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Best Quickbase Alternatives in 2026

Quickbase is a platform for operations apps and workflows, priced per user: Team starts at $35 a month and Business at $55, priced yearly and before a platform minimum. If your team is small, the app is for customers, or you want a monthly price, here are six alternatives.

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Key takeaways

  • Quickbase starts at $35 per user a month on Team and $55 on Business, priced yearly and before a platform minimum.
  • Power Apps is $20 per user a month paid yearly; Knack does not count users; Softr, Airtable and AppSheet suit smaller teams.
  • Fabricate builds the app from a description and does not price the people who sign in. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.

Why Are People Looking for Quickbase Alternatives?

  • Priced per User, Yearly

    Team starts at $35 per user a month and Business at $55, both priced yearly.

  • A Platform Minimum

    Quickbase's prices do not include its platform minimum, so a small team pays more than the price per user suggests.

  • Built for Large Operations Teams

    Single sign-on, sandboxes and audit logs suit a large company; a small business app may need far less.

    Fits: Fabricate

  • Not Priced by Records

    Knack prices by records and does not count app users.

    Fits: Knack

Compare at a glance

Fabricate beside Quickbase, feature by feature.

  • Builds From a Description
    Fabricate
    Yes
    Quickbase
    A visual app and workflow builder
  • Price per Person
    Fabricate
    None for the people who sign in to a published app
    Quickbase
    From $35 per user a month, yearly
  • Billing
    Fabricate
    Monthly or yearly
    Quickbase
    Priced yearly, plus a platform minimum
  • Trial
    Fabricate
    Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.
    Quickbase
    30 days, with the Business features
  • Paid Plans From
    Fabricate
    $25 a month
    Quickbase
    $35 per user a month
Number 1

Fabricate

We make this

Best for: Apps people sign in to, not priced per user

Builds a web app from a description, for your team or your customers: the screens, the app's own SQLite database, sign-in and the server code. The people who sign in to a published app are not counted as users or seats. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.

Checks before you publish

Fabricate's security check on an app: one problem to fix and two quality warnings, each with a Fix in chat button
Each finding comes with a Fix in chat button. A real Fabricate screen, shown with sample data.

What it does well

  • Apps for customers or staff
  • The app's own database
  • No price per person who signs in
Paid plans from
$25 a month
350 credits a month on Pro
Free plan
60 credits
A month, to build and preview
A live app
Pro and Max
Publishing is on paid plans

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How to Move a Quickbase App to Fabricate

  1. 1

    Export your tables

    Save each table from Quickbase as a CSV file, and list the screens, roles and rules the app has.

  2. 2

    Describe the app

    The screens, who signs in, who can see and change what, and the steps each record goes through.

  3. 3

    Ask for an import page

    Ask for a page, behind your own sign-in, that adds the rows of each CSV file to the app's own database.

  4. 4

    Test it in the preview

    Sign up, save and edit data, and check who can see what, before anyone else does.

  5. 5

    Put it online

    On Pro, one press of Publish gives it its own address to share, after the same browser check.

Chat

Fabricate's chat on a phone: the owner asks for opening hours and a note about cardamom buns, and Fabricate says what it changed and that it used 5 credits

Your app

The same bakery app in Fabricate's Your app view on a phone, now showing Open today 7am - 3pm above its menu
Asking for a change in chat, then trying the app. Real Fabricate screens on a phone, shown with sample data.

The other Quickbase alternatives

What each one does well, and the kind of project it suits best.

  1. Number 2

    Power Apps

    Best for: Teams on Microsoft 365

    Microsoft's low-code apps, connected to Microsoft 365 and Dataverse. Premium is $20 per user a month, paid yearly, for any number of apps for that user, and a free Developer Plan includes three developer environments.

    • Microsoft 365 and Dataverse
    • Connectors
    • A free Developer Plan

    Where Power Apps beats Fabricate

    If your company runs on Microsoft 365 and the app should work with data already in Dataverse, Power Apps lives there already.

    From $20 per user a month, yearlyPower Apps alternatives

    Source: Power Apps pricing (opens in a new tab), checked

  2. Number 3

    Knack

    Best for: Database apps for many users

    A no-code builder for online databases, portals and internal tools, hosted by Knack. Starter is $59 a month for 20,000 records and 3 apps, and Pro $130 for 50,000 records, at the regular monthly price; app users are not counted on any plan.

    • Online databases
    • App users not counted
    • Portals and internal tools

    Where Knack beats Fabricate

    If many people sign in to a database app and you want a price by records rather than by user, Knack counts records, not users.

    From $59 a monthKnack alternatives

    Sources: knack.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked ; knack.com (opens in a new tab), checked

  3. Number 4

    Softr

    Best for: Client portals and internal tools

    Builds client portals and internal tools from a description or in its editor, on Softr's own databases or on Airtable and Google Sheets. Free covers 5 app users; Basic is $25 a month for 10, and Pro $119 for 60, billed monthly.

    • Client portals
    • Its own database or Airtable
    • Workflows built in

    Where Softr beats Fabricate

    If the data should stay in Airtable or Google Sheets, a Softr app can sit on it directly, with workflows and user roles built in.

    From $25 a monthSoftr alternatives

    Sources: softr.io/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked ; Softr docs: AI Co-Builder (opens in a new tab), checked

  4. Number 5

    Airtable

    Best for: Teams that work in the records

    A database that looks like a spreadsheet, with interfaces, forms and automations on top. Free covers up to 5 editors and 1,000 records per base; Team is $24 per seat a month, billed monthly, and read-only collaborators are free.

    • Grids, boards and calendars
    • Interfaces and forms
    • Free read-only collaborators

    Where Airtable beats Fabricate

    If your team mostly works in the records themselves, sorting, filtering and editing in grids, Airtable is built for that, and read-only collaborators cost nothing.

    From $24 per seat a monthAirtable alternatives

    Sources: airtable.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked ; Airtable support: Airtable plans (opens in a new tab), checked

  5. Number 6

    AppSheet

    Best for: Google Workspace teams

    Google's no-code platform for apps and automations over Google Sheets and other data. Starter is $5 per user a month, Core $10 and Enterprise Plus $20, and every person who signs in needs a license.

    • Google Workspace
    • Automations
    • Desktop and mobile

    Where AppSheet beats Fabricate

    If your team works in Google Sheets and Workspace, AppSheet turns those sheets into apps where the data already is.

    From $5 per user a monthAppSheet alternatives

    Source: about.appsheet.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked

Quickbase and its alternatives: an operations platform, or the app you need

Quickbase is built for operations: apps, workflows, reports and dashboards for teams that run projects, field work or manufacturing, with security controls and support from a sales team. It is priced per user, yearly, with a platform minimum.

For a large company that fits. For a small business, the price per user and the minimum can be more than the app is worth, and many of the platform features go unused.

Power Apps suits a company already on Microsoft 365. Knack prices by records rather than users. Softr, Airtable and AppSheet start smaller and bill monthly or per user at a lower price.

Fabricate builds the one app you describe, with its own database and sign-in, and the people who sign in are not counted. The backend is written into the app's own code: server routes in a Durable Object on Cloudflare Workers, with its own SQLite database.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Quickbase cost?
Team starts at $35 per user a month and Business at $55, both priced yearly, and neither price includes the platform minimum. Enterprise is priced by contact. A 30-day trial includes the Business features.
Does Fabricate charge for each person who signs in?
No. The people who sign in to a published app are not counted as users, seats or licenses. Fabricate's plans price the credits that build the app and, on Pro and Max, the AI inside it; Pro is $25 a month.
What is a cheaper alternative to Quickbase for a small team?
For a team on Microsoft 365, Power Apps, at $20 per user a month paid yearly. For many users on one database, Knack, which does not count users. For an app built from a description with no price per person, Fabricate, which we make. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.
When is Quickbase the better choice?
For a large operations team that needs single sign-on, sandboxes, audit logs and support from a sales team, across many connected workflows.
Can I bring my data across?
Export your tables as CSV files, then ask Fabricate for an import page, behind your own sign-in, that adds the rows to the app's own database. Views, forms and rules are rebuilt from your description, not copied.

Sources

The pages this guide quotes, each with the day it was read.

  1. quickbase.com/plans-and-pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  2. Power Apps pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  3. knack.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  4. knack.com (opens in a new tab), checked
  5. softr.io/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  6. Softr docs: AI Co-Builder (opens in a new tab), checked
  7. airtable.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  8. Airtable support: Airtable plans (opens in a new tab), checked
  9. about.appsheet.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  10. fabricate.build/pricing, from our live plans

About this guide

Written by the Fabricate team. Fabricate is our product, so it is first on this page and marked "We make this". Where a reason to switch fits another tool better, the reason says which.

Each tool's card lists the pages we read about it and the day we read them. We compared the tools from their own pricing pages and documentation, not by signing up for them. Spotted something out of date? Write to info@fabricate.build.

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