Is Draftbit free and what does it cost to build and publish an app?

The Free plan costs nothing and does not expire. It includes one editor seat, the visual editor, Claude Code and Codex, a built-in Supabase backend (beta), and web publishing on a draftbit.dev address. You get 3,000 credits once at signup, good for a year, with no daily or monthly refill. On Free those credits run Codex with supported OpenAI models, or you can connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or OpenRouter key or subscription at any time. Your own AI covers 20 agent runs a week on Free, and the count resets every 7 days. Paid plans have no weekly limit. Free allows 3 projects, 3 apps per project, and one open project at a time.

Paid plans are a platform fee plus an optional credit package. Standard is $15 per month and Pro is $30. Yearly billing costs 20% less, so Standard is $144 a year and Pro is $288. To have Draftbit fund the AI, add a monthly credit package from $5, which buys 5,000 credits, up to $1,000, with bonus credits from $25 and a larger bonus on bigger packages. One-time top-ups cost $1 per 1,000 credits on any paid plan. Extra editor seats are $10 per month each on Standard and $20 on Pro, and you can add as many as you need.

Standard unlocks unlimited projects, five apps per project, code editing, ZIP and GitHub export, custom domains, iOS and Android publishing, removing Draftbit branding, and any supported agent and model with credits. Pro adds custom MCP servers, iOS and Android simulators, three open projects and five agents at once, App Store submission help, and priority support. Enterprise is quoted per organization and adds SSO, more agents and open projects, training, a dedicated success manager, and invoice billing.

Draftbit is not the whole cost of an app. Apple and Google developer accounts, a domain, and outside services such as email, payments, or analytics carry their own fees.