Softr

Softr prices its plans by how many people can log in to your app: 5 team and 5 client users on Basic, 10 and 50 on Pro. Dyad doesn't count them at all. It writes your portal or internal tool as code on your computer, with logins and data in your own Supabase or Neon account.

Softr says this itself. Its AI builder page says "No generated code," and its docs say "we do not currently offer self-hosting." So Softr runs your app, and you rent it. With Dyad, you own the code and choose where it runs.

Dyad vs Softr at a Glance

What Each Difference Means

• Who can log in, and what it costs. Softr's docs say "on the Free and Basic plans there is no app-user add-on." So a portal for 20 clients can't buy its way past Basic's 5. It needs Pro, at $99 a month billed annually. Dyad has no fee per person using your app. Your users live in Supabase or Neon, and Supabase's free plan covers 50,000 monthly active users, Neon's 60,000.

• Blocks or code. On Softr, you get an app made of blocks you edit in Softr's editor. Its Vibe Coding block does hold React code, but it "only runs in the browser" inside Softr. Dyad's whole app is code in a folder on your disk. Every AI edit is a Git commit you can restore, and you can open the folder in VS Code or Cursor whenever you like.

• Hosting, debugging and security. Softr's case against code builders is that "you inherit that code and have to host it, debug it, and keep it secure." With Dyad those jobs are yours, and here's what each one takes. Publishing to Vercel goes through GitHub: once it's set up, Dyad's Sync to GitHub button pushes each change and Vercel rebuilds your app. In Agent mode, Dyad's AI reads your code and fixes its own errors. On Supabase, it turns on row-level security (rules about who can read each row) for every table it creates, so the database itself checks who can see what. Still, review those rules before you launch. Dyad's security review, which is experimental, can help.

How Much Does Softr Cost?

Softr's Free plan has no end date. It covers up to 3 builders and 5 app users, with Softr branding and no custom domain. Paid plans billed annually are Basic at $19 a month, Pro at $99 and Business at $329, or $25, $119 and $395 billed monthly. Removing the Softr logo takes Pro or above. Prices are from Softr's pricing page and docs, October 2026.

Dyad is free, with no sign-up. Build mode with your own API key has no Dyad message limit, and Dyad Pro is $20 a month for 200 AI credits. To run a business app, you'll also pay for hosting. Vercel's free Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use, and its Pro plan is $20 a month. Supabase's free plan pauses a project after a week with no activity, and its Pro plan is $25 a month.

Moving a Softr App to Dyad

1. Get your data out. If it's in Airtable or Google Sheets, it already lives outside Softr, so export each table as CSV from there. If it's in Softr Databases, Softr's docs don't list an export of a whole database (October 2026), but a Table block can export its rows as a CSV or Excel file.
2. Create a new app in Dyad, connect Supabase, and describe your portal: its pages, its user groups and what each group can see. Dyad asks a few planning questions before it builds.
3. Once Dyad has created the tables, import each CSV in Supabase's Table Editor. Choose Insert, then Import Data from CSV (up to 100 MB a file).
4. Describe each workflow in chat. User groups, permissions and workflows don't copy over. They're rebuilt from your description.

Who Dyad Is For

Dyad fits you if your portal or internal tool will outgrow a per-user plan, you want the app as code you keep, or you'd rather build with the AI model you choose. Download Dyad to try it. Coming from Softr? Tell us on r/dyadbuilders what you're building.

Sources

Softr's pricing, plans, AI app builder, vibe coding and data source pages, and its docs on custom domains and hosting, mobile apps and exporting table data, read October 16, 2026. Hosting and database plans from Vercel, Supabase and Neon, same date.