--- title: 8base Reviews meta\_title: '8base Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 43 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how 8base works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 43 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # 8base Reviews & Product Details 8base is a low-code platform for building and running feature-rich digital products including SaaS solutions, marketplaces and other web and mobile applications. The 8base platform helps entrepreneurs and creators in established companies bring their product visions to life; faster, better and more economically. Additionally, digital agencies use 8base to deliver client projects faster while increasing their margins and reducing their reliance on scarce and expensive software development talent. 8base is a configurable, serverless low-code development framework hosted on AWS that exposes the world's most robust GraphQL-based query language for APIs; and unlike other platforms, 8base has been built from the ground up to use standards and widely accepted technologies that appeal to mainstream developers and ensures a creator’s intellectual property can be ported to other platforms if the need ever arises. 8base offers: 1) low-code development tools for building software backends and APIs; 2) serverless computing and storage infrastructure for running applications built using 8base tools; 3) visual frontend development tools; 4) design and development services via a partner network to assist customers with building applications using 8base. 8base first commercialized in 2019. Today, thousands of customers including numerous multi-tenant SaaS and marketplace startups, custom software development agencies and consultancies, and larger organizations such as IBM Global Services/NATO and Florida International University build on 8base. * * * Seller [8base](https://www.g2.com/sellers/8base) Discussions [8base Community](https://www.g2.com/products/8base/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Lorraine Reigosa Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by 8base. ### Free $0.00 1 Developer seat Per Month ### Developer $25.00 1 Developer seat Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/8base/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Retool](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Retool") Retool 4.6/5(361) ](https://www.g2.com/products/retool/reviews) [ ![OutSystems](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "OutSystems") OutSystems 4.5/5(1,801) ](https://www.g2.com/products/outsystems/reviews) [ ![Mendix](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mendix") Mendix 4.4/5(417) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mendix/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/8base/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 43 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Dmitry D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dmitry D.") DD Dmitry D. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/7/2023 "Unique platform, but sometimes very unstable" 2.5/5 What do you like best about 8base? 1) a truly unique platform, which has no analogues at the moment 2) convenient development tools 3) technical support that is ready to help - up to direct contact with the developers of the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? 1) sometimes (quite often, actually) there are various bugs during deployments, due to which the work can stop before they are fixed - the platform is definitely not completely stable 2) even if deployments are made without errors, they take a VERY long time - sometimes it can take up to 20 minutes 3) the absence of a public changelog - the development team working with the platform may not be aware of breaking changes at all, if any 4) closed source code - perhaps 8base would be more suitable for the model that, for example, Hasura uses 5) not very good documentation, which practically does not reflect real cases of using the platform - a lot of knowledge about it (including knowledge about various "pitfalls") is kept in the minds of developers, and is obtained through the experience of using the platform, and not from the docs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? 1) no need to think about project infrastructure - the platform provides a convenient and ready-to-use backend 2) no need to think about the organization of the database due to a fairly convenient visual representation that hides implementation details (for example, relationships), and migrations 3) the platform also provides a convenient way to manage user permissions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/16/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/19/2023 "Working with the 8base Backend low code solution" 2.5/5 What do you like best about 8base? The most interesting functionality for 8base is the queries and mutations it creates when a table schema is created, which makes time efficient. Also the ability to use the UI to make changes in the tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? There is some stuff that can be improved as for example, the queries that can be used in the tables are quiet limited and very slow sometimes for bulk operations. Another thing that does not make a lot of sense is that relations between tables are created in weird ways that sometimes make it impossible to do certain mutations. Another thing is that the changes made on the tables directly are soft, they are not really 100% reflected on the database and that creates a mix of data that does not make sense at all. Also documentation is tremendously outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? Saving time on the creation of the schemas and queries to make operations with the data inside a database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about 8base? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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