Does Anything have a free plan you can build on?
No, and the docs do not hedge about it. “Anything offers Pro and Max plans. Building an app requires a paid plan.” Start a build without one and Anything takes you to checkout, carrying your prompt through so generation begins the moment you subscribe. If you already have projects and you downgrade, the docs list what happens: data is retained, published apps and projects stay published, mobile apps already in TestFlight or the App Store are untouched — but the Anything badge reappears on published web apps, publishing to custom domains and the app stores is disabled, and “Building is paused until you resubscribe”. This is the honest reason a Create.xyz alternative search still happens, and it is the one thing Buildra answers plainly: Buildra's free tier is 5 credits a day and it builds, publishes and hands you the source. That sentence is the whole of Buildra's price argument on this page.
Which is better for phone apps: Buildra or Anything?
Both build them and both send the build toward the stores for you, with the final review left to you, so this is a real comparison rather than a feature one side lacks. Anything's mobile doc is direct — it “builds iOS and Android apps you can submit to the App Store and Google Play”, with Google Play publishing marked as beta — and publishing “submits it to the App Store through TestFlight or to Google Play's internal testing track”. Around that it documents device capabilities like camera and location, Expo Go for testing on a real handset, RevenueCat for in-app purchases, AdMob for ads, and a compliance check against Apple's guidelines before submission. Buildra builds phone apps and uploads them to App Store Connect and Google Play for you on a paid plan, from your own developer accounts, and that is the extent of what can be claimed for it here. On the surrounding machinery — the payment and ad integrations, the on-device testing path, the pre-submission check — Anything has documented more, and a team whose whole product is a mobile app should weigh that.
What happens to the code you build?
Anything gives you the code but not a repository. The export page is short and clear: “Download your project's source code anytime. Go to the Code tab and click Download Project to get a zip file.” The output is React and Next.js, and the FAQ states you own everything generated in your projects. The gap is sync — “GitHub sync is coming soon. For now, download your code and push it to a GitHub repo yourself” — which means continuing work in another editor is a manual copy each time, and there is no branch or pull request trail. Buildra's answer is the opposite shape: every commit the agent makes is mirrored out to a GitHub repository you own, a project can start from a repository you already have on GitHub, and the source downloads as a .tar.gz on the free tier. The limits belong in the same breath: that mirror runs one direction only, so a push you make on GitHub does not come back into Buildra, and Buildra does not open branches or pull requests or run CI for you.
How does pricing compare between Buildra and Anything?
Anything publishes both billing periods. Pro is $19 a month on annual billing — charged once a year as $228, not monthly — or $24 month to month, for 20k credits. Max is sold in eight credit tiers running from $199 to $899 a month on annual billing, $239 to $1,079 monthly, for 220k up to 990k credits, with a volume discount already folded into the credit counts. Top-offs run from $12 for 10k credits to $240 for 200k and never expire; monthly credits do expire at the end of each cycle. Credits are spent three ways: every message you send, every AI integration your published app runs, and paid templates. Buildra Free is 5 credits a day, up to 25 a month, across up to 3 projects; the paid plans run from Starter at $25 a month for 100 credits to Pro from $100 for 400, with a year costing ten months. The comparison is lopsided at the bottom and stops being about money at the top — what Max sells is a browser agent that opens the app, tries it and fixes what it finds, and Buildra has no answer to that.