Base44 Alternatives: Six Builders Sorted by What You Own After You Leave

People search for Base44 alternatives at the moment they want their app somewhere else, so this page sorts six by what leaves with you: the code, the data, the domain. Base44's own plans and GitHub rules are quoted from its pricing page and documentation on the date printed, every alternative's price was read on its vendor page the same day, and the one builder we have measured runs on says what a prompt actually cost.

Updated 26 September 2026

Base44 alternatives hero: the guide title beside a checklist card listing Base44's GitHub rules, Builder plan required, main branch only, no pre-connection version history, no reconnecting the same repo, then pick by what you keep and re-run one prompt

What does Base44 cost, and what do its own pages say about leaving?

Read from base44.com/pricing on 26 September 2026, with the page's yearly toggle on and each price labelled “Billed annually”; the FAQ on the same page says annual billing saves 20% on every paid plan, so the monthly prices are a fifth higher. Two meters per plan: message credits for building and integration credits for running.

Base44 plans as printed on 26 September 2026, yearly billing
	Per month, billed annually	Message credits / mo	Integration credits / mo	Note
Free	$0	25	100	Up to 5 apps; core features
Starter	$16	100	2,000	Connect a domain; no GitHub
Builder	$40	250	10,000	GitHub integration starts here
Pro	$80	500	20,000	Early access to beta features
Elite	$160	1,200	50,000	Premium support

Base44 message credits per month by plan

Base44 message credits per month by plan
Category	message credits
Free ($0/mo)	25
Starter ($16/mo)	100
Builder ($40/mo)	250
Pro ($80/mo)	500
Elite ($160/mo)	1200

The five plan cards on base44.com/pricing, read 26 September 2026. Data in src/data/base44.ts.

The pricing FAQ answers the ownership question in full: “You own everything you build on Base44: your code, your data, your users. Two-way GitHub sync exports the full source code to your own repo at any time. Nothing is locked to the platform.” The GitHub documentation, read the same day, adds the rules the FAQ leaves out:

“GitHub 2 way sync requires the Builder plan or higher.”
“This branch must be named main. Other default branch names, such as master, currently aren't supported.”
“After you connect GitHub to your app, you cannot use Version History to revert to versions from before the GitHub integration.”
“After disconnecting, you cannot reconnect to the same repository.”

And the export API describes the other route in one sentence: “Downloads the app's source code as a zip archive. The archive reflects the app's current saved code.” What it does not say, in the text we read, is whether the backend, the data or the auth are in the archive, so this page does not claim either way. The practical reading: code leaves on Builder and above, through one branch, with the history from before the connection staying behind.

Which alternative keeps what?

Six Base44 alternatives by what you keep when you leave, with prices read on 26 September 2026
	What leaves with you	Entry paid price	Meter
Lovable	Code (two-way sync), data (Supabase-based Cloud), your domain	Free tier	Credits per message
Bolt.new	Code (ZIP), hosting you choose	Free	Tokens
v0	Code (pull requests into your repo), Vercel deploys	Free with $5 credits	Dollar credits at per-model rates; seven messages a day on Free
Replit	Code (two-way GitHub), a hosted workspace with a shell	Core $20/mo ($18/mo billed annually)	Effort-based dollars per agent checkpoint
Cursor	Everything; it was never anywhere else	Hobby free	Included model usage, then API rates
Bubble	The app, inside Bubble	Free	Workload units

Entry paid price per month, US dollars, as printed on each vendor page

Entry paid price per month, US dollars, as printed on each vendor page
Category	USD per month
Base44 Starter	16
Replit Core	20
Cursor Pro	20
Lovable Pro	25
Bolt Pro	25
v0 Plus	30
Bubble Starter	59

Base44 Starter is billed annually; Bubble Starter is billed annually; Lovable's figure is the Pro card as shown to an EU account incl. VAT; the rest are monthly list prices. All read 26 September 2026.

Lovable

What you keep: Code (two-way sync), data (Supabase-based Cloud), your domain
Pricing: Free tier; Lite $5/mo, Pro $25/mo for 100 credits, Business $50/mo, incl. VAT as printed to an EU account, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Credits per message
Leaving it later: Two-way GitHub and GitLab sync: changes flow in both directions, and you can clone and work locally. It cannot import an existing repository, so a Base44 app moves as a prompt, not as code.
Who it suits: A non-technical founder who wants the managed backend and a repository they can clone, and who is not moving code in.

Bolt.new

What you keep: Code (ZIP), hosting you choose
Pricing: Free, Pro $25/mo, Teams $30/mo per member, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Tokens
Leaving it later: Yes. Export produces a ZIP you run locally with npm. GitHub integration is a separate feature.
Who it suits: Someone who wants a working full-stack prototype from prose and a clean way to walk away with the code.

v0

What you keep: Code (pull requests into your repo), Vercel deploys
Pricing: Free with $5 credits, Plus $30/user/mo, Business $100/user/mo, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Dollar credits at per-model rates; seven messages a day on Free
Leaving it later: Yes, through pull requests against a repository you connect, the only review-first flow in this list.
Who it suits: A developer or team on Next.js and Vercel who wants prompt speed inside a review process.

Replit

What you keep: Code (two-way GitHub), a hosted workspace with a shell
Pricing: Core $20/mo ($18/mo billed annually), Pro $100/mo ($90/mo billed annually); no free plan is listed on the pricing page, which describes a Free Mode inside plans instead, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Effort-based dollars per agent checkpoint
Leaving it later: Yes, with two-way GitHub sync from the Git pane, and a working shell alongside it. Replit also imports from GitHub, so a Base44 export can be opened there.
Who it suits: Someone who wants agent speed without giving up a shell and an actual repository.

Cursor

What you keep: Everything; it was never anywhere else
Pricing: Hobby free, Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo, Teams Standard $40/user/mo, Teams Premium $120/user/mo, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Included model usage, then API rates
Leaving it later: It was never not yours. No proprietary project format and nothing to be locked into.
Who it suits: A developer, or a Base44 builder who has exported and wants to see every change before it applies.

Bubble

What you keep: The app, inside Bubble
Pricing: Free, Starter $59/mo, Growth $209/mo, Team $549/mo, billed annually, read on 26 September 2026. Source
What gets metered: Workload units
Leaving it later: Bubble gives you no code at any price; the app lives on its platform.
Who it suits: A visual builder who is happy to stay on one platform and wants the most mature no-code editor.

What does the closest alternative cost per prompt, measured?

Base44 and Lovable are the two builders here with a managed backend, so the switch most people mean is that one. Base44 meters message credits; Lovable meters credits per message; neither prints what a prompt costs before you send it. We ran three of this site's prompts in a personal Lovable workspace and read the credits page before and after:

Three library prompts run in Lovable and measured in credits
	Date	Questions asked first	Credits	What came back
Landing page + email opt-in	2026-07-31	0	1.8	One round, all five priority features, inline success state, Cloud enabled
Empty states and skeletons	2026-09-26	2	9.5	Asked 2 questions, built a /states gallery and a task list, verified slow load, failure and retry
SaaS MVP with user auth	2026-09-26	4	10.4	Asked 4 questions, enabled Cloud, self-tested sign-up and invites, roles checked in the database

Against Lovable's 100-credit Pro tier that is about fifty landing pages or nine SaaS foundations a month; the Lovable pricing page has the ladder above that. We have no equivalent measured runs on Base44 and do not estimate them.

How do you move an app off Base44?

Get the code out first, by GitHub sync on Builder or higher into a repository whose default branch is main, or by the export zip. Do it before anything else, because the docs say pre-connection version history cannot be reverted to afterwards.
Separate the data. Export what your users entered before the app moves; the export API describes code, not data, in the text we read.
Pick by what the target can open. Cursor, Replit and v0 open an existing repository; Lovable cannot import one, so a move to Lovable is a rebuild from a prompt; Bolt takes a fresh prompt too. The Replit alternatives page has the same exit steps from the other direction.
Re-run one representative prompt and read the meter. Every tool here has a free tier that covers one build. The number you get beats every figure on this page.

What we deliberately did not publish

Whether Base44's zip export or GitHub sync includes the backend, data and auth. The docs we read describe the code; third-party pages claim more, and we did not run an export to check.
A same-prompt harness across the six. Prices and mechanics only; nothing here ranks output quality.
Softr, Glide, Adalo, FlutterFlow and the other tools on the twenty-item lists. We did not read their pricing pages today.
The Wix acquisition price that circulates on other pages; ownership is stated, the figure is not, because we did not verify it against a primary source today.

Sources

All read on 26 September 2026. Base44 facts in src/data/base44.ts; shared rival facts in src/data/comparisons.ts; Lovable plans in src/data/lovablePricing.ts.

Frequently asked

What is the best Base44 alternative?↓

Sort by what you keep. If you want the managed backend without leaving code behind, Lovable: two-way GitHub sync and a database you can clone, at $25 a month for 100 credits on 26 September 2026. If you want the code as a file, Bolt.new. If you want pull requests into your own repository, v0. If you want a repository plus a shell, Replit. If you already edit code, Cursor. Bubble is the alternative if you never want code, which is a different decision.

Can you export code from Base44?↓

Yes, on the Builder plan or higher. Base44's pricing FAQ says you own your code, data and users and that two-way GitHub sync exports the full source at any time; its GitHub docs add the rules: Builder plan or higher, a branch named main, no reverting to versions from before the connection, and no reconnecting to the same repository after a disconnect. The export API returns the app's current saved code as a zip. What is not in the docs we read is whether the backend, data and auth come with the zip, so we do not claim either way.

Is Base44 free?↓

There is a Free plan: 25 message credits and 100 integration credits a month, up to 5 apps, core features including authentication and a database, as printed on 26 September 2026. GitHub integration and a custom domain start on paid plans; GitHub on Builder at $40 a month billed annually.

How does Base44 pricing compare with Lovable?↓

Base44 meters two things, message credits for building and integration credits for running, across five plans from $0 to $160 a month billed annually. Lovable meters one credit balance per message, with plans read the same day at $5, $25 and $50 a month and a credit ladder above that. Our Lovable pricing page has the full ladder and what three prompts cost in credits; we have no equivalent measured runs on Base44.

Who owns Base44?↓

Wix, since mid-2025, which several alternatives pages mention as the reason to look around. This page does not treat ownership as a weakness; it treats the GitHub rules and the two-meter pricing as the facts to check, and both are quoted from Base44's own pages with the date.

Did you test Base44 against these tools?↓

No. We have measured runs on Lovable only, with credits read before and after, and prices and documented mechanics for the rest. A same-prompt harness across six builders needs paid accounts on each and is not on this page; nothing here ranks output quality.