Bubble Review: AI App Builder, Pricing & My Test Results

Bubble is a visual no-code platform for web apps. Its AI Agent sits in the editor: you describe the app in a chat, it proposes a plan, you approve it, and it builds the pages, the database, the log-in and the workflows. To change something, you type another message.

You pay with AI credits and hosting limits. The Free plan includes 500 credits a month but no live site, and the paid plans run from $39 to $399 a month. I used a 14-day free trial of Starter.

Every number here comes from my own tests and my own monitors. Nothing is estimated or copied, Bubble never saw the review first, and every app builder gets the same brief, checks, changes and attacks. This review is based on eight graded tests. I left two out. Payments and emails need your own keys, and Bubble has not yet answered my support question.

Bubble has a Free plan with 500 AI credits a month and no live site, then $39 Starter, $134 Growth and $399 Team, each with more AI credits. Prices read on 26 October 2026, monthly view. Billed yearly they are lower.

Bubble pricing page in the monthly view: Free at $0, Starter at $39, Growth at $134 and Team at $399 a month, with their AI credits and features listed

Here is the number you will ask about first. In total I paid $0: the workspace was a free Starter trial, and I cancelled it before it could charge the card on file. The test used 961 of the 1,000 AI credits the plan includes for the month.

Bubble Settings plan page, AI credits section: Starter Plan Credits, used 961 of 1,000 (96%), resets on Nov 1, with 1,000 AI credits per month at $39 a month and an Add more credits button

The first build alone took 483 credits. That left too little for all twelve changes, so a top-up would have been needed. I also did not test what 1,000 bookings a month would cost.

Bubble's Agent proposed a 23-step plan about two minutes after I pasted the brief. I approved it, and the app was built in about 13 minutes. I deployed it 21 minutes after I started.

Bubble editor with the Fitting Room page on the left and the Agent chat on the right, showing the pasted brief under the suggested features

The live app was not done. Its timetable was empty, and I added the classes, gave two members credits and renamed the instructor by hand before 20 of the 24 checks passed, 47 minutes after the brief. My first two tries on Bubble's start page lost the plan when the trial began, so I started again in the editor.

A 4, not a 5: it took one prompt and one approval, but over half an hour.

Mostly. 21 of 24 checks passed. Six more, the payments and the two emails, need keys that are mine to supply, so I left them out. Booking, My bookings, cancelling, the full-class rule, the admin's tools, the CSV and the Ask the studio form all worked.

Three checks failed. After Deploy the timetable read "The timetable will appear here once classes are added", because the seed classes lived only in the development data. So only 7 of my 10 facts showed. Nothing was invented, which is better than some builders managed.

Bubble test app live home page with the Fitting Room hero and an empty Weekly timetable card reading The timetable will appear here once classes are added

The third failure is the instructor screen. It listed Power Reformer but not Reformer Basics, which the same instructor teaches and a member had booked.

Bubble test app member timetable with 5 class credits and the classes Mat Flow, Power Reformer and Reformer Basics, each with places left and a Book button

I ran eight of the twelve changes, one prompt each, and stopped when the AI credits fell to 39. Six worked first time: a phone field and a Members list, Instructor renamed Coach, dark green and cream, an About page, a coach filter and a second email.

Bubble test app member timetable with a Filter by coach box set to Tomás Reyes and only the Mat Flow class listed, in dark green and cream

Two did not go smoothly. The new capacity for Power Reformer changed only in the development data, so the live timetable kept the old number. When I reported the credit bug I had planted, the Agent answered that it was not a bug, because I had asked for it, and I had to tell it to restore the refund. Each change cost between 28 and 95 credits.

Publishing was fast. I pressed Deploy, typed a short description and the app was live on Bubble's own address in about three seconds, and each redeploy took about five and cost no credits. A custom domain is offered from the Starter plan, but I did not try one.

Bubble editor dialog Web deployment successful, showing the live site address info-80867.bubbleapps.io with Close and View live site buttons

The weak spot is speed: the main content took about nine seconds on a simulated phone. I did not count layout faults or try a real phone.

Every day I also run the Bubble speed test and the Bubble security checks.

A review tells you what happened on one day. This tells you what happens every day after. My own monitor opens the app every five minutes for 30 days, from 26 October to 25 November 2026, and records whether it answered and how fast.

Bubble hosts the app. I cancelled the trial when the testing ended, and cancelling unpublished the app at once, so the record will show it as unavailable from that day. That is a finding too: nothing stays live after you cancel.

Every check so far is on the Bubble uptime record.

Both of my attacks were blocked. A member cannot reach another member's bookings: the app's Data API is off, and the privacy rules show a booking only to its owner or an admin. A member who opened the admin page was sent back to the home page. Password reset by email worked.

The hole is in the sign-up form. It asks "Sign up as" and offers Member, Instructor and Admin. I chose Admin with a new account and got the admin screen: every booking, every member email and the delete button for classes.

Bubble test app sign-up form with name, email and password fields and a Sign up as choice of Member, Coach and Admin, plus a phone number box

That makes the two blocked attacks easy to walk around. The fix is small, but you have to know to ask for it.

Yes: six of six data checks passed. Bookings and the Ask the studio form wrote records, and they stayed after reloads, nine redeploys and the colour change. The admin could view, edit and delete rows in the app, filter them in the Data tab and export bookings as a CSV.

Bubble Data tab, All Classes, Development version, listing three classes with capacity 4 for Saturday, 12 for Tuesday and Thursday and 8 for Monday and Wednesday

One trap: Bubble keeps development and live data apart. The seed classes and the capacity change sat in the development copy, which is why the live app was empty and E05 failed.

I did not run payments, because Stripe needs a key that is yours to supply. The Agent said so itself: the Buy a pass button needs your Stripe test key in the API Connector. The six checks that depend on it are left out, and this test is not graded.

Bubble Agent chat listing what still needs the owner: a Stripe key for the API Connector, an unconfirmed CSV export, a hidden Nav Bar and default SEO settings

Emails did arrive without any setup, from a Bubble address: one when I booked a class and one when the admin cancelled a booking.

Exporting means downloading your app so it can run somewhere else. I looked in the editor's Settings and in the Data tab and found no code export. What exists is a CSV of your records and the admin page's CSV of bookings.

I did not read the terms, so I cannot say who owns the app you build. Check this before you pay if your app must leave one day.

I asked Bubble's chat how to restrict the role choice at sign-up and how to export the app. A bot greeted me and I had no reply from a person when I wrote this. Support is not graded yet.

The trial charges the card on file when it ends on 9 November 2026. You cancel it in the editor: Settings, My plan, Downgrade, then Cancel trial. I cancelled mine when the testing was done. It ended the trial and unpublished my live app straight away. The Bubble home page had no cancel link.

I have not yet read what other users say about Bubble, so this draft has no review scores. Read them before you decide.

If this were my studio, I would use Bubble's Agent to get a fast draft of Fitting Room, but not publish it as it came. It built real booking logic, but it left the live data empty and let anyone choose Admin at sign-up.

It suits people who want a quick working booking app and will tighten the access rules and fill the live data themselves. It suits you less if the app must be secure the moment it goes live, or if it must be able to leave one day. I could not try payments without your own keys, and Bubble has not yet answered my support question.

The eight graded tests average 3.3 out of 5, and I rate Bubble 3.3. Export is the lowest grade, because I found no code export, and data is the highest, because every record survived every change.

See the Bubble test results and how I rate.