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The best No-Code software
No-Code & Low-Code software and applications
- Tools listed
- 27
All 27 no-code tools
Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.
What no-code software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 27 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
- $5AppSheet
- Median entry price
- $27.50across 16 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $300Caspio
- Publish a $0 plan
- 14of 27
Paid no-code plans in this set start anywhere from $5 a month for AppSheet to $300 for Caspio. The median entry price across the 16 tools that publish one is $27.50, 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.
14 of 27 publish a $0 plan, and 3 of those charge nothing at all. 5 tools have no free tier of any kind.
16 of 27 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 27 no-code listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- freemium
- 6
- quote
- 6
- subscription
- 5
- 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
Separately, 16 of 27 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 20 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
- Priority support , 7 of 20
- Custom quote , 3 of 20
- Custom integrations , 2 of 20
- No custom domain , 2 of 20
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: Ada AI assistant, Build and preview applications, Download the generated Flutter source, More connected apps, Requires Google Workspace Administrator, Unlimited DataPages. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “No-Code” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 27 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-Code15
- low-code11
- App Builder6
- internal-tools6
- Airtable4
- workflow-automation4
- client portal3
- Enterprise3
- Open Source3
- Application Development2
- automation2
- database2
Carried by a single tool: affordable, Apache Licence, case-management, Embeddable Forms, Model Driven, Process Automation, Small Business, Web App Builder. 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
14 of 27 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 priority support, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$5 to $300 is a $295 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
16 of 27 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, priority support, custom quote, custom integrations, 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: freemium on 6 listings, quote on 6, 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.
- Volnyn vs Appian
- Appian vs Caspio
- Caspio vs Mendix
- Mendix vs OutSystems
- OutSystems vs Quickbase
- Quickbase vs Thunkable
- Thunkable vs Zoho Creator
- Zoho Creator vs FlutterFlow
Go straight to the numbers
- Volnynpricingalternatives
- Appianpricingalternatives
- Caspiopricingalternatives
- Mendixpricingalternatives
- OutSystemspricingalternatives
- Quickbasepricingalternatives
Questions people ask about no-code software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How much does no-code software cost?
- Across the 27 no-code tools listed here, paid plans start between $5 and $300 a month, with a median entry price of $27.50. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $3,000 a month (ToolJet). 14 of 27 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest no-code software?
- 3 of the 27 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, AppSheet has the lowest published entry price at $5 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, 14 of 27 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 priority support (7 of 20 tools that publish plan detail), custom quote (3) and custom integrations (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as ada ai assistant or build and preview applications, 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?
- freemium (6), quote (6), subscription (5), Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs (1), plus 9 less common arrangements, counted across the 27 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. 16 of 27 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does no-code software actually cover?
- The 27 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are no-code (15), low-code (11), app builder (6), internal-tools (6), 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?
- 26 of 27 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3 tiers. 16 of 27 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?
- 27 approved no-code listings appear on this page, including Volnyn, Appian, Caspio, Mendix. 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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The shortlist for “No-Code”, plus a note if any of their prices change.
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