The complete guide to leaving Base44
Migrate Off Base44.
Take All of It With You.
Moving off Base44 sounds simple — until you learn the export only covers your frontend. OffRamp moves the rest: your database, your users, your backend functions, and your files, onto Supabase, Vercel, and GitHub accounts you own.
The problem
Why migrating off Base44 is harder than it looks
Base44 was built to get you onto the platform fast — not to get you off it. That asymmetry shows up the moment you try to leave.
What the Base44 export gives you
Your frontend — the screens and styles — with nothing behind it. Buttons and pages that call a backend that isn’t there.
What stays locked on Base44
- Your backend
- Your database and its data
- Your users and their logins
- Auth — passwords, sign-in
- Every backend function
- Integrations and API keys
- File storage and uploads
A real migration moves the right-hand column, not just the left. That’s the part most “export” advice quietly skips — and it’s the part we move. If you want the full breakdown of what comes out in an export, read our Base44 export guide.
What moves
What “migrate off Base44” actually means
A complete migration rebuilds every layer of your app on infrastructure you own. If it’s on this list, it moves — and your screens come along untouched.
It all lands on hosting and a database you own, with the full code in a GitHub repo that’s yours. Nothing about the result ties you to us — leaving Base44 shouldn’t mean joining something else. That’s the difference between a true Base44 alternative and another rented platform.
Your users
What happens to your users when you migrate
Your user accounts are recreated on the new stack — names, emails, roles, and data all carry over. One thing can’t transfer, and you should hear it plainly: passwords. Base44 doesn’t export password data, so no migration tool on earth can move them. Anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.
Here’s how we handle it: every user gets a password-reset email inviting them to set a new password on your new sign-in. If you’d rather reach out to users yourself — a personal email, an in-app notice before cutover — that works too. The accounts, and everything attached to them, are already there waiting.
This is also why the migration is worth doing deliberately rather than in a panic: a planned cutover lets you tell users what to expect instead of surprising them.
Timeline
How long does migrating off Base44 take
The process has seven steps, and the first three take minutes, not days:
Connect Base44
Approve a one-time code on Base44’s own site. Read-only — nothing in your Base44 account changes.
Free analysis
About a minute later you get a plain-English report: what’s portable, every gap that needs your input, and your fixed quote.
Fixed quote
One price for the whole migration. One-time — no subscription, nothing recurring.
Connect your accounts
Supabase, Vercel, GitHub — the free tiers cover most apps. You paste the keys, we do the wiring.
We migrate
Database, auth, file storage, and backend functions rebuilt inside your own accounts.
You verify
Seven days to click through everything. If something that worked on Base44 broke in the move, we fix it.
Live
Your app runs on your infrastructure, in your accounts. Done.
The analysis is the part that removes the guesswork: before you pay anything, you see exactly what will move, what needs your input, and what it costs.
Cost
What it costs to migrate off Base44
The analysis is free. After it, you get one fixed quote — $799 with your data, $599 without — as a one-time payment. No subscription, nothing recurring, no surprises later. The quote is fixed before you pay, so the price you see in the analysis is the price you pay.
After the migration, your running costs are whatever Supabase and Vercel charge you directly — and their free tiers cover most small apps. That’s the point of the whole exercise: you stop paying a platform fee to host your own app. Our Base44 vs Supabase comparison breaks down the rent-vs-own math in detail.
There’s no charge for asking. If the analysis shows your app isn’t a good fit, you’ve spent a minute and learned exactly why — that report is yours to keep either way.
Downtime
Will my app go down during the migration?
No. Everything starts from a read-only pull of your Base44 project. We never touch your Base44 app, its data, its billing, or its settings — your app keeps running normally the entire time we’re working.
The new version is built and verified on your infrastructure alongside the live Base44 app, not instead of it. You get seven days to click through the migrated app and confirm everything works. Only when you’re satisfied do you point your users at the new home — the cutover is your decision, on your schedule.
That separation is deliberate. A migration that risks your live app to move your live app isn’t a migration — it’s a gamble. Ours isn’t.
FAQ
Questions, answered honestly
Do I need to code to migrate off Base44?
No. The whole flow is clicks and pasting keys where we point you. If you can approve a code on Base44’s site and copy-paste, you can do this.
Will my Base44 app keep working during the migration?
Yes. We work from a read-only copy — your Base44 project, data, billing, and settings are never touched, and your app keeps running until you decide to switch over.
What about my users’ passwords?
They can’t transfer — Base44 doesn’t export password data, so no migration can move them. We recreate every account and send password-reset emails so users set new passwords on your new sign-in.
How much does it cost to migrate off Base44?
The analysis is free and takes about a minute. After that you get one fixed quote: $799 with your data migrated, $599 without — a one-time payment, no subscription.
How is this different from Base44’s eject command?
Despite the name, eject clones your project onto a brand-new Base44 backend — your database calls, logins, and files still run on their servers. A real migration moves everything onto infrastructure you own.
What do I need to get started?
Access to your Base44 account (you approve the connection yourself on their site), plus free Supabase, Vercel, and GitHub accounts. The free tiers cover most apps.
It’s your app. Take it with you.
Connect your Base44 account from the OffRamp home page. The free analysis takes about a minute, and your fixed quote comes with it.
Start your free analysis