whole lists and filtering on the page
• Avoid workflows that run on every page load or on a timer unless they’re needed
• Schedule bulk updates as backend workflows during quiet hours
• Check the workload report weekly after launch and fix the biggest consumers first

When Bubble Is the Right Choice

Bubble suits founders and agencies building a real product without developers, such as a marketplace, booking system or client portal with user accounts and business rules. If you only need an internal tool on top of a spreadsheet, Glide is faster to build. If you want AI to generate code you can take away and host yourself, compare Lovable.

Who Should Use Bubble?

For a Bubble.io no-code app, the strongest fit is a repeatable process with clear user roles. A simple brochure site may not justify the learning effort, while native mobile requirements should be planned before selecting a subscription.

Starting price: Free development plan; Web Starter US$32/month or US$29/month equivalent billed annually. Model: Per-project subscription by platform type and tier, plus workload overages or add-ons.

Worked exampleA team launching one combined web and native mobile project with measured usage of 150,000 WU/month fits the displayed Web & Mobile Starter allowance of 175,000 WU. At US$59/month equivalent annually, subscription cost is US$708/year before tax; twelve monthly payments at US$69 total US$828. No paid plugins, extra storage, external API fees or app-store costs are included.

The main pricing page defaults to Web & Mobile; the official manual separately verifies Web-only rates. Annual amounts are commitments, not monthly cancellation prices. Paid plans may incur workload, storage, plugin and external-service costs. Web and mobile activity in the same project share workload. Disable overages only after considering what happens when included capacity is exhausted.

Key features

• Visual interface editor
• Application database and workflows
• API connector
• Web and native mobile project types
• Shared web/mobile backend
• Paid custom domains and live deployment
• Version control by tier
• Workload monitoring and overage controls
• Native build and live-version allowances

Bubble pros and cons

Bubble at a glance

Pricing model

Per-project subscription by platform type and tier, plus workload overages or add-ons

Free access

Free development version; eligible new apps can access a 14-day Starter trial subject to activation rules

Support

Official manual, learning resources and community; dedicated support team on Enterprise

India readiness

Browser access for Indian teams. No INR subscription or India data-residency commitment verified. Confirm tax invoice, billing currency, conversion charges and data location before purchase.

Deployment

Hosted Cloud / SaaS builder; web and native mobile publishing

Use cases

Customer portals, Mobile app development, Web app development, Workflow automation

Industries

Agencies, Professional services, Software & SaaS

Bubble alternatives

Closest alternative: WeWeb. Here is how the shortlist compares on price and fit.

Bubble compared with alternatives

Compare	Bubble	Lovable	Adalo	GGlide
Best for	Founders and agencies building custom portals, marketplaces or workflow apps that need a visual database and business logic	Founders, small product teams and agencies prototyping web apps or building narrowly scoped internal tools with technical review available	Founders and small teams building booking, membership, directory or marketplace-style apps with a visual interface and managed database	Operations teams building lightweight internal tools, directories and workflow apps from structured data
Starting price	Free development plan; Web Starter US$32/month or US$29/month equivalent billed annually	Free plan; Pro 100 credits from US$25/month, or US$250/year	Free to build and test; Starter US$36/month equivalent, billed annually at US$432	Free; Explorer US$19/month billed annually
Free plan / trial	Free development version; eligible new apps can access a 14-day Starter trial subject to activation rules	Free workspace with five daily build credits capped at 30 per calendar month; separate Cloud and AI grants	Free plan: unlimited test apps and screens, 500 records per app, 1 editor; no production publishing allowance	Free plan for learning and small personal apps
Biggest limitation	Workload measures backend resources, not a predictable number of users; inefficient queries and repeated workflows can raise consumption without increasing customer value.	A subscription is not an unlimited app-operating budget: build activity and deployed Cloud or AI usage consume different allowances, while generated code still needs review.	No editable source-code export: moving the application logic to another platform requires a rebuild rather than a simple code handoff.	Usage, user and update limits make the cost less predictable as an app grows

Prices are taken from each vendor's own pricing page on the dates shown. Taxes and add-ons may apply; confirm before you buy.

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Sources and how we checked

We read pricing and plan limits from Bubble's own pages (listed above) on the dates above. Where a vendor does not publish a price we can verify, we say so rather than estimate. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

Profile updated 10 Oct 2026 · facts checked 2 Oct 2026