What Is OutSystems? Features, Pricing & Alternatives

Overview

OutSystems is one of the longest-established low-code vendors. Founder and chairman Paulo Rosado started the company in 2001, and its investors include KKR, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business, Guidepost Growth Equity and Armilar Venture Partners^[3]. The company lists an office in Boston and more than 1,600 employees^[3]. It now markets its product as an agentic systems platform for building and running AI agents and applications^[2].

OutSystems targets professional developers building complex, high-volume applications. Its visual development environment generates full-stack web and mobile applications, and the platform includes development, non-production and production runtimes, with deployment on the OutSystems cloud, on-premises, in a private cloud or in a sovereign or regulated cloud^[2]. Customers named on the pricing page include Heineken, KeyBank, Bosch, Honda and The Pokémon Company International^[2].

Pricing is by quote and is based on application objects (the combined count of screens, database tables and API methods; a typical medium-sized app is about 150), the number of internal and external users, and add-ons such as 24×7 support, higher uptime and compliance certifications like SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS^[2]. The standard platform includes only 99.5% uptime and 8×5 support, so production-grade service levels cost extra^[2].

What OutSystems does

Visual full-stack web and mobile development
AI agent building and orchestration
Cloud, on-premises, private or sovereign cloud deployment
Built-in CI/CD tooling
Mobile app shielding add-on
Free Personal Edition

OutSystems pricing

Quote-based. Priced on application objects, internal and external users and add-ons; the standard platform starts with 100 internal users, 99.5% uptime and 8x5 support. Free Personal Edition for learning (no deployment).