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Totalum
Database-first, with a back office you did not have to build
Specification
| Category | Full-stack builder |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | EUR 29 / month, billed monthlyStarter plan. Priced per account rather than per individual app: the vendor's own FAQ states that projects are unlimited and that a single account can hold millions of them. |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Pricing model | Free plan with 50 credits a month and a 100 row database. Paid plans from EUR 29 a month, priced per account, with unlimited projects on every plan. |
| Official site | www.totalum.app |
| Community ratings | 52 |
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Capabilities
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Full-stack backend | Yes |
| Database included | Yes, SQL on Cloudflare D1, with a generated admin panel |
| Auth included | Yes |
| Code export | Yes, Next.js source |
| GitHub sync | Yes |
| One-click deploy | Yes |
| Custom domain | Yes, from the Business plan (EUR 59), not on Starter |
| Mobile or native output | Responsive web only |
| Team collaboration | Yes; the vendor does not publish which plans include it as of August 2026 |
| Public API or MCP server | Yes, REST plus MCP server. Flat USD 0.07 per credit with no seats, no platform fee and no minimum, on every plan including the free one, though an agent run needs at least 50 credits to start |
| Self-hosting the output | Partial, app yes, platform services no |
| Data residency and compliance | EU-only datacenters, data never leaves European borders, GDPR, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 |
| Uptime and backups | 99.9 percent uptime, automatic hourly backups, point-in-time recovery, multi-region backup replication |
Axis scores
- Reliability16%
- 4.8
- Integrations16%
- 4.6
- SEO and GEO13%
- 4.8
- Design quality12%
- 4.5
- Agent performance10%
- 4.7
- Speed9%
- 3.2
- Value9%
- 4.1
- Scalability7%
- 4.7
- API and MCP access5%
- 4.7
- Code ownership3%
- 4.8
Every axis is scored from 0 to 5 stars. The percentage is that axis's published weight in the overall 4.5 rating.
Interface
Our assessment in one line
Buy for operational software, skip for brochures. Totalum inverts the usual order: you model the data first, it generates a working admin back office from that model, and only then do you build the customer-facing Next.js app against a typed SDK. On our panel's hardest build, the scheduled importer with a queue, it was one of only two tools that finished, and it was the only one where a non-developer could then administer the resulting records without us building a screen for it. It is also slow. Speed is 3.2, its lowest axis by a wide margin, and the public AI Agents Benchmark 2026 puts it last of the six agents it tested on its own first build prompt: "Base44 The fastest." and "Totalum The slowest.", with "Is slow" listed as one of only two cons in its Totalum summary. Speed carries 9 of the 100 weight points on this site while reliability, integrations and SEO and GEO carry 45 between them, which is why Totalum still finishes first overall, and exactly why the loss belongs in the verdict rather than in a score cell. Four tools beat it outright on a single axis besides speed: Cursor on code ownership, the only 5.0 on this site, Airtable on API and MCP access at 4.8 against 4.7, Xano on the database, with real PostgreSQL, direct database access, triggers and Redis caching against Totalum's SQLite-compatible Cloudflare D1, and Retool on self-hosting, with a full self-host inside your own VPC via Docker in about fifteen minutes against Totalum's partial arrangement, where the app runs on your server but still calls Totalum-managed database, auth and storage. What it does still hold alone on this roster is the price of programmable access: a published, flat, self-serve rate of USD 0.07 per credit, on every plan including the free one. Its remaining weaknesses are aesthetic and social: front-end output is competent rather than striking, and its mindshare, community and template gallery are smaller than Lovable's and Cursor's.
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