Base44 Pricing Is $0 to $200 a Month, Paid in Credits

The mistake people make with Base44 is choosing a plan by its price tag. The price only buys credits, and there are two kinds. Message credits pay for building. Integration credits pay for your live app sending emails, making images or calling AI. Pick the plan whose credits match your app, and check the second pool before you launch, not after users start hitting errors.

Base44 is now part of Wix, and its plans run from free to $200 a month. Each plan below is broken down the way you will feel it, in credits per build and credits per user action.

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Every Base44 Plan Side by Side

All prices are US list prices per month before tax, from the Base44 pricing page.

Two plans sit above Elite. Business adds single sign on, data residency, backups and per member credit limits. Enterprise is priced by quote. Both are listed in Base44's billing and plans docs, which also say Elite comes in six credit sizes, from 1,200 up to 8,200 message credits.

One detail most pricing pages skip. Switch the toggle to Monthly and two perks disappear from every paid plan. The free domain for a year and the 25 credits to share with a friend only come with yearly billing.

What One Credit Actually Buys

Base44 does not charge a fixed amount per message. Its credits docs say the cost depends on how much work the AI does, and is worked out after each message runs. They give rough ranges.

Integration credits work the same way for your live app.

The docs also note you can't preview an integration cost before it runs. Test the action once and read the logs.

The Price per Credit Barely Moves

Divide each plan's price by its message credits and something odd shows up.

Starter, Builder and Pro all charge $0.20 a message credit, or $0.16 on yearly billing. A bigger plan does not make building cheaper until Elite. So don't upgrade hoping to save. Upgrade when you need the features, like backend functions or GitHub sync on Builder, or when 100 credits a month runs out before your app is done.

Yearly billing is the only real discount. It takes 20% off and adds the free domain. The catch is that you pay for twelve months up front, before you know if the app will work.

What a Small App Really Burns

This worked example uses only Base44's own ranges. Your real cost depends on your prompts and model, so treat it as a budget, not a bill.

Say you build a booking app for a small salon. It has bookings, customers, a staff calendar, a payment page, an admin view and reminders.

That fits inside one month of Starter, barely. One rough patch of bug fixing pushes it over.

Now run it. If the salon takes 400 bookings a month and each one sends a confirmation and a reminder from its own domain, that is 800 emails at about 2 credits each. That's about 1,600 of Starter's 2,000 integration credits, before any AI features. If the reminders run as a backend function, you also need Builder, since Base44's credit FAQ says backend functions start there.

So this app lands on Starter at $20 to build, then Builder at $50 to run with room to spare. That's why we'd budget for the second plan, not the first.

Limits That Catch New Builders

Credits don't roll over. They reset monthly on the day you subscribed, at the UTC time you bought. The one exception is going from a monthly plan to a higher monthly plan. Then unused credits carry for one more cycle. Bonus credits never carry.

The free plan charges for auto fixes. On Free, the Resolve with AI button and automatic error fixes use message credits. On paid plans they are free.

Stopping the AI still costs. You pay for every reply it finished before you hit stop. If you stop it before the first reply, it's free.

Running out of integration credits breaks your app quietly. Base44 emails you, but your users only see a generic error. A sign up form that sends a welcome email will just fail for them until your reset.

Credits are shared. Everyone in a workspace draws from one pool. One teammate testing image generation can drain the month.

Mistakes are not refunded. The docs say credits are non refundable for AI mistakes, since each prompt still did work.

Ways to Pay Less

1. Get the academic discount. Students, teachers and school staff get 50% off Starter or Builder, for up to 12 months on monthly or the first year on yearly, per the academic discount docs. You must claim it while still on Free.
2. Use Discuss mode to plan. At about 0.3 credits a question, it is far cheaper than letting Build mode guess.
3. Revert, don't re-prompt. If a change goes wrong, click Revert on that message. Asking the AI to undo its own work costs credits twice.
4. Leave the model on Automatic. Base44 says picking a model by hand is less predictable and can cost more.
5. Make visual edits by hand. Dragging and typing in the editor costs nothing.
6. Collect the free credits. A friend who signs up with your link gets 30 credits, and you get 30 when they publish and 100 if they go paid, per the referral docs. Sharing your project on LinkedIn or X earns 20 once.
7. Bring your own API keys. Calling an outside service with your own key uses no integration credits, though that service bills you directly.

If you are still choosing a builder at all, our guide to your first AI coding tool compares the field, and Lovable and Supabase are in our tool list.

Bad Advice We Keep Seeing

"Every integration costs 1 credit." One well linked review still says so. Now an email from your own domain is about 2, video is about 5 a second, and an agent message starts around 3.

"Database queries use integration credits." Base44's own FAQ says reading and writing your app's data costs nothing.

"Credits roll over." They don't, except once after a monthly to monthly upgrade.

"Upgrade to save money." The per credit price is flat from Starter to Pro. You upgrade for features and volume, not a better rate.

Still Wondering?

Is Base44 free?

Yes, there is a free plan. It gives 25 message credits a month, no more than 5 a day, plus 100 integration credits and up to 5 apps. It is enough to test an idea, not to finish most apps.

How much does Base44 cost to make an app?

From Base44's own credit ranges, a small app with a handful of features takes roughly 100 message credits to build. That fits the $20 Starter plan for one month. Running it with emails or AI features often needs Builder at $50.

Can I cancel my Base44 subscription anytime?

Yes. Base44 says you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel from your account settings, and the change takes effect at the next billing cycle. Your apps stay live and your data stays in your workspace.

Do Base44 credits roll over?

No. Unused credits expire at your monthly reset. The only carry over happens when you upgrade from a monthly plan to a higher monthly plan, and then only for one more cycle.

What are integration credits in Base44?

They pay for what your live app does through Base44's built in services, like sending email, generating images or calling an AI model. Database reads and writes don't use them, and neither do outside services called with your own key.

Does Base44 have a student discount?

Yes. Students, teachers and staff at schools can get 50% off Starter or Builder by verifying a school email. It is a one time offer on your first paid plan.

What happens when I run out of Base44 credits?

Actions that use credits pause until your next reset. Base44's credit docs point you to upgrading your plan if you can't wait. They don't list a separate credit pack.

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The Paper Trail

• Base44 pricing page, plan prices on monthly and yearly billing, October 2026
• Base44 docs, Credits, credit ranges, resets and FAQ, October 2026
• Base44 docs, Billing and plans, plan features, Business and Enterprise, October 2026
• Base44 docs, Academic discount, October 2026
• Base44 docs, Referral program, October 2026
• Base44 docs, Backend pricing, October 2026
• Banani, Base44 hands on review, the most linked pricing page we compared against, October 2026