Emergent
by Emergent
Describe the app, and autonomous agents build, test and deploy it
Emergent turns a plain-language description into a deployed full-stack web or mobile application, using autonomous coding agents that write, test, host and iterate on the code. It targets founders, product teams and business units that need working software without standing up an engineering team, and it hands back portable source code the customer owns.
Emergent is an agentic application-building platform: a user describes a product in plain language and a fleet of autonomous coding agents generates, tests, deploys and hosts a working full-stack web or mobile application, with the resulting source code downloadable and portable to any host the customer chooses. It was founded in 2024 by Mukund Jha, previously co-founder and CTO of Dunzo, and Madhav Jha, a theoretical computer scientist and founding member of the Amazon SageMaker research team; the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and is headquartered in San Francisco with the bulk of its roughly 75-person team in Bengaluru. Growth has been unusually steep. TechCrunch reported a $70 million Series B in January 2026, co-led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Khosla Ventures at a $300 million post-money valuation, on $50 million of ARR and more than five million registered users across 190-plus countries seven months after launch; the company then announced a $130 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation on 16 July 2026. Work is metered in credits rather than seats: 10 free credits per month, 100 on the $20/month Standard plan and 750 on the $200/month Pro plan, which adds a one-million-token context window, custom agents and higher-performance compute. Business and Enterprise tiers are quoted individually and gate RBAC, SSO, shared workspaces with real-time co-editing, audit logs, per-user credit limits, VPC deployment and self-hosted database support. It competes directly with Lovable, Replit Agent, Bolt.new and Vercel v0.
A product or business-unit lead who needs an internal tool, prototype or customer-facing MVP shipped in days and has no engineering headcount to assign to it.
A working, hosted full-stack application built from a written brief, with source code you can export to your own repository and host.
At a Glance
- Category
- No-Code Platform
- Pricing
- Freemium, Subscription, Usage-based
- Target Market
- Founders, Product Managers, CTOs, Business Operations Leads, Enterprise Developers
- Deployment
- Cloud-first, Hybrid
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Team Size
- 51-200
- Customers
- 5M+ registered users across 190+ countries and 6M+ applications built (company-stated, January 2026)
Key Features
- ✓Natural-language app generation
Describe the application in plain English and agents produce the front end, back end, data model and deployment without hand-written code.
- ✓Autonomous build-test-deploy agents
Agents do not just emit code; they run it, catch failures, iterate on the result and push a hosted version live.
- ✓Portable source code and GitHub integration
Generated code can be downloaded or synced to GitHub and hosted anywhere, which limits platform lock-in on the output.
- ✓Mobile application building
The platform builds mobile apps alongside web apps, a capability the company says drove much of its recent adoption growth.
- ✓Extended reasoning on Pro
The Pro tier adds a one-million-token context window, 'ultra thinking' mode and custom agents for larger multi-file codebases.
- ✓Team workspaces with real-time co-editing
Business tier adds shared workspaces, role-based access control and single sign-on so several people can drive the same build.
- ✓Enterprise governance controls
Enterprise adds audit logs, per-user credit limits, credit usage analytics, priority SLA, user groups and VPC deployment for controlled environments.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Internal operations tooling
An operations team describes the workflow it needs and gets a hosted CRUD app in a day, avoiding a quarter-long engineering backlog queue.
- •Investor or customer prototype
A founder builds a clickable, functioning product to validate demand before spending seed capital on a permanent engineering team.
- •Marketing and campaign microsites
Marketing spins up a bespoke landing experience or interactive tool per campaign, then discards it when the campaign ends without engineering cost.
- •Mobile companion apps
A company with an existing web product ships a basic mobile companion to test whether native demand justifies a real mobile investment.
- •Parallel concept testing
A product organisation generates several competing implementations of the same idea cheaply and keeps only the version users actually engage with.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Standing up an internal dashboard or admin tool without opening an engineering ticket
- ✓Prototyping a customer-facing SaaS or e-commerce product before committing engineering budget
- ✓Founders shipping a first monetisable web or mobile app without hiring a development team
- ✓Business teams building throwaway or short-lived operational apps that never justify a sprint
- ✓Rapidly testing several product concepts in parallel to find which one is worth building properly
Not Ideal For
- ✗Teams that need predictable per-project cost — Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly describe hundreds of credits consumed by agents looping on their own errors, with refunds refused
- ✗Regulated enterprises requiring published SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestations; no public trust or security page was found during this research
- ✗Engineering organisations with existing CI/CD, code review and architectural standards, where generated code has to survive human review rather than merely run
- ✗Anyone who needs vendor support as a safety net — support responsiveness is the second most common complaint in its 602 Trustpilot reviews
Deployment
Market & Ratings
5M+ registered users across 190+ countries and 6M+ applications built (company-stated, January 2026)
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Genuinely fast: reviewers describe shipping in days what would previously have taken months
- ✓No technical skill required to get a hosted, working application out of a written brief
- ✓Generated code is downloadable and portable, so the output is not locked to the platform
- ✓Enterprise tier is unusually complete for this category — RBAC, SSO, audit logs, VPC deployment and per-user credit caps
Cons
- ✗TrustScore of 2.9 out of 5 across 602 Trustpilot reviews, with 47% of reviewers awarding one star against 40% awarding five
- ✗Credits drain during failed agent loops and basic troubleshooting; multiple reviewers report hundreds of credits spent on broken output and refunds refused
- ✗Reliability complaints are specific and repeated: agents stuck in loops, incomplete files, missing lockfiles and applications described as production-ready that were not
- ✗Support is described as slow, templated and dismissive of infrastructure failures, and several reviewers report continued charges after cancelling
- ✗No public security or compliance attestation was found, which will stall procurement at regulated buyers
Pricing
Free
$0
- ✓10 credits per month
- ✓Core platform access
- ✓Web and mobile app building
- ✓LLM integration
Standard
From $17/mo
- ✓100 credits per month
- ✓$20 billed monthly, $17/mo billed annually
- ✓Private hosting
- ✓GitHub integration
- ✓Fork tasks
- ✓Extra credits purchasable
Pro
From $167/mo
- ✓750 credits per month
- ✓$200 billed monthly, $167/mo billed annually
- ✓1M-token context window
- ✓Ultra thinking mode
- ✓Custom AI agents
- ✓High-performance compute
- ✓Priority support
Business
Contact for pricing
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Role-based access control
- ✓Single sign-on
- ✓Shared team workspaces
- ✓Real-time co-editing
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Everything in Business
- ✓User-level credit limits
- ✓Audit logs
- ✓Self-hosted database support
- ✓Priority SLA
- ✓User groups
- ✓VPC deployment
- ✓Credit usage analytics
Metered in credits rather than seats: 10 free per month, 100 on Standard at $20/month ($17/month annually) and 750 on Pro at $200/month ($167/month annually), with extra credits purchasable. Business and Enterprise are quoted individually and are where RBAC, SSO, audit logs, per-user credit limits, VPC deployment and self-hosted databases sit. Budget for retries: the single most common theme across its 602 Trustpilot reviews is credits consumed by agents looping on their own errors, with refunds declined, so effective cost per shipped app can run well above the headline plan price.
Security & Compliance
Sources
This page was written from 7 sources, 4 on domains other than emergent.sh.
- 1.emergent.sh — emergent.shvendor
- 2.emergent.sh — pricingvendor
- 3.emergent.sh — newsvendor
- 4.techcrunch.com — indian vibe coding startup emergent raises 70m at 300m valua
- 5.trustpilot.com — emergent.sh
- 6.ycombinator.com — emergent
- 7.theaiinsider.tech — emergent closes 70m series b to scale ai driven vibe coding
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