Bubble vs. Quickbase

At a glance

Best for

Best for founders and teams that want to build and launch a full web or mobile app without engineers.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Best for

Best for operations teams whose departmental processes have outgrown spreadsheets and whose IT department wants governance around whatever replaces them.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion	Bubble	Quickbase
Starting price	lower value From $32 / month Starter, web only, billed monthly; $29 per month billed annually. Mobile only starts at $49 and web plus mobile at $69 monthly. A free plan covers building and testing.	From $35 / user / month Team is $35 and Business $55 per user per month, priced annually. Neither figure includes the platform minimum, a base charge on top of the per-user price. All users in an account must be on the same plan. Enterprise is quoted by Quickbase.
Free trial	Free plan	30-day free trial with the Business plan features
Commercial use	Yes	Not stated
Output	Web apps and native mobile apps built in one visual editor, with a managed database and user accounts	Custom operational applications with tables, forms, reports, dashboards, roles and workflow automation
API	Not stated	Yes, JSON REST APIs; the platform analytics API and solutions API are Enterprise only
What it generates	Web apps and native mobile apps built in one editor; the AI app builder can generate a complete app from a single prompt	Custom operational applications: tables and forms for the data, more than 13 report types and personalised dashboards, roles and permissions, and pipelines for workflow automation. Pave, the AI builder, takes a description of how the work happens today and constructs the application, including data structures with linked records, user roles and permissions, automation and hosting
Stack and frameworks	No-code visual programming: you build by pointing and clicking instead of writing code	There is no framework or language to choose. An application is assembled in Quickbase's own builder and runs on Quickbase's platform, and it is widened rather than swapped: more than 40 pre-built Pipelines integration channels connect it to other systems, and Quickbase Extensions, a paid package, adds document generation, e-signatures, SMS, email notifications and mapping to the same app
Auth and database	Managed database with separate development and live environments, plus built-in user management for signup and login	Quickbase's own tables and linked records, with role-based permissions, encryption, audit logs and data classification. Single sign-on and SCIM provisioning arrive with the Business plan; restricting user creation to realm admins and managing token permissions is Enterprise
Hosting and deploy	Apps run in the browser or install from the app stores as native apps, hosted on Bubble's infrastructure	Hosted by Quickbase, with the application ready to use once built. On-premise connectivity and data warehouse integrations are Enterprise features
Payments	Payments run through Bubble's official Stripe plugin: one-time charges and recurring subscriptions, with billing and plan management handled by Stripe	No payment collection or checkout of its own, and none is documented for the apps built on it: these are internal operational applications rather than customer-facing products. Money stays in the systems Quickbase connects to, through the financial software category among the 40+ pre-built Pipelines channels or through the JSON REST APIs
Access to the code	No-code visual editor, extended through community-made plugins	Code pages let a builder add custom HTML, CSS or JavaScript to an app and surface it through a button, a hyperlink, a formula URL field or an iframe; JSON REST APIs cover programmatic access
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Community forum	more entries Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Live online demos and webinars
Company size	more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	Not stated	Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, Procore

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Bubble From $32 / month Quickbase From $35 / user / month
Free trial Bubble Free plan Quickbase 30-day free trial with the Business plan features
Company size Bubble Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Quickbase Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Support Bubble Community forum Quickbase Email helpdesk, Community forum
Output Bubble Web apps and native mobile apps built in one visual editor, with a managed database and user accounts Quickbase Custom operational applications with tables, forms, reports, dashboards, roles and workflow automation

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Bubble

Strengths

Builds web and native mobile apps in a single editor
Generates a complete app from one prompt with the AI app builder, then lets you refine it
Large ecosystem of community-made plugins and connectors

Limitations

Priced in monthly workload units, so a busy app's running cost rises with usage instead of staying fixed
The free plan cannot run a live app on a custom domain

Quickbase

Strengths

Pave builds a working app, data model and permissions included, from a description of the existing process
Governance is part of the platform: roles and permissions, encryption, audit logs and data classification
No-code connectors to Salesforce, Jira and ServiceNow, plus JSON REST APIs
Code pages allow custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript where the no-code builder stops
Quickbase states that customer data is not used to train the AI

Limitations

The published per-user price excludes a platform minimum that is not published, so the real cost needs a quote
AI capability beyond Pave, namely the AI agent, Data Analyzer and AI Actions, is a paid Intelligence Package add-on
Single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, a sandbox and FDA and HIPAA compliance require the Business plan
All users in an account must be on the same plan, so one requirement can lift the whole account a tier
Platform analytics and solutions APIs are restricted to Enterprise

Plans

Pricing

Bubble

Free $0 Build and test for free; launching an app requires a paid plan.
Starter $32 Per month for web only ($29 billed annually). Mobile only $49, web plus mobile $69.
Growth $134 Per month for web only ($119 billed annually). Mobile only $199, web plus mobile $249.
Team $399 Per month for web only ($349 billed annually). Mobile only $529, web plus mobile $649.
Enterprise Not stated Quoted by Bubble; handled through an account manager.

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Quickbase

Free trial $0 30 days with the Business plan features.
Team $35 Per user per month, priced annually, on top of a platform minimum. Personalised dashboards, 13+ report types, workflow automation, user and data security, encryption and audit logs. The AI Intelligence Package is an optional add-on.
Business $55 Per user per month, priced annually, on top of a platform minimum. Everything in Team plus single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, Gantt charts, a sandbox and FDA and HIPAA compliance. Quickbase Extensions and the AI Intelligence Package are optional add-ons.
Enterprise Custom Quoted by Quickbase. Everything in Team and Business plus advanced performance tools, advanced encryption, on-premise connectivity, data warehouse integrations, the platform analytics and solutions APIs, and the extensions and AI add-ons.

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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Bubble

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Quickbase

Ease of use: Not rated yet
User interface: Not rated yet
Onboarding: Not rated yet
Support and service: Not rated yet
Value for money: Not rated yet
Features: Not rated yet

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Where this comes from

Bubble https://bubble.io · no check date recorded yet

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This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.