# Tempo Labs review (2026): is the free plan enough? > IDE for design, product and engineering teams working with agents Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tempo is a desktop IDE that brings specs, designs, issues and pull requests into one workspace built on a team's real codebase. Agents can be assigned tasks like teammates. Its site no longer presents it mainly as a prompt-to-app builder. - **Category:** AI App Builders - **Made by:** Tempo Labs Inc. - **Website:** https://www.tempo.new - **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a prompt-to-app builder, since it's now a team IDE. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Tempo Labs has a free plan, and paid plans start at $50 per month for 1 user. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 250 issues, 100 docs, 500 local tests a month and 7-day history. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 250 issues, 100 docs, 500 local tests a month and 7-day history. | | Pro | $50 per month for 1 user | Unlimited issues and docs, 5,000 tests a month, 90-day history. $40 a month per extra user. | | Team | $200 per month for up to 5 users | 5 included users, 35,000 tests a month, 365-day history. $40 a month per extra user. | | Enterprise | Custom | Bring your own infrastructure, custom test volume and unlimited history with audit. | Read from https://www.tempo.new/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tempo Labs before buying. ## Key features - **Issue board:** Tickets move across To Do, Spec, Design, Build, Review and Merged stages. - **Designs as code:** The site says canvases are code in your repo, built from real components, and ship as pull requests. - **Agents as teammates:** Tasks can be assigned to agents that run in parallel, on any model or harness. - **Feedback intake:** Agents turn raw feedback from channels such as Slack into triaged issues. - **Worktrees and CI view:** Engineers can work across worktrees with pull request and CI status in one view. ## Good for - Product teams that want specs, designs and code in one tool - Teams that run coding agents on their own repos ## Worth knowing - Now positioned as a team IDE, not a prompt-to-app builder like earlier tools in this category. - Pro covers one user; each extra user costs $40 a month. - Test usage beyond the monthly allowance costs $4.50 per 1,000 on Pro. - Free history is limited to 7 days. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Tempo is now a team IDE where agents pick up issues, not a prompt-to-app builder. Pro is $50 a month for one user and each extra user is $40. Free has 250 issues and 7 days of history. - **Value for money: D.** $50 a month for one user and $40 for each extra, above the category's $30 dearest-tenth line. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free: 250 issues, 100 docs, 500 local tests a month and 7 days of history. Fine to look at, tight to run a team on. - **Features: C.** Issue board, designs as code, parallel agents, feedback intake and a CI view. It no longer builds apps from a prompt. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's an IDE and a workflow to set up around your repo, agents and Slack. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Mac, Windows and Linux, which is computers only. Only Slack is named as an integration. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tempo Labs's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. The pricing page returned only script text, so prices rest on the listing. ## Where it stands among AI app builders - Tempo Labs's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 52 other AI app builders we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 4 of 52) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $50 a month, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 47 of the 50 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 39 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 Tempo Labs you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 47 of the 52 other AI app builders grade higher. It costs $600 a year. - You could make: Issue tracking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack **Tags:** AI agents, Issue tracking, AI features, Real-time collaboration ## Alternatives - [Builder.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/builder-io): Visual IDE and CMS with an AI agent for shipping product UI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/builder-io-vs-tempo-labs) - [Lovable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lovable): Chat-based AI builder for full-stack web apps and websites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lovable-vs-tempo-labs) - [Bolt](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bolt): Browser-based AI builder for websites, web apps and mobile apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bolt-vs-tempo-labs) - [v0](https://toolgpa.com/tools/v0): Vercel's AI agent for building and deploying full-stack web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tempo-labs-vs-v0) - [Kombai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kombai): AI design engineer that designs on a canvas and codes in your repo. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kombai-vs-tempo-labs) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.tempo.new/pricing - https://www.tempo.new Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/tempo-labs Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).