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.
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.
Budibase is an open-source low-code platform for creating internal apps in minutes. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Rest API, Docker, K8s
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 ↗
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.
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
Extensible low-code framework for building business applications — $0 per builder to start, with no credit card and no trial clock. Unlimited end users.
A video editing API to automate video marketing and social media videos, programmatically or with no code.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
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.
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.