Mendix vs UI Bakery

Mendix is a low-code platform for building, running, and orchestrating apps and agents for a hybrid workforce. In Studio Pro, teams model application logic, data, workflows, and user experience visually, while retaining the option to add custom code. Its AI capabilities span planning, generation, deployment, and operations, and it can connect external language models, agents, knowledge bases, and tools. The Mendix Connect Catalog can include connectors to enterprise data sources such as Siemens Teamcenter, SAP, and Mendix applications. Applications can be deployed to public cloud or on-premises, including air-gapped environments. Listed capabilities include mobile publishing, a built-in database, user authentication, and API integrations. The free package allows unlimited users and one deployment environment per application, but includes neither product support nor guaranteed availability. Standard pricing is $1,090 a month for One App or $2,725 a month for Unlimited Apps; cloud deployment may cost extra. Mendix was founded in Rotterdam in 2005 and says it was acquired by Siemens in 2018.

UI Bakery is a platform for building internal tools, customer portals, and dashboards with low-code drag-and-drop or an AI-only app-building flow. The AI experience generates apps from text or visual prompts, and lets users customize the resulting React code. UI Bakery connects to relational databases, REST and GraphQL APIs, and third-party services; listed connectors include PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Salesforce, Slack, Snowflake, Stripe, and Zendesk. A free hosted PostgreSQL database is also available. The company says external data sources are handled through a proxy, with returned data not stored and sensitive credentials not exposed to the browser. Access controls include built-in and custom roles, along with TOTP multifactor authentication. Cloud and self-hosted deployment are available; self-hosted installations run in Docker containers on customer-managed infrastructure and support SAML or OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 SSO. UI Bakery states it is SOC 2 compliant. The free plan is available, and paid plans start at $20/mo (annual).