Grid® for Low-Code Development Platforms
Low-Code Development Platforms Definition
This page was last updated on June 9th, 2025
Low-code development platforms provide environments for the rapid creation of custom and complex enterprise applications. These platforms enable developers and other technical & semi-technical teams to build custom full-stack applications from scratch, using a combination of drag and drop and custom code.
These products allow developers without frontend expertise to build custom user interfaces (UI) using drag-and-drop and custom business logic on top of production databases and application programming interfaces (API).
In addition to streamlining core application development, these platforms address security, governance, performance, availability, observability, usage monitoring, and other enterprise requirements. This helps junior developers, IT teams, data teams, security teams, and other semi-technical teams to build custom full-stack enterprise applications far more efficiently than with traditional DIY development.
To qualify for inclusion in the Low-Code Development Platforms category, a product must:
- Provide environments to develop custom full-stack enterprise applications
- Be designed for use by developers and other technical and semi-technical teams
- Offer a visual UI builder
- Integrate with production databases and software as a service (SaaS) providers
- Allow developers to write custom frontend and backend code using modern programming languages
- Support git-based source or version control by connecting to git providers
- Offer out-of-the-box audit logging and observability
Low-Code Development Platforms Grid® Scoring Description
Products shown on the Grid® for Low-Code Development Platforms have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings in
data gathered by February 25, 2025. Products are ranked by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews) and market
presence (based on market share, seller size, and social impact) and placed into four categories on the
Grid®:
- Products in the Leader quadrant are rated highly by G2 users and have substantial Market Presence scores. Leaders include: Salesforce Platform, ServiceNow App Engine, The UiPath Platform™, OutSystems, Quickbase, Microsoft Power Apps, Superblocks, Bizagi, Retool, Appian, Mendix, and Caspio
- High Performing products have high customer Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. High Performers include: Appsmith, UI Bakery, Kissflow, App Builder, Neptune DXP, Interfacing, Alpha Anywhere, and AmpleLogic Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
- Contender products have relatively low customer Satisfaction scores and high Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. While they may have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Contenders include: HCL Domino, SAP Business Technology Platform, Claris FileMaker, WaveMaker, Pega Platform, AWS Step Functions, NewgenONE Digital Transformation Platform, Automation Anywhere - RPA | Robotic Process Automation, Zoho Creator, Oracle Application Express, and Jitterbit
- Niche products have relatively low Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. While they may have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Niche products include: GeneXus, Latenode, 1C:Enterprise, ToolJet, DronaHQ, The m-Power Development Platform, Progress OpenEdge, Prophecy, Progress Telerik, Joget DX, Visual LANSA, InRule, PMG Platform, Servoy, Ninox, and Slingr
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