Bubble Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Bubble including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 38/100
Is Bubble free?
Yes — the Free plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $26.00/month (Workload tiers (add-on)).
The free plan includes
- 50K workload units/month
- Web and mobile editor
- 6-hour server logs
Free plan limits
- Users: 1 app editor
- Storage: 0.5 GB
- 200 database entries across dev and live, no custom domain, no live mobile version, no overages or workload tiers (app goes offline when WU run out).
Plans & Pricing
- 50K workload units/month
- Web and mobile editor
- 6-hour server logs
User limit: 1 app editor
Storage: 0.5 GB
- Custom workload
- 150 custom branches
- Custom mobile builds and versions
User limit: Custom
Storage: 1 TB+
- Tier 1: 200K WU $26/mo
- Tier 2: 750K WU $89/mo
- Tier 3: 2.5M WU $269/mo
- Tier 4: 6M WU $539/mo
- Lower overage rate ($0.15-$0.10 per 1K WU)
- 175K workload units/month
- Custom domain
- Basic version control
- 5 mobile builds/month
- 3 live mobile versions
- Unlimited OTA updates
- 2-day server logs
User limit: 1 app editor
Storage: 50 GB
- 250K workload units/month
- Premium version control
- 10 custom branches
- 10 mobile builds/month
- 5 live mobile versions
- 14-day server logs
User limit: 2 app editors
Storage: 100 GB
- 500K workload units/month
- 25 custom branches
- 20 mobile builds/month
- 8 live mobile versions
- 20-day server logs
User limit: 5 app editors
Storage: 1 TB
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Bubble workload unit pricing made bills jump
In April 2023 Bubble moved from capacity-based plans to workload units (WU). The announcement thread passed 2,000 replies and some users reported bills jumping several times over, such as from about $126 to $800 a month. Bubble said 83% of paying apps would see under a $50/month change and offered an 18-month legacy period.
Why is Bubble so expensive? Workload overages
Plans include a fixed WU allowance (50K Free, 175K Starter, 250K Growth, 500K Team); beyond that you either buy workload tiers ($26-$539/month) or pay overages at $0.30 per 1,000 WU. Searches, database writes, backend workflows and API calls all consume WU, so costs grow with traffic and with inefficient builds.
Hard to predict how many workload units an app will use
Bubble decides how many WU each of its 12 activity types costs, and users say they cannot estimate monthly usage before launch. Capterra reviewers note you 'can be surprised' by the bill, and forum users with unoptimized apps reported millions of WU in a week.
Bubble free plan is too limited to launch
The Free plan has 50K WU, 0.5 GB storage, a 200-entry database limit across dev and live, no custom domain and no live mobile version. It is for learning only; launching needs Starter at $59/month billed annually.