Claris FileMaker vs. Quickbase

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Claris FileMaker	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Claris' FileMaker is presented as a Workplace Innovation Platform, and is used to create a custom app. Manual processes can be automated with Claris FileMaker Pro, and apps can be created to manage contacts, track inventory, organize projects, etc.	$21 per month per user
Quickbase	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Quickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.	$700 per month

Quickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.

Community Pulse
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	Claris FileMaker	Quickbase
Considered Both Products	Claris David Renberg Broker/Owner in Corporate at Foundation Realty (Real Estate, 1-10 employees) Chose Claris FileMaker Quick Base is internet-based and easily programmable by the end-user. Because of that, it is not as customizable as FileMaker. We had very specific purposes that were more easily accomplished in FileMaker (eg. Auto-calculating fields were more fool proof-ly accomplished in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Claris FileMaker We previously had deployed QuickBase. However, we realized that QuickBase would not allow us to construct our app the way we worked. That is where FMP came in. Its ability to adapt to the way we work made transitioning very easy. Incentivized Helpful?	Quickbase Brian Seymour Web Developer in Information Technology at Kota Energy Group (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Quickbase Quickbase was selected before I can onboard, but it's flexibility definitely suite our business needs. Incentivized Helpful? Tara McCrillis VP of Publishing Operations in Corporate at IDW Publishing (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose Quickbase When we were choosing Quickbase, we looked at FileMaker Pro and a couple of other ones that I don't remember, but we ultimately went with Quickbase just because of the flexibility of building it exactly how we needed it to be. Incentivized Helpful? Georges Khairallah Co-founder and CTO in Information Technology at GoToMyERP, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Quickbase We only tried FileMaker Pro before Quickbase, and it was quite hard to achieve what we needed. It took a few days to figure out how to create a couple relationships in FileMaker Pro, where we were able to develop almost our whole application in the same amount of time in … Incentivized Helpful? Drew Voge Director of New Construction Flooring in Professional Services at Star Flooring and Decorating (Building Materials, 51-200 employees) Chose Quickbase Overall, Quickbase provides us the best overall balance of functionality, customization, speed of development, and price. There are platforms which have more features, platforms which are less expensive, and platforms which offer native interaction with other systems more … Incentivized Helpful? Chandra Edwards Brand Manager in Sales at Wilbur-Ellis (Food Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Quickbase Ease of use Incentivized Helpful? Luisana Cardenas Data Survey Assistant in Research & Development at SRI International (Research, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Quickbase Quickbase is much easier to use than FileMaker. I can create reports on QuickBase within minutes whereas on FileMaker it would take me hours to create something similar. The online access is definitely a big plus as well. FileMaker had limited access online and was not very … Incentivized Helpful? Swapnil Gyani Senior Manager - Talent Operations in Human Resources at Elevate Services (Legal Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Quickbase When we originally set out to create our human resource management system, we strongly considered developing it on the .NET platform. However, that would mean that we'd have to rely on a small team of experts for not only the initial development, but also future enhancements. … Incentivized Helpful? Alexis Ertzner Program Coordinator, Student Life Office at MIT Sloan School of Management (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Quickbase We used to use an Excel file (yikes!) to manually track the bare minimum details of events and projects, often on shared collaboration sites that had some tricky functionality (SharePoint Collaboration sites for Mac users, for example). QuickBase became supported by my company … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Claris FileMaker

Quickbase

Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Claris FileMaker and Quickbase
Feature	Claris FileMaker 8.4 3 Ratings	Quickbase - Ratings
Visual Modeling	7.33 Ratings	00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces	6.62 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform Security	9.52 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform User Management	8.73 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reusability	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform Scalability	9.33 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Claris FileMaker	Quickbase
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (51 ratings)	9.5 (520 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (7 ratings)	9.9 (54 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (7 ratings)	8.4 (40 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (16 ratings)
Performance	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (15 ratings)
Support Rating	1.0 (6 ratings)	7.4 (44 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.9 (4 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.0 (2 ratings)	9.8 (22 ratings)
Configurability	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.4 (10 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (15 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)

Claris FileMaker vs. Quickbase

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