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Why a custom build stopped taking six months
DORA's 2025 survey of nearly 5,000 professionals found 90% now use AI at work and, for the first time, a positive link to delivery throughput. The evidence on how much faster custom builds got is messier than either side of the argument admits.
The glue layer nobody budgeted for
No-code stacks get priced by the seat, but the automation layer between the tools is metered per step. Zapier bills one task per action, Make one credit per module, and Workato will not print a number at all.
What replacing Xano actually costs
Xano Pro is $224 a month billed annually. Supabase Pro with a dedicated 2-vCPU instance works out to $125. The gap matters less than the fact that only one of those prices tells you what hardware you bought.
Keeping the editor, losing the renderer
You can leave Webflow's renderer without taking the CMS away from your marketing team. Sanity's Growth plan is $15 per seat and Contentful charges $850 a month for a Lite Space, so the bill moves rather than disappears.
The audit question low-code cannot answer
SOC 2 and GDPR auditors ask who changed what, when, and from where. Airtable answers for 180 days on its top plan, Webflow's activity log starts at $2,500 a month, and Retool shows three months in the UI.
Writing the exit plan before you need it
Webflow code export omits your CMS, Airtable attachment URLs expire within hours, and no platform exports password hashes. An exit plan is four questions you can answer this afternoon.
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