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.

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8base

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Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Lorraine Reigosa

Pricing

Pricing provided by 8base.

Free

$0.00

1 Developer seat Per Month

Developer

$25.00

1 Developer seat Per Month

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User Insights

Average based on 43 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

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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 easy 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.

Verified User in Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/15/2023

"Reliable Partners"

4.5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

Solution Advisors foster confidence that 8base is sincerely invested in customer success. Native toolset is vastly extensible via JAVA & TypeScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

Slack connectivity to internal resources is touted as value added but falls short of potential due to perfunctory replies and lack of follow up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lucas L.

Fullstack Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/2/2023

"simple but powerful"

4.5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

I love the ease with which you can create tables and relationships as well as the different queries. and complex queries can be made very easily from the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

the limit it has for triggers since it cannot exceed a certain weight and for large projects it can be a problem. and also not having a log of all requests can make it difficult to identify when it is a server or code error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris F.

CEO / Chief Strategist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

"Simplifies our Software Development Business, 8base is a Tremendous Value!"

5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

I am the CEO of a Software Development and Professional SaaS Company. 8base provides ease of mind and simplifies my business by providing Professional Backend-as-a-Service. these Services include; AWS usage, Database, Security, Scalability, rights and permissions, Data Model and GraphQL Engine and all the DevOps Services. The value is incredible and allows us to service our Customers and Solution Users at an extremely high level.

We leverage 8base for all the Back-end Services and our Developers just need to build the front end Web Applications using the GraphQL (API) calls to the established back-end.

8base also simplifies our use of AWS and Database usage, with predictable costs and virtually unlimited scalability.

8base is also very service oriented and helpful to leverage all aspects of the platform.

In addition, the new 8base Application Builder fills a need to streamline Web Application Development while leveraging the Platform / Backend Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

I really do not have any dislikes. Any issues that have arisen they have helped us understand immediately. Building Front-end Apps using React-JavaScript takes a professional Developer. With the new 8base Application Builder this helps me have the proper developers for the proper business case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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 management

- Branching environments

- Built-in API Explorer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

- Migration generation/committing

- 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.

Miguel A. A.

Javascript Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/1/2023

"Excelent cloud services"

5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

I can get all the products on the same platform, DB with graphql, cloud functions like webhooks, triggers, tasks, etc with an environment like nodejs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

that deployments often fail and are very slow to run again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 first, it would be nice to have ability to do SQL queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juan R.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/20/2022

"8Base is an amazing platform for developing web applications so fast, it's secure"

5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

8Base is an amazing platform for developing web applications so fast, it's secure, and it allows developers to interact without losing control. The cost is really very good for the value it generates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

8Base just needs to include more base examples to take from there and evolve the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main pain that attacks is to develop applications quickly given the scarcity of labor. Likewise, in this process they included tools so that developers did not feel that they were losing control over the application. They use state-of-the-art technology and allow applications and solutions to quickly scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin F.

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/1/2023

"nstruct experience with 8base"

5/5

What do you like best about 8base?

Very knowledgeable team. Took the time to understand my business and provided comprehensive support to define the scope and set clear expectations for the engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 8base?

Dependency on 3rd party service providers to establish business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 8base solving and how is that benefiting you?

8base serves as the foundation for our platform stack, enabling the core functionalities of our solution, managing virtual environment to support capacity and scale, integrating with other ecosystem participants and providing relevant advice and guidance as we scale our business. 8base is, in essence, our "outsourced CTO". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.