Built MineBuilt Mine, classic development or no-code tools such as Bubble, Softr, Lovable and Glide: the comparison.
Looking for an alternative to Bubble, Softr, Lovable or Glide, or to classic development? Here, point by point, is what each way brings to a business application: who builds it, what is checked before it goes live, its access rights, how its data evolves, its go-live, its compliance, its code, its hosting, its updates, its time and its cost over three years. Each fact about a no-code tool comes from its own public pages, listed at the bottom of this page with the day they were read.
Who builds the application
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | You describe what you want, in your own words: the platform's agents build it, and our team supports you. |
| Classic development | A developer or a development team, from a specification. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | You, with the tool's visual editor or its AI, or an expert you hire: each of the four tools publishes a directory of experts. |
What is checked before each go-live
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | Automatically, with every feature: tests, a code review, a trial in the browser and a penetration test, with its report. |
| Classic development | The tests and the code review the quote provides for, at each delivery. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | The person who builds is responsible for them, according to the four tools' pages. Bubble scans the application's privacy rules; Lovable adds a small test for each rule added or changed, and scans the application at each publication; Softr lets you try the application as each person. |
Access rights
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | Each piece of data is reserved for the people you choose: by their role, what they own, their organisation, their team or their place in the hierarchy. The platform automatically checks every access of every role for you, with every feature, however many types of data the application has. |
| Classic development | Written and tested by hand, rule by rule. The more types of data the application has, the more rules there are to review at each change. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | Set by hand in the tool, then checked by trying the application. The more types of data the application has, the more rules there are to review at each change. With Lovable, the AI writes the rules, and you ask it to change them. |
When the application's data evolves
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | The platform updates the database itself, from the application's description, keeping your data; a backup comes before every go-live. |
| Classic development | The developer writes each update of the database by hand, and tests it before the go-live. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | Bubble: to adapt the records already stored, you run bulk changes yourself. Softr: when a column is renamed in Airtable or Google Sheets, you connect it again, by hand, on each screen that uses it. Lovable: the AI writes each database update and applies it itself to the project's database, the one the application online uses; a setting lets it ask for your approval before an update incompatible with the previous version. Glide Classic: when you change a column's type, its values are converted in the editor. |
Go-lives
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | You choose the features to put into production, and you click. They go first to a test copy, identical to production, with a copy of the real data, anonymised automatically. Once that copy is approved, the platform puts them into production: database backup, database update, server update. In front of the application, a protected entrance: connections reserved for the countries you allow, modern encryption, certificates renewed on their own. Logs and backups are maintained on their own, and our team receives the alerts. |
| Classic development | Each go-live is prepared, run and monitored by the developer or the hosting provider. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | Bubble: you try the application in a development version, with test data, separate from the real data; you then put that version online. Softr: you publish first to a test environment only you see, then you publish again to go live. Lovable: since 23 October 2026, every draft uses the project's database, the one the application online uses; the tables and columns asked for in a draft are added to it when you accept the draft. GlideOS: a version is kept at each successful update of the application, to go back to an earlier version, on the Plus, Pro and Enterprise plans. |
Compliance: GDPR, Data Act, AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | The platform prepares each application's compliance, and a person approves each document: for the GDPR, the records of processing, the privacy notice, people's requests, the erasure of data when it falls due and the processing agreement; for the Data Act, the exit with an open export; for the AI Act, the notice telling people they are talking to an AI; for the Cyber Resilience Act, the list of components and the reporting file. |
| Classic development | Each element is built and documented on request, according to the specification. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | Their pages cover the GDPR, with a data processing agreement (with Lovable, on the Business or Enterprise plan; with Glide, on request). The privacy notice, people's requests and how long data is kept are entrusted to the person who builds. |
The code
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | Standard .NET and React, yours, with its whole history. A developer can take over a feature, then hand back to the agents. |
| Classic development | Yours, according to the contract. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | Bubble: the application runs on Bubble's platform, and its code stays there. Softr: the application runs on Softr's hosted platform; according to Softr, leaving it may take some planning. Lovable: the code is yours, and is copied to a Git repository, developers' usual tool. GlideOS: access to the code is part of the Enterprise plan. |
Hosting
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | A server dedicated to your company, in France with OVHcloud, kept up to date and backed up every night. |
| Classic development | A server to rent, set up and monitor. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | With the tool: in the United States for Bubble (the region of your choice on the Enterprise plan) and for Glide, in Germany for Softr, in Europe, the United States or Asia-Pacific for Lovable, as you choose. |
Technical updates
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | Received from the platform, with every change to the application. |
| Classic development | About 15% of the build cost a year. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | The tool is kept up to date by its publisher. |
Time
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | Days or weeks: about 2 days for a first simple application. |
| Classic development | Weeks or months. |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | According to the time you give it. |
Cost over three years
| Way | In practice |
|---|---|
| Built Mine | ≈ €16,500 |
| Classic development | ≈ €68,000 |
| No-code tools: Bubble, Softr, Lovable, Glide | The tool's subscription (first paid plan: $19 to $39 a month, depending on the tool and on yearly or monthly billing), plus your time or an expert's. |
For a simple management application, with the assumptions of the return-on-investment table on the Pricing page.
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Sources
Each fact about a no-code tool comes from its own public pages, read on 14 November 2026. Prices and offers change: each page gives the current ones.
Built Mine
- This site: Security and trust — checks, access rights, go-live, hosting
- This site: Compliance — compliance
- This site: Frequently asked questions — who builds, code, time
- This site: Pricing — data changes, go-live, hosting, updates, time, cost
Bubble
- bubble.io/experts — who builds — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/security-dashboard — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/support/en/articles/10729866-bubble-security-overview — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/data/the-database/protecting-data-with-privacy-rules — access rights — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/maintaining-an-application/database-maintenance/bulk-operations — data changes — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/maintaining-an-application/testing-an-application/the-basics — go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/maintaining-an-application/version-control — go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/dpa — compliance — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/optimizing-an-application/compliance/gdpr — compliance — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/support/en/articles/18337497-exporting-your-bubble-app — code — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/optimizing-an-application/hosting-and-scaling/how-bubble-hosting-works — hosting — read on 14 November 2026
- manual.bubble.io/help-guides/bubble-for-enterprise/hosting-and-infrastructure — hosting — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/pricing — cost — read on 14 November 2026
- bubble.io/blog/agent-2/ — cost — read on 14 November 2026
Softr
- www.softr.io/partners — who builds — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/security/softr-app-security — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/user-groups-and-permissions/global-data-restrictions — access rights — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-airtable-errors — data changes — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-google-sheets-errors — data changes — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/publishing/publishing-your-softr-app — checks, go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- www.softr.io/blog/secure-vibe-coding-tools-for-enterprise — code — read on 14 November 2026
- www.softr.io/blog/what-are-gdpr-compliant-form-builders — compliance, hosting — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.softr.io/workspace-and-billing/pricing-and-plans — cost — read on 14 November 2026
Lovable
- lovable.dev/work-with-a-partner — who builds — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/features/testing — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/features/security — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- lovable.dev/terms — checks — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/features/database-access — access rights — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/features/database — data changes, go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/features/environments — go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- lovable.dev/data-processing-agreement — compliance — read on 14 November 2026
- docs.lovable.dev/tips-tricks/deployment-hosting-ownership — code — read on 14 November 2026
- lovable.dev/security — hosting — read on 14 November 2026
- lovable.dev/guides/best-ai-app-builders — cost — read on 14 November 2026
- lovable.dev/students — cost — read on 14 November 2026
Glide
- www.glideapps.com/experts — who builds — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/security-and-user-data — checks, access rights — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/security-and-user-data/row-owners — access rights — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/basic-columns — data changes — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/docs/os/apps — go-live — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/legal/dpa — compliance, hosting — read on 14 November 2026
- www.glideapps.com/pricing — code, cost — read on 14 November 2026
- help.glideapps.com/en/articles/11133232-glide-and-eu-server-requirements-what-you-need-to-know — hosting — read on 14 November 2026