Base44 pricing starts at $0. Elite starts at $200 a month; larger Elite credit sizes and Business cost more, and Enterprise is priced through sales. What you get at each step is a number of credits. Here is what they cost, what they buy, and what an app on the App Store adds to the bill.
The short answer
Base44’s public pricing page lists five plans: Free, Starter ($20), Builder ($50), Pro ($100) and Elite (from $200) a month on monthly billing. Yearly billing takes 20% off. Business is a self-serve upgrade from the in-app Plans page, and Enterprise goes through sales. Each plan gives you message credits for building and integration credits for what your app does. To submit an iPhone app you need Builder or higher, plus Apple’s 99 USD a year, and the result is your web app inside a native wrapper.
Base44 pricing at a glance
These are the prices on Base44’s pricing page. Yearly prices are shown per month and charged once a year.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | Message credits / month | Integration credits / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 25 (up to 5 a day; personal workspace only) | 100 |
| Starter | $20 | $16 / month | 100 | 2,000 |
| Builder | $50 | $40 / month | 250 | 10,000 |
| Pro | $100 | $80 / month | 500 | 20,000 |
| Elite | from $200 | from $160 / month | 1,200 to 8,200 | 50,000 to 300,000 |
| Business | Self-serve upgrade from the in-app Plans page; price not listed on the public pricing page | |||
| Enterprise | Priced through Base44’s sales team | |||
Elite comes in six credit sizes; the $200 and $160 figures are for the smallest, and larger sizes cost more. Base44’s billing documentation describes Business as Elite plus security and governance controls, such as SSO and data residency.
How Base44 credits work
Base44 counts two things separately.
- Message credits pay for building. Each prompt that plans, changes or fixes your app uses some. Base44’s credits page gives rough ranges: about half a credit for a small text change, one for a small feature, two for a complex module, three to four for an app-wide change. Manual edits in the visual editor use none.
- Integration credits pay for what your app does once it runs on Base44’s built-in services: sending an email, uploading a file, generating an image, calling an LLM. Calls to an outside service with your own API key don’t use them.
Two rules matter for budgeting. Unused credits expire at each reset, which on paid plans happens once a month on your subscription date. The one exception is an upgrade from a monthly plan to a higher monthly plan, which carries unused credits over for one more cycle. And when you run out, actions that use credits pause until the reset, unless you upgrade. On the Free plan the daily cap of 5 message credits also applies, so a long session can stop mid-afternoon.
Base44 says the credits used are worked out after each action and can vary with the model you pick, so treat the ranges as estimates.
What each plan adds
The plans differ in more than credits. From Base44’s billing documentation:
- Free: core features, authentication, database and analytics, up to 5 apps. Free message credits go to your personal workspace only.
- Starter: unlimited apps, in-app code edits, a custom domain, and a free domain for a year on yearly billing.
- Builder: adds backend functions, GitHub integration and model selection. It is also the first plan that can download App Store and Google Play files.
- Pro: adds early access to new features.
- Elite: adds priority support and larger credit sizes.
If you only need a web app for yourself or a small team, Starter is where most people begin; Base44’s own FAQ says the same. The jump to Builder is about backend functions, GitHub and mobile store files.
What an iPhone app costs on Base44
Base44 can prepare an app for the App Store, and its documentation explains how. It runs a scan against Apple’s and Google’s guidelines, helps you fix what the scan finds, and generates the store files. The scan works on Free. Downloading the files needs Builder or higher.
So the minimum yearly cost of a Base44 app on the App Store looks like this:
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Base44 Builder, yearly billing | $40 a month, $480 a year |
| Base44 Builder, monthly billing | $50 a month |
| Apple Developer Program | 99 USD a year, or the local price |
| Third-party services you connect | Billed by each provider |
Before you plan around it, read what the app is. Base44’s documentation says the mobile app runs your published Base44 app inside a secure web view, a lightweight native wrapper that opens only your app’s URL. Most content and design changes you publish appear in the app without a new store version. That is convenient. It also means the screens are your web app, not native iOS views.
Three more points from the same page:
- Base44 apps don’t support Apple In-App Purchase yet, so the iOS app can’t sell subscriptions or other digital content, with narrow exceptions Base44 describes.
- You create and pay for the developer accounts, upload the build and submit it.
- After you submit, the review is between you and Apple. Base44 states that its Customer Care does not manage store review feedback for you.
Where Base44 pricing stops for native iOS
Base44 is built for web apps that do real work: a backend, a database, sign-in, integrations. It prices that well, and the Free plan is enough to see whether it fits.
The pricing stops at a native iPhone app. No Base44 plan produces Swift or SwiftUI. Paying for Elite buys more credits, not a different kind of app. If the iPhone app is the product, the question is not which Base44 plan, but which tool. We cover the trade-offs in our Base44 review.
Base44 vs AirBuild pricing
AirBuild is an AI team for native iOS apps. Product, design and engineering agents build the app in SwiftUI, and it reaches your iPhone through TestFlight. On Basic, Plus and Ultra, AirBuild prepares the App Store listing, submits, tracks the review, replies to the reviewers, fixes what they raise and resubmits.
| Base44 | AirBuild | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free, then $20 a month (Starter) | Free to try, then Basic at $10 a month with your own API key (currently by waitlist) |
| Top plan with a public price | Elite, from $200 a month; Business costs more | Ultra, $200 a month (currently by waitlist) |
| What you pay for | Message and integration credits | Cloud Builds and Previews, with AI usage included on Plus and Ultra or your own API key on Basic |
| iPhone app | Your web app in a native wrapper | A native SwiftUI app |
| Store files | Builder plan or higher | TestFlight delivery on Basic, Plus and Ultra |
| App Review | Yours to manage | Submission, replies, fixes and resubmission on Basic, Plus and Ultra |
| Android | Yes, through Google Play files | No; AirBuild focuses on native iOS |
AirBuild’s Free, Basic, Plus and Ultra plans are currently by waitlist. On the Basic plan, model usage is billed by your AI provider. Enterprise is $2,000. See AirBuild pricing for what each plan includes. Either way, publishing needs an Apple Developer Program membership.
Which Base44 plan to choose
Trying it out
Free. Watch the daily cap of 5 message credits.
A web app for you or a small team
Starter. Unlimited apps and a custom domain.
Backend logic, GitHub, or app store files
Builder. Take yearly billing if you know you’ll stay.
A native iPhone app
Not a Base44 plan. Look at a SwiftUI route; our five routes to the App Store apply to Base44 apps too.
To compare Base44 with Bolt, Bubble, FlutterFlow and Adalo on price, read AI app builder pricing compared.
Frequently asked questions
Is Base44 free?
Yes, there is a Free plan at $0. It includes 25 message credits a month (personal workspace only), at most 5 a day, 100 integration credits and up to 5 apps. Paid plans start at $20 a month on monthly billing, or $16 a month billed yearly.
How much does Base44 cost per month?
On monthly billing, Starter is $20, Builder is $50, Pro is $100 and Elite starts at $200. Yearly billing saves 20%: $16, $40, $80 and $160 a month. Business is a self-serve upgrade from the in-app Plans page; its price isn’t on the public pricing page. Enterprise is priced through sales.
Which Base44 plan do I need to publish to the App Store?
Base44’s documentation says you can run the store-readiness scan on Free, but downloading the files you submit needs the Builder plan or higher. You also need an Apple Developer Program membership, 99 USD a year or the local price.
Do unused Base44 credits roll over?
Mostly no. Base44’s credits page says unused credits expire when they reset. Paid plans reset once a month on your subscription date. The exception: if you upgrade from one monthly plan to a higher monthly plan, unused credits carry over for one more cycle. When you hit the limit, actions that use credits pause until the reset unless you upgrade.
Does Base44 make a native iOS app?
Base44’s documentation says its mobile app runs your published Base44 web app inside a secure web view, a lightweight native wrapper. It is not a SwiftUI app, and Base44 apps don’t support Apple In-App Purchase yet.