Out of Base44 credits? What stops, and how to keep building

Free

25 message credits a month, at most 5 a day, and 100 integration credits

Starter and Builder

100 and 250 message credits a month; 2,000 and 10,000 integration credits

Pro and Elite

500 and 1,200 message credits a month; 20,000 and 50,000 integration credits

Resets

Free daily at midnight; paid monthly on the day you subscribed. Unused credits expire at reset

• Out of message credits: you can't send messages to the AI until they reset.
• Out of integration credits: features in your live app that need them, such as email, AI calls and backend functions, fail with an error. The people using the app see a generic error.
• Editing by hand still works: dragging, layout changes and editing text directly use no credits.

• Wait for the reset

  Free credits come back daily; paid credits on the day of the month you subscribed.

• Move up a plan

  Base44 no longer sells credit top-ups, so a bigger plan is the way to get more. Billed yearly, Builder is $40 a month and Pro $80.

This is Base44's own advice, from its documentation:

• Plan in Discuss mode first: it usually costs about 0.3 credits a message and builds nothing until you approve.
• Make small changes by hand: visual edits and direct text edits are free.
• Call outside services with your own API key: those calls don't use integration credits.
• Don't compare two models on routine work: it costs twice the credits.

If you already have a Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor plan, you are paying for a coding agent that can do this work. A Base44 project is ordinary code that belongs to you, so you can move it to your own GitHub and let that agent carry on, with no credits to run out of.

One difference with Base44: exporting the code needs the Builder plan or higher, and the exported app still runs on Base44's backend, so its email, AI and backend-function calls keep using integration credits until you replace them. Building no longer uses message credits from the day you move. The guide below covers replacing the backend one piece at a time.

1. Base44Connect the project to GitHub
2. Your GitHubThe code, with its history
3. InstaWebClaude Code, Codex or Cursor keeps building
4. Your hostPublish wherever you like

Your own plan has limits too: Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor plans all have usage limits that reset after a few hours or a week. The difference is that you are already paying for them, and in InstaWeb you can switch to another agent you have when one reaches its limit.

The step-by-step guide covers getting the code out, opening it in InstaWeb, and moving the database and secrets: move a Base44 project to InstaWeb.

Everything said about Base44 here comes from the official pricing pages and documentation, read on 13 November 2026. Plans and features change: check them before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.

• Base44 pricing
• Base44 docs: credits
• Base44 docs: billing and plans
• Base44 docs: credit top-ups
• Base44 docs: AI chat modes
• Base44 docs: GitHub
• Base44 docs: developer tools and export
• Base44 docs: managing app data
• Base44 docs: app secrets
• Base44 docs: custom domains