Base44 vs OutSystems (2026)

Prebuilt integrations cover AI, email, file storage, payments and messaging, with Airtable, Slack, Stripe and Zapier named in the documentation index. Beyond the first party set there is a community integrations list with a Create Integration flow and per integration approval status, so third parties publish connectors others can adopt (Explorium documents its own onboarding through it).

Enterprise admins control which external services are available, manage shared versus app user credentials separately, and can block specific connectors across apps, Superagents and in app agents. Superagents themselves connect outward to third party applications and reach users over WhatsApp and Telegram. The Wix distribution adds Stores, Bookings, Blog, Events, Restaurants and CRM as context sources.

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Agents call tools directly. Server actions are exposed to an agent, and the AI model autonomously decides which action or sequence of actions is appropriate by analyzing the prompts and the purpose of each exposed action, calling a single action, a sequence, or the same action repeatedly.

Agents connect to APIs, databases, ERP, CRM and legacy systems through prebuilt connectors and extensible services, wrapping and extending core systems without replacement, and Model Context Protocol support gives agents direct access to enterprise systems, external tools and services. Forge components extend the tool surface, such as OmniDoc2MD, whose server action can be exposed as an agent action.

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A Superagent splits a complex request into independent sub-agent tasks that run in parallel in the background, shows each in a task panel, lets the user stop the work while keeping finished results, and combines the outputs into one response. Superagent workflows are built from a chat description into scheduled or triggered multi-step runs managed from a Workflows page, and app workflows automate multi-step work on schedules, data changes or connector events.

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Named multi agent architectures include a shared memory pattern, where agents read from and write to shared state and communicate implicitly by modifying it, and a network pattern of autonomous peer agents interacting in a graph like structure without a central controller.

Agents combine with ODC workflows, where automatic activities call an agent's service action, human activities pause for approval, and validation branches route invalid results back to a prior step to rerun the agent with feedback. Agents are coordinated side by side, in sequence, in hierarchy, and with or without humans in the loop, through a visual interface. Agentic Enterprise Orchestration, launched at ONE, is the current generation of this layer.

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Superagent workflows run on a schedule, such as every morning or every Monday, or when a trigger happens, such as an email arriving in a connected Gmail account or a change to the agent's data, with Run Now, pause, archive and automatic pausing of repeatedly failing scheduled workflows; app workflows additionally react to data changes, publishes and payments. Superagents are reachable in Base44 chat and over WhatsApp (including groups), Telegram, iMessage, Slack channels with an agent handle, LINE and a Chrome extension, and a message sent on a channel mid-task joins the work in progress.

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Agent runs start from three entry routes, an Event Handler, a Timer or a REST Expose. Timers are background scheduled jobs configured with OutSystems schedule syntax and forced on demand through the Wake action, events run through the platform's event driven architecture, and REST Expose makes an agent callable as an inbound HTTP endpoint. Agents are additionally published as service actions consumed by any app in the tenant, embedded into web and mobile interfaces, and reachable externally through the Agent Experience MCP and A2A services.

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Agents are grounded in the application's own data entities, with AI assistants defined with custom tools and data permissions, and each entity supporting granular create, read, update and delete permissions. On the Wix surface, agents answer using the merchant's live site data. Superagents additionally reach connected business systems. No document ingestion, embedding or vector store, retrieval augmented generation, knowledge base object or citation of sources is described.

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Agents are grounded in the OutSystems Enterprise Context Graph, an operational knowledge layer over the customer's application estate that OutSystems says grounds any coding tool or LLM in shared context, spanning entities, relationships, roles and business logic.

Agent configuration begins with grounding data that connects the agent to internal databases or external APIs so responses rest on current factual information, and integrated semantic search shipped with Agentic Enterprise Orchestration at ONE.

Forge components ingest documents, converting Word, PDF, spreadsheet, presentation, HTML and plain text binaries to Markdown while preserving structure and extracting images.

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The owner turns Superagent memory on or off and scopes it as separated, remembering facts and history within each conversation, or shared, remembering across all conversations so what the agent learns in one is available everywhere. Under Personalization the user can review what the Superagent has learned about them and delete memories they no longer want it to use, and the agent can change how it uses memory when the owner asks in chat. No retention period is stated.

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OutSystems offers a memory primitive that the developer wires to a store. The StoreMemory action in AgentFlow lets developers explicitly save previous user queries, model outputs, intermediate decisions or system states for recall in later interactions, retrieved into subsequent prompts. A SessionId passed by the consumer app writes conversation state to an ODC entity in the customer's own database, and a shared memory pattern coordinates multiple agents. OutSystems does not describe a retention period, purge path or review and deletion surface for stored memory.

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Before a Superagent sends a change to an app it asks for the owner's approval and names the app it is about to change, it asks for approval before installing a skill (answerable Yes or No in WhatsApp), and other actions that need approval are handled in the Superagent in Base44. Security settings carry per-agent permission toggles, with Update data and Delete data advised only when the role needs them; interactive actions run under the chatting user's own permissions; and enterprise admins can block connectors and disable Superagents across the whole workspace.

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Agents can be held for human oversight on high stakes or low confidence decisions. A Human activity element placed in the workflow pauses execution until an assigned user or role acts, the assigned person sees the agent's output on a task screen and clicks Approve or Reject, and that action raises an event closing the activity so the workflow resumes on the human's decision.

In one example, a vendor approval workflow pauses after the agent generates a risk report. A validation branch can route a rejected result back to a prior step to rerun the agent with feedback. Separately, Agent Guardrails are enforced in the runtime and cannot be bypassed once enabled, covering prompt attack blocking, PII masking and harmful content filtering.

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Base44's trust center at base44.com/security lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, plus GDPR. Data is protected by TLS 1.2+ in transit and AES-256 at rest, with secrets held in cloud KMS, and the program includes OWASP-based penetration testing, threat modeling, secure design and code review. There is also an active bug bounty program and a third-party vendor risk program covering every supplier.

SSO through the organization's own IdP is enforced across the workspace and every app inside it, alongside SCIM provisioning with automatic joiner and leaver sync, OAuth 2.0 connectors, IP allowlisting by address, range and subnet, and domain-based access control. Enterprise workspaces are opted out of model training by default. Two-way GitHub export lets a customer run their own security and compliance scanners over the generated code. The platform runs on Wix's enterprise security infrastructure.

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OutSystems runs a public Trust Center at security.outsystems.com with certification records and security advisories. Attestations include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 certified by BSI, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 for cloud security, and CSA STAR self assessment, with OutSystems Developer Cloud separately holding SOC 2 attestation evaluated by Baker Tilly and SOC 1 Type 2 attestation.

An identity service provides role based access to screens, data and logic flows with administrator controlled permissions, single sign on and external authentication, and a formal logical access procedure. Agent Guardrails are enforced in the runtime rather than at the application layer, detecting and blocking prompt attacks, masking or blocking PII before data reaches a model provider, and filtering harmful content.

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Every Superagent workflow run is recorded, with an Activity tab listing each run's date, workflow, status and duration and per-workflow run history, success rate and average runtime, and the agent can be asked in chat what happened in a run; sub-agent tasks are shown in a task panel.

An app Logs page records user activity and function calls through to schema and integration changes, an Audit Logs API offers filterable event types, and a Monitoring API with a workspace owned key serves enterprise admins. The app Logs page is described only briefly, and the Superagent run record shows each run's status without listing the actions taken.

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Distributed traces treat an agent as a filterable asset in its own right, filterable by stage, asset, element type, trace status, total duration, date and time, and user, retained up to four weeks and queryable in two week intervals, and spans are aggregated so an agent's execution can be read both as its own trace and as a span inside a calling app's trace.

Logs carry Error, Warning and Information severities, are generated automatically or through LogMessage actions developers place, and link to related logs and activities for root cause work. Agent Evaluations return quality scores with full execution traces.

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Enterprise workspaces can choose where workspace app data is stored, across the US, EU or UK, to meet data sovereignty and compliance requirements, and applications are hosted on continuously monitored private infrastructure. No on-premises, air-gapped, customer VPC or self-hosted deployment is offered, and the platform runs as SaaS on Wix infrastructure. Two-way GitHub sync exports the full source code to the customer's repository.

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With ODC self hosted deployment, customers run their apps, data and AI agents in their own private cloud, public cloud, or on premises Kubernetes infrastructure while OutSystems continues to manage platform services, with single tenant runtime provisioning from the ODC Portal and a secure pull mechanism for updates.

OutSystems aims this at customers who need absolute control over hosting environments for data residency, security or regulatory compliance mandates. A secure private gateway connects ODC to on premises databases, APIs and enterprise systems without moving data.

A self hosted provisioning repository supporting Kubernetes and OpenShift is published on OutSystems' GitHub, and the OutSystems 11 platform runs on self managed infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and on premises.

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A template marketplace at base44.com/templates offers more than one hundred ready-made app templates and design layouts built by the Base44 community, with category pages including community and creative tools, and users pick a template, customize it with AI and launch.

Base44 suggests browsing the templates, finding one that shares similar workflows, cloning it and asking Base44 to modify it, with a worked example of reusing a project management template's task assignment flow for an event app. Skills are packaged reusable units, with up to ten attachable per agent and workspace skills shared across the workspace alongside app-level skills. These are app templates and reusable skills, and no prebuilt Superagents are offered, so agents are created by generation.

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Agent Workbench shipped an agent marketplace at general availability alongside MCP support. Forge, a public browsable catalog of numbered, individually addressable and documented components, installs components into an app and exposes their server actions to agents, OmniDoc2MD among them.

Agent creation is template-driven, starting from defined components for grounding data, prompt, model and tools, and a Mentor capability in beta generates a full agent configuration including instructions, tools and model settings from a plain-language description with conversational refinement. OutSystems launched its first end to end Agentic Industry Solution, a Banking Solution for Loan Origination, at ONE, as the first of a family.

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Users select the model that powers each agent under an AI Model setting, keeping Automatic for fast cost-effective responses or choosing a model from Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT or Anthropic Claude for more advanced reasoning, with the setting applied per agent and switchable at any time.

Credit consumption is published per model tier, naming the Automatic default as based on Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at approximately three credits per message, Gemini 3 Flash at a moderate increase, and higher-end models such as GPT-5.6 Sol for complex analysis.

Users on Base44's public feedback forum report that model selection was removed from the builder chat used for coding, which is separate from the agent setting.

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In Agent Workbench a model is connected once and reused across agents, with support at general availability for AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Anthropic, plus Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, Databricks, AI2 and IBM watsonx, custom built models on Vertex AI and open source models on Hugging Face. An expanded Amazon Bedrock partnership gives teams access to more than one hundred large language models through a single set of credentials, and models can be swapped as pricing or performance shifts without rewriting underlying logic. OutSystems pitches the platform as insulating customers from LLM lock in.

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Base44's developer platform includes a CLI (including agents and agent-skills pull and push), a typed SDK with an agents interface, backend functions, automations, an Apps API, Enterprise APIs, an Audit Logs API and a Monitoring API, personal access tokens, App MCP letting assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor work with a published app's data, agents and tools, a documentation MCP and llms.txt index, and bring-your-own coding agent into the app editor.

Superagents can be reached with a personal access token. Two-way GitHub sync now exports the full source code, where it once covered only the frontend.

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ODC publishes REST APIs for the platform itself, authenticated through API clients using OpenID Connect over OAuth 2.0 client credentials, with twelve named references (User and Access Management, Portfolio v2, Build Operations, Native Mobile Build, Deployments, Dependency Management, Asset Repository, Asset Configurations, Environment Configurations, Code Quality, External Library Generation Service and Subscription). Agents are also exposed through REST Expose as inbound endpoints, and OutSystems has announced Agent Experience as a layer of A2A and MCP services, without publishing addresses for those services.

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A real iteration loop exists for the app being built: generate, preview instantly on built in hosting, inspect, and refine either by prompting again or through a visual editor that allows direct click to change edits to layout, copy and styling, with real time collaboration and version control tracking changes. Two way GitHub export lets a team run their own external security tooling and specialized compliance scanners over the generated code.

Agents themselves get no evaluation tools, with no harness or sandbox for rehearsing a Superagent against test inputs before it runs live on schedules and real events, no automated scoring and no regression testing when a prompt or integration changes. Third party reviews report that debugging uses build credits without always resolving the problem.

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Agent Evaluations validate agent logic against a Golden Dataset of inputs, expected outputs and expected tool calls, returning quality scores and full execution traces, with an automatic judge scoring results rather than requiring manual inspection.

OutSystems pitches Evaluations as replacing manual one off testing with a repeatable validation process, and advanced agent evaluations, launched at ONE, as validating the outcomes agents are responsible for the way unit tests validate code.

ODC also offers debugging with breakpoints, step by step execution and runtime value inspection, and automated testing strategies for application delivery.

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Superagents complete tasks on the web from chat with no setup, in a cloud browser shown in a Live Browser view the user can follow, expand or close while the agent keeps working, with browser actions and data extractions metered per action and failed actions free. Base44's own Superagent Chrome extension lets the agent open tabs, click, type and read pages in the user's own Chrome, in its own tab group under Chrome's control banner and with the user's signed-in sessions, and falls back to the cloud browser when Chrome is not connected. Private network addresses are blocked.

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Agents act through server actions selected by the model, through prebuilt connectors to ERP, CRM, databases and legacy systems, and through Model Context Protocol, all of which are programmatic interfaces. OutSystems does not describe browser control, navigation, form filling, screen interaction, visual grounding or desktop automation, and makes no claim in that territory. The platform's legacy modernization path analyzes COBOL and Lotus Notes systems and rebuilds their functionality as new applications through code transformation.

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