NocoBase

NocoBase is an open-source, self-hosted no-code and low-code development platform engineered specifically for development teams seeking speed, total control, and infinite extensibility. It directly addresses the critical challenges of traditional development—slow cycles, high costs, and inflexible proprietary systems—by enabling you to rapidly build complex, customized business systems without sacrificing security or scalability. If your team needs to deliver adaptable solutions quickly and maintain complete ownership over the infrastructure and data, NocoBase provides the tailored infrastructure you require.

Key Features

NocoBase is built on a modular, open-source architecture that prioritizes flexibility and seamless integration, allowing developers to extend no-code functionality when unique requirements arise.

💡 Data Model-Driven Architecture

Unlike platforms constrained by predefined forms or tables, NocoBase adopts a schema-first, data model-driven approach. This design fully decouples the user interface (UI) from the data structure, allowing you to create multiple diverse blocks and actions for the same data source. This fundamental distinction unlocks unlimited customization and supports integration with external databases and third-party APIs as primary data sources.

🤖 Integrated AI Employees

Move beyond standalone AI demos by embedding AI capabilities directly into your business logic and interfaces. NocoBase allows you to define custom AI employees—such as analysts, researchers, or translators—and seamlessly integrate their functions into workflows and user interfaces. This creates a strong human–AI collaboration framework that is secure, transparent, and customizable for real-world enterprise processes.

⚙️ Everything is a Plugin: Microkernel Extensibility

NocoBase is designed for extension through its plugin-based microkernel architecture, ensuring that you are never left helpless by unmet requirements. All core functionalities—including pages, blocks, actions, APIs, and data sources—are managed as plugins. This structure simplifies custom development, allowing teams to build reusable plugins or write custom scripts for advanced logic, guaranteeing the platform can adapt to any unique business case.

🔒 Fine-Grained Permission and Workflow Engine

Orchestrate complex business logic and automate processes using the powerful, built-in workflow engine. Paired with fine-grained permission controls, NocoBase lets you manage access at every level—from menus and pages down to specific data records and actions. This ensures that as your system grows, collaboration remains secure, efficient, and compliant with organizational standards.

Use Cases

NocoBase enables development teams to rapidly deploy robust systems that meet specific internal and client needs, often replacing inefficient paper-based processes or rigid commercial software.

1. Building Tailored Internal Operations Systems: Quickly develop comprehensive internal systems like customized HR, attendance, and leave management platforms. By leveraging the flexible interface design and workflow automation, organizations can transition to a truly paperless office, managing complex employee data and approval processes intuitively and efficiently.

2. Developing Secure, Scalable Smart Factory Systems: Use NocoBase as the core platform for real-time data management, API services, and workflows within an industrial environment. The platform’s granular permission controls ensure secure collaboration across workflows (e.g., equipment maintenance), and its extensibility allows seamless integration with mobile, PC, and 5G infrastructure for real-time data feedback.

3. Creating Flexible Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Construct a CRM or ticketing system that goes beyond standard templates. By utilizing NocoBase’s superior data table relational capabilities, you can efficiently integrate diverse data structures (customer profiles, entitlement issues, order history) from external sources, enabling customer service teams to retrieve information and resolve issues in real-time.

Unique Advantages

NocoBase addresses the core concerns developers have with proprietary no-code platforms—vendor lock-in, limited extensibility, and unpredictable costs—by offering structural advantages rooted in transparency and control.

• Total Ownership via Open Source & Self-Hosting: The core platform and foundational plugins are fully open source, giving you complete transparency and control over your deployment. You can self-host NocoBase within your own environment (AWS, local server, etc.), ensuring data privacy and security requirements are met without reliance on third-party vendors.

• Transparent, Permissive Licensing Model: NocoBase offers a sustainable commercial model based on one-time payments for commercial plugins and licenses. Crucially, there are no subscriptions or fees based on the number of users, applications, or the amount of data stored, eliminating the fear of being "held hostage" by user-based pricing as your organization scales.

• Designed for Professional Developers: Built on mainstream, modern technology stacks (TypeScript, Node.js, React), NocoBase avoids proprietary DSLs (Domain-Specific Languages). This makes the platform transparent, controllable, and easy for existing development teams to adopt, maintain, and extend.

Conclusion

NocoBase is the definitive low-code/no-code infrastructure for development teams that require speed, customization, and ultimate control. By uniting high extensibility with integrated AI and a self-hosted architecture, NocoBase empowers your team to rapidly deliver complex, reliable enterprise systems.

Ready to take control of your development cycle? Explore how NocoBase can help you achieve maximum efficiency and flexibility.