PHPRunner alternatives compared by price

Retool starts at €9 per builder per month, billed annually, plus €5 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors for Team (EUR per builder per month, billed annually, plus €5 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors), goes up to €46 per builder per month, billed annually, plus €14 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors for Business, has a free plan.

Knack starts at $49 per month, billed annually ($59 monthly) for Starter (USD per month, billed annually), goes up to $250 per month, billed annually ($300 monthly), starting price for Corporate.

Bubble starts at $32 per month, billed annually for Starter (USD per month, billed annually), goes up to $349 per month, billed annually for Team, has a free plan.

Softr builds web apps, internal tools and client portals from a spreadsheet or database without code, often paired with Airtable. Its tiers scale by end users and database records, from $19 to $329 a month.

Softr starts at $19 per month for Basic (USD per month), goes up to $329 per month for Business.

Glide turns a spreadsheet into a working mobile or web app without code, Softr's closest direct competitor. Its tiers are metered by usage credits rather than users, from $25 to $125 a month.

Glide starts at $25 per month for Basic (USD per month), goes up to $125 per month for Pro, has a free plan.

SaturnSQL is a browser-based SQL editor for teams. Everyone connects to the same databases, keeps queries in a shared library, schedules them and pushes results to Slack, Google Sheets or CSV, with autocomplete that knows the schema and an AI assistant that turns plain language into SQL.

SaturnSQL starts at €19 per user per month, billed monthly, 14-day trial for Starter (EUR per user per month, billed monthly), goes up to €79 per seat per month, billed monthly, bought through sales for Pro (AI), has a free plan. Latest change: Pro (AI) from €29 to €79 (+172%), Oct 2026.

PopSQL is a collaborative SQL editor that puts queries, charts, dashboards and schedules in one shared workspace. TigerData, formerly Timescale, bought it in April 2024, moved it to limited support in September 2025 and announced a shutdown for 1 September 2026, which it later postponed until further notice with a promise of at least 90 days warning.

PopSQL starts at $19 per editor per month for Premium (USD per editor per month, billed monthly), goes up to $36 per editor per month for Business, has a free plan. Latest change: Premium Team from $20 to $25 (+25%), Apr 2021.

TablePlus is a native desktop client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server and a dozen other databases. It is sold as a one-time license per device rather than a subscription, which makes it the odd one out among team SQL tools.

TablePlus starts at $79 per seat, one-time, from 3 seats for Team (USD per license, paid once), goes up to $129 per license, one-time for Standard. Latest change: Team seat from $59 to $79 (+34%), Apr 2026.

Beekeeper Studio is an open source desktop SQL editor that charges per user for the full edition. It is one of the cheapest paid SQL tools and bills yearly by default.

Beekeeper Studio starts at $9 per user per month, billed yearly for Indie (USD per user per month, billed yearly), goes up to $18 per user per month, billed yearly for Business. Latest change: Professional from $11 to $14 (+27%), Feb 2025.

DBeaver is the universal database client that most developers have installed at some point. The community edition is free; the paid editions are sold as one-year licenses per user rather than monthly subscriptions.

DBeaver starts at $113 per user per year license for Lite (USD per user per year), goes up to $510 per user per year license for Ultimate, has a free plan. Latest change: Enterprise from $199 to $255 (+28%), Oct 2026.