Every free low-code platforms tier that clears our bar in 2026: 8 offers meet the criteria and 7 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 7 of them: on 3 the page we cite did not answer, and on 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Low-Code Platforms Tools

Every free low-code platforms tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14.

8 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 6 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 513 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 15 low-code platforms offers →
1
Data Fetcher stable
Free

Connect Airtable to any application or API with no code. Postman-like interface for running API requests in Airtable. Pre-built integrations with dozens of apps. The free plan includes 100 runs per month.

2
BudiBase stable
Free

Budibase is an open-source low-code platform for creating internal apps in minutes. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Rest API, Docker, K8s

3
Free

Internal tools builder — The Free tier costs $0/mo and includes unlimited web & mobile apps, 500 workflow runs/month, 5GB of database capacity, 5GB of file storage, up to 5 users, up to 20 hours/month of Agents, and 250 AI credits/month. Note — 2027-01-01: Retool Email can be used on Retool's Free plan until January 1, 2027. From that date, Free plan organizations can no longer use Retool Email to send emails from apps, workflows or other automations. Retool Email stays available on the Team, Business and Enterprise plans. Retool's changelog names SendGrid, Gmail, SMTP or an email provider's REST API as other ways to send email from Retool. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2027-01-01 — limits reduced: Retool Email can be used on Retool's Free plan until January 1, 2027. From that date, Free plan organizations can no longer use Retool Email to send emails from apps, workflows or other automations. Retool Email stays available on the Team, Business and Enterprise plans. Retool's changelog names SendGrid, Gmail, SMTP or an email provider's REST API as other ways to send email from Retool. Source ↗
  • discovered 2026-06-17 · effective date unknown — pricing restructured: Retool's Free plan replaced its AI prompting credits, up to 100 a month for each user, with 250 AI credits a month shared by the whole organization, between the Internet Archive's copies of retool.com/pricing of 2026-05-21 and 2026-06-17. The shared credits cover app building and AI Actions; the prompting credits had covered building and editing apps with Assist. The Free plan's 20 hours a month of Agents were already on the page before the change. Source ↗
4
Export SDK stable
Free

PDF generator API with drag-and-drop template editor that provides an SDK and no-code integrations. The free plan has 250 monthly pages, unlimited users, and three templates.

5
Clappia stable
Free

A low-code platform designed for building business process applications with customizable mobile and web apps. Offers a drag-and-drop interface, features like Offline Support, real-time location tracking and integration with various third-party services

6
Free

Extensible low-code framework for building business applications — $0 per builder to start, with no credit card and no trial clock. Unlimited end users.

7
JSON2Video stable
Free

A video editing API to automate video marketing and social media videos, programmatically or with no code.

8
Appsmith stable
Free OSS

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Low-code platform for building internal tools. Drag-and-drop UI builder, 45+ database/API integrations, JavaScript customization. Self-hosted or cloud

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Enterprise web development PaaS for on-premise or cloud, free "personal environment" offering allows for unlimited code and up to 1 GB database. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-12, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Low-code platform that enables faster building of custom web applications. Supports building UI using drag and drop with a high level of customization through JavaScript, Python, and SQL. Available as both cloud and self-hosted solutions. Free for up to 5 users. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-04, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-04, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

A free no-code app builder. It provides complete access to the automatically generated backend source code and allows for unlimited APIs and routes. The free plan includes three projects and five tables. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

write and run scripts online utilizing free built-in APIs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Firecrawl and others. Great for building AI agents / internal tooling and sharing with team. Free-tier includes full access to APIs, AI coding assistant and 10,000 execution credits / month. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-30, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-30, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Mendix stable
Free

Low-code development platform — Free plan: 1 sandbox environment per app on Mendix Cloud, 0.5 GB storage and 1 GB RAM per app, shared database tenancy, unlimited local development. Studio and Studio Pro IDEs included. Community support (no SLA or uptime guarantee). Suited for demos, prototypes, and small apps.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-06, found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
windmill.dev stable
Free

Windmill is an open-source developer platform for building multi-step automations and internal apps from Python and TypeScript scripts. Windmill Cloud's Free plan is $0 with no credit card: 1,000 executions a month, unlimited scripts, flows, apps, variables and resources, Google, GitHub and GitLab sign-in, and community support on Discord. A free user can create and be a member of at most three non-premium workspaces. Cloud's Team plan is $10 a month per developer, with 10,000 executions a month per seat and at most 10 seats. The self-hosted open-source edition is free with unlimited executions and at most 10 users with SSO.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-25, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Powerful no-code cloud platform with a focus on industrial production management. Free for one user with 1 million workflow activities a month ([also available in german](https://www.manubes.de)). The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-12, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:Low-Code Platforms
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2e76a7ec2545be32563301ae6d0affbe84ce7bdcdc1d600e1de2de8bbffaa41e
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8

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Data Fetcher Free Connect Airtable to any application or API with no code. Postman-like interface for running API requests in Airtable. Pr... stable 2026-11-01 / 2026-09-19
BudiBase Free Budibase is an open-source low-code platform for creating internal apps in minutes. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, M... stable 2026-11-13 / 2026-10-23
Retool Free Internal tools builder — The Free tier costs $0/mo and includes unlimited web & mobile apps, 500 workflow runs/month, 5G...
read found the page different · 2026-11-08
volatile
effective 2027-01-01
2026-11-08 / 2026-09-25
Export SDK Free PDF generator API with drag-and-drop template editor that provides an SDK and no-code integrations. The free plan has 25... stable 2026-11-10
Clappia Free A low-code platform designed for building business process applications with customizable mobile and web apps. Offers a ... stable 2026-11-01
ToolJet Free Extensible low-code framework for building business applications — $0 per builder to start, with no credit card and no t... — 2026-10-30
JSON2Video Free A video editing API to automate video marketing and social media videos, programmatically or with no code. stable 2026-11-10
Appsmith Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Low-code platform for building internal tools. Drag-and-drop UI builder, 45+ database/API integra... stable 2026-11-10

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free low-code platforms tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 8 free low-code platforms offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free low-code platforms tiers have held their terms?

8 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 6 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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