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Bubble

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Bubble is a no-code platform from Bubble Group for building web and native mobile apps: the interface, the database and the workflows are all made in one visual editor, and Bubble hosts what you build. As of , bubble costs $69 a month on Starter and $649 on Team.

Price chart of the website builders category from 15 dollars to 649 dollars a month, plotted on a logarithmic price axis. Markers: Webflow at 15, Framer at 15, Typedream at 20, Glide at 25, FlutterFlow at 39. A dashed line crosses at the 18 dollars category median. Bubble holds the range from 69 dollars to 649 dollars with three tier posts at 69, 249, 649 dollars.

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Webflow$15/moWebflowWebflow Limited Seat$15/mo-$54 vs the $69 entrychecked Jul 8, 2026See live pricingOfficial Webflow siteFramer$15/moFramerFramer Basic$15/mo-$54 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 4, 2026See live pricingOfficial Framer siteTypedream$20/moTypedreamTypedream Launch$20/mo-$49 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 5, 2026See live pricingOfficial Typedream siteGlide$25/moGlideGlide Explorer$25/mo-$44 vs the $69 entrychecked Jul 8, 2026See live pricingOfficial Glide siteFlutterFlow$39/moFlutterFlowFlutterFlow Basic$39/mo-$30 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 4, 2026See live pricingOfficial FlutterFlow site
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Webflow$15/moWebflowWebflow Limited Seat$15/mo-$54 vs the $69 entrychecked Jul 8, 2026See live pricingOfficial Webflow siteFramer$15/moFramerFramer Basic$15/mo-$54 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 4, 2026See live pricingOfficial Framer siteTypedream$20/moTypedreamTypedream Launch$20/mo-$49 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 5, 2026See live pricingOfficial Typedream siteGlide$25/moGlideGlide Explorer$25/mo-$44 vs the $69 entrychecked Jul 8, 2026See live pricingOfficial Glide siteFlutterFlow$39/moFlutterFlowFlutterFlow Basic$39/mo-$30 vs the $69 entrychecked Aug 4, 2026See live pricingOfficial FlutterFlow site
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§ 01 · the essentialsthe full-stack one

What is Bubble: a visual editor, a built-in database and native mobile apps

The editor, the database, the workflow engine and the hosting under them

Bubble is a no-code development platform, launched in 2012 by Bubble Group, for building applications rather than pages. Three layers are made in the same visual editor: the interface, a built-in database with its own data types and privacy rules, and the workflows that connect them. Bubble runs the result on its own infrastructure, so there is no server to rent and nothing to deploy by hand. A permanent free plan keeps a project in development with one editor seat and a monthly allowance of workload units. Paid plans put the app on a live domain, and from $69 a month the same project can also ship to the App Store and Google Play.

The counting here is unusual, and it explains most of the invoice. Bubble does not charge for people or for pages. It charges for the work the app itself performs, measured in workload units, and one project holds the web app and the mobile app together on a single meter.

Bubble essentialsvendor product and plan pages
Category
Website buildersthe app-platform end of it
Developer
Bubble Groupplatform launched in 2012
Entry
$69/mo$59/mo on a twelve-month term
Unit of billing
per projectnot per person, not per page
Meter
workload unitsserver work, web and mobile combined
Free plan
permanentdevelopment only, one editor, no live domain
Mobile
iOS and AndroidReact Native, in beta, published from the editor
Plugins
8,000vendor's own counter, free and paid

Every tier, both cycles and what the workload meter does to a real invoice are worked through on what a year of Bubble costs at each plan.

§ 02 · features9 capabilities × 3 plans

Bubble features by plan: the editor, the database, workflows and mobile

The visual editor, the built-in database, workflows and the mobile branch

The editor covers three layers, and a Bubble project is only finished when all three are done. Design places the elements and decides how they respond. Data defines the types, the fields and who may read each record. Logic wires the events. Nothing here is written as code, and nothing is hidden behind a code view either.

What the platform declaresvendor product pages
Layers in the editor
threedesign, data, logic
Platforms per project
web, iOS, Androidone database behind all three
Plugin directory
8,000filtered by platform, type and category
Editor seats at entry
onetwo on $249, five on $649
What each plan opens9 capabilities · 3 plans · 27 cells · 14 numbered quotas
Capability ↓ · plan →Starter
$69/mo
$59 annual
Growth
$249/mo
$209 annual
Team
$649/mo
$549 annual
Row 01Design the interfacethe visual layerthe free plan builds the whole thing, it just cannot publish it to a domainfull editorone seatfull editortwo seatsfull editorfive seats
Row 02Hold the datatypes, fields and privacy rulesstorage above the allowance is the one add-on with a published rateincluded$3 per 100 GB overincluded$3 per 100 GB overincluded$3 per 100 GB over
Row 03Run the logicworkflows and schedulingthe free plan has workflows but not the recurring kindrecurringfrom this tierrecurringsamerecurringsame
Row 04Do the server workthe meterextra workload is a tier with no published rate175Kunits a month250Kunits a month500Kunits a month
Row 05Ship to phonesiOS and Android, betaover-the-air updates are unlimited on all three5 builds3 live versions10 builds5 live versions20 builds8 live versions
Row 06Work in parallelbranches and versionssub apps, which clone a project, start on the top tierbasicno branches10 branchespremium control25 branchessub apps too
Row 07Diagnose a faultserver logssix hours on the free plan, which is a weekend lost2 daysof logs14 daysof logs20 daysof logs
Row 08Extend itplugins and the API connectorpaid plugins are billed by their authors, not by Bubble8,000plugins listed8,000same directory8,000same directory
Row 09Let AI build itgenerator and agentevery AI turn spends workload from the same allowancebothbetabothbetabothbeta
readingHover or tap any cell for its quota, its tier rate and what it means for the bill
every column includes exactly 1 user · full disclosure: 3 of 3 tiers priced

Read down a column to see what a tier adds. Every row is a capability the vendor lists on its own pricing page.

Two jobs show how the layers meet. Building a marketplace starts in Data: a listing type, a booking type, a user type, and privacy rules that stop one seller reading another's rows. Then Logic schedules the payout workflow and calls Stripe. Design comes last, because the repeating group that lists the items needs to know what it is listing. Shipping the same product to phones is the second job, and it is not a rebuild. The mobile app joins the existing project, reads the same database, and reuses the workflows that already run on the web; what changes is the navigation, which follows the platform's own patterns rather than a web page's.

The layers are the product. A plan decides how much of the work Bubble will run for you and how many people may open the editor at once, but the editor itself is the same on the free plan and on $649.

§ 03 · plan limitswhere a project stops

Bubble limits: the workload meter, app editors, branches and mobile builds

Workload units, app editors, custom branches and monthly mobile builds

Four ceilings decide when a Bubble project has to move up, and only one of them is about people. The rest measure the app: how much work it does, how many versions of it exist, and how long its history is kept.

Workload units: 50K, 175K, 250K and 500K a month

500K

This is the meter that matters. Workload aggregates the server resources an app needs to run, and every search, workflow step and page load draws on it. The allowance rises with the tier, and the vendor sends an alert at 75 percent and again at 100 percent. Overages can be capped or switched off entirely, which turns the ceiling into a hard stop rather than a bill.

App editors: one, two and five

5

An editor seat is a person who can open the project and change it. The free plan and $69 both carry one, $249 carries two and $649 carries five. This is the one limit that counts humans, and it is the reason a two-person build lands on $249 regardless of how small the app is.

Custom branches: ten and twenty-five

25

Branches let a change be built away from the live version and merged when it works. They appear on $249 with ten and reach twenty-five on $649, alongside premium version control. Sub apps, which clone a project as a separate copy, start on $649.

Mobile builds: five, ten and twenty a month

20

A build submission is a package sent to the App Store or Google Play. The monthly count runs five on $69, ten on $249 and twenty on $649, with three, five and eight live app versions kept in parallel. Over-the-air updates are unlimited on every paid plan, so cosmetic and logic changes reach installed phones without a new build.

Server logs: six hours to twenty days

20 days

Logs are how a fault gets diagnosed after the fact. The free plan keeps six hours, $69 keeps two days, $249 fourteen and $649 twenty. On the shortest window a bug reported on Monday about Friday's checkout has no record left to read.

Read together, the ceilings say the same thing twice: a Bubble plan is sized by how busy the app is and by how many people build it, and the two rise on different schedules. A quiet app with three builders and a busy app with one hit their walls at opposite ends of the range.

Rates are monthly. A twelve-month term takes each one down, $69 to $59, and the vendor states the saving as up to 20 percent.

§ 04 · add-onssold beside the plan

Workload tiers, file storage and the agency account: what Bubble sells apart

Workload tiers, file storage at a published rate, and the agency account

Workload tiers, extra storage, paid plugins and the agency account all sit outside the tier price, and storage is the only one of them with a rate on the page. That gap matters before the first busy month, because the unpriced line is the meter itself.

Workload tiersno published rate$69, $249 and $649 only

more of the meter

When an app outgrows its monthly allowance, extra workload is bought as a tier on top of the plan. The vendor does not print the tier prices on its plan page, so the cost of scaling is the one figure a buyer cannot check in advance. The free plan and the agency account cannot buy them at all.

without itWithout a tier the app either pays overages or stops doing the extra work, whichever the account was set to.

Additional file storage$3 per 100 GB a monthany paid plan

room for uploads

Files and images uploaded by users sit in Bubble's own storage. The rate is published and small, and it is the clearest line on this list. An app that collects documents or photographs will meet it long before it meets the workload ceiling.

without itWithout extra storage the uploads stop at the plan's allowance.

Plugin subscriptionsset by each authorper plugin, per app

capability from outside

Some plugins in the directory are free, others are sold monthly by the developer who wrote them. They are billed separately from the Bubble plan and they belong to whoever wrote them, so a price change is not Bubble's to make or to stop.

without itWithout the paid plugin the capability has to be built with the API connector, which costs workload instead of money.

Agency accountno published ratefor people building client apps

a shape for client work

A separate offering for developers who build on behalf of clients rather than for themselves. It sits outside the four published plans and the page points to a conversation rather than a price.

without itWithout it a client build lives on an ordinary project plan, and the handover is an ownership transfer rather than a workspace feature.

Three of the four have no number. That is the honest summary of what scaling on Bubble costs: the plan is priced, the meter is negotiable, and the plugins belong to other people.

§ 05 · the extension economywritten by other people

Bubble plugins and templates: who writes them and what they cost you

Eight thousand plugins, templates and the experts directory beside them

The directory holds around eight thousand plugins by the vendor's own counter, and the platform is built to be extended that way. Anyone can install one, and anyone can write and publish one. Plugins built by Bubble partners are filterable as their own group, which is the only quality signal the directory offers.

free pluginspaid plugins
Who writes itany developer, Bubble partners among them
Who distributes itBubble, through one directory
Who runs ityour app, inside your workload allowance
Who bills youthe plugin's author, separately from the plan
Free pluginscommunity and partners
$0

The bulk of the directory. Installation is a click, and the plugin's actions then appear in the workflow editor beside Bubble's own.

Paid pluginsthe author
set per plugin

Billed monthly by whoever wrote it. Filtering the directory by price is the fastest way to see how much of a planned feature set is going to arrive as a second subscription.

Templatesthe author
set per template

A whole app rather than a component, bought once and edited afterwards. It puts a working structure in the editor on day one instead of a blank canvas.

Experts and agencieslisted developers
quoted per project

A directory of people who build for hire, alongside bootcamps and a certification programme. It is the part of the ecosystem that exists because serious Bubble work is a skill.

What an extended app actually costs
The plan$69 a month
Two paid pluginsset by their authors
Extra storage$3 per 100 GB
Extra workloadno published rate

The directory is why a Bubble app can talk to almost anything without custom code. It is also why the monthly cost of a mature app is not one number: the plan is Bubble's, and part of the app belongs to the people who wrote its plugins.

§ 06 · data accessin and out

Bubble data access: the API connector, your own endpoints and the editor

The API connector inward, your app as an endpoint outward, editors between

Data moves in and out of a Bubble app through named channels, and each one has a place in the editor rather than a configuration file. Two of them are worth understanding before the first build, because they decide how much of the product has to live inside Bubble at all.

your app←any HTTP servicecounts against workloadfree plan and up

The API connector is on every plan, including the free one. It calls external services, and their responses become data the workflows can use like any other.

your app→any clientcounts against workloadpaid plans

A Bubble app can expose its own endpoints, which turns the project into an API other software can call. A mobile client, a partner system or a scheduled automation all reach the same database the editor works on.

Bubble file storage←user uploads$3 per 100 GB above the planany plan

Files and images are handled by the platform, with the published overflow rate.

plugins→third-party servicesthe plugin's own termsany plan

Stripe, analytics, mapping and AI services arrive as directory plugins rather than as native connectors, and each brings its own account and its own bill.

The database itself is Bubble's, with its own types, privacy rules and option sets, and it is edited in the same place as the interface. Work planned around that fact goes quickly. Work that assumes a separate database somewhere else spends its first week on the API connector.

§ 07 · ai and agentswhat a prompt builds

Bubble AI and the AI Agent: what a prompt builds and what it hands back

Bubble AI, the AI Agent in beta, and the model connections underneath

Bubble's AI does not write code for you to keep. It builds the app in the editor: the interface, the database types and the workflows, all of them the same objects you would have dragged into place yourself. That is the whole distinction the vendor draws, and it is the one that decides whether the generated thing is useful the day after it is generated.

the home page promptBubble AI

Build a marketplace where studios list rehearsal rooms by the hour.

A complete app appears: pages, a database with the types it needs, and the workflows between them. Templates for a web app, a mobile app, a SaaS platform, an AI app or a marketplace start the prompt from a shape rather than from nothing.

It does not hand back a repository. There is no code to review, because the output is the app itself.

inside the editorAI Agent

Add a cancellation window and email the studio when a booking is dropped.

The agent adds the feature and shows each step it took, so the change can be checked, kept or edited by hand. It also answers questions about the project it is working in, which is how most people learn what the previous prompt actually built.

It is in beta, and it is not a support channel. It changes your project, so a branch is the safe place to let it work.

the workflow editormodel connections

Send this text to a language model and store what comes back.

The platform separates connecting a specific model from building AI features on top of it. Either way the call is a workflow step, the response is a value, and both draw on the same workload meter as the rest of the app.

The model's own bill is not Bubble's. An AI feature is two subscriptions by construction, and only one of them appears on the pricing page.

Free50K units a monthenough to build and to test, not to run
$69175K units a monththe first live tier
$249250K units a monthtwo editor seats alongside
$649500K units a monthfive seats, twenty-five branches

Every AI turn spends the same meter the app spends. That is the part people miss when they compare prompt-to-app tools: generation is cheap and running the result is what is metered, so the interesting question is not how fast the first version appeared but how much work it does per user afterwards.

§ 08 · changeswhat moved

Bubble in 2026: native mobile in beta and an AI agent inside the editor

Native mobile in beta, the AI Agent, and the meter that counts both

Two changes matter to anybody reading advice about this platform that was written a year ago.

first trackedlatest check
Native mobile arrived, in beta Bubble now builds true native iOS and Android apps on React Native, publishes them to both stores from the editor, and keeps them in the same project as the web app. The vendor labels it beta. It also states plainly that these are not web pages in a wrapper, which is the claim to test against your own requirements.
The AI Agent moved into the editor Alongside the generator that builds a whole app from one prompt, an agent now works inside an existing project: it adds features, troubleshoots and explains what it changed step by step. It is in beta as well.

Both changes point the same way, and they change the shape of the product rather than its price. What used to be a web app builder now ships to phones, and what used to be a blank editor now starts with a conversation. Comparisons written before this year describe a narrower tool.

§ 09 · who it fitsbuilders and their limits

Who should use Bubble: founders, client developers and internal tools teams

A founder, an agency developer and an internal tools team, priced apart

Bubble suits people who need an application rather than a site, and who would otherwise be hiring developers. The cost of the platform is best read against that alternative, not against the price of a page builder.

A founder testing a product idea

The free plan holds the whole build with one editor seat and a development version, and paying starts when the thing needs a domain and real users. That sequence matches how a first product actually gets made: months of building, then a launch.

inputsone project, one builder, no live users yetinvoice floorfirst limitthe free plan cannot go live on its own domain

A two-person team building together

The second editor seat is the wall, and it arrives at $249. There is no way to buy one seat on the cheaper tier, so a pair working in the same project pays for capacity they may not need for months.

inputsone project, two builders, modest trafficinvoice floorfirst limiteditor seats, not workload

A developer building for clients

Plans are per project, so each client is a separate subscription rather than a line in a workspace. The agency account exists for this shape of work, and the experts directory is where the same people are found by the clients themselves.

inputsone project per client, handover at the endinvoice floorfirst limitthe project count, which is the number of clients

A team replacing an internal tool

Internal tools are the quiet strength here: a database, permissions per record, forms, and workflows that run on a schedule. Traffic is predictable and small, so the workload meter is generous, and the seats needed are the two or three people who maintain it.

inputsone project, low traffic, several editorsinvoice floorfirst limiteditor seats again, then log retention when something breaks

A product going to phones

Mobile joins the project the web app already lives in, on the same database and the same workflows. The monthly build allowance is the ceiling to watch, and over-the-air updates cover most changes between builds.

inputsone project, web plus iOS and Androidinvoice floorfirst limitbuild submissions per month, and the beta label on the mobile branch
When to look elsewherefour reasons

You want a website, not an application → A brochure site, a portfolio or a blog does not need a database with privacy rules and a workflow engine. The category median entry is $18, and this platform opens at $69, $51 above it. That gap buys a backend you would not use.

Your team writes code and wants to keep it → The app is made of Bubble's own objects rather than files, and it runs on Bubble's infrastructure. A team whose working assumption is a repository, a pipeline and its own servers is choosing against all three.

Your traffic is heavy and your budget is fixed → The meter is the risk. Workload rises with real usage, extra tiers carry no published rate, and the honest answer to what a busy month costs is that the vendor does not print it.

You need the mobile app to be finished, not new → The mobile branch is labelled beta by the vendor. That is fine for a first release and awkward for a contract that names a delivery date.

The pattern behind all five profiles is the same: this is worth its rate when the alternative is paying someone to build the same thing in code, and it is expensive when the alternative is a page.

§ 10 · alternativesfive rivals · gap to the $69 entry

Bubble alternatives: Webflow, Framer, Typedream, Glide and FlutterFlow

Webflow and Framer on design, Glide and FlutterFlow on apps

Every rival on this line opens below this entry rate. The spread runs $4.50 to $97, which puts the median at $18. Four of the five open between $15 and $25, then the strip goes quiet until $39. The cluster at the cheap end of the line is the design tools, priced within a few dollars of each other. Nothing there carries a database with privacy rules or a workflow engine, and none of them is trying to.

$15Bubble entry: $69 →

People leave for two opposite reasons. Some find they needed a website all along and are paying for a backend nobody uses. Others outgrow the meter and discover that the price of the next stage is a conversation rather than a number. Both are worth checking against the rivals below before the second year. The full ranking sits on the website builders category page.

§ 11 · our verdictCE 4.5/5 · signed

Is Bubble worth it in 2026: our verdict on the no-code app platform

What a full backend is worth against a category that sells pages
Verdict · Bubble · ★★★★★★★★★★CE 4.5/5

Bubble opens at $69 a month while the builders we price the same way sit at a $19 middle, and only one entry rate in the category runs higher. The comparison flatters nobody. Nothing else on that shelf carries a database, a workflow engine and an API behind the page you drew, and none of them meters what your users do.

The meter is what decides whether $69 is dear. An app with a few dozen daily users will not come near 175,000 workload units, and at that size Starter is a backend nobody has to run for you. An app that finds an audience will, and then the tier stops being the price: you are buying units at a rate Bubble does not publish. Here is where our own logic inverts. If two people need the editor open, the $180 step to Growth is not optional, and usage has nothing to do with it. The cheapest way to run a small Bubble app is to have one person build it.

what drives this invoice
  • the workload allowance on your tier: 50,000 units a month on Free, 175,000 on Starter, 250,000 on Growth, 500,000 on Team, and no published rate above it.
  • how many people open the editor: one on Starter, two on Growth at $180 a month more, five on Team.
  • How many projects you run, since each one carries a plan of its own at the same price.
when not to buy Bubble
  • You want a content site rather than an application: WordPress.com enters at $9 a month, and $69 here buys a database you will never query.
  • Two people have to build from day one: the second editor sits two tiers up, so the smallest workable team costs $249 a month.
  • You cannot absorb a bill nobody forecast: no rate is printed above your workload bundle, and the safe setting caps the overage and lets the app stop instead.
  • You ship native builds weekly: Starter allows five submissions a month and no price is published for the sixth.
what it does well
  • Three layers in one editor: the interface, a real database with per-record privacy rules, and the workflows between them, none of it written as code.
  • One project ships to the web, to iOS and to Android on a shared database and shared workflows, so a phone app is an addition rather than a second build.
  • The AI generates the app itself rather than a codebase, which means the output can be read and edited in the same editor the rest of the work happens in.
  • A directory of around eight thousand plugins covers the integrations most applications need, and anything missing can be reached with the API connector on any plan.
  • The free plan is permanent and holds a complete build, so the platform is paid for at launch rather than at the start of work.
where it gets in the way
  • The workload meter is the real cost driver, and the price of extra workload is not published on the plan page.
  • Editor seats are one, two and five, so a second builder costs a full tier step rather than a seat.
  • Plans are per project, which makes several small apps expensive in a way that a per-workspace price would not.
  • Native mobile is in beta by the vendor's own label, which is a risk for a dated delivery.
  • The app is built from Bubble's own objects and runs on Bubble's infrastructure, so leaving means rebuilding rather than moving.
  • Server logs are kept six hours on the free plan and two days at entry, which is short for diagnosing something that happened over a weekend.
The rate, in three lines
  • Entry $69/mo, $59 on annual billing · verified
  • Number 21 of 22 by entry rate, $30 over FlutterFlow and $28 under ClickFunnels
  • Starter $69 a month, Growth $249, Team $649, each one covering a single project. A twelve-month term takes the entry to $59. every tier, both cycles and the workload arithmetic
the rate tableAll three published tiers on both cycles, with the workload allowance and the editor seats set against what each step costs.total costWhat a year on Bubble comes to once the meter, the storage and the paid plugins are counted alongside the plan.moving inWhat travels when an app arrives from another platform, and which parts have to be rebuilt in the editor.how it ranksWhat a Bubble app does about page speed and crawlability, which matters more for a marketplace than for an internal tool.
signed Oleh Kem Oleh Kemmethod: live price list, dated recordverified tracked since
§ 12 · questions13 questions

Bubble answers: workload units, native mobile, plugins and the free plan

Workload, editors, native mobile, plugins and the free plan's ceiling

Q1What is Bubble used for?

Building applications without code: marketplaces, SaaS products, internal tools, booking systems and directories. The platform gives you a visual editor for the interface, a built-in database with its own types and privacy rules, and a workflow engine for the logic. Since 2026 the same project also produces native iOS and Android apps. It is not aimed at brochure sites, and using it for one means paying for a backend that stays empty.

Q2What is a workload unit in Bubble?

It is the vendor's single measure of server work. Rather than metering database reads, function runs and bandwidth separately, Bubble aggregates them into workload units and bundles an allowance with each plan: 50K a month on the free plan, 175K on $69, 250K on $249 and 500K on $649. Alerts arrive at 75 and 100 percent of the allowance, and overages can be capped or turned off. Web and mobile apps inside one project draw on the same meter.

Q3Does Bubble have a free plan?

There is a permanent free plan, not a trial with an end date. It carries one editor seat, a development version, the API connector, 50K workload units a month and six hours of server logs, plus the mobile editor and on-device testing. The missing piece is publication: a custom domain and a live app start at $69 a month. Build for free, pay at launch.

Q4Can Bubble build native mobile apps?

Yes, in beta. The apps are built on React Native and the vendor states they are not web pages in a wrapper. They are submitted to the App Store and Google Play from inside Bubble, with no Xcode or Android Studio, and they can use native components, the camera, location, push notifications and in-app purchases. Build submissions are capped per month at five, ten and twenty by tier, while over-the-air updates are unlimited.

Q5How many people can work on a Bubble app?

One on the free plan and on $69, two on $249, five on $649, and a negotiated number on Enterprise. Seats are not sold individually, so a second builder means a full tier step. This is usually what forces an upgrade before the workload meter does, and it is worth counting heads before comparing plans on their unit allowances.

Q6Is Bubble expensive?

Against this category, yes: it opens at $69 a month where the category middle sits at $18, $51 below. That comparison is misleading, though, because most of the category sells pages. Read against the cost of having the same application built in code, a single subscription that covers the database, the logic, the hosting and both mobile stores is a different arithmetic entirely.

Q7What are Bubble plugins and do they cost extra?

Plugins extend an app with capabilities the platform does not ship: payments, charts, maps, AI services, login providers. The directory holds around eight thousand by the vendor's counter, filterable by platform, type and category. Many are free. Paid ones are billed by the developer who wrote them, separately from your Bubble plan, so a mature app can carry two or three subscriptions that are not Bubble's.

Q8Can I export my Bubble app or move it to another host?

The app is made of Bubble's own objects and runs on Bubble's infrastructure, which is what removes the server work in the first place. Data can be taken out through the database and the API, and the application itself does not transfer as a project you install elsewhere. Anyone weighing that should look at FlutterFlow, which generates code you compile yourself, and decide which trade suits the plan for the product.

Q9Is Bubble good for a marketplace or a SaaS product?

Those are its two most common shapes. A marketplace needs data types for listings and bookings, privacy rules so one seller cannot read another's rows, a payment integration and scheduled workflows for payouts, and all four are things the editor does directly. The question to settle early is traffic, because a busy marketplace spends workload on every search.

Q10What does Bubble AI actually build?

A complete working app from one prompt: the interface, the database types and the workflows. The vendor's distinction is that it generates the app rather than code, so the result opens in the same editor and every part of it can be changed by hand. Alongside it, the AI Agent works inside an existing project, adds features, troubleshoots, and shows each step it took. Both are beta and both spend the same workload meter your users spend.

Q11Does Bubble charge per app or per user?

Per project. A project can hold a web app and a mobile app together, and they share one database and one workload allowance. Two unrelated products mean two plans. Nothing in the pricing counts the people who use your app, only the editor seats and the work the app performs.

Q12What happens when a Bubble app runs out of workload?

It depends on the setting you chose. Overages can be left on, in which case the extra work is charged, or capped and switched off, in which case the app stops performing the work beyond the ceiling. A workload tier bought on top of the plan raises the allowance, and those tiers are available on $69, $249 and $649 but not on the free plan. The vendor does not publish what a tier costs.

Q13Is Bubble secure enough for company data?

The platform holds SOC 2 Type II and states GDPR-ready data processing, and privacy rules are set per record rather than per page, which is the control that matters most. A security dashboard flags exposed API keys and gaps in those rules before a deploy. Enterprise adds a choice of hosting location and a customisable server. The weak point is rarely the platform, it is a privacy rule nobody wrote.