Almost every database and app-building tool bills by the person. The number on the pricing page is per user per month, which is the smallest number they can honestly print. Here is the yearly bill instead.
I build one of the tools below, and it is marked. Prices checked 18 August 2026 on each vendor's own pricing page, annual billing where offered. Nothing is sent anywhere: the arithmetic runs in your browser.
| Tool | Per year | Per month |
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Three things move a bill in ways the pricing page does not lead with, and all three are in the table above.
Seat minimums. Claris sells FileMaker Starter in blocks of five to ten users, so a three-person office pays for five. It also means the cost per head falls until you hit ten and then jumps, because past ten you are on Max at $39 rather than Starter at $19.
Minimums nobody publishes. Quickbase lists Team from $35 per user per month and then footnotes that the figure excludes a platform minimum it does not disclose anywhere. That is why its row says it cannot be priced. It is not a criticism of the product, it is a statement about what you can know before a sales call.
Meters attached to seats. Power Apps Premium is $20 per user per month, and each seat brings 250 MB of Dataverse database capacity. Go past what your seats carry and extra capacity is $40 per GB per month, which is $480 a year for one gigabyte. The seat price is real; it is just not the whole bill.
Mine is flat, with unlimited users on every plan, so the line stays level as you drag the slider while most of the others climb. That is a real difference in how it is sold, and it is the main reason people look at it. It is also the easiest thing in the world to be cheapest at when you have no customers yet.
So, plainly: Bionic Forms is pre-launch with no external customers. There is no Windows desktop app yet, only a waitlist, though the browser version works fine on Windows. No iOS or Android app. Offline is a desktop feature, so the browser version needs a connection. The importer moves records from a CSV or a Google Sheet, and it does not convert applications: there is no automatic conversion of layouts, scripts or logic, here or anywhere else in this category. A cheaper number on this page is not the same as the right choice, and for plenty of teams here it is not.
If your app already works and the people using it are happy, the cheapest row in this table is the one you are already paying for. Microsoft Access is genuinely $0 extra on most Microsoft 365 plans, and staying put beats every column above.