Bubble pricing explained

What Bubble actually costs — and why the bill keeps climbing.

Bubble’s plan page shows a tidy monthly number. The real cost is metered: Workload Units tick up with every workflow run, search, and scheduled job, and a busy month can jump you a whole tier. Here’s how the pricing model works, where the hidden costs hide, and how a one-time rebuild changes the math.

Prefer a number for your own app? The Workload Unit calculator projects your 12-month Bubble bill with tier-jump detection.

The real bill

What Bubble is actually charging you.

The monthly plan is the part you see. The hidden bill is hours your team spends fighting the platform, plus the premium you pay every time you want something Bubble was not designed for.

Bubble · 1 year

$6,768

Hosting + workload-unit overage at 50k MAU

Same app · on code

$1,140

Vercel + Supabase, no plan tier shenanigans

You keep

$5,628

Every year. Before engineering hours reclaimed.

per year

Workload-unit overage averaged at $35/mo from our last 12 migrations · senior dev premium and shipping-speed delta below add to this number, not from it.

01 · Cost line

Hosting + DB at 50k MAU

−82%

On Bubble

$529 / mo

Production tier

On code

$95 / mo

Vercel + Supabase

02 · Cost line

Workload-unit overage

Gone

On Bubble

$10–60 / mo

Spiky, hard to predict

On code

Per request

Predictable scale

03 · Cost line

Senior developer · hourly

−25%

On Bubble

$120–180

Bubble specialist

On code

$80–150

Next.js engineer

04 · Cost line

Ship a custom feature

5× faster

On Bubble

1–2 weeks

Plugin hunt + workarounds

On code

1–3 days

AI-assisted custom code

05 · Cost line

Sell or migrate the app

100%

On Bubble

Locked in

Runs only on Bubble

On code

Portable

Plain code, any host

Numbers from public Bubble pricing pages, Workona Bubble dev rate surveys 2025, and our last 12 migrations. Yours will differ — that's what the free analysis is for.

Put a real number on staying.

Enter your current plan and usage; the calculator projects 12 months of Bubble spend, flags the month you jump a tier, and lines it up against a one-time rebuild.

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