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Bubble pricing: plans, workload units and app costs

Bubble costs $32 to $549 a month billed yearly. A native mobile app needs a Mobile plan from $42/mo; extra workload is $0.30 per 1,000 units. As of Oct 2026.

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Bubble’s paid plans cost $32 to $549 a month billed yearly, or $39 to $649 billed monthly, as of October 30, 2026. The price depends on two choices: the tier (Starter, Growth or Team) and the platform (Web only, Mobile only, or Web + Mobile). Publishing a native Android or iPhone app needs a Mobile or Web + Mobile plan, from $42 a month billed yearly, and usage beyond your plan’s workload units costs $0.30 per 1,000 units.

We haven’t built apps on Bubble ourselves. The figures below come from Bubble’s pricing page, its manual and its blog, all read on October 30, 2026. Store fees come from Apple’s and Google’s own pages, read the same day.

How much does Bubble cost per month?

Bubble’s manual lists nine paid prices: three tiers times three platform types. All of them are per app project, not per account.

Plan Web only Mobile only Web + Mobile
Starter, billed yearly $32/mo $42/mo $59/mo
Growth, billed yearly $119/mo $169/mo $209/mo
Team, billed yearly $349/mo $449/mo $549/mo
Starter, billed monthly $39/mo $49/mo $69/mo
Growth, billed monthly $134/mo $199/mo $249/mo
Team, billed monthly $399/mo $529/mo $649/mo

Enterprise is priced by sales. There is also a Free plan for building and an Agency plan for agencies that build for clients and transfer the app to a client plan before launch.

The web-only Starter price is new. Bubble’s blog post of October 6, 2026 said it would rise to $32 a month billed yearly (from $29) and $39 billed monthly from October 20, 2026; our news post on the increase has the details. Some search summaries still quote $29.

What the yearly discount is worth

Bubble’s pricing page says you “save up to 20% annually.” Over 12 months:

Plan Billed yearly Billed monthly You save
Starter Web $32 × 12 = $384 $39 × 12 = $468 $84
Starter Mobile $42 × 12 = $504 $49 × 12 = $588 $84
Starter Web + Mobile $59 × 12 = $708 $69 × 12 = $828 $120
Growth Web + Mobile $209 × 12 = $2,508 $249 × 12 = $2,988 $480
Team Web + Mobile $549 × 12 = $6,588 $649 × 12 = $7,788 $1,200

The FAQ says you can switch from monthly to yearly billing at any time, and that a workload tier must use the same billing cadence as the app plan.

What do you get on the Free plan?

The Free plan is for building, not launching. Bubble’s pricing page lists 50,000 workload units a month, one app editor and six hours of server logs. Bubble’s manual adds 1 GB of bandwidth.

What the Free plan can’t do, according to Bubble’s own pages:

  • Go live with a custom domain. The pricing page lists a custom domain from Starter up.
  • Publish a mobile app. Bubble’s manual says building and testing a mobile app is free, but deploying to TestFlight or Google Play testing, going live and publishing to the stores all need a mobile plan. The Free plan has no mobile builds and no live versions.
  • Buy more workload. Free and Agency apps “cannot subscribe to workload tiers and cannot enable overages.”

Bubble also offers a 14-day trial of the Starter plan for new apps. The manual says you must start it within 10 days of creating the app, Bubble places a $1 temporary hold on your card, and the trial turns into a paid Starter plan unless you cancel.

What do the paid tiers add?

Here is what the pricing page and manual list for each tier. The workload figures are the ones Bubble’s pricing page showed on its Web & Mobile plans; the manual doesn’t break them down by plan type.

Free Starter Growth Team
Workload units a month 50,000 175,000 250,000 500,000
Bandwidth a month 1 GB 100 GB 500 GB 1 TB
Server logs 6 hours 2 days 14 days 20 days
Editors 1 not listed 2 5
Mobile builds, first 3 months none 10 a month 15 a month 25 a month
Mobile builds, after 3 months none 5 a month 10 a month 20 a month
Live mobile versions at once none 3 5 8
AI credits a month 500 1,000 2,000 4,000

The AI credit figures come from Bubble’s October 6, 2026 post on its AI Agent, which also took the Agent out of beta and started charging credits for building with it. The post says Starter users can buy more credits from the App Plan page but doesn’t give a price.

Bubble’s FAQ also says every paid app gets 100,000 workload units a month for its Development environment. Extra file storage costs $3 a month per 100 GB on any plan.

How do workload units work, and when does an app get expensive?

Workload units (WU) are Bubble’s measure of server work: database searches, writes, workflows, API calls and page loads. Your plan includes a monthly amount, shared across web and mobile in the same project, and the count resets each month. Bubble’s manual publishes the cost of each activity. Some of the common ones:

Activity WU
Loading page HTML 0.15
Performing a database search 0.3
Each thing returned from the database 0.015
Each character of data returned 0.000003
Each thing written to or modified in the database 0.5
Running a server-side workflow action 0.6
Each outbound call to an external API 0.1
Each call to a server-side plugin action 0.2

If you go over your allowance, you have two options: buy a workload tier (a prepaid block with a volume discount, on Starter, Growth or Team) or pay overages. Bubble’s FAQ says that without a workload tier, “the overage rate is $0.30 per 1,000 workload units.” Bubble emails you at 75% and at 100% of your allowance. You can switch overages off, but then your app is taken offline when it runs out, until you buy more or the next billing period starts. Bubble doesn’t publish workload tier prices in text; they’re on a chart linked from its pricing page.

Worked example: a small app with a few hundred users

These usage numbers are our assumptions, chosen to show the arithmetic. Your app’s real figures appear in Bubble’s App Metrics.

One user session loads a screen, runs three searches that each return 20 records of about 500 characters, saves two records and runs one server-side workflow action:

  • Screen load: 0.15 WU
  • Each search: 0.3 + (20 × 0.015) + (10,000 characters × 0.000003) = 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.03 = 0.63 WU. Three searches: 1.89 WU
  • Two writes: 2 × 0.5 = 1.0 WU
  • One workflow action: 0.6 WU
  • Total: 0.15 + 1.89 + 1.0 + 0.6 = 3.64 WU per session

With 300 users each opening the app 20 times a month, that’s 6,000 sessions × 3.64 = 21,840 WU, about an eighth of Starter’s 175,000. The allowance would cover about 175,000 ÷ 3.64 = 48,000 sessions a month.

Worked example: overages vs upgrading

Now say a busier app uses 400,000 WU a month on a Web + Mobile plan, billed yearly:

  • Stay on Starter and pay overages: 400,000 − 175,000 = 225,000 WU over. 225 × $0.30 = $67.50. Total: $59 + $67.50 = $126.50 a month.
  • Move to Growth: 400,000 − 250,000 = 150,000 WU over. 150 × $0.30 = $45. Total: $209 + $45 = $254 a month.

For workload alone, staying on Starter is cheaper here. Upgrading pays off when you need Growth’s extra editors, builds, live versions or longer logs, or when a workload tier priced on Bubble’s chart costs less than the overage.

What does it cost to publish a Bubble app on Google Play and the App Store?

Bubble builds the store files for you (an Android App Bundle for Google Play), but you still need your own developer accounts and a mobile plan:

Cost Amount Source
Google Play developer account $25, one time Google Play Console Help
Apple Developer Program $99 a year Apple
Bubble Mobile only Starter $42/mo billed yearly Bubble
Bubble Web + Mobile Starter $59/mo billed yearly Bubble

First-year cost of a Bubble app on both stores, on the cheapest mobile plan: $42 × 12 = $504 for Bubble, plus $25 for Google Play and $99 for Apple = $628. In year two, the Google fee doesn’t repeat: $504 + $99 = $603. If you also want a web app that shares the same data, Web + Mobile Starter makes year one $708 + $25 + $99 = $832.

Apple says nonprofits, accredited schools and government bodies can ask for a fee waiver. For a fuller picture of what other builders charge, see how much it costs to make an app.

What to watch for

  • Removing the mobile plan pauses your app. Bubble’s manual says live mobile versions are paused if you drop the mobile plan, and after 14 days a new build is required.
  • Build limits drop after three months. Starter goes from 10 to 5 builds a month. Failed builds and builds required by Bubble’s own native-code updates don’t count.
  • Overages have no ceiling. Bubble’s FAQ says there’s no limit to the workload an app can consume unless you disable overages, so a traffic spike or a looping workflow goes straight onto the bill. Overages on monthly plans are charged on the last day of the month; on yearly plans, at the start of the next month.
  • One plan per project. If your web app and mobile app live in separate projects, each needs its own plan.
  • Downgrading takes steps. To go from Web + Mobile to a single platform, you first move the platform you don’t need to Free.
  • AI building uses credits. Building with Bubble’s Agent now draws from a monthly credit allowance, and Bubble doesn’t publish the price of extra credits.

Which Bubble plan should you choose?

  • You’re learning or prototyping: stay on Free. You can build and test a mobile app without paying.
  • You’re launching a web app only: Starter Web at $32 a month billed yearly. Bubble’s FAQ says most paid apps don’t need more workload than their plan includes.
  • You’re launching only a phone app: Mobile only Starter at $42 a month billed yearly, plus the store fees.
  • You need web and mobile on one database: Web + Mobile Starter at $59 a month billed yearly.
  • You have a team of two or more building: Growth lists 2 editors and Team lists 5, along with more builds and longer logs.
  • You’re cost-sensitive and comfortable with code export: compare FlutterFlow, Adalo and Draftbit in our best Android app builders roundup, and see our Bubble page and the Android app builders hub.

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