Side-by-side comparison · Website & App Builders
Framer vs Softr vs Base44
Everything that matters when choosing between them, in one place: our rating, what each can do, what they cost, and the trade-offs.
Comparing 3 tools, the maximum.
At a glance
Framer
4.1Pick it if: Founders, designers and marketers who want a great-looking marketing site without code.
Softr
3.6Pick it if: Operators and agencies who run their business on spreadsheets and want a proper front door for clients or staff.
Base44
3.7Pick it if: Small business owners and operators who want an internal tool or customer app and don't want to touch any settings.
Overview
| Attribute | Framer | Softr | Base44 |
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| In one line | Design a stylish marketing site on a canvas and publish it, with AI doing the grunt work. | Turn an Airtable base or Google Sheet into a client portal or internal tool. | An all-in-one app builder that sets up logins, data and hosting from your first prompt. |
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Starting price | $10/mo | $19/mo | $16/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Works with Claude Code | No | No | No |
Rating breakdown
Our scores out of 5. The higher bar in each row is highlighted.
| Attribute | Framer | Softr | Base44 |
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| Overall rating | 4.1Winner | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| Ease of useHow quickly someone non-technical gets value from it. | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 |
| FeaturesHow much it can do, and how well the pieces fit together. | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Output qualityHow good the results are before you fix them. | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Value for moneyWhat you get for the price, including the free plan. | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| Speed & reliabilityHow fast it is and how often it falls over. | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 |
Feature comparison
A tick means it does this today. A dash means we haven't checked.
| Attribute | Framer | Softr | Base44 |
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| Access & platform | |||
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | No | No | No |
| Desktop app | Yes | No | No |
| Browser extension | No | No | No |
| API access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Teams & business | |||
| Team workspace | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise plan or SSO | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Connects to other apps | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open source or self-hosted | No | No | No |
| AI abilities | |||
| Works with your files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Understands images | – | – | Yes |
| Makes images | – | No | – |
| Makes video | No | No | No |
| Writes code | Yes | No | Yes |
| Runs agents or automations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Learns your brand or style | Yes | No | No |
| Works in many languages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capabilities score | 11/ 17 | 8/ 17 | 10/ 17 |
Pricing
Plans as listed on each vendor's site when we last checked. Confirm before you buy.
| Attribute | Framer | Softr | Base44 |
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| Plans | Free Free Learning the tool and building a draft. | Free Free Learning Softr and tiny internal tools. | Free Free Trying it with a small experiment. |
BasicOur pick $10/mo A small business or portfolio site on your own domain. | Basic $19/mo A solo operator with a handful of clients. | StarterOur pick $16/mo billed yearly One simple app for your business. | |
Pro $30/mo Growing sites with a real blog and more traffic. | ProOur pick $99/mo Small teams running a real portal. | Builder $40/mo billed yearly Building a couple of apps you keep improving. | |
Enterprise Custom Large companies and multi-site teams. | Business $329/mo Companies with hundreds of users and security needs. | Pro $80/mo billed yearly Apps with real users and regular changes. | |
Enterprise Custom Large organisations. | Elite $160/mo billed yearly Heavy builders who want code access. | ||
Enterprise Custom Companies rolling it out to teams. | |||
| Which plan to pick | Basic is enough for most small business sites, and the free custom domain on a yearly plan makes it good value. Move to Pro when you pass 30 pages or want more than two CMS collections. Budget for extra editor seats at $20 a month if more than one person will design. | Pro is where Softr starts to feel like a proper product: you can remove the branding, give clients Google sign-in and add more users as you grow. Basic is fine for a solo consultant with five clients. The pricing page has a monthly and yearly toggle that we could not read, so confirm whether the prices shown are the yearly rate before you budget. | Free is enough to find out whether you like it. Starter suits one simple internal tool, but watch the integration credits once staff start using it daily. The pricing page only shows yearly rates, which it says are 20 per cent cheaper than monthly, so ask what monthly billing costs before you commit. |
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How we compare
Ratings are our own, from using each tool, across ease of use, features, output quality, value for money, speed & reliability. The "Visit" buttons may use affiliate links, which never affect a score.
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