Emergent
Builds and deploys a working web or mobile app from a written description, handling hosting and infrastructure itself.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | Exploring whether the agent can build a rough version of your app idea. | 10 free monthly credits, one-click LLM integration, access to advanced models. |
| Standard | $17/month billed yearly (save $36), or $20/month billed monthly | First-time builders shipping a web or mobile app for the first time. | Everything in Free, web and mobile app builds, GitHub integration, task forking. |
| Pro | $167/month billed yearly (save $396), or $200/month billed monthly | Serious creators and brands building more than a prototype. | Everything in Standard, 1M context window. |
Read from Emergent's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Where it breaks
Browser-based; you describe the app and Emergent both writes the code and deploys it, rather than handing you a repo to deploy yourself.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
Emergent belongs to the newest and most volatile part of this directory: agents that build and deploy an entire application from a description, not just generate a code snippet you paste somewhere. Say what the app should do, and it writes the code, provisions the infrastructure, and hands you a working URL — the deployment step is the part that distinguishes this from a code-completion tool.
That convenience is also the risk to weigh. You are trusting the agent’s architecture choices, and the credit-based pricing means a complex build can consume a month’s allowance quickly if the agent needs several passes to get something working. The free tier’s 10 credits are realistically a single small test, not a way to build a real project.
This category has already claimed casualties — several similarly-pitched “agent builds your app” products from 2024-25 have shut down or pivoted since — so treat anything you build here as something you’d want portable (exported code, a standard framework) rather than fully locked to the platform’s own hosting, in case that changes.
For a narrower, more predictable version of the same idea — generating one component or fixing one bug rather than a whole app — a coding assistant like Claude inside your own IDE keeps you in control of the architecture.
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