No-Code · ranked shortlist
Best No-Code software for Remote Teams in 2026
20 approved no-code listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $8-$300
- Publish a $0 plan
- 8 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved no-code listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the no-code category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Appian
Highest rated hereLow-code process automation platform priced per user, per app, per month, with tier limits on data and AI volume
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per user, per app, per month, escalating across Standard, Advanced and Premium tiers
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, Process Automation, case-management, rpa
- #2
Bubble
No-code platform for building web and mobile applications visually
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- freemium
- Tags
- No-Code, App Builder, database, workflow-automation
- #3
Caspio
No-code database app platform charging by data records and DataPages rather than by user seats
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $300 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $600 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- Flat monthly fee by data record volume and DataPage count, unlimited users included
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- No-Code, Database App, unlimited-users, Embeddable Forms
- #4
Corteza
Apache-licensed open source low-code platform, formerly Crust, positioned against Salesforce
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, Open Source, crm, Self-Hosted
- #5
Directual
No-code backend with a visual workflow engine, used behind other tools rather than instead of them
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, backend, API, workflow-automation
- #6
Draftbit
Visual builder for React Native apps that exports the source code you keep
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, Mobile Apps, React Native, App Builder
- #7
FlutterFlow
Visual builder that outputs real Flutter code for iOS, Android and web
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $30 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $70 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per user per month
- Published tiers
- 5 tiers
- Tags
- No-Code, App Builder, Flutter, Mobile Apps
- #8
Mendix
Siemens-owned low-code platform priced by app count, with cloud infrastructure billed separately
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per application tier (One App vs Unlimited Apps), cloud infrastructure billed separately
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, Enterprise, siemens, Application Development
- #9
Momen
Full-stack web app builder with its own Postgres database and a GraphQL API over your tables
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, Web Apps, SaaS, marketplace
- #10
Noloco
Client portals and internal tools built over data you already have
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, client portal, internal-tools, Airtable
- #11
OutSystems
Enterprise low-code platform priced by application complexity units, not just users
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, Enterprise, Application Development, Model Driven
- #12
Quickbase
No-code application platform with published per-user pricing and enforced minimum seat counts
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $35 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $55 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per user per month, billed annually, with an enforced minimum seat count per tier
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- No-Code, Database App, workflow-automation, operations
- #13
Softr
No-code platform for building web apps, client portals and directories from data
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $25 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $395.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- No-Code, App Builder, Airtable, client portal
- #14
Stacker
Permissioned portals over data that stays in Airtable, Salesforce or Postgres
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, Portals, Airtable, client portal
- #15
Superblocks
AI-assisted platform for building internal tools and business apps
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $100 a month, with no free plan.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, internal-tools, Ai App Builder, Enterprise
- #16
Thunkable
No-code, drag-and-drop mobile app builder priced by AI tokens and project counts
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $19 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $99.
- Billing
- Per month, tiered by AI token allowance and project count
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- No-Code, Mobile App Builder, Block Based, Ai Assisted
- #17
ToolJet
Open-source low-code platform for building internal tools and business apps
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $79 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $3,000.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, internal-tools, Open Source, App Builder
- #18
WeWeb
Front-end builder for applications whose data already lives somewhere else
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- No-Code, Front End, Web App Builder, vue
- #19
Whalesync
Two-way real-time sync between no-code databases and SaaS tools
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $40 a month, with no free plan.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Per month by records in sync
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- data-sync, No-Code, Airtable, notion
- #20
Zoho Creator
Low-code app builder priced per user per month, bundled into the wider Zoho ecosystem
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $8 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $25.
- Billing
- Per user per month, billed annually
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- low-code, zoho, Small Business, workflow-automation
What no-code software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $8Zoho Creator
- Median entry price
- $35across 9 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $300Caspio
- Publish a $0 plan
- 8of 20
Paid no-code plans in this set start anywhere from $8 a month for Zoho Creator to $300 for Caspio. The median entry price across the 9 tools that publish one is $35, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is ToolJet's at $3,000 a month, 10× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
8 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 3 of those charge nothing at all. 4 tools have no free tier of any kind.
15 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 no-code listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- quote
- 6
- freemium
- 3
- Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs
- 1
- Flat monthly fee by data record volume and DataPage count, unlimited users included
- 1
- Open source, no licence fee
- 1
- Per application tier (One App vs Unlimited Apps), cloud infrastructure billed separately
- 1
- Per month by records in sync
- 1
- Per month, tiered by AI token allowance and project count
- 1
- Per user per month
- 1
- Per user per month, billed annually
- 1
- Per user per month, billed annually, with an enforced minimum seat count per tier
- 1
- Per user, per app, per month, escalating across Standard, Advanced and Premium tiers
- 1
- subscription
- 1
Separately, 15 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 13 no-code tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Custom quote , 3 of 13
- Priority support , 3 of 13
- No custom domain , 2 of 13
Named by fewer
Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.
Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced deployment and compliance options, Dedicated account team, Higher monthly AI action allowance, One application, Staging and production environments, Unlimited end users. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “No-Code” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- No-Code14
- low-code10
- App Builder5
- internal-tools5
- Airtable4
- workflow-automation4
- client portal3
- Enterprise3
- Application Development2
- database2
- Database App2
- Mobile Apps2
Carried by a single tool: Ai App Builder, backend, Code Export, Flutter, notion, Process Automation, siemens, vue. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
8 of 20 no-code tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with custom quote, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$8 to $300 is a $292 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $300 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
10 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 3 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, custom quote, priority support, no custom domain, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 13 billing models: quote on 6 listings, freemium on 3, and 11 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare no-code tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- Appian vs Bubble
- Bubble vs Caspio
- Caspio vs Corteza
- Corteza vs Directual
- Directual vs Draftbit
- Draftbit vs FlutterFlow
- FlutterFlow vs Mendix
- Mendix vs Momen
Go straight to the numbers
- Appianpricingalternatives
- Bubblepricingalternatives
- Caspiopricingalternatives
- Cortezapricingalternatives
- Directualpricingalternatives
- Draftbitpricingalternatives
Questions people ask about no-code software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this no-code ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved no-code listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for remote teams?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the remote teams framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.
- How much does no-code software cost?
- Across the 20 no-code tools listed here, paid plans start between $8 and $300 a month, with a median entry price of $35. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $3,000 a month (ToolJet). 8 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest no-code software?
- 3 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Zoho Creator has the lowest published entry price at $8 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free no-code software?
- Yes, 8 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 3 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should no-code software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are custom quote (3 of 13 tools that publish plan detail), priority support (3) and no custom domain (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced deployment and compliance options or dedicated account team, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is no-code software usually billed?
- quote (6), freemium (3), Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs (1), Flat monthly fee by data record volume and DataPage count, unlimited users included (1), plus 9 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 15 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does no-code software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are no-code (14), low-code (10), app builder (5), internal-tools (5), airtable (4). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under no-code may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do no-code tools offer?
- 19 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3 tiers. 10 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many no-code tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved no-code listings appear on this page, including Appian, Bubble, Caspio, Corteza. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/no-code, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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