# Cordango vs Base44: governed apps, or one company model > Base44 builds full-stack apps from a description with a backend, authentication and enterprise security controls included. The difference is architectural, not a missing feature. Checked against Base44 documentation. Source: https://www.cordango.com/vs/base44/ Language: en [Home](https://www.cordango.com/) [Compare](https://www.cordango.com/vs/) Cordango vs Base44 # Cordango vs Base44 Base44 is the hardest comparison on this list, because it already does most of what people expect us to claim it cannot. Base44 is the comparison that makes the lazy version of our argument fall apart, so it is worth putting first. It builds full-stack applications from a description, and unlike most of the AI builders it does not hand you a shell and wish you luck: the backend, the database and user management come with it. On the enterprise side there is SSO, there are security controls, and there is a portfolio-wide Security Center that lets an administrator look across everything that has been built. So “AI builders cannot be governed” is not a claim we are going to make about Base44, because it is not true. The difference that remains is about the unit. Base44 governs a set of applications that were each built and given what they needed. Cordango starts from the company: the organizations, the people, the teams and the roles exist as platform records, and a capability reads them rather than being given its own. Fact-checked 25 August 2026 Feature availability and pricing change. Every row is checked against the vendor's own current documentation, linked at the foot of this page. Default means it is there without anyone setting it up. Available means the vendor supports it, sometimes only on a particular plan. Build or configure means it is possible and it is your work. Not a focus means the product is aimed somewhere else. ## The short version. Where Base44 wins - FULL Full-stack from a description, with backend and database included - AUTH User management and authentication come with the app rather than after it - GOV Enterprise SSO, security controls and a portfolio-wide Security Center - SELL Customer-facing products as well as internal tools - FAST Very short distance from an idea to something people can use Where Cordango wins - CTX Your organizations, people and teams are in the capability before you build it - ONE One rights model, rather than one granted to each app as it is built - LOG One field-level history across everything, produced by the runtime - EU German data centres, and we name the provider in the sub-processor list - ASK Too complex to generate? We build it on the same core. ## Side by side. Cordango vs Base44, compared across the dimensions that change the decision. Fact-checked 25 August 2026. | | Cordango | Base44 | | --- | --- | --- | | Building an app by describing it | Default the normal way in, alongside ready-made capabilities | Default full-stack, and this is what the product is built around | | Backend and database included | Default there is no per-app backend, because capabilities share the platform’s | Default each app gets one, which is the point | | Shared company records across every app | Default organizations, people and teams are there before the first app | Build or configure each app is built with what it needs. Sharing records across apps is something you design. | | Organisation-level identity and roles | Default Microsoft and Google sign-in on every plan, SAML and SCIM higher up | Available SSO and enterprise security controls | | Authorisation inside the app | Default enforced below the application, per entity, per field and per command | Available user management comes with the app. What each role may do is still per app. | | One view across the whole portfolio | Default there is one platform to look at | Available the Security Center looks across everything built in the workspace | | Audit across every app | Default field-level history produced by the runtime, nothing to model | Available enterprise security and monitoring. Check the tier for retention and detail. | | Data architecture | Default one company model, one schema per tenant, every capability reads it | Not a focus a backend per app. Excellent for shipping an app, awkward for a company of them. | | Managed hosting | Default backups, updates and patching are ours | Default apps are hosted and published for you | | German or EU data residency | Default German data centres, sub-processors published | Unclear we could not find a documented customer-selectable German or EU region. Ask Base44 rather than assuming either way. | | Apps you sell to customers | Not a focus Cordango is for how a company runs, not for what it sells | Default customer-facing products are a first-class use case | | Taking the result elsewhere | Not a focus your data exports. The app is a definition on the platform. The compiler and CLI are Apache-2.0, the platform is not. | Available code export is supported. Check what leaves with it on your plan. | | Who has to build it | Default you describe it, or you ask us to build it on the same core | Default anyone can start, and the backend does not need assembling | | One contract for the whole platform | Default apps are not priced separately. The tenth capability does not add a line item. | Default one Base44 contract, with published plans | ## The architecture difference. Base44 closed the gap that most AI builders leave open. The app arrives with a backend, a database and user management, and the enterprise product can look across the whole portfolio and tell you what exists and how it is secured. If your worry was that prompt-built software is ungoverned software, Base44 has an answer and it is a good one. The distinction left is narrow but it is the one that compounds. Base44 governs applications that were each given what they needed. The tenth app was told what a customer is, granted its users, and then brought under the same oversight as the other nine. Cordango never tells a capability what a customer is, because the customer is a platform record that existed first, and rights are checked underneath rather than granted per app. Whether that matters to you depends on how many internal things you expect to run and how much they overlap. For three apps that barely touch each other, Base44’s model is lighter. For fifteen that all involve the same people and the same customers, ours stops repeating itself. Where Base44 wins Base44 is the better choice when some of what you build is customer-facing, when each application is genuinely independent, or when you want every app to own its backend and be portable on its own terms. ## Which one should you pick? ### Pick Base44 if - 01 Some of what you build is for customers, not just for colleagues - 02 You want each app to have its own backend and its own shape - 03 Code export matters to you - 04 The apps are largely independent of one another ### Pick Cordango if - 01 The apps all involve the same people, customers and suppliers - 02 You would rather rights were checked underneath than granted per app - 03 You expect a tenth capability, and a twentieth - 04 German hosting is on the requirement list rather than the wish list SRC ## Where these facts come from. - [Base44base44.com/](https://base44.com/) - [Base44 for enterprisebase44.com/enterprise](https://base44.com/enterprise) - [Base44 securitybase44.com/security](https://base44.com/security) - [Base44 pricingbase44.com/pricing](https://base44.com/pricing) **What we can show you, and what we cannot.** Cordango holds no ISO 27001, SOC 2 or C5 certification today, and has not commissioned an external penetration test yet. We would rather you read that here than find it in procurement. [Security and permissions at Cordango](https://www.cordango.com/security/), and the [data processing agreement](https://www.cordango.com/dpa/) in full. NEXT ## Bring one internal app. See what it inherits. Bring something you would otherwise build as its own app with its own backend. We will build it in the demo as a capability on a company that already has the records and the rights. [Book a demo →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [All comparisons →](https://www.cordango.com/vs/)