WeWeb

What Is WeWeb?

Most no-code platforms want to own your entire stack. Bubble bundles frontend, backend, and hosting into one monolith. Retool locks you into its runtime for internal tools. WeWeb takes the opposite approach: it builds only the frontend and connects to whatever backend you already have.

Founded in Paris in 2020 by Raphael Goldsztejn, Marc Fabre, and Florian Briou, WeWeb is a visual application builder that generates Vue.js code from a drag-and-drop editor. The company went through Y Combinator, raised seed funding from investors including Kima Ventures and id4 Ventures, and hit $3.2M in annual revenue with a 38-person team by late 2024.

The pitch is straightforward: design your frontend visually, wire it to Supabase, Xano, or any REST/GraphQL API, and ship a production web application. When you outgrow the platform — or need to hand code to a dev team — you export the full Vue.js project and deploy it wherever you want. That code export capability is what separates WeWeb from nearly every competitor in the space. Bubble, for comparison, offers no code export at all. Your app lives on their servers or it does not live.

WeWeb now serves thousands of teams building internal tools, client portals, dashboards, and SaaS frontends. The 2025-2026 additions of AI-powered generation have accelerated that growth, letting builders create UI components and workflows from text prompts rather than manual drag-and-drop alone.

Key Features

Visual Editor with CSS-Level Control

WeWeb's editor sits closer to Figma than to typical no-code builders. You get granular control over spacing, typography, flexbox layouts, and responsive breakpoints — the kind of precision that tools like Bubble abstract away behind simplified controls. For designers accustomed to pixel-perfect work, this is a genuine advantage. The trade-off is a steeper learning curve: if you have never thought about CSS concepts like flex-grow or overflow, WeWeb will expose you to them.

Backend-Agnostic Data Binding

This is WeWeb's defining feature. Native plugins connect to Supabase (with row-level security support), Xano (with built-in SDK and auth flows), Airtable, Firebase, and any REST or GraphQL endpoint. Setting up a Supabase connection takes under 10 minutes. Xano integration, including authentication scaffolding, takes roughly five. In dynamic mode, data flows directly between the user's browser and the backend — it never touches WeWeb's servers, which matters for data sensitivity.

AI Generation

WeWeb's AI assistant generates UI components, workflows, formulas, and even custom-coded JavaScript from natural language prompts. You can upload a screenshot of a design and get a working layout. The Essential plan includes 10 million AI tokens — enough to generate 30-50 complete app structures. The results are roughly 80% accurate according to independent testing, which means you will still spend time cleaning up misplaced elements. AI-generated workflows handle validations, pagination, and data filtering reasonably well, though complex logic occasionally needs manual correction.

Code Export and Self-Hosting

From the Essential plan (€20/month), you can export your entire project as a production-ready Vue.js single-page application. The exported code includes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and can be deployed on Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, AWS, or any standard hosting provider. GitHub sync keeps your project versioned and integrated with CI/CD pipelines. This is not a watered-down export — it is a full, deployable codebase.

Workflow Builder

Business logic lives in WeWeb's workflow system: conditional actions, API calls, form validations, navigation triggers, and variable management. It is visual, which makes simple flows intuitive, but the interface gets cramped with complex multi-step logic. For heavy business logic, most teams delegate that to their backend (Xano workflows, Supabase edge functions) and keep WeWeb focused on presentation.

Pricing

WeWeb's pricing model splits into two parts: seat plans and hosting plans. This structure is more transparent than Bubble's workload-unit model but can confuse newcomers.

Seat plans control what you can do in the editor. The Free plan lets you build and publish to a WeWeb subdomain. Essential (€20/month) unlocks code export, GitHub sync, and 10 million AI tokens. Pro (€45/month) adds advanced collaboration and increased AI allocation.

Hosting plans control deployment. Starter (€39/month) supports 50,000 monthly visits, 1 GB storage, and 200 GB bandwidth. Scale (€149/month) jumps to 250,000 visits, 10 GB storage, and production backups. Enterprise pricing is custom.

The minimum cost for a production app with a custom domain is €59/month (Essential + Starter Hosting). That compares to Bubble's $29/month Growth plan, but WeWeb includes code export and self-hosting rights that Bubble does not offer at any price. If you self-host your exported code, you need only the seat plan — no hosting plan from WeWeb.

EU Compliance & Privacy

Here is where WeWeb's story gets complicated. The company is French (WeWeb SAS, registered in Paris), which gives it an EU-jurisdiction advantage. But the default hosting runs on AWS US-East in Virginia. For applications handling EU personal data under strict GDPR interpretations, that US hosting is a problem.

WeWeb addresses this through code export: you can deploy the frontend on EU-based hosting yourself. Data connections in dynamic mode bypass WeWeb's servers entirely, going straight from the browser to your backend. If your backend runs on EU infrastructure (say, Supabase's EU region or a self-hosted Xano instance), the personal data never leaves Europe — even if the WeWeb editor itself is US-hosted.

The platform provides a Data Processing Agreement, and its AWS infrastructure carries SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications. But WeWeb does not yet offer a native EU hosting option for its managed deployment. For teams that need everything on EU soil without self-hosting, that is a gap competitors like OutSystems (with EU hosting options) can fill.

Who It's Best For

Development agencies building client applications who want visual speed without sacrificing code ownership. The export-and-hand-off workflow is tailor-made for this use case.

Technical teams who already have a backend (Supabase, Xano, custom API) and need a frontend faster than hand-coding React or Vue from scratch.

SaaS builders creating customer-facing portals, dashboards, or admin panels where design quality matters and Retool's utilitarian aesthetic will not cut it.

EU organisations willing to self-host the exported code on European infrastructure. The combination of a French company, code export, and backend-agnostic architecture makes full EU data residency achievable — it just requires extra deployment work.

The Verdict

WeWeb occupies a genuinely distinctive position in the no-code market. By building only the frontend and giving you the code, it avoids the lock-in trap that defines most competitors. The visual editor is powerful, the AI generation is promising (if imperfect), and the backend-agnostic philosophy means your architecture decisions remain yours. The EU compliance story has a significant asterisk — US-hosted by default — but the self-hosting escape hatch is real and functional. For teams that value flexibility over convenience, WeWeb is the strongest frontend-focused no-code tool available in 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is WeWeb GDPR compliant?

WeWeb SAS is a French company and provides a Data Processing Agreement. However, default hosting runs on AWS in Virginia (US). For strict EU data residency, export your code and deploy on EU infrastructure. Data connections in dynamic mode go directly from the browser to your backend, bypassing WeWeb's servers.

Can I export my WeWeb app and host it myself?

Yes. From the Essential plan (€20/month), you can export the full Vue.js project — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — and deploy on any hosting provider. GitHub sync is included for version control. You still need an active seat plan to continue editing in WeWeb.

How does WeWeb compare to Bubble?

WeWeb builds only the frontend and connects to any backend; Bubble is an all-in-one platform. WeWeb offers code export and self-hosting (Bubble does not), pixel-perfect CSS-level design control, and per-visitor pricing. Bubble has a larger template library, a bigger community, and a gentler learning curve for beginners.

What backends work with WeWeb?

WeWeb connects natively to Supabase, Xano, Airtable, and Firebase via dedicated plugins. Any REST or GraphQL API works through the generic API connector. In practice, the Supabase and Xano integrations are the most mature, with built-in authentication flows and real-time data binding.

How much does a production WeWeb app cost?

The minimum for a production app with a custom domain is €59/month (€20 Essential seat + €39 Starter Hosting). If you self-host the exported code, you only pay the €20/month seat plan plus your own hosting costs. Enterprise and high-traffic apps on the Scale hosting plan run €169/month or more.