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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 (24th)
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 May 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of Caspio is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 8.0%, down from 14.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Power Apps8.0%
Caspio1.0%
Other91.0%
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, and as someone who doesn't know a lot about coding, I found it easy to create a web application on this platform."
"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."
"It’s a stable product."
"When I am developing any user UI, it gives me complete flexibility. I can manage in any way I want."
"PowerApps is incredible."
"The product can be easily integrated - with Microsoft Graph, with common data links, and Power BI especially."
"Microsoft PowerApps is expensive, but there are many features included."
"It is so much more scalable once you have everything available over in the Dataverse so that you can write triggers and automate a lot of the BPM."
"The most valuable feature is automized processes."
"Microsoft PowerApps is a no-code solution."
 

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."
"The visualization of the data pages could be improved. You have to do a lot of tweaking to make the visualization stand out."
"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."
"Customization is somewhat complicated."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see custom APIs, better integration with other solutions, and more connectors available."
"There is a challenge in getting support. The support staff is not trained properly in PowerApps."
"They probably need to improve intelligent document processing."
"Microsoft PowerApps can be more costly for small teams or organizations."
"Can be improved to cater to complex developments."
"The editor in the Web browser could be improved because it can be difficult to implement the commands in the buttons."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price for the license could be more cost-effective."
"If we compare Microsoft Power Apps with any on-prem or other Azure solutions, I feel it can be made cheaper."
"In terms of pricing, Power Apps is cost-efficient."
"Whatever the cost of licensing is, it is in the millions."
"There are areas of Microsoft PowerApps that can be improved. For example, the license policies are expensive to purchases the premium connectors. If a company would like to use the premium features, they have to pay a lot of money. The Microsoft PowerApps portal could be easier to use when there are a lot of external users because if a company has 1,000 external users, it is too expensive to use the Microsoft PowerApps portal."
"It is comparable to other similar solutions."
"If you start to use any premium connectors that are not stored in a SharePoint list or on an Excel workbook, then it costs $4 per user per month. If you want unlimited, it's about $16 per month for unlimited apps, and unlimited connectors."
"Power Apps is relatively cheap compared to other low-code and no-code systems like OutSystems and Mendix."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise50
 

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PowerApps, MS PowerApps
 

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