Macaly vs Base44

Choosing between them? The Claude or ChatGPT you already pay for builds it, your Macaly credits stay out of it, and Macaly runs the hosting, the database, sign-in and the domain.

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🎁 Free migration · 3 months of Pro on us

Bring your Base44 project over

  1. Download the project

    In Base44, open More actions and choose Export project as ZIP, which needs the Builder plan or higher.

  2. Export your tables

    Open Data, export the tables as CSV and attach your stored images with them.

  3. Build it in Macaly

    Attach the files to a new chat, say how the app should work and let the agent build.

Sound familiar?

Macaly Cloud

Build with the Claude or ChatGPT you already have, and it doesn't run down your Macaly credits.

Connect Macaly Cloud and ask Claude or ChatGPT to build a site with a database. You look at the preview and publish it on Macaly. The same project opens in the Macaly editor, where you keep going.

How Macaly Cloud works
BOR
Claude

Add booking to the BOR website and publish it through Macaly Cloud.

Macaly Cloud Publish App

How it works in Macaly

Sign-in

Make sign-in fit your app.

Sign-in and sign-up are pages in your project. You can change their design and wording just as you would on any other page in the app.

Your data

Work with your data inside the project.

Open your tables in the Database tab to filter rows and edit values. Download an export of all your tables whenever you need a copy of the data.

Your code

You have access to the source code.

Download the code as a ZIP or push it to your own GitHub repo. The app keeps running on Macaly.

Support

Our team is here when you need help.

Send us a link to your chat. We usually reply within one business day. If the agent got stuck or the environment crashed, we investigate and may return credits after reviewing what happened.

Frequently asked questions

Not the accounts, but their data stays. Your users sign up again in the new app and their records stay with them.

Yes. The agent wires them up again in the new app. Live payments need your own Stripe account.

Yes. A domain bought through Base44 is registered to you at GoDaddy, IONOS or Wix, so you point it at Macaly there.

No. When you work with Claude or ChatGPT through Macaly Cloud, it runs on their subscription. Macaly credits go to the work the Macaly agent does.

You pay a subscription and buy credits on top when you run out. Nothing tops itself up and your published site keeps running. Pricing is on the pricing page.

Yes. You pick the model per chat or for the whole account, and you can choose Claude, GPT, Kimi or GLM.

Yes. The account is free and you start building right away.

Macaly vs Base44 at a glance

  • Base44: Sign-up and sign-in run on a screen you cannot change.

    Macaly: Sign-in and sign-up are ordinary pages in your project, so you rewrite their text, colours and logo.

  • Base44: You cannot look into the database or connect your own.

    Macaly: Open your tables in the Database tab, edit what you need and download an export whenever you want a copy.

  • Base44: A code export gives you a local project, but the app keeps running where it was.

    Macaly: Download the code as a ZIP or push it to your own GitHub repo whenever you like.

  • Base44: When something breaks in production nothing shows up, and prompts to fix it eat credits.

    Macaly: Send us a link to your chat. We usually reply within one business day and can return credits from a session that got stuck.

Sources

We shortened the Reddit posts and retold them in our own words. They describe the experiences of individual people, which not everyone shares. The original is linked on every card.

Hosting and the database. Macaly apps run on Macaly’s hosting and database too, and what you take out is the code and an export of your data. Code and GitHub, Macaly FAQ.

Bring your app over from Base44.

See how to bring your Base44 app over to Macaly.

Transfer your app from Base44