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Caspio vs Microsoft Power Apps comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Caspio
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
33rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No-Code Development Platforms (26th)
Microsoft Power Apps
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Low-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of Caspio is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 9.5%, down from 15.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Power Apps9.5%
Caspio0.8%
Other89.7%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

Timothy Soares - PeerSpot reviewer
Channels and Payments Administrator at Finabank N.V.
It's a good solution for those with limited coding experience
The visualization of the data pages could be improved. You have to a lot of tweaking to make the visualization stand out. It's basic, but there are a lot of options. So you really have to do a lot of customizing on that part. They could add some templates that are more attractive than the basic ones. It would be helpful if you could start with something that's already built rather than working on standard templates from scratch.
BS
Automation Enthusiast at Self employed
Low-code AI workflows have streamlined content curation and currently support rapid app creation
Microsoft Power Apps could be improved because there are still a lot of jargons and too many moving parts. For example, if you look at Copilot, the term Copilot is confusing in the sense of whether it is Copilot in M365, Copilot Studio, or Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps. There is a plan designer which uses Copilot. The whole thing how AI has been positioned is still not lucid for the end user. An end user wants to know exactly what they want and where they go to get it. I think that could also be because things are evolving so fast. From an end-user perspective, the way it has been positioned, the clarity and the boundaries between the different types of offerings and AI offerings available is confusing as of now. There should be better clarity on that. The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model. In traditional software development, almost 95 percent of the time, the development team bears the cost of the licenses. For example, if I develop something, I may have to pay licenses for four or five different software that I use. As a user, if you use my services, you probably pay something to me as a subscription, but you do not have to bother about the licenses. All that is wrapped under the hood. Unfortunately, in Power Platform as such, and even in other low-code things like UiPath, if you use a premium feature such as Dataverse, almost everything ends up using Dataverse or SQL Server or some relational database. If you use that, then as an app builder or app maker you have to have a premium license. The end user too would need to have a premium license. That really makes the adoption prohibitive. It is too expensive. We are talking about something like around just for Microsoft Power Apps alone, approximately twenty dollars per month, which is extremely high. Another point to consider for what else can be improved in Microsoft Power Apps is that one does not know what compute power one is getting when one buys a license. If you look at the licensing model, you will get to know how much of Dataverse storage you will get in terms of log storage, database storage, and file storage. However, you do not get to know how much of compute power is being given to you. I do not think Microsoft has an SLA saying that any request of a certain amount, such as MB per second, you will get a response time of whatever, one by sixtieth of a second or some millisecond. I do not think that they have that performance SLA in place. They do have storage SLA which comes with the license, but they do not have a corresponding SLA for performance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Caspio was user-friendly compared to other solutions. As someone who doesn't know a lot about coding, I found it easy to create a web application on this platform."
"I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills."
"I like the solution's ability to approve some tasks electronically."
"Microsoft PowerApps allows you to simplify business processes and user experience. You can also create responsive applications and canvas apps through this solution. It's an easy to scale, stable, and low-code solution."
"The most valuable feature is automized processes."
"Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product."
"It can make a very user-friendly solution, and you can show your data from it."
"It's a very workable solution because it's an automated way of making applications. You have a template, you have the application know-how,"
"If you're using Microsoft Power Apps to connect to a SharePoint list and create a quick form for business users, it's highly effective."
 

Cons

"The visualization of the data pages could be improved. You have to a lot of tweaking to make the visualization stand out. It's basic, but there are a lot of options. So you really have to do a lot of customizing on that part. They could add some templates that are more attractive than the basic ones. It would be helpful if you could start with something that's already built rather than working on standard templates from scratch."
"It has to improve the threshold limit where it can handle data beyond 5000 items."
"If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial."
"The solution is evolving very fast and every month new features are introduced. Sometimes it's difficult to catch up with all the evolution that's happening. I had to focus on Power BI for a while and left PowerApps at the side for a couple of months and when I came back, it had changed its interface and moved components around."
"The pricing structure needs to be improved, the current information is confusing."
"Its user interface can be better. It is good, but it can be a bit clunky."
"The portal and canvas apps need to be improved and brought up to speed."
"The solution could improve by having more connectors for different solutions in a way to create custom connectors. Additionally, they should make HTTP Connectors free again because it was not always a premium feature. These HTTP connectors allow you to send API requests which can be important."
"Microsoft PowerApps is not responsive in nature."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool is neither cheap nor expensive. The tool's cost is manageable."
"Microsoft Power Apps is not an expensive solution."
"It might be too complicated to continuously monitor the business consumption and what to pay."
"My company has non-profit licensing, and hence, it is affordable. Pricing depends on usage."
"If we compare Microsoft Power Apps with any on-prem or other Azure solutions, I feel it can be made cheaper."
"There are two licensing costs, one is pay-as-you-go, or you can develop it for one year."
"The pricing is complicated to understand."
"The company has a subscription where you can use certain features for free, but there are features that require a premium subscription to use."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise50
 

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