Softr Pricing in 2026: Plans, Limits, and Real Costs

Quick answer: As of August 2026, Softr has five plans: Free ($0), Basic ($19/month billed annually, $25 billed monthly), Pro ($99/month annual, $119 monthly), Business ($329/month annual, $395 monthly), and Enterprise (custom). Prices are per workspace, not per seat. The plan is only part of the bill, though: Softr is a front-end that sits on top of a separate data source, so if your app runs on Airtable or Google Sheets you pay for that too, and the numbers that actually force an upgrade are app users, database records, and monthly workflow actions - not the features you first went looking for. All figures below are from Softr's pricing page and change over time, so treat the live page as the source of truth.

Softr is a no-code tool for building portals, internal tools, and simple web apps on top of a database you already have. The pricing looks simple - four public tiers and an Enterprise call - but the sticker price and the real monthly cost are two different numbers, and the gap is where most people get surprised. This guide breaks down every plan, the limits that trigger the next upgrade, the total cost once you factor in the data source underneath, and the point where Softr's model stops fitting the job.

One note before the numbers: several third-party pages still quote an older Softr price sheet (figures like $59, $167, and $323 a month). Softr revised its plans in 2026, so ignore the stale reviews and read the current tiers below.

How Much Does Softr Cost In 2026?

Softr charges per workspace, and every paid tier is cheaper per month when you commit to a year. Here is the current lineup, with the annual-billing monthly price and the higher month-to-month price side by side.

Source: softr.io/pricing, as of August 2026. Pricing and limits change, so verify on the live page before you buy.

A few things stand out immediately. The jump from Basic to Pro is roughly 5x, and Pro to Business is a further 3.3x. Those are big steps, and they are not driven by the headline features so much as by capacity - how many end users, how many rows, how much automation. The annual commitment saves you about two months versus paying monthly on every tier. And the Free plan is genuinely free forever, not a time-boxed trial, though its limits are tight enough that it is really a place to learn the tool rather than run anything real.

The annual-versus-monthly math is worth doing before you sign. Pro is $99 a month on an annual plan but $119 month to month, so the yearly commitment is $1,188 versus $1,428 - about a 17 percent saving, but you are locking in for twelve months. If you are still validating whether Softr is the right tool, pay monthly for the first stretch and switch to annual once you know the app is going to stick. Softr's refund window is 14 days on monthly and 30 days on annual, so there is a short grace period either way. If you qualify, Softr also offers a 50 percent discount for non-profits and education, which changes the calculus at every tier.

What Do You Get On Each Softr Plan, And What Forces An Upgrade?

The features you see in a comparison chart are rarely why people upgrade. People upgrade because they run out of a number. Softr meters three things hard - app users, database records, and monthly workflow actions - and gates a few important capabilities (branding removal, custom code) behind Pro and above. Here is the breakdown that actually matters when you are deciding what to pay.

Source: softr.io/pricing, as of August 2026.

Read that table as a set of walls you hit in a predictable order.

App users are the first and most common wall. Softr counts every unique end-user email across all your published apps, counted once. It splits them into "team" users (people on the same business email domain as one of your builders) and "client" users (everyone else, including all free-domain emails like Gmail). Free gives you 5 total. Basic gives you 10. If you are building a client portal and expect more than 50 external clients, you are on Pro at minimum, and if you cross Pro's client allowance you start paying per additional user on top of the $99. For a portal that grows, the app-user meter, not the feature list, is what sets your bill.

The team-versus-client split has a practical edge that trips people up. Say you are on Pro, which includes 10 team and 50 client users. If your clients sign in with company email addresses that happen to match one of your builders' domains, they count as team users and eat the smaller allowance faster. If they sign in with Gmail or another free domain, they land in the client bucket. Because deactivated users are not counted and the same email across multiple apps counts once, the meter is fairer than a raw seat count - but it also means you should map who logs in with what before you assume a tier fits. A portal for 200 external clients is a Business-plan question no matter how simple the app is.

Branding removal and custom code both live on Pro. On Free and Basic your app carries a "Made with Softr" badge, and you cannot inject custom code or API connectors. If you are putting this in front of paying clients or need to extend it with your own scripts, Pro ($99/mo) is the floor. That single requirement pushes a lot of otherwise-Basic use cases up two tiers.

Records and workflow actions scale with real usage. Basic's 50,000 records and 2,500 monthly workflow runs are fine for a small internal tool. A busy operational app that syncs data and fires automations on every submission can burn through workflow actions faster than you expect, and when you hit the monthly cap Softr pauses your workflows until the limit renews or you upgrade. That is a hard stop worth planning around.

Builders are a quieter cost. Only 1 person can build on Basic; additional Studio seats cost $5 to $20 a month depending on tier. A two-person team that both need to edit is already paying for an extra builder on top of the plan.

What Is The Real Total Cost Of Softr?

Here is the part the pricing page does not put in the headline: Softr is a front-end, and it usually runs on a data source you pay for separately. Historically Softr required Airtable. It now ships its own native Softr Database, so you can run entirely inside Softr, but a large share of real Softr apps still sit on top of Airtable or Google Sheets - and if yours does, that is a second bill.

Airtable's own plans, as of 2026, are Free, Team at $20 per user per month (billed annually), and Business at $45 per user per month. So a realistic "Softr client portal" is not $99 a month. It is Softr plus the seats and record capacity of whatever holds the data.

And the two products meter the same thing - records - at very different levels, which creates a trap. Softr Pro allows up to 500,000 records, but an Airtable Team base caps at 50,000 records and a Business base at 125,000. If Airtable is your source, Airtable's record ceiling binds first, long before you touch Softr's. You can be nowhere near your Softr limit and still be forced to upgrade Airtable, or split data across bases, because the data layer ran out of room. Whichever side of the stack you are optimizing, price both.

The other easy-to-miss line items on Softr itself: additional custom domains are $15/month, or $13/month billed annually, extra app users are billed on top of Pro and Business allowances, and extra builder seats add $5 to $20 each. None are huge alone. Together they are how a $99 plan quietly becomes a $200 plan.

Which Softr Plan Is Right For You?

Match the plan to the job, not to the feature you are excited about. The honest fit for each tier looks like this.

Free is for learning the tool and building a throwaway internal page for a handful of trusted people. Five app users and a Softr badge make it unsuitable for anything client-facing, but it is a real, unlimited-time sandbox, which is more than most competitors offer.

Basic ($19/mo annual) fits one person building a lightweight internal tool - a simple directory, a form-backed tracker, an automation that replaces a manual task for a team of two or three. The moment you need to remove branding, add a second builder, or serve real external clients, you have outgrown it.

Pro ($99/mo annual) is the true starting point for anything client-facing. It is the first tier with branding removal, custom code, granular permissions, and a client-user allowance that supports a real portal. Most businesses that are serious about a Softr app land here, and Pro's per-user add-on pricing lets it stretch as the audience grows.

Business ($329/mo annual) is for apps that multiple departments depend on: bigger record and workflow ceilings, 2FA, domain-restricted signup, filtered user sync, and global data restrictions. You move here when the app is operationally important, not just convenient.

Enterprise (custom) is the only tier with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and SOC 2 access. If your security or compliance team requires any of those, no public plan qualifies and you are talking to sales regardless of your usage.

If you are weighing Softr against the field before you commit, our Softr alternatives guide and best no-code app builders roundup compare it against the tools it competes with, and Softr vs Glide covers the closest head-to-head.

Where Does Softr Hit A Wall?

Softr is genuinely good at what it is for: a fast, clean front-end over a database, with logins and role-based visibility, stood up in an afternoon. The wall is not the price. It is a limit in the architecture that pricing cannot buy you past, and it matters most for exactly the use case Softr markets hardest - client portals.

Page visibility is not row-level data isolation. Softr's permissions let you show or hide pages, blocks, and lists based on who is logged in, and filter records so a user "sees their own data." That is presentation-layer filtering, and it is fine for low-stakes internal tools. It is a weaker guarantee than true row-level security, where the database itself enforces that one account can never read or write another account's rows under any code path. When you are handling sensitive client data - financials, health information, anything regulated - "the UI hides the other rows" is a materially different promise from "the data layer makes it impossible to fetch them." If your portal has real security requirements, that distinction is the whole ballgame, and it is the point at which many teams outgrow a no-code front-end. We go deeper on this in the client portal software guide.

You are still assembling and operating the stack. Softr plus a data source plus workflow limits plus per-user add-ons is a system you own the wiring of. You manage the Airtable schema, watch the workflow meter, reconcile the two products' record limits, and handle whatever the block-based builder cannot express. For a simple tool that is a fair trade. For a business-critical app with custom logic, it is real ongoing work, and it is the same "last 30 to 40 percent" - auth, data correctness, integrations that handle failure - that stalls most no-code builds. Our Glide alternatives piece covers the same ceiling from the neighboring tool's side.

None of this makes Softr a bad tool. It makes it a specific one: excellent up to a point, and priced fairly for what it does within that point. Knowing where the point is saves you from paying to climb tiers in search of something the model was never going to give you.

Where Creatr Fits

Creatr sits on the other side of that wall. We build, host, and run production-grade software for you, with the first build shipped in 24 hours, humans in the loop, and code you own outright rather than rent.

The reason to know about us in a piece about Softr pricing is the wall above. Softr is the right call when your job fits a no-code front-end over a database and your security needs are modest - a lightweight internal tool, a simple directory, a portal for a small, low-stakes audience. When the job is a client portal with real per-account data isolation, custom logic the block builder cannot express, integrations that have to handle failure correctly, or compliance requirements that need database-enforced security, you are past what a page-visibility model can safely deliver, and stacking tiers will not fix it.

That is where a built-and-run product makes more sense than a tool you operate yourself. You get the finished app, hosted and maintained, with the hard parts - authentication, tenant isolation, data correctness - handled by people rather than left to you to wire together across two subscriptions. We will not tell you Creatr is cheaper than every Softr plan, because a $19 Basic app and a secure multi-tenant portal are not the same object and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What we will say is that when Softr's ceiling is the thing standing between you and shipping, the answer is usually not the next tier up. If that is where you are, start with Creatr. If a no-code front-end genuinely fits your job, the plan breakdown above should get you to the right Softr tier without overpaying.