Pricing guideUpdated

Base44 pricing in 2026, explained

Every Base44 plan, what its two kinds of credits buy, and what one app costs to build and keep running, with Fabricate's prices beside them.

Base44 has a free plan with 25 message credits a month, and paid plans from $20 a month for Starter to $200 for Elite, 20% less billed yearly. It bills from two balances: message credits for building, and integration credits for what your live app does.

By the Fabricate teamWe make Fabricate5 min readPrices checked

One app, one month

On Fabricate
First build
about 23 credits
30 changes in chat
about 267 credits
People visiting the live app
Not billed

About 290 credits

Pro at $25 covers it

350 credits a monthEnough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes

Medians from real Fabricate builds: a first build uses about 23 credits and a change about 9.

The short answer

Base44

$20a month for Starter

  • Two kinds of credits: message credits for building, integration credits for what the live app does
  • Free: 25 message credits a month, at most 5 a day, for up to 5 apps
  • Visits aren't billed, but the emails, AI calls and other built-in services an app uses are

Fabricate

We make this

$25a month for 350 credits

  • Enough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes
  • Free: 60 credits a month to build and preview. Going live needs Pro.
  • Visitors to your live app use no credits, unless the app uses AI for them
  • Extra credits from $10 for 100, and they never expire

Base44's plans

Billed monthly, as listed on Base44's own pricing page. Billed yearly, each paid plan costs 20% less.

base44.com/pricing, checked (opens in a new tab)

  • Free

    $0

    25 message credits a month, at most 5 a day, and 100 integration credits

    Sign-in, a database and analytics for up to 5 apps, each live at its own base44.app address with the Base44 badge.

  • Starter

    $20a month

    $16 a month billed yearly

    100 message and 2,000 integration credits a month

    Any number of apps, code edits in the editor, your own domain, and no Base44 badge.

  • Builder

    $50a month

    $40 a month billed yearly

    250 message and 10,000 integration credits a month

    Adds backend functions, choosing the AI model, GitHub sync, connectors and payments.

  • Pro

    $100a month

    $80 a month billed yearly

    500 message and 20,000 integration credits a month

    Everything in Builder, plus early access to new features.

  • Elite

    $200a month

    $160 a month billed yearly

    1,200 message and 50,000 integration credits a month, in sizes up to 8,200 and 300,000

    Adds premium support and 7-day backups.

  • Business

    By size

    2,400 to 5,400 message and 96,000 to 216,000 integration credits a month, in six sizes

    Adds single sign-on, data residency, 30-day backups and per-member credit limits. Enterprise, through sales, adds SCIM and audit logs.

How Base44 counts credits

Base44 bills from two balances. Message credits pay for building: each message to its AI chat costs what the work behind it costs, worked out after it runs. By Base44's own estimates a simple visual or text change uses about 0.5 credits, a small feature about 1, a complex module about 2, and an app-wide change 3 to 4. Edits you make by hand in the editor are free, and Discuss mode, for questions, uses about 0.3 credits a message.

Integration credits pay for what your app does once people use it: about 1 credit for each email it sends (about 2 from your own domain), each image it makes, each file upload and each AI call on the automatic model; from about 3 for each message to an AI agent inside the app; and about 1 for every 100 backend function runs. Calls to an outside service with your own API key use none.

Credits reset each month on the day you subscribed, and unused ones expire; on Free you can use at most 5 a day. Moving up from one monthly plan to a bigger one mid-month carries unused credits over for one more cycle. Base44's billing pages list no top-up packs: when a balance runs out, you wait for the reset or move up a plan.

Side by side at each price

Each of Base44's plans beside Fabricate's plan closest in price. Each tool counts credits its own way, so compare what a month buys, not the number on the plan.

  1. A month: $0

    Base44

    Free · $0

    25 message credits a month, at most 5 a day, and 100 integration credits

    Fabricate

    Free · $0

    60 credits a month

    Enough for about 1 new app or 6 changes. Build and preview apps.

  2. A month: $20 to $25

    Base44

    Starter · $20

    100 message and 2,000 integration credits a month

    Fabricate

    Pro · $25

    350 credits a month

    Enough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 5 of your own domains.

  3. A month: $50

    Base44

    Builder · $50

    250 message and 10,000 integration credits a month

    Fabricate

    Pro 750 · $50

    750 credits a month

    Enough for about 35 new apps or 85 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 5 of your own domains.

  4. A month: $100

    Base44

    Pro · $100

    500 message and 20,000 integration credits a month

    Fabricate

    Max · $100

    1,750 credits a month

    Enough for about 75 new apps or 195 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 20 of your own domains.

  5. A month: $200

    Base44

    Elite · $200

    1,200 message and 50,000 integration credits a month, in sizes up to 8,200 and 300,000

    Fabricate

    Max 3,750 · $200

    3,750 credits a month

    Enough for about 165 new apps or 420 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 20 of your own domains.

What one app costs on Fabricate

Most of a month's credits go on changes, not the first build. Here is an example month on one app, drawn against Pro's 350 credits, and a way to price your own.

An example month: one app and 30 changes

First build
about 23
30 changes
about 267
People using the live app
Not billed
In all
Inside Pro's 350, with about 60 to spare
about 290

One exception: on Pro and Max, when your app uses AI for its visitors, answering them or reading documents they upload, each use is paid from your credits. Serving the app itself never is.

Estimate your month

New apps1
Changes30

New apps: 1, Changes: 30. About 290 credits a month

Pro at $25 covers it

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Costs people miss

The plan price is the easy part. These four decide what a month really comes to.

  • Running out mid-month

    • Base44Building pauses until your monthly reset unless you move up a plan, since Base44's billing pages list no top-ups. Without integration credits, the emails, AI calls and other built-in services your app uses fail, and its users see a generic error.

    • FabricateOn Pro and Max, extra credits start at $10 for 100 and never expire, and apps on a paid plan stay online when credits run out.

  • Your own domain

    • Base44From Starter at $20 a month, with the certificate set up for you. Yearly plans include a domain free for the first year.

    • FabricatePro connects up to 5 domains you own and Max up to 20, with the secure padlock set up for you.

  • Traffic to the live app

    • Base44Visits aren't billed as such, but the built-in services a live app uses are: emails, images, file uploads, AI calls, and backend functions at about 1 credit per 100 runs, all from integration credits.

    • FabricateNot billed. Serving your published app never touches your credits.

  • AI inside your app

    • Base44Each AI call your app makes through Base44 uses integration credits: about 1 on the automatic model, from about 3 on a model you pick, and from about 3 a message for an AI agent in the app.

    • FabricateOn Pro and Max, each AI answer your app gives and each document it reads is paid from your credits, and "Where your credits went" lists them for each app.

When Base44 is the better buy

Base44's Free plan keeps up to 5 apps online at base44.app addresses, with its badge. On Fabricate, Free builds and previews, and going live needs Pro. From Builder, Base44 also packages an app for the App Store and Google Play, which Fabricate doesn't do.

Its credits can go further on small edits, too. By Base44's own estimates a small feature uses about 1 message credit, so Starter's 100 credits a month may cover more small changes than Fabricate's Pro, where a change uses about 9 credits at the median and 350 credits cover about 40. If your app sends a lot of email or calls AI often, add its integration credits to the sum. We make Fabricate, so we say this part plainly.

Questions people ask

Base44's answers come from its own pages, read October 22, 2026. Fabricate's come from our live plans.

Is Base44 free?
Yes, to start. Base44's Free plan costs $0 and includes 25 message credits a month (at most 5 a day) and 100 integration credits, for up to 5 apps with the Base44 badge. Paid plans start at $20 a month for Starter, or $16 a month billed yearly.
How much does Base44 cost?
Starter is $20 a month, Builder $50, Pro $100 and Elite $200, billed monthly; billed yearly, they cost $16, $40, $80 and $160 a month. Elite also comes in larger sizes, and Business, in six sizes, adds single sign-on and 30-day backups. Outside services you connect, such as Stripe or OpenAI, bill you directly.
Does Base44 have a free trial?
Base44's pricing page lists a Free plan rather than a trial: $0 a month, with 25 message credits (at most 5 a day) and 100 integration credits, for up to 5 apps. Students and teachers can get 50% off Starter or Builder with a school email address.
What are integration credits in Base44?
They pay for what your live app does with Base44's built-in services: about 1 credit for each email, image, file upload or AI call on the automatic model, from about 3 for each message to an AI agent in the app, and about 1 for every 100 backend function runs. Calls to an outside service with your own API key use none. Plans include from 100 a month on Free to 50,000 on Elite's first size.
What happens when Base44 credits run out?
Actions that use credits pause until your monthly reset, or you can move up a plan. Without message credits you can't send new messages to the AI chat. Without integration credits, actions that need them fail, and people using your app see a generic error.
Do Base44 credits roll over?
No. Credits reset each month on the day you subscribed, and unused ones expire. The one exception: moving up from one monthly plan to a bigger one mid-month carries your unused credits over for one more cycle.
What happens when Fabricate credits run out?
Nothing is lost: your apps stay in your account, and apps on a paid plan stay online. You can upgrade, or wait until your credits refill next month. On Pro and Max you can also buy extra credits, which never expire: 100 for $10, 300 for $27, 600 for $51, 1,000 for $80, 2,500 for $185, 5,000 for $350 or 10,000 for $650.
Is there a cheaper Base44 alternative?
It depends on what you build. Base44 Starter costs $20 a month, the same as Emergent Standard and Replit Core, and $5 less than Lovable Pro, Bolt.new Pro and Fabricate Pro. How far each tool's credits go on your app decides what a month costs, so compare what a month buys, not the price on the plan.

Sources

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

  1. base44.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  2. Base44 docs: billing and plans (opens in a new tab), checked
  3. Base44 docs: credits (opens in a new tab), checked
  4. Base44 docs: connecting a domain (opens in a new tab), checked
  5. Base44 docs: buying a domain with Wix (opens in a new tab), checked
  6. Base44 docs: connectors (opens in a new tab), checked
  7. Base44 docs: Base44 Payments powered by Wix (opens in a new tab), checked
  8. Base44 docs: backup and restore (opens in a new tab), checked
  9. Base44 docs: uploading to the app stores (opens in a new tab), checked
  10. emergent.sh/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  11. replit.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  12. lovable.dev/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  13. bolt.new/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  14. fabricate.build/pricing, from our live plans
  15. Fabricate's credit medians, measured from real builds, September 1 to 18, 2026

About this guide

Fabricate wrote this guide, and we make one of the two tools in it. Base44's prices are copied from its own pages with the day we read them; Fabricate's come from the same settings that bill you.

The pages we read about each tool are listed here, each with the day we read it. 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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