What six points of value actually buys you
Value carries only 6 of the 100 points on this board, and the cheapest tool in a comparison is rarely the one that wins the axis. Here is what the votes actually reward.
By Owen Castellan
Value is the lightest of the ten weighted axes at 6 points, and it is also the one people assume they can predict from the pricing page alone. The votes say otherwise.
Price and tier do not move together
Framer starts at 5 EUR a month and sits in S tier. Lovable starts at 23 EUR a month and also sits in S tier, ahead of Framer on the overall board. At the other end, b12 starts at 29 EUR a month, the highest entry price of any tool we cover in this comparison, and sits in C tier. Being the most expensive did not buy it a higher band, and being the cheapest did not hold Framer back either.
What the value axis actually measures is cost against a working month of real output, not the number printed on the pricing page. A 23 EUR plan that replaces a developer's afternoon every week is a better value vote than an 8 EUR plan that needs a paid upgrade the moment you add a second page.
Where cheap genuinely wins
Durable starts at 12 EUR a month and sits in B tier, ahead of several pricier tools on this exact axis, because the built in CRM and invoicing layer means builders stop paying for a second tool once the site is live. That is the pattern behind most of the strong value votes on this board: not the lowest sticker price, but the fewest additional tools you end up buying afterward.
Hocoos, Mixo and Wegic all price between 8 and 12 EUR and sit in C tier. They are not being punished for being cheap. They are scoped to a narrower job than the S and A tier entries, and the value axis is scored against what a tool actually delivers, not against what it costs relative to a job it never attempted.
Reading the axis on a tool page
Every tool page shows its own value vote bar next to the other nine axes, and the comparison matrix lets you read the value column across all 45 app builders at once. Six points is a small share of the total, but it is the axis most likely to contradict your first assumption from the pricing page alone, which is exactly why we publish it separately instead of folding it into design or speed.