Softgen

The core of Softgen is the prompt loop. You write what you want in ordinary language, and the platform scaffolds a project against a Next.js boilerplate, then rewrites the frontend and backend to match. You can describe an internal tool, a marketing site with a form, or a chatbot app, and each one becomes a real codebase rather than a slide. After each prompt, the running preview updates so you can judge the change without a deploy. The trial credits mean the first project can be built before any money changes hands.

Softgen does not lock you to a single model. Plans list model choice as a headline feature, with the Pro tier carrying access to a dozen options that include Claude, GPT and Gemini families alongside GLM and DeepSeek. The practical effect is that you can pick a reasoning-heavy model for backend logic and a faster one for straightforward layout work. The Starter tier keeps the selection narrower, and Lite is pinned to a single model, so model choice becomes one of the clearer reasons to move up a tier.

A generated app needs a database, auth and storage, and Softgen answers that with Supabase. On the platform-managed path, Supabase is provisioned for you so the backend works without manual configuration. On the bring-your-own path, you connect a personal Supabase project and your data stays in your own account. The Pro tier adds backups, and the company states that on the bring-your-own route your data never passes through Softgen's own infrastructure. That distinction matters to anyone shipping something with real user records.

Export is central to how Softgen frames ownership. You get access to the repository, so the project is yours to edit, scale or hand off. On the Starter tier and above, pushing to GitHub is part of the plan rather than an add-on, which keeps the work under version control from early on. For an agency or a founder planning to hire later, this is the feature that separates a builder from a no-code cage, because the exit door is always open.

Softgen does not host the finished app, and it does not pretend to. Instead it walks you through deploying the frontend on Vercel and the backend on Supabase, both of which have free production-ready tiers. Following the guided steps gives you a live app under your own accounts, so hosting costs and domain control sit with you rather than a platform markup. Teams that already run Vercel and Supabase will recognize the stack, which shortens the last mile.

Beyond the core stack, Softgen lists support for services such as Resend for transactional email and LemonSqueezy for payments, added by describing the requirement in a prompt. Publishing is bundled into the paid tiers, so you can push a project live without leaving the platform. The combination means a generated app can take real form submissions, send real emails and accept real payments, which is the point where a prototype starts behaving like a product.