--- 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(420) ](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) ![Eliecer T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eliecer T.") ET Eliecer T. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/19/2023 "Useful and time-saving platform for building large applications" 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? The ease with which data models can be created and interacted with. The API explorer is helpful for quickly building and testing CRUD operations. How there is always a way to build an idea with the tools of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? The data views could have an option to double click on a field with a referenced relation and either take you to it, or show a popup with the information of the foreign, referenced element. The logs could be separated per function, as in, whenever I click a function name on the platform, I see a log of its executions and the console.log/console.errors that belong to that function specifically. Other than that, any improvement that would make the logs more helpful for debugging would be greatly appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? Increased ease of managing backend operations and data modeling. The type "File" and how 8base handles file uploads is very useful and time saving. Speed of development is undeniably increased. Having most backend needs met by one platform is convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Aleksandr P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aleksandr P.") AP Aleksandr P. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/7/2023 "8base is a great platform to quickly setup a GQL-based backend for your app." 3.5/5 What do you like best about 8base? 8base does its job in terms of being a good BAAS. You can set up your DB schema & business logic fast and troubleless. Roles and permissions management is also done well. With their platform, it's easy to manage any backend-related task. I'd also like to appreciate the fact that you can self host the product when your product needs it. Whenever we would face an issue, 8base engineers were quick to help us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? 8base is lambda based, which brings lambda-related issues. It won't be easy to handle a huge load, even though it is possible with extra effort. Out-of-the-box logs are tough to work with, but self-hosted solution helps (AWS cloudwatch) They have their own gql transform engine which sometimes may be of an issue and without gql-to-sql transparency it can be tough to optimize certain requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? It allowed us to define a data model, deploy our own custom backend logic and utilize GQL for client. 8base allows frontend developers to experience the fullstack experience with little to no trouble. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Alfred .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alfred .") A Alfred . Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2023 "Does core functionality of providing a GraphQL backend really well" 3.5/5 What do you like best about 8base? Super easy backend solution. I like the GUI for managing the DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? Well, for the frontend; it does the eaisy things easier but the hard things harder Backend: would be nice to have some further development such as integration with zapier and such. Feels a bit dead in terms of updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? It makes it so that I dont have to build and manage a DB with for example Prisma (which is also really good) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Rolando P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rolando P.") RP Rolando P. Full-stack Developer jr Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/2/2023 "Jr Full stack web developer review" 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? It's straightforward to use and amicable for the new developer, the API explorer work well, and it has all the functionality that's needed to test the queries and mutations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? Sometimes it's slow and has some issues and bugs with migrations, but nothing that prevents the workflow, the documentation is very useful and has all that's needed, but sometimes it's difficult for the newbie. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? The use of queries and integration with Graphql it's really helpful and the API explorer to mount the queries/mutations is a great and valuable feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Dmitry N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dmitry N.") DN Dmitry N. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/7/2023 "Great idea, weird decisions." 3.5/5 What do you like best about 8base? - GUI database managment - Branching environments - Built-in API Explorer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? - Migration generation/commiting - Build times - The decision to remove one-to one relations (Guys, it's a DB management tool, 1-to-1 is one of the core relation types that should be always available). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? It saves me the hassle of creating my own GraphQL backend and managing it in addition to my frontend projects. It also helps me with type definitions and syncing data with my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/19/2023 "A very nice low code solution with graphql" 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? You get automatically created queries and mutations and resolvers are very easy to adapt to special needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? It restricts a bit the capacity with the DB I think at firtst, it would be nice to have ability to do SQL queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? helping people host concerts in their places and all the logistics involved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") TA Verified User in Accounting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/19/2023 "Good experience overall" 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? The thing I like the most is the GraphQL API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? The way we have to handle commits, deployments and schemas updates. And the documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? It removes the necessity of having to create a API from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") AR Verified User in Research Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/15/2022 "Great start for the platform, good potential to grow." 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? Database feature set is great - managing tables and relations is very easy. Cloud functions work nicely and documentation is pretty good. As a newer platform its doing well to try and get feature parity with some bigger players whilst adding its own touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? Pricing model has room for improvement, direct access to the DB would be a great addition and the Front End builder has a long way to go before it can match other players in the Low Code builder scene. More external integrations on both the back and front end would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy access to a back end platform without the overheads of managing the infra. A lower effort authentication system that allows the use of external ID providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Josh C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Josh C.") JC Josh C. Managing Director Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/13/2022 "Great low-code BaaS platform" 4/5 What do you like best about 8base? 8base provides a simple platform to create an application back-end quickly without requiring a heavy investment in infrastructure, complex skillsets, or API construction. API creation is just as simple to develop and deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 8base? Complete documentation for the platform is not immediately easily accessible by developers. To acquire some documentation, we had to open a support ticket and wait. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you? New mobile application development with a low-maintenance back-end. Back-end has not required any special skills. Javascript developers are able to be productive very quickly. 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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