Our take
Pick Budibase if ops / IT teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (unlimited actions, 1 workspace) while they bind a first table, or start the Cloud Pro 14-day trial and land on $19/month (5k–10k actions, 1 creator, 2k AI credits) when they do not want to run the stack. Pick Windmill if platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than
Best for
Budibase Apps you start on Cloud Pro at $19 (14-day trial) or OSS self-host at $0
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
Free plan
Budibase $0 · unlimited actions, apps, automations, agents, users. 1 workspace. Community support. You host it
Windmill $0 · /month. Unlimited executions. 3 workspaces. Max 50 users. 10 SSO users. 4 groups. 10 GiB object storage. 100 email triggers/day. 100 app guests / 30 days. Discord support
Lowest paid
Budibase Pro $19/mo
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
Budibase Premium $49/mo
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Coding agent
Budibase Agents
Windmill
Runs where
Budibase Local; you host it
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
Budibase Cloud Pro is 1 creator and 1 workspace
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
Budibase 2026-10-22 · budibase.com/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.dev/pricing
ops / IT teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (unlimited actions, 1 workspace) while they bind a first table, or start the Cloud Pro 14-day trial and land on $19/month (5k–10k actions, 1 creator, 2k AI credits) when they do not want to run the stack.
Read the Budibase pageplatform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Read the Windmill page
