8base
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Features
47 features across 13 categories
AI(1)
AI-powered tool that designs and defines ideas, generates functional and technical design elements, and creates free blueprints of concepts
API(2)
Auto-generated GraphQL API with custom API domain and SSL support
Real-time data feeds using websocket connections for live updates
Collaboration(1)
Collaborate with team members in real-time
Compliance(3)
GDPR data protection compliance support
HIPAA healthcare compliance certification available
SOC 2 security compliance certification available
Data Management(1)
Automated backup and restore functionality for data protection
Database(7)
Create and access database replicas
Build and manage data models for applications
Visual interface for viewing and managing database data
Create custom database views and indexes for optimized queries
Execute direct SQL queries against the database
Manage multiple database environments with ability to scale
Scale and upgrade database resources
DevOps(2)
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment capabilities for automated testing and deployment
Deploy applications to production
Development(6)
Frontend application development tool for building user interfaces
Automatically generates backend including data models, test data, custom backend functions, and GraphQL API
Command-line interface for developers to interact with the platform
Create custom serverless backend functions
Preview frontend applications before deployment
Customize application appearance with theming and styling options
Infrastructure(7)
Fully-managed cloud service running on AWS with serverless computing and scalable infrastructure
Configure custom domain with SSL certificate
Provision dedicated computing environments for applications
Built-in fault tolerance and high availability
Host frontend applications on 8base AWS infrastructure with CDN
Choose geographic region for application hosting
Option to self-host applications on your own infrastructure
Integration(4)
Native integration with Auth0 authentication service
Integrate with external identity providers for authentication
Integrate with any OpenID provider for authentication
Integrate with Okta, Active Directory, or other SAML 2.0 SSO providers
Security(5)
Built-in authentication system for user management
Encrypt data stored in the database
Encrypt data while it is being transmitted
Manage permissions and access with role-based authorization profiles
Configure self-service user registration for applications
Storage(2)
Store application assets including images, videos, and PDFs
Store and manage files and attachments
Support(6)
Community forum and support channels
Dedicated support manager for account oversight
Dedicated Slack channel for support and communication
Email-based technical support
Professional services for onboarding, training, and development
Platform SLAs with uptime guarantees
Pricing
Free
- ✓Build backend web apps
- ✓Serverless functions
- ✓GraphQL API
- ✓CLI Access
- ✓Community Support
- ✓Up to 5 client app users
- ✓2,500 database rows
- ✓0.5 GB file storage
- ✓1 GB-Hours serverless computing
- ✓2 GB/mo bandwidth
- ✓100,000 GraphQL API calls/mo
- ✓100,000 GraphQL subscriptions/mo
- ✓1 frontend application
- ✓1 backend application
Developer
- ✓Build and deploy applications
- ✓Full power of development tools
- ✓1 team member
- ✓Unlimited client app users with own auth provider
- ✓CI/CD
- ✓Realtime collaboration
- ✓1 frontend application
- ✓Unlimited client app users
- ✓Preview and deploy applications
- ✓Frontend application hosting on 8base AWS
- ✓Asset storage
- ✓Theming and styling
- ✓1 backend application
- ✓Build data models
- ✓Data viewer
- ✓CLI access
- ✓CI/CD environments
- ✓Authorization profiles
- ✓8base authentication
- ✓External identity provider integration
- ✓Configure self-sign up
- ✓Custom functions
- ✓Auto-generated GraphQL API
- ✓Custom API domain w/SSL
- ✓GraphQL subscriptions
- ✓Database views and custom indexes
- ✓Up to 2 applications hosting
- ✓Select hosting region
- ✓Upgrade database environment
- ✓Accessible replicas
- ✓Encryption in transit
- ✓Encryption at rest
- ✓Backup/restore
- ✓Fault tolerance
- ✓Frontend application CDN
- ✓Custom URL with SSL
- ✓500,000 database rows
- ✓50 GB file storage
- ✓20 GB-Hours serverless computing
- ✓50 GB/mo bandwidth
- ✓1,000,000 GraphQL API calls/mo
- ✓1,000,000 GraphQL subscriptions/mo
- ✓Up to 1,000 client app users
- ✓Community support
- ✓Email support
- ✓Dedicated Slack channel
- ✓Dedicated customer success manager
- ✓Platform SLAs
- ✓Professional services for onboarding, training and development
- ✓48-hour response time
- ✓Auth0 integration
Professional
- ✓Build as a team in professional development environment
- ✓Minimum 3 developers
- ✓5 team members
- ✓$50/mo each additional team member
- ✓Included in agency plan unlimited client app users
- ✓CI/CD
- ✓Realtime collaboration
- ✓2 frontend applications
- ✓$50/mo each additional frontend application
- ✓Unlimited client app users
- ✓Preview and deploy applications
- ✓Frontend application hosting on 8base AWS
- ✓Asset storage
- ✓Theming and styling
- ✓1 backend application per developer
- ✓$25/mo each additional backend application
- ✓Build data models
- ✓Data viewer
- ✓CLI access
- ✓CI/CD environments
- ✓Authorization profiles
- ✓8base authentication
- ✓External identity provider integration
- ✓Configure self-sign up
- ✓Custom role-based access controls
- ✓Custom functions
- ✓Auto-generated GraphQL API
- ✓Custom API domain w/SSL
- ✓GraphQL subscriptions
- ✓Database views and custom indexes
- ✓Custom backend URL
- ✓Unlimited OpenID provider integration
- ✓Included in agency plan
- ✓Application hosting
- ✓Select hosting region
- ✓Upgrade database environment
- ✓Accessible replicas
- ✓Encryption in transit
- ✓Encryption at rest
- ✓Backup/restore
- ✓Fault tolerance
- ✓Frontend application CDN
- ✓Custom URL with SSL
- ✓Daily computing and storage scaling
- ✓5,000,000 database rows
- ✓500 GB file storage
- ✓200 GB-Hours serverless computing
- ✓500 GB/mo bandwidth
- ✓5,000,000 GraphQL API calls/mo
- ✓5,000,000 GraphQL subscriptions/mo
- ✓Up to 10,000 client app users
- ✓Community support
- ✓Email support
- ✓Dedicated Slack channel
- ✓Dedicated customer success manager
- ✓Platform SLAs
- ✓Professional services for onboarding, training and development
- ✓24-hour response time
- ✓Add-on: Dedicated environments
- ✓Add-on: SLAs
- ✓Add-on: Self-hosted environments
- ✓Add-on: Premium support
- ✓Up to 99.5% uptime
- ✓HIPAA compliance (add-on)
- ✓GDPR compliance (add-on)
- ✓SOC 2 compliance (add-on)
- ✓Payment by invoice (add-on)
Enterprise
- ✓Enterprise-level security, compliance, and scalability
- ✓Minimum 10 developers
- ✓Unlimited team members
- ✓Unlimited client app users
- ✓CI/CD
- ✓Realtime collaboration
- ✓Unlimited frontend applications
- ✓Unlimited client app users
- ✓Preview and deploy applications
- ✓Frontend application hosting on 8base AWS
- ✓Asset storage
- ✓Theming and styling
- ✓Unlimited backend applications
- ✓Build data models
- ✓Data viewer
- ✓CLI access
- ✓CI/CD environments
- ✓Authorization profiles
- ✓8base authentication
- ✓External identity provider integration
- ✓Configure self-sign up
- ✓Custom role-based access controls
- ✓Custom functions
- ✓Auto-generated GraphQL API
- ✓Custom API domain w/SSL
- ✓GraphQL subscriptions
- ✓Database views and custom indexes
- ✓Unlimited Okta, Active Directory, SAML 2.0 SSO integration
- ✓Unlimited application hosting
- ✓Select hosting region
- ✓Upgrade database environment
- ✓Accessible replicas
- ✓Encryption in transit
- ✓Encryption at rest
- ✓Backup/restore
- ✓Fault tolerance
- ✓Frontend application CDN
- ✓Custom URL with SSL
- ✓Daily, hourly, or continuous computing and storage scaling
- ✓Unlimited database rows
- ✓Unlimited file storage
- ✓Unlimited serverless computing
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth
- ✓Unlimited GraphQL API calls
- ✓Unlimited GraphQL subscriptions
- ✓Unlimited client app users
- ✓Community support
- ✓Email support
- ✓Dedicated Slack channel
- ✓Dedicated customer success manager
- ✓Platform SLAs
- ✓Professional services for onboarding, training and development
- ✓Customized SLA
- ✓Up to 99.999% uptime
- ✓Dedicated environments
- ✓SLAs
- ✓Self-hosted environments
- ✓Premium support
- ✓HIPAA compliance
- ✓GDPR compliance
- ✓SOC 2 compliance
- ✓Payment by invoice
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Integrations
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