Anyone else weighing AI app builder pricing for a small Zorin project?

I use Zorin OS on an older laptop for a small side project, mostly simple tools for myself and a couple of friends. I've been looking at what AI app builders charge in 2026 and the pricing tiers are hard to line up, since each one bundles different limits on builds, exports and hosting. My concern is committing to a monthly plan and then hitting a cap before I get anything usable, or paying for features I'd never touch on Zorin. I'd rather keep it lightweight and browser-based, but I'm unsure whether the cheaper tiers actually let you take the project elsewhere. I haven't used any of these services yet, so this is just from pricing pages and forum posts I've come across while reading about it. For those who've tried an AI app builder from Zorin, how did the costs work out in practice? Did a lower tier cover you, or did you end up switching?

Update after reading more - AI App Builder Pricing Compared (2026) helped me line up the tiers better. I'm still unsure whether the cheaper ones let me move a project off later, so I'm leaning toward testing one month first.

For my projects I use Claude Code, great and accurate for my part, but if you want to make a project you have to make a structured plan and also need to have some codding notions to manage correctly your prompts or it will cost you more than a Pro plan....

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