Emergent.
Turn an idea into a web or mobile app.
Describe the app you want. Emergent builds it in a browser workspace, where you can try it and ask for changes. Making it public is a separate step with ongoing costs paid with credits, Emergent’s units for measuring use.
Getting started: GuidedDescribe a small app in the browser and test each screen. No local installation is needed. Fixing errors, connecting services and running a live app take more care. Our setup guide, not a performance score.
Good for
People making a first app, a community website or a small business test app who want to build through conversation and review the result themselves.
Start with
A browser, an Emergent account, a clear idea and time to check the app. Keeping an app available online, publishing it in an app store and outside services have their own requirements.
Cost
A Free start is available, but its credit refill is unclear. Standard is $20/month for 100 credits; Pro is $200 for 750. Publishing starts at 50 credits per app each month, drawn from the same balance. Extra work can need more credits.
Plans and limits explainedA free start, paid building and ongoing costs to keep an app online.
- Free plan
- The pricing page says ten free monthly credits; current Free-plan help says ten on your first day. A repeated allowance and payment-card requirement are unconfirmed. Free is personal/non-commercial under the terms. Do not assume ongoing free building or keeping an app online for real users.
- Trial not confirmed
- No general paid-plan free trial or automatic switch from a trial to a paid plan was confirmed. The Free account and its disputed credit refill are separate from a timed subscription trial.
- Paid plans
- Standard $20/month with 100 credits; Pro $200 with 750. Annual switches show $17/$167 per month equivalents, not monthly subscriptions; full annual invoices are unconfirmed. Team prices differ between homepage FAQ and the quoted Business/Enterprise pricing page. Paid plans auto-renew unless canceled before renewal.
- Extra costs & limits
- Building, tests, publishing and AI features in your app share credits. Current plans for keeping an app online cost 50/125/225/450/1,100 credits per app each month; an older guide calls 50 one-time. Extra credit example: 250 credits for $50, with no expiry; unused plan credits are lost when the next monthly allowance starts. Help and terms conflict on using more credits than you have, taking apps offline and refunds based on unused credits. A limit for each request is not a confirmed limit on your total bill. Outside services and regional taxes can add bills.
Prices in USD unless noted. Check the billing period; local prices, taxes and offers can differ.
Plan details
The Free allowance conflicts across official pages. Budget for the paid plan and check the credit rules before relying on a live app.
- Free account10 credits advertised · refill unclear
- The pricing page says ten free monthly credits. Current Free-plan help instead says ten on your first day. We could not confirm a repeated allowance, a payment-card requirement or a general paid-plan trial. Do not plan ongoing free building or keeping an app online for real users around those ten credits. The terms limit Free to personal, non-commercial use.
- Standard and Pro$20 or $200 / month
- Standard includes 100 credits per month; Pro 750. Building, tests, changes, keeping an app online and supported AI features in your app can use the same balance. These credits measure work, not a fixed number of apps or prompts. Unused subscription credits are lost when the next monthly allowance starts.
- Annual and team offersCheck the full invoice
- The annual switch displays Standard $17/month and Pro $167/month equivalents, with savings of $36 and $396. These require annual billing; the full invoices were not confirmed. The homepage FAQ mentions Team from $250/month, while the pricing page quotes Business and Enterprise. No team or annual bill is assumed in My Club.
- Publishing an appFrom 50 credits / app / month
- Current help lists monthly publishing plans: Starter 50, Launch 125, Grow 225, Scale 450 and Elite 1,100 credits. Starter provides a small share of a computer’s processing power (0.05 of one processor) and 200 MB of memory for running the app. It is meant for tiny test apps. The credits come from your existing balance; do not add a second automatic cash fee when that balance covers them. An older guide calls publishing a one-time 50-credit charge. That conflicts with current help on monthly plans. Confirm the selected plan before publishing.
- Extra credits and app useMore work can cost more
- Current credit help gives a 250-credit pack for $50 and larger packs. Local prices, taxes and payment fees can differ. Bought credits do not expire; promotional credit can. Expiring credits are spent first. One built-in key lets your app use AI models and draws from your Emergent balance. Connections to other services, tasks that run in the background and work with stored data can also spend credit. A separate service account may have its own bill.
- Limits, renewal and refundsConfirm your account’s rules
- Paid plans renew monthly or annually unless canceled before renewal; access continues until the paid period ends. Help says builds pause at zero, but also describes using more credits than you have and possibly taking your app offline. Terms allow extra usage charges, so a budget for each request is not a confirmed limit on your total bill. Cancellation help offers refunds based on the unused share of subscription credits, while terms say no refunds for part of a paid period. A refund is not guaranteed. Extra credit purchases cannot be refunded.
No provider signup, trial, checkout, app generation, account connection or publishing was used for this review. Free refill, card requirements, full annual invoices and conflicting rules on refunds and using more credits than you have remain unconfirmed.
Pricing checked 21 Oct 2026.
Try something small.
- Make a small club noticeboard
- Build a form and test its results
- Improve a test version one screen at a time
Getting started.
Start with a fictional project in preview. Check your credit balance and set a small task budget. Test buttons, forms and error messages before adding real users or publishing.
Emergent’s customer story describes web designer Brian McGuire rebuilding the Paisley community site and fixing its jobs feed. This is an attributed provider account, not our test or a promise of visitor numbers or savings. A preview is not a fully tested app ready for real users. Free is limited to personal, non-commercial use in the terms. Your app’s code can be used to train AI unless you turn this off for future use. Check permissions before connecting real accounts.
Make a fictional club noticeboard.
Try this task
- You’ll need
- An Emergent account with available credits. Check the allowance and task budget before starting.
- A request to copy
Build a small preview for a fictional drawing club. Show three sample notices and a form that adds a notice to the current page. Use made-up names. Keep everything in the preview with no login, payments, email, outside services or publishing. Ask me before adding a paid service or changing the budget.
- What to expect
- A small app preview whose screens and form you can check.
- How to check it is done
- Add a notice, try an empty form and reload. Check whether data is kept or resets as expected. Review credit use and errors. Do not treat a working preview as proof that a public app is secure or ready for real users.
Our suggested first task, not a tested Emergent result or a promise that ten credits will cover it.
Our suggested prompt, based on the linked source. We haven’t tested this task ourselves.
Source checked October 21, 2026.Checked 21 October 2026. Prices and access can change. Character art is our unofficial illustration.
Company Info explicitly lists operating addresses in San Francisco, United States and Bangalore, India. Current terms name Emergent Labs Inc.; regional billing help identifies Agione Technologies Private Limited for India. These are operating locations and legal entities, not founder nationality, product availability or data residency.
