Base44
The fastest sentence-to-working-app path on the market -- $100M ARR nine months after Wix's $80M cash-out proves the demand -- but a critical SSO-bypass disclosure and rising complaints about support and pricing since the acquisition are the tax on that speed.
PRICING
| Free | $0 | 25 message credits/mo, 100 integration credits/mo, up to 5 apps |
| Starter | $16/mo | annual billing, 100 message credits/mo; cut from 100 to 75 credits at unchanged price in Feb 2026 per independent tracking |
| Builder | $40/mo | annual billing, 250 message credits/mo, most popular tier |
| Pro | $80/mo | annual billing, 500 message credits/mo |
| Elite | $160/mo | annual billing, 1,200 message credits/mo, premium support |
| Enterprise | Custom | dedicated architect, SSO, advanced security controls |
Prices shown are annual billing as displayed on base44.com/pricing; monthly billing is higher. Independent developer tracking (Base44Devs, May 2026) documents a 25-40% effective price increase across tiers since the Wix acquisition via credit-allowance cuts and tier renaming, without a corresponding published price change announcement.
checked 2026-07-26 · vendor pricing page
Element scores
Strengths
Genuinely fast idea-to-working-app pipeline with backend, auth, database, payments and hosting included from the first prompt -- no separate infrastructure to wire up. GitHub-backed code access, workspace-level custom OpenAPI integrations, and a large managed connector catalog (Stripe, Salesforce, Snowflake, Slack, Google Workspace and dozens more) make it more than a toy. The growth numbers are real and independently confirmed: 2 million users and $100M ARR within nine months of the Wix acquisition, and a November 2025 schema-grounding fix cut hallucinated field references by about 30%.
Honest dings
Wiz Research disclosed a critical vulnerability in July 2025 -- a non-secret app_id was enough to register a verified account on a private, SSO-only app, bypassing authentication entirely -- patched within 24 hours but the underlying default-permissive trust model wasn't structurally rebuilt. Imperva separately found stored XSS and JWT leakage around the same time. Independent developer tracking documents shipping cadence dropping from roughly four releases/month to two post-acquisition, support response times stretching from hours to days-or-weeks, and effective pricing rising 25-40% via credit cuts and tier renaming rather than announced increases. Trustpilot's 2.2-star aggregate cites AI-driven credit burn on failed edits and unresponsive support as the most common complaints.
Sources (10) — every claim traceable
Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).
- wiz.io/blog/critical-vulnerability-base44 — Original Wiz Research disclosure: SSO-bypass via non-secret app_id, 24-hour patch, no evidence of prior exploitation (accessed 2026-07-26)
- techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/6-month-old-solo-owned-vi… — Original acquisition reporting: $80M cash deal, 250,000 users at sale, solo-founder background (accessed 2026-07-26)
- calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bkqq0pry11e — Wix Q4 2025 earnings coverage: Base44 reached $100M ARR nine months after acquisition, official corporate disclosure (accessed 2026-07-26)
- calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sy194qsg11g — Wix Q3 2025 earnings coverage: 2 million users, sevenfold growth since deal close, 1,000+ new paying subscribers/day (accessed 2026-07-26)
- base44.com/pricing — Official pricing page: tier structure, credit allowances, plan features (accessed 2026-07-26)
- base44.mintlify.app/Integrations/Using-integrations — Official docs: app-level/workspace-level/account-level integration architecture, MCP connections scoped to build-time chat only (accessed 2026-07-26)
- base44devs.com/blog/state-of-base44-2026-developer-… — Independent developer survey: shipping cadence decline, 25-40% effective pricing increase, regression-rate improvements, top unresolved user complaints (accessed 2026-07-26)
- trustpilot.com/review/base44.com — Aggregate 2.2-star user review sentiment: credit burn on failed edits, slow/unhelpful support (accessed 2026-07-26)
- neweconomies.co/p/1m-arr-in-3-weeks-150m-arr-one-ye… — Founder-and-Wix-chairman interview: Base 1 fine-tuned model launch, growth trajectory since acquisition, founder framing of the deal rationale (accessed 2026-07-26)
- thehackernews.com/2025/07/wiz-uncovers-critical-acc… — Independent security-press corroboration of the Wiz SSO-bypass disclosure and remediation timeline (accessed 2026-07-26)