NocoBase

NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform for building reliable business systems and internal tools, designed for teams that want AI-driven speed without the fragile, black-box architecture that raw code generation tends to produce. Instead of generating an entire application from scratch, NocoBase lets AI work on top of production-proven infrastructure - built-in data models, permissions, workflows, and audit logs - combined with a WYSIWYG no-code interface that people can operate directly. The result is one platform where AI coding agents, human builders, and AI employees collaborate on the same system. The platform is data-model driven: business data lives in standard relational structures inside your own database - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or others - fully decoupled from the UI, and you can also connect external databases and third-party REST APIs as data sources. Teams define collections and fields first, then present the same data through multiple pages and interfaces. A microkernel architecture means everything is a plugin, from core modules to new business features, so the system can grow without losing control and can mix official, community, and custom plugins freely. Because these foundations are tested and proven in production rather than regenerated as code each time, NocoBase reports deployments across organizations such as Sony, Lenovo, American Express, Yamaha, and NXP, and describes the platform as light enough that a single person can maintain and extend it. Building happens in three complementary ways. AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and TRAE get a full CLI and skills, letting them handle setup, development, migration, and release end to end. People can instead - or in parallel - build and refine data models, pages, workflows, and permissions visually, switching between usage and configuration modes with one click. Built-in AI employees then work inside the running system: they help with analysis, Q&A, form filling, document recognition, risk monitoring, and task routing, and because they plug into the workflow engine they can join decisions and execution. External agent ecosystems connect through MCP, HTTP APIs, CLI, and skills, so platforms like Dify, Coze, and n8n, and channels like Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and Gmail, can act within the same fine-grained, field-level permissions and audit logging applied to human users. Permission boundaries apply uniformly, so whether a change is initiated by an agent, an AI employee, or a person, it follows identical role-based rules - keeping AI output aligned with the system architecture instead of drifting into an opaque black box. NocoBase core code and foundational plugins are fully open source with more than 24,000 GitHub stars, built with TypeScript on Node.js, React, and Koa, and lightweight enough to run on modest servers with total control over data and AI interactions. Licensing is simple: a free community edition with unlimited applications, users, and records, plus buy-once commercial editions covering branding removal, external data sources, client application development, SSO, advanced security, and enterprise deployment - no subscriptions, no per-user pricing, and no data-volume charges.