Base44 pricing in 2026: plans and what credits buy

Base44 pricing starts with a free plan, then four paid plans on its pricing page. Starter is $20 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly. Builder is $50 or $40, Pro $100 or $80, and Elite $200 or $160. Each plan comes with two monthly allowances, message credits for building your app with Base44’s AI and integration credits for what the live app does, such as sending an email or replying in an in-app agent. We read every figure on Base44’s pricing page and in its docs on 10 October 2026.

Base44 changes its plans often. It moved custom domains down to Starter on 11 August 2026, doubled what one of its AI models costs in integration credits on 22 September, and added a free first-year domain to yearly Starter on 4 October, so check the date above before you budget.

Deacon is ours. It’s an AI customer support agent for a founder who answers their own customers, and it works beside a Base44 app. It replies to your visitors in seconds from your own docs, and the same script shows you where they came from. It spends none of your Base44 credits, and its free plan needs no card.

Base44 pricing plans

The plans differ in credits and in a handful of features. You get the same credits whichever way you pay.

Base44 takes 20% off for yearly billing and charges the year up front, so Starter’s $16 a month is $192 at once. Yearly billing also brings a free domain for the first year on every paid plan, Starter included since 4 October, which you claim within 60 days of starting the plan. From Builder up, it adds 25 credits to share with a friend as well. The features are from the pricing page and Base44’s billing and plans docs, which list removing the badge from Starter and backend functions from Builder, two things the pricing cards leave out.

Elite’s card shows one size. The billing docs say Elite has a drop-down on the in-app Plans page for choosing the amount of credit, and the pricing page doesn’t show those sizes. Above Elite, the docs list two Enterprise plans. Business you buy yourself from the Plans page, in 6 credit sizes from 2,400 to 5,400 message credits and 96,000 to 216,000 integration credits a month, and it adds SSO, data residency and 30 days of backups. Enterprise is priced through sales. Most people pay in US dollars, and a plan bought through Apple’s App Store is priced by Apple.

If you’re still choosing a builder, Base44 vs Lovable sets the two side by side, and the best vibe coding tools covers the others. Lovable’s own plans start at $25 a month; Lovable pricing has the credits and the rollover rules. If Replit is your other choice, Base44 vs Replit compares them.

Message credits and integration credits

Base44 meters building and running separately. Its credits docs say message credits cover your building and integration credits cover your app’s live operations. Each kind is shared by every app and every member of your workspace.

Message credits go on prompts in the AI chat that plan, change or fix your app. Base44 gives rough ranges, about 0.5 for a simple text or style change, 1 for improving a small feature, 2 for adding a complex module and 3 to 4 for a change across the whole app. A message in Discuss mode, which talks an idea through without changing the app, is about 0.3. Dragging elements or editing text by hand in the visual editor costs nothing.

Integration credits go on Base44’s built-in services whenever your app uses them. These are the typical rates Base44 gives.

Base44 calls these estimates. The real cost is worked out after each action runs, there’s no way to preview it, and Base44 says billing can differ between workspaces. Each app’s usage page, under Dashboard, Overview and App usage, shows which sources spent its integration credits.

What the Base44 free plan gives you

Base44’s Free plan costs nothing and includes every core feature, among them sign-in, a database and analytics. It gives you 25 message credits a month, of which you can use at most 5 a day, and 100 integration credits, for up to 5 apps. The daily allowance resets at midnight in the workspace owner’s time zone, or at midnight UTC if no time zone is recorded or you aren’t the owner.

The limits show up in a few places.

• The automatic error fixes and Resolve with AI spend message credits on Free. On a paid plan they’re free.
• A public app carries the “Edit with Base44” badge at the bottom right, and anyone who clicks it can copy your app into their own account, by Base44’s quick start guide.
• New private apps need Starter or above, since 6 February 2026.
• Your app lives on its base44.app address, since custom domains start at Starter.
• In-app code edits start at Starter, so on Free your changes go through the AI chat and the visual editor.
• Analytics shows only the last 7 days and tracks up to 3 custom events.

What each paid Base44 plan unlocks

Base44 says most app creators land on Starter, teams shipping several apps tend to land on Builder or Pro, and Elite is for people running their main product or business on Base44. Features decide the first step or two, and past Builder it’s mostly credits that change. Each paid plan keeps what the plan below it has, and adds more.

• Starter adds unlimited apps, in-app code edits in the Code tab, private apps, a custom domain with 301 redirects, and removing the badge. In analytics you can look back 30 or 90 days, or pick your own range, with no cap on custom events. Billed yearly, it adds the free domain for a year. Custom domains moved to Starter on 11 August 2026, by Base44’s changelog. Base44’s own post How much does Base44 cost?, dated 26 July 2026, still puts them on Builder.
• Builder adds backend functions, two-way GitHub sync, and choosing which AI model builds your app. Billed yearly, it adds 25 credits to share on top of the free domain.
• Pro adds early access to beta features, and twice Builder’s credits.
• Elite adds premium support and automatic backups of your app’s data, kept for 7 days.

The Base44 student discount

Base44’s academic discount takes 50% off Starter or Builder for students, teachers and staff at K-12 schools, colleges, universities and other accredited academic institutions. Billed monthly, it lasts up to 12 months. Billed yearly, it covers the first year. After that the plan renews at the standard price. By our sums, that makes Starter $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly, and Builder $25, or $20 billed yearly.

You claim it from a banner on the in-app Plans page. You enter a school email, which Base44 checks against its list of academic domains such as .edu and .ac.uk, type the 6-digit code it sends, and answer a short survey. Your Base44 account can keep a personal email, since the school one only proves you qualify.

A few rules come with it.

• It applies once, to your first paid subscription, and once per account and per verified email.
• It covers personal subscriptions, not team workspaces.
• It can’t be combined with a promo code, and it doesn’t apply to a plan bought through Apple’s App Store.
• If you cancel during the discount, you lose it, and a later subscription is at the standard price.
• Once you’ve used it, an upgrade to a higher plan is charged at the standard price.

Base44’s pricing FAQ adds education and non-profit pricing case by case.

What happens when Base44 credits run out

When either kind of credit reaches zero, whatever needs it stops until your next reset.

• Out of message credits, you can’t send the AI chat anything new. Editing by hand in the visual editor still works, since it costs nothing.
• Out of integration credits, Base44 emails you and every action that needs them fails. Anyone using your app who sets one off, for example by signing up and triggering a welcome email, sees a generic error that doesn’t mention credits. An in-app agent’s replies need integration credits too, so they stop with everything else.

Unused monthly credits expire when your credits reset. A paid plan resets on the day of the month you subscribed, at the time you bought it in UTC. There’s one exception. Upgrade from a monthly plan to a higher monthly plan before your reset, and your unused credits carry over for one more cycle, up to a month of your plan’s credits. Bonus and top-up credits never carry over.

Base44 publishes no price for extra credits. Its docs mention credit top-ups only in passing, and its credits page offers two ways out, waiting for the reset or upgrading. An upgrade takes effect as soon as you pay. Moving to a higher monthly plan charges the full price difference, an upgrade that involves a yearly plan is prorated, and Base44 shows what you pay and the credits you get before you confirm. You can’t cancel a plan and buy it again in the same cycle, so the billing docs suggest upgrading and then downgrading at the end of the cycle. Yearly fees are non-refundable.

What a real app costs on Base44

These are four months in the life of one app, from the first build to 2,000 users. The sums are ours, worked out from the typical rates in Base44’s credits docs, and each price is billed monthly first, then yearly.

Here’s what goes into each row.

• The MVP is 8 complex modules at about 2 credits each, 40 small features at about 1, 60 text and style changes at about 0.5 and 4 changes across the whole app at 3 to 4, which comes to about 100. That uses all of Starter’s message credits, and on the Free plan’s 25 a month it’s four months of building.
• The live month is 200 welcome emails, 400 file uploads and 600 LLM calls on the Automatic model at about 1 credit each, plus 40 message credits of fixes and small changes.
• The agent adds 1,000 replies at about 3 credits each, the starting rate on Automatic. That takes the month past Starter’s 2,000 integration credits.
• At 2,000 users the month is 2,000 emails from your own domain at about 2, 3,000 uploads and 5,000 LLM calls at about 1, and 2,000 agent replies at about 3. That’s 18,000, inside Pro’s 20,000.

The agent is the line that grows. On the Free plan, 100 integration credits cover about 33 agent replies at the starting rate, with nothing left over for emails, and a long answer costs more than 3. None of these months include the costs in the next section.

Costs on top of a Base44 plan

Base44’s pricing FAQ says there are no hidden fees. A few things still cost more than the plan price suggests.

• The services you connect with your own keys, such as Stripe, SendGrid and OpenAI, bill you directly on their own pricing, by Base44’s pricing FAQ.
• An email from your own domain costs about 2 integration credits, twice one from Base44’s.
• Choosing a model yourself usually costs more. An LLM call on any model but Automatic starts at about 3 credits instead of 1, and for an in-app agent Base44 rates most models at several or many times Automatic’s cost.
• The free domain covers one year, and only on yearly billing. Billed monthly, you buy a domain or bring your own.
• A plan bought through Apple’s App Store can cost a different amount from the price on Base44’s site, and the academic discount doesn’t apply there.

What a launched Base44 app still needs

Once the app is live, two jobs arrive that building it didn’t cover. People who try it have questions, and you need to know where they came from.

Base44’s answer to the first is an in-app AI agent, on every plan. Each reply spends integration credits from the same pool as your app’s emails and uploads, starting at about 3 on the Automatic model. People have to log in to your app before they can use one, unless you turn on anonymous access, and anonymous chats draw on the same pool. So a busy week of questions can use up the credits your app needs to send its emails.

Base44’s app analytics covers the second. It shows visits, unique visitors, pages, where people came from, devices and custom events. It keeps 60 days of history on every plan, and Free shows only the last 7 of them. To keep more, Base44 suggests pulling the data out through its Analytics API, or exporting custom events to a CSV file.

What to do after you launch covers the rest of the first few weeks, and adding an AI chatbot to your website the ways to answer visitors.

Deacon on a Base44 app

Deacon is an AI customer support agent that sits beside your Base44 app rather than inside it. A visitor can ask it something the moment they land, with no login, and it replies in seconds from your docs, day or night, in whatever language they wrote in. If your docs have no answer, it tells them so rather than making one up, and asks for their email. When they leave one or ask for a person, it shows in your dashboard at once, and you get an email a few minutes later if nobody’s there. Your reply from Deacon’s dashboard appears in their chat while it’s open.

The questions it couldn’t answer wait for you with an Answer this button. Whatever you write becomes part of what Deacon knows, so each answer leaves it needing you a little less. Topics group the questions, count the people asking, and give a topic a type when one kind of question leads it, such as a feature ask, a bug report or a how-to, so you know what to fix and what to build next.

Deacon’s replies count against its own allowance, so they spend none of your Base44 credits. Its script also counts your traffic, the sources it came from, your goals and your funnels. Base44’s own analytics keeps 60 days, and Deacon’s ranges go back to all time.

It goes into your app’s index.html, which Base44’s docs name as the place for third-party scripts. Click Dashboard, then Code, open index.html, paste the tag just before the closing body tag, then save and publish. In-app code edits start at Base44’s Starter plan, so on Base44’s Free plan you ask the AI chat to add the tag instead. Add your base44.app address or your own domain to Deacon’s list of allowed domains, and Deacon and Base44 has the rest of the steps.

Deacon’s plans all carry every feature, and differ only in answers, knowledge, pages read from your site each month, and seats. Free is 50 answers a month and 1 seat, with no card and no end date. Deacon’s Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers a month and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers a month and 10 seats. There’s no charge past a plan’s answers, no plan moves you up by itself, and no “powered by” line costs extra to remove.

Questions about Base44 pricing

Is Base44 free?

Yes. Base44’s Free plan costs nothing and includes 25 message credits a month, at most 5 a day, 100 integration credits and up to 5 apps, and Base44 says you can ship complete apps on it. What it holds back is room to build, a custom domain, private apps and removing the badge.

How much does Base44 cost a month?

Starter is $20 a month billed monthly, or $16 billed yearly. Builder is $50 or $40, Pro $100 or $80 and Elite $200 or $160. Base44 says most app creators land on Starter.

What are integration credits on Base44?

They pay for what your live app does with Base44’s built-in services, such as sending an email, handling an upload, generating an image, running an LLM call or replying in an in-app agent. Most of those cost about 1 credit, an agent reply starts at about 3, and reading or writing your app’s database costs nothing. Free gives you 100 a month and Starter 2,000, shared by every app and member of your workspace.

Can I switch between monthly and yearly Base44 billing?

From monthly to yearly, yes, at any time. What you’ve paid for the current month comes off the yearly price, and your credits don’t reset when you switch. From yearly to monthly you can’t switch yourself, because yearly fees are non-cancellable, though Base44’s billing docs say support looks at mistakes case by case.

Do Base44 credits roll over?

Usually not. Base44’s credits docs say unused credits expire when your credits reset. The exception is an upgrade from one monthly plan to a higher one before your reset, when your unused credits carry over for one more cycle. On Free, the daily allowance of 5 resets each midnight, but only while you have monthly credits left.

Can I buy more Base44 credits?

Not at a published price. Base44’s credits page says to wait for your reset or upgrade. It does give a few away. Sharing your project on LinkedIn or X earns 20 message credits once, though Base44 says that’s still rolling out, and its referral programme gives a friend 30 credits at sign-up, then you 30 once they publish their first app and send a message, and 100 when they upgrade.

Which Base44 plan do I need for a custom domain?

Starter or above, since 11 August 2026. Billed yearly, every paid plan from Starter up also gives you a free domain for its first year, which you claim within 60 days. Billed monthly, you buy a domain or bring your own.

Does Base44 have a student discount?

Yes. Students, teachers and staff at academic institutions get 50% off Starter or Builder once they verify a school email, for up to 12 months billed monthly or the first year billed yearly. It applies once, to your first paid subscription, and covers personal subscriptions, not team workspaces.

Who owns Base44?

Wix does. Wix announced its acquisition of Base44 on 18 June 2025, calling it “a powerful new arm to Wix’s AI portfolio”.

Does Deacon use my Base44 credits?

No. Deacon has its own allowance of answers, one for each reply it writes, and counting your visitors uses none of them. Its free plan has 50 answers a month with no card, and it works on your base44.app address, so you don’t need a paid Base44 plan to add it.