# Mendix review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Enterprise low-code platform for business applications

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

Mendix is an enterprise low-code platform for building, deploying and running business applications, with agile project tools, a collaborative visual IDE and a growing set of AI development features. It can be deployed to Mendix Cloud or to a customer's own cloud, and is part of Siemens. Pricing is quoted in euros and depends on whether you license one app or an unlimited number.

- **Category:** AI App Builders
- **Made by:** Mendix (since 2005)
- **Website:** https://www.mendix.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you're a small team: Standard begins around 918 euros a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Mendix has a free plan, and paid plans start at €918 per month and up for One App (euros as displayed; billing basis not stated).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free package: build and deploy demos, prototypes or small apps with a deployment environment and unlimited users, no credit card required.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | €0 per month | Full platform for prototypes and small apps, with one deployment environment per app and the free online academy. |
| Standard (One App) | €918 per month and up, for one app | Department-wide business apps: up to 3 environments per app, ops dashboard, IDP integration, 9-to-5 support and a 99.5% uptime guarantee. Cloud resources cost extra. |
| Standard (Unlimited Apps) | €2,295 per month and up, for unlimited apps | The same capabilities as One App for a portfolio of apps. The page says the platform is identical and only the price differs. |
| Premium | Custom | Mission-critical systems: horizontal scaling, high availability, multi-region failover, a private marketplace, 24/7 support and a 99.95% uptime guarantee. |

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

## Key features

- **Collaborative visual IDE:** Multi-user development across skill levels in a single IDE, with agile project management built into the platform.
- **Agentic and AI development:** The site lists agentic development, AI governance and AI model development among its platform areas.
- **Flexible deployment:** Deploys to Mendix Cloud, dedicated cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, SAP BTP, StackIT or your own servers, mostly at additional cost on paid plans.
- **Process orchestration:** Part of the platform menu alongside an enterprise knowledge graph and integrations.
- **Free academy:** Online learning paths and certifications are included on every package.

## Good for

- Enterprises building business apps across departments
- Teams that need to choose where apps are hosted
- Anyone prototyping: the Free package has no card requirement

## Worth knowing

- Prices are shown in euros; the US-dollar price and the billing basis (monthly or annual) are not shown on the page.
- Standard and Premium licenses do not include cloud compute resources, which are priced separately by deployment option.
- Premium is quoted individually, and the Mendix Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes and other deployments cost extra on Standard.
- The Studio Pro 11 IDE is supported on Windows 11; the docs say Apple Silicon Macs run it in beta.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Mendix is an enterprise low-code platform, and its free package covers prototypes and small apps with unlimited users. Paid Standard starts at about 918 euros a month for one app and cloud compute costs extra. The IDE is built for Windows.

- **Value for money: D.** About 918 euros a month for one app, and the page doesn't say monthly or annual, in a category whose paid plans start at $16 to $25. Compute is extra.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A free package with no card: the full platform, unlimited users, one environment per app and the academy. Built for demos and small apps.
- **Features: B.** Visual IDE, agentic development, many deployment targets, process orchestration and a free academy. The listing shows no gap in the core job.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Enterprise low-code with a learning path and certifications, so expect a learning curve.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus a Windows IDE, with AWS, Azure, SAP BTP, Snowflake, OpenShift and Kubernetes. No phone app is listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mendix's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. The pricing page showed no readable prices in the text we pulled, so prices rest on the listing.

## Where it stands among AI app builders

- Mendix's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 26 of the 52 other AI app builders we grade, and level with 11.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 45 of 52) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at about $1,025.59 a month, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 50 of the 50 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-app-builders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Mendix you would be making a tool that builds and hosts other apps. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $12,307.08 a year.

- You could not: A tool that builds and hosts other apps.
- You could not: A real app for Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, AWS, Azure and SAP BTP among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
- 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

AWS, Azure, SAP BTP, Snowflake, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes

**Tags:** App builder, AI features

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## Sources

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

- https://www.mendix.com/pricing/
- https://www.mendix.com/company/
- https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/system-requirements/

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