# Knack review (2026): is it worth $49 a month, billed yearly?

> No-code online database and web app builder

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Knack is a no-code platform for building online databases and the web apps around them: forms, tables, pages, user roles and automations. Apps can include scheduling, maps and payments, and an AI app builder drafts apps from a description. Plans differ by record count, AI credits and features.

- **Category:** Spreadsheets & Databases
- **Made by:** Knack
- **Website:** https://www.knack.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if your data grows, as Starter allows 20k records and Pro 50k.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Knack is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $49 per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card needed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $49 per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | 20k database records, 25 AI credits, unlimited users, tables and pages. New customers pay $19 monthly for 3 months. |
| Pro | $110 per month, billed annually ($130 billed monthly) | 50k records, 50 AI credits, removes Knack branding, scheduled tasks, ecommerce payments, 1 custom domain. |
| Corporate | $250 per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly) | Starting price. 125k to 2.5m records, 100 AI credits, advanced SSO, app restores, 3 custom domains. |
| Enterprise | Custom | 2.5 million+ records, HIPAA and GovCloud options, private server environment. Sold through sales. |

Read from https://www.knack.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Knack before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free on annual plans** (Annual discount): The pricing page says annual plans give two free months, 17% off the monthly rate. Source: https://www.knack.com/pricing/
- **66% off the first 3 months** (Other savings): New customers only, labeled limited time: Starter is $19 and Pro $49 a month for the first 3 months on monthly billing. Source: https://www.knack.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **No-code database:** Relational tables with unlimited fields and tables on every plan, plus imports from CSV, Excel and Google Sheets.
- **Web app designer:** A front-end designer builds pages, forms and tables, with unlimited users and custom roles.
- **AI app builder:** Drafts an app from a description. Starter includes 25 AI credits a month, rising with each plan.
- **Automations:** Knack Flows and the API connect apps to 400+ platforms and run scheduled tasks from Pro.
- **Payments and scheduling:** Pro adds ecommerce payments through Stripe and PayPal; a scheduling add-on is available.
- **Access and audit:** Roles, 2FA for app users on Pro, advanced SSO on Corporate and record audit logs of 1 to 3 months by plan.

## Good for

- Small teams building a customer portal or CRM without developers
- Organizations needing user roles and logins for outside users
- Replacing spreadsheet-based tracking with an online database

## Worth knowing

- Records are capped by plan: 20k on Starter and 50k on Pro, with higher counts from Corporate.
- Knack branding removal, scheduled tasks, ecommerce payments and a custom domain need Pro.
- Corporate is a starting price; the final cost is set by usage.
- The 66% new-customer offer on the page is labeled limited-time and covers the first 3 months only.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Knack builds online databases and the web apps around them, with forms, user roles, automations and an AI app builder. Starter is $49 a month on yearly billing, but it caps you at 20k records and keeps Knack branding, payments and scheduled tasks for the $110 plan.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $49 a month billed annually ($59 monthly) for unlimited users, about $10 each for five people. The cheaper quarter of spreadsheet tools starts at $6 per user.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with no card needed. No free plan.
- **Features: B.** A database builder, app designer, AI builder, automations, payments and scheduling, and access controls. Record caps and plan gates limit it, but nothing in the core job is missing.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is a web app where the work is building the app, so there is a learning curve.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Stripe, PayPal and Google Sheets links and an API. No desktop or phone app is listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Knack's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among spreadsheet and database tools

- Knack's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 15 of the 42 other spreadsheet and database tools we grade, and level with 7.
- It stands best on features (B, above 19 of 42) and worst on ease of use (C, above 5).
- Its paid plans start at $49 a month, against a middle price of $11.38 for the category: 31 of the 35 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/spreadsheets

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Knack you would be making a builder that other people can use without writing code. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $588 a year.

- You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code.
- You could not: A tool that builds and hosts other apps.
- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on and audit logs.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Google Sheets

**Tags:** Databases, No-code, App builder, AI features, Workflow automation, Forms

## Alternatives

- [Caspio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/caspio): Low-code platform for database-driven web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/caspio-vs-knack)
- [Quickbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbase): Low-code platform for custom work apps and workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/knack-vs-quickbase)
- [Ragic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ragic): No-code database builder with a spreadsheet-style interface. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/knack-vs-ragic)
- [Kintone](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kintone): No-code database apps with workflows and team discussion. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kintone-vs-knack)
- [Baserow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/baserow): Open-source no-code database and application builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/baserow-vs-knack)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.knack.com/pricing/

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