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Wix-owned vibe coding platform that turns a plain-language brief into a hosted web app with data, logins, permissions and backend logic.
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Key takeaways
- Base44 turns a plain-language description into a hosted web app with its own database, logins, permissions and backend logic, and it's quick enough at this that Product Hunt shows 4.9/5 from 69 reviews. Trustpilot's April 2026 summary says most reviewers were unhappy. Both are real: prototypes and internal tools go well, and the complaints cluster once a project grows complex.
- The company is no longer a startup. Wix bought it in June 2025, when the company was about six months old, for roughly $80 million up front plus earn-outs through 2029. Since then the product has widened from an app builder for non-coders into a platform with an SDK, CLI, REST APIs and, from June 29, 2026, its own model called Base 1.
- Pricing is a permanent Free plan with 25 message credits a month, capped at five a day, then paid tiers from $16 to $160 a month at annual-billing rates as of July 2026. Credits expire at the end of each month, nothing rolls over, and cancelling stops renewal without a refund of the current period.
- Third-party estimates put base44.com at roughly 16.5 million visits in June 2026, up from about 10.7 million in November 2025, but a second estimate for the same month says closer to 18 million, so treat the figure as a range. More than half of visits arrive direct.
- The biggest caveat is contractual. The June 2026 Terms grant Base44 rights to train its AI on your Customer Data and Generated Output, and no opt-out was found. Separately, 2026 review aggregations describe ghost subscriptions, failed cancellations and credits charged for AI mistakes as a recurring pattern.
What is Base44?
Base44 is a vibe coding platform. You describe an app in a chat box and it builds the whole thing, backend included. Screens, data models, sign-up and login, user permissions, backend functions, integrations and hosting come out of one conversation, and the app is live on Base44's own hosting the moment it exists. The homepage tagline in July 2026 called it a platform for building apps and websites, and the product now also builds AI agents that run inside your app or across connected tools.
What sets it apart from a code-first tool like Replit or Bolt.new is that the backend is managed for you. There's no separate database to provision, no auth provider to wire in and no deploy step. Nontechnical founders and operators are the original audience, and the Free plan lets them build up to five apps without paying. Developers get a second door. The Builder plan and above open in-app code editing, GitHub integration and model selection, and the developer platform documents an SDK, a CLI, REST APIs and an OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway.
Base44 has been part of Wix since June 2025. Until June 2026 it ran on OpenAI and Anthropic models. On June 29, 2026 Wix launched Base 1, a proprietary model it says now serves production and handles conversation, coding, tool use, runtime management and backend operations. The developer documentation still lists Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro as selectable managed models, alongside automatic selection.
How it works
Describe the app
Open the Builder in the browser and write what you want in plain language: a booking system for a studio, a portal where clients download their files, a sales tracker. You need an account to keep working in the workspace, and the Free plan covers that.
Let it generate the stack
Base44 produces the interface, the pages, the data models, the logic, and the authentication and permission rules in one pass. There's nothing to configure separately for the database or the login flow.
Refine by chat, visual edit or code
Keep talking to the Builder to change things, edit visually, or on Builder plans and above open the generated code and change it directly. Each message spends a message credit, and consumption varies by action and by which model you have selected.
Connect services and publish
Add built-in integrations for email, file storage and LLM calls, write backend functions, or call outside services through the SDK, CLI or REST APIs using your own API keys. Publishing is automatic with HTTPS on Base44 hosting. Connecting your own domain requires a Builder plan or higher, and annual Builder plans include one free domain year according to the documentation.
Features
Builder chat
The chat is the whole workflow. You describe, it builds, you describe the change, it changes. It understands requests like "add a status field and only let admins edit it" and applies them across the data model, the UI and the permission rules, which is what Product Hunt reviewers mean when they praise its natural-language understanding.
Managed backend and hosting
Data, schemas, backend functions, authentication and hosting live in one service that Base44 runs. As soon as it's generated the app is live with HTTPS, and there's no deployment process to learn. The trade-off is lock-in, and the dossier's watch list includes testing export before you commit to business-critical use.
Authentication and permissions
Sign-up, login and user-access controls are generated as part of the app rather than bolted on. Reviewers who built several systems on the Free plan single out the integrated authentication and database as the reason they didn't need anything else.
Integrations and backend functions
Built-in connections cover email, file storage, image generation, LLM calls and in-app agents, all of which spend integration credits. Calls you route through your own API keys or your own backend functions don't spend integration credits, which matters once an app has real users and real traffic.
In-app code edits and GitHub integration
From the Builder plan up you can open the generated code and edit it yourself, and connect the project to GitHub. That's the route in for developers who want the managed backend without the black box.
AI agents and Superagents
You can build agents that live inside an app, or Superagents that act across connected business tools and data. This is the newest part of the product and the one Wix emphasises most in 2026.
Developer platform and AI Gateway
The documentation covers an SDK, a CLI, REST APIs and an OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway. That gateway can pick a model automatically, or you can name Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro. Native mobile apps, desktop clients, a browser extension and MCP support were not confirmed as of August 2026.
What people use it for
- Reporting dashboards, project and sales trackers, and analytics views over your own data
- Customer portals, file-sharing portals and client onboarding flows
- Booking systems, CRMs, surveys and event registration
- Back-office workflow automation and internal tools
- Communities, networking apps and chat products
- Games, room visualizers and other interactive prototypes
- AI agents connected to business tools and data
- MVPs and proofs of concept that need logins and a database on day one
It isn't a substitute for engineering a complex, high-concurrency production system. Independent reviews in 2026 report reliability and depth problems once projects grow past the prototype stage.
Who it’s for
Pricing
Official pricingIndividual plans
Free
$0
per month
25 message credits and 100 integration credits a month, five credits a day, up to five apps.
Starter
$16
per month
Billed annually. 100 message credits and 2,000 integration credits a month for personal and early-stage use.
Builder
$40
per month
Billed annually. 250 message and 10,000 integration credits a month, unlimited apps, in-app code edits, backend functions, custom domain, GitHub integration and model selection.
Pro
$80
per month
Billed annually. 500 message and 20,000 integration credits a month, advanced tools and support, higher limits.
Elite
$160
per month
Billed annually. 1,200 message and 50,000 integration credits a month, dedicated support and configurable credit amounts.
Business plans
Enterprise
Custom
contact sales
Custom plans, credits and support; seat price, pooled credits, SSO and admin controls not confirmed.
Everything runs on two kinds of credit. Message credits are spent on messages to the Builder and integration credits on built-in services such as email, image generation, LLM calls and in-app agents, and the exact cost of an action varies with the action and the model you have selected. As of July 2026 the Free plan gives 25 message credits and 100 integration credits a month, with Free users limited to five credits a day, and up to five apps. Paid plans reset on the subscription reset date each month. Unused credits expire and don't roll over. The prices on the pricing page ($16, $40, $80 and $160 a month for Starter, Builder, Pro and Elite) are labelled as annual-billing prices; the monthly-billing equivalents were not exposed, so check the checkout flow. Top-up packs and separate API pricing were not confirmed. Cancellation is self-service from Settings, then Plan and billing, then Manage Plan, then Cancel Plan. It keeps your access until the end of the paid period and stops renewal, but it normally gives no refund. The Terms make fees non-cancelable and non-refundable once a renewal begins, subject to mandatory law and specific Israeli cancellation and refund provisions for Starter and Builder. No tier rename or price change was established in the twelve months before July 2026.
Traffic & reach
These are third-party estimates from our last check, a proxy for adoption rather than an official number, and they don't agree with each other: one source puts June 2026 at about 16.5 million visits and another at almost 18 million, so read the chart as a range. The shape is more reliable than the size. Around 55% of visits arrive direct, which is what a bookmarked working tool looks like, and Brazil is the second-largest country after the United States. The month-on-month dip from May to June 2026 sits inside the gap between the two estimates.
Visits, June 2026
16.5M
▼ 8.6% month over month
Nov '25Jun '26
Top countries
- United States29%
- Brazil10%
- United Kingdom6.1%
- Australia4.3%
- Canada4.1%
Traffic sources
- Direct55%
- Referrals14%
- Organic search10%
- Paid search6.4%
- Display ads3.9%
- Paid social3.2%
- Organic social2.9%
- Email1.7%
- Affiliates1.5%
- AI assistants1.4%
- Visits, last 3 months
- 49.3M
- Avg. visit
- 5m 47s
- Pages per visit
- 4.5
- Bounce rate
- 49.4%
- Brand searches / mo
- 4.2M
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What people rate it for. Speed and accessibility. Product Hunt reviewers from January 2025 onwards describe onboarding as intuitive, praise how well the Builder understands what they ask for, and report building functional apps without writing code. One reviewer had built three systems on it; another called MVPs and proofs of concept in minutes the closest thing to magic they had seen. BASE44 2.0 ranked first for the day and third for the week on Product Hunt in March 2025.
The complaints cluster around reliability, support and billing. Trustpilot's April 2026 summary says most reviewers were unhappy, citing weak AI results, wasted credits, glitches, crashes, login problems, disappearing apps, and support that was slow or itself AI-generated. Techreviewer's July 2026 synthesis rates usability well but calls functionality and reliability mixed and support weak, and it flags reports of ghost subscriptions, failed cancellations, charges for AI mistakes and pressure to upgrade. Reddit threads add context loss, regressions after fixes, exposed admin screens and unpredictable credit consumption. These are user reports and secondary aggregations, not adjudicated findings, and Product Hunt's 4.9/5 and Trustpilot's verdict likely reflect different users at different dates. No regulator or court finding was located.
Your data trains their models. The June 2026 Terms grant Base44 and its service providers rights to use, improve and train software tools, including AI and machine-learning models, on Customer Data and Generated Output. Its privacy policy says Base44 does not rent or sell personal information, which isn't the same as an opt-out from training, and no customer-facing opt-out or retention schedule was found. The Terms also say that, as between you and Base44 and to the extent legally available, the customer owns rights in generated code and applications, subject to Base44's retained intellectual property and that licence.
The security posture is documented. Base44 documents SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification, encryption in transit and at rest, penetration testing and a bug-bounty programme. Default storage is in the United States, with regional controls described for Elite and Enterprise. No confirmed breach was found; the disappearing-app and login reports above are reliability complaints, not a confirmed security incident.
Base 1 is new, and the model lineup is in flux. Base44 built on OpenAI and Anthropic models until it launched Base 1 on June 29, 2026. Wix says Base 1 serves production and was trained and optimised from tens of millions of real user interactions; CTech describes it as fine-tuned in-house on an open-source foundation model. The developer docs still list Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro as selectable. Whether Base 1 replaces or only supplements those models is worth checking before you plan around a specific one.
The growth numbers are the company's own. TechCrunch reported 10,000 users in the first three weeks and 250,000 within six months in June 2025. Wix and CTech reported more than two million users by November 2025, more than 1,000 paying subscribers added daily, and annual recurring revenue rising from $50 million in November 2025 to $150 million in May 2026. None of this is independently audited. CTech also reported partnerships with eToro and Similarweb.
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Frequently asked questions
Company & links
- Company
- Base44 Inc.
- Founded
- 2024
- Founders
- Maor Shlomo
- Leadership
- Maor Shlomo, founder and CEO. An Israeli programmer, Shlomo started Base44 as its sole founder after returning from more than a year of reserve duty following October 7, and took it from stealth in March 2025 to a Wix acquisition in June 2025, when the company was roughly six months old. No other executives were identified as of August 2026.
- Funding
- None in the conventional sense. Press reports describe Base44 as bootstrapped with no external venture funding; the only financing or liquidity event is the June 2025 acquisition by Wix. Wix announced initial consideration of approximately $80 million plus earn-outs through 2029 tied to performance, which TechCrunch characterised as $80 million in cash with $25 million allocated to employees. No separate valuation was reported.
- Scale
- Company-reported and not independently audited: more than two million users by November 2025, more than 1,000 paying subscribers added daily, and annual recurring revenue of $50 million in November 2025 rising to $150 million in May 2026, all cited by CTech. At acquisition in June 2025 sources put the team at six or eight people. A current headcount and headquarters address were not confirmed.
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