labs@atheron:~/compare/no-code$ diff ./us ./them
Us or no-code
Build it yourself this week, or have it built.
No-code builders let you make a working app without writing code, and some start free. Bubble is a well-known one, and it publishes its prices. Here is what you get each way.
// In one sentence
What each one is
Atheron Network Labs
A small Canadian development studio that builds web and mobile apps, AI systems, bots and blockchains, and runs products of its own. Every estimate comes from a published rate card.
No-code
A platform where you build an app by arranging blocks and rules instead of writing code, and pay a monthly plan to keep it running there.
// Prices
What it costs
Ours come from our rate card through the estimator, the same numbers a visitor gets there. Theirs are published figures, with the source linked and the day we read it.
Atheron Network Labs
A fixed-price MVP web app sprint, priced from the rate card in force. Every other build is priced by the estimator from the same card.
MVP web app sprint, fixed price: ≈ US$37,600CAD 53,500
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
Theirs
Bubble's pricing page lists its plans billed annually, in US dollars, with a free plan and usage measured in workload units. It shows no monthly-billing figure.
- Free: USD 0
- Starter: USD 59 (CAD 84) a month, billed annually
- Growth: USD 209 (CAD 298) a month, billed annually
- Team: USD 549 (CAD 782) a month, billed annually
- Enterprise: Quoted on request
// Side by side
Point by point
A price you can see before you talk to anyone
Atheron Network Labs
Yes
The estimator on our site prices any build from our rate card.
No-code
Yes
Bubble publishes its plans.
Free to start
Atheron Network Labs
No
Estimates are free. Building is paid, with a deposit.
No-code
Yes
Bubble publishes a free plan.
A delivery date committed in the quote
Atheron Network Labs
Yes
Every quote commits to the end of its range.
No-code
No
You build it, so the date is yours.
Years of client work behind it
Atheron Network Labs
No
A new studio. Our own products are our case studies.
No-code
Yes
Not a builder you hire: the platform is the track record.
A Canadian company on the contract, in CAD
Atheron Network Labs
Yes
A Canadian company in Kelowna, British Columbia. Quotes in Canadian dollars.
No-code
No
Bubble's plans are priced in US dollars.
// Said plainly
What no-code does better
- You can start free. Bubble publishes a free plan. Nothing we build is free.
- You change it yourself. A new field or a new screen is an afternoon of your own time, not a change order.
- A first version this week. For an idea you want to test with real people, a no-code prototype is often the quickest honest answer.
// Choosing
Who should pick which
Pick them if
Pick no-code to test an idea quickly and cheaply, when you are happy to build and change it yourself and to keep it running on the platform you built it on.
Pick us if
Pick us when the app has outgrown its prototype: custom integrations, heavy traffic, an AI agent, payments, or a security review that needs to see the code.
// Sources
How we checked
- A figure about anyone else is printed only where we read it on a public page, linked here with the day we read it.
- Agency rates are Clutch's published ranges, from its verified client reviews. They describe the firms Clutch lists, not any one firm.
- Where a route is many firms or people, the honest answer is often that it depends, and the table says so.
- Names are used to compare, nothing more. We are not affiliated with any company named on these pages.
October 3, 2026. US dollars converted at 1.4246 USD/CAD, the Bank of Canada daily average for October 2, 2026. Our conversion, not their price.
// Next step
Price your build
The estimator prices it from the same rate card as every number on this page, in a few minutes, with no call.