Base44 (acquired by Wix in June 2025 for $80M cash) is a vibe-coding platform that generates quick internal tools and simple apps. It’s built for founders who want something functional fast, without a developer.
Sentrely is different. We deploy a team of AI agents into your Slack, supervised by real security and software engineers, and everything they build ships into your own cloud account. What we build is real production software, and it belongs to your company.
Where Base44 wins
Base44 is genuinely fast for the simplest cases:
- Internal admin tools with a form + database + list view
- Quick contact / lead-capture sites
- Prototype-quality customer portals for small user counts
- One-off apps you don’t need to scale, integrate, or hand off
If you need something in an hour, Base44 will get you there.
Where Base44 hits a wall
The gap starts to show once you push past prototype scale:
- Credit burn. Base44’s AI charges per change, and error loops eat credits fast. One Trustpilot reviewer reported 148 credits spent trying to fix a single bug that never got fixed. Another had $650 pulled from their account without a warning dialog.
- Custom integrations deprecated. As of March 1, 2026, Base44 no longer accepts new custom integrations. If your business needs to talk to something Base44 doesn’t have a first-party template for, you’re stuck.
- Support went from hours to weeks. The Base44Devs retrospective documents support response times sliding from hours pre-acquisition to days or weeks post-Wix.
- No engineer review. Base44’s AI ships what it generates. If it introduces a bug or a security issue, you find out from your customers.
- Lock-in. Base44 apps run on Wix’s MongoDB and Wix’s servers. You can export the source code (since Aug 2026), but the backend doesn’t come with you.
What Sentrely does differently
We deploy an AI team into your Slack, but the AI is supervised by our human engineers. Every change runs through automated safety checks. Anything material gets a real engineer’s sign-off before it ships. And what ships goes into your own cloud account, so you own the finished software.
- Safety checks and engineer sign-off. Every change runs through automated safety checks, and security and software engineers on our team sign off on anything important before it goes to production.
- Ships into your accounts. Your cloud, your source code, your customers. If we go away, your app keeps running.
- 35-day data rewind. If something breaks, one button rewinds your data to any point in the last five weeks.
- Handles real complexity. Multi-tenant SaaS, real-time messaging, payments, multi-region deploys: the things Base44 caps out on.
- No credit meter. Pricing is custom and scoped with you on a free 30-minute call. No per-change charges, no surprise bills.
When to pick which
- Pick Base44 if you need a throwaway internal tool this weekend and you’re OK with it living on someone else’s infrastructure.
- Pick Sentrely if you’re building real software your business will depend on, and you want to own it.