Stacker Review 2026

Easier than before to get started, harder to stay in control. The new Stacker runs on a builder agent: you type what you want ("a portal where each client sees their invoices and can upload a document") and the AI creates the tables, pages and permissions. You then refine it by chatting. For a team without a developer, that beats the old builder, where every view had to be set up by hand.

The docs stress one thing: output quality depends on your first prompt. A vague request gets you a vague app, and every round trip burns credits. Spend ten minutes writing a mini spec before you start the agent: your tables, your roles (team, client, partner), and what each role can see and edit.

Existing customers face a choice. The original manual builder still exists as Legacy Mode. But the docs are blunt: once you move to Legacy Mode, you cannot go back to the AI Builder Agent, at least for now. It is not a setting to flip just to see what happens.

For end users, nothing tricky. Clients log in to the portal with their email and a verification link, no password to create. Your team logs in to the internal workspace with email and password. Reviews of the old product mentioned a real learning curve and training for newcomers; the AI shortens it at the start, not on fine-grained settings.

At least $50 a month, and a real cost that is hard to predict. The only public plan, Standard, starts at $50 a month for 250 credits. Higher tiers keep the same per-credit price: $100 for 500, $200 for 1,000, $500 for 2,500, $1,000 for 5,000 and $2,000 for 10,000. No annual discount listed, no volume discount.

What you get: no per-seat billing. AI agents and client portals are unlimited, so you can open a portal to hundreds of clients without the bill moving. For a busy portal that rarely changes, that is a real edge over tools that count every user, like Retool with its paid external users.

What you only partly control: consumption. The pricing page gives ranges: 1 to 3 credits for a quick task, 5 to 15 for a multi-step workflow, 20 to 50 for a full project. So 250 credits cover five big projects or about a hundred quick tasks, and anything in between depends on how you work. Subscription credits reset every cycle with no rollover, and agents pause when the balance hits zero. An agent answering your clients can go quiet in the last week of the month.

One more thing: the pricing model has changed several times. Stacker has billed per app, per record, per portal client, and now per credit. One user complained in 2025 that the cheapest plan that fit his needs ran $300 a month. Today's model is cheaper to start, but nothing guarantees it will hold. The $100 trial credits never expire, which gives you room to measure your real usage before you pay.

Yes according to users, with a caveat: their reviews date from the old product. On the big software review sites, support is one of Stacker's best-rated areas, and customers say it was easy to reach with quick, useful answers. One long-time user describes support that started rough and got much better. The public roadmap and responsiveness to feature requests come up too.

For the new Stacker, reviews are still thin. On a consumer review site, Stacker has just two reviews: one glowing, one scathing, calling it too expensive for a small business. And on forums, "Is Stacker dead?" ranks near the top of searches: the rebrand and product change worried part of the customer base.

The support tiers are clear. Standard gets you docs and support. Dedicated onboarding, an SLA and priority support are reserved for Enterprise. The docs cover getting started, agents and permissions well, and a public changelog tracks what ships.

If you want hands-on help building your portal or moving an app off the old Stacker, our Stacker agency can take it on, and Stacker training built around your real use case teaches you to drive the agent without wasting credits.

Yes for automation, much less than before for syncing data. The pricing page advertises 2,000+ integrations on Standard. In the docs, they go through three doors: Zapier, Make and an open API that lets other software read and write your tables. AI agents also connect to Gmail and Slack.

The big change is Airtable. The old Stacker lived on it: it read and wrote your Airtable base both ways, and for many customers that was the whole point. The current docs no longer describe that sync. Your data gets imported into Stacker Tables, by CSV or copy-paste. If your team keeps working in Airtable, you will have two databases to keep aligned, with Zapier or Make in between.

Same caution for SQL databases and Google Sheets: the direct connections you read about in older reviews are not in the current docs. Before you migrate, check every data source you depend on, and budget for the automation tool that will bridge them.