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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

11 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Back4app Pricing Reviews

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Med M.

Co-Founder & CTO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/28/2025

"Back4app is the best cloud platform"

5/5

What do you like best about Back4app?

Back4app let you build an app and deploy it and it's easy for beginners, you don't need any implementation just code your frontend app or mobile app and abracadabra ... it's online, with parse it can be implemented in any os/framework and all of this very well documented with high end customer support they respond to all my mails Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

The file storage is low for POC and also for MVP package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/5/2025

"Super fast prototyping apps"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Back4app?

Back4app is a really great service for when you quickly want to get started with a prototype for an app/site that needs a backend/database. The parse database is very flexible so you can work out your data structure as you go. Support for live queries (real time updates) is great for things like chat, but I believe this requires the paid subscription nowadays. First level subscription is 25$ per month, which is quite ok. Free tier gives you enough for getting started with low amount of queries and data storage (1gb).

The cloud code is also a really nice feature, so you can have code running on their server. I've used it for example to relay calls to an external API and back, and schedule tasks.

Support is willing to answer your questions in good time, and they are quite good in helping out.

A relatively new feature is also the possibility to run docker containers, pretty sweet!

All in all back4app is my go-to solution for very quickly starting a prototype combined with a quasar frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

This time around they requested me to write a review here in return for unlocking one of my apps that went past the limits of the free tier (and I can't fix that untill they unlock it for me) . Nonetheless this review is honest.

Maybe they should warn a little bit earlier before you hit the limits. It is not always clear either which limit it is you are hitting, if it is the amount of requests or the storage limit.

Removing stored files is a little bit tricky, because there is no easy way to see files stored in the database.

Their built in AI that tries to help out with errors does not always solve it well. I've had some problems where errors came up that were not caused by my code, but by something going wrong in the deployment. I'm hoping those were caused by that the support for docker containers was still a bit in beta.

Sometimes the docs can be a little bit confusing, with information being spread to different places, but it is nice that they have a bunch of docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.