AI app builders compared on roles, permissions and audit records

The short answer

Most AI app builders and no-code platforms put the controls a business needs, single sign-on, automatic user provisioning, roles and audit logs, on their top tiers. As listed in October 2026, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Softr and GlideOS keep audit logs on Enterprise, and v0 keeps SAML SSO and role-based access control on Enterprise. Retool offers audit logs from Business. Price the tier with the controls you need, and check access inside each app, not just in the builder's workspace.

When a team starts building its own tools, the first questions are about features: can it do a checklist, a dashboard, photo uploads? The questions that decide whether the tools are safe to run a business on come later, usually after something goes wrong. Who can see the payroll tab? Who changed that customer's price? Does the technician who quit last month still have access?

Those questions are answered by four controls: single sign-on, automatic user provisioning, roles and audit logs. This guide explains each one in plain words, shows where the major AI app builders and no-code platforms put them as listed in October 2026, walks through what has happened when access controls were missing, and gives you a checklist for your own evaluation.

The four controls, explained

Single sign-on (SSO)

Single sign-on lets people log in with their existing work account, such as their company Microsoft or Google login, instead of a separate password for every app. When someone leaves and IT disables their work account, they lose access to everything at once. You will see "SAML" and "OIDC" in pricing tables: those are the two common standards SSO uses.

SCIM (automatic provisioning)

SCIM is a standard that keeps an app's user list in sync with your company directory. New hire added to the directory? They appear in the app. Employee removed? They disappear from the app. Without it, someone has to remember to add and remove people by hand.

Roles (role-based access control)

Role-based access control, often shortened to RBAC, gives each person a role, and the role decides what they can see and do. A technician sees their own jobs. A dispatcher sees all jobs. An owner sees the money. Roles are what make one app safe for a whole company.

Audit logs

An audit log records who did what and when: who created or edited a record, who approved a request, who changed someone's access. It is how you answer "how did this happen?" after a mistake, settle a dispute, or show an auditor your controls work.

Two layers people confuse

There are two places where these controls apply, and many buyers check only one.

The builder workspace. Who can build, edit and publish apps. Most pricing pages describe this layer when they list SSO, roles and audit logs.
Inside each app. Who can see and change records in the finished app. A technician should see their own jobs, not the HR records someone built into the same app.

A platform can have strong workspace controls and still let a builder publish an app where every logged-in user can read every row. In AI builders, the in-app rules are usually generated by the AI along with the rest of the app, which means they are only as good as the request and the review.

Where each platform puts the controls (October 2026)

Each line below is as listed on the vendor's pricing page or plan documentation in October 2026.

Lovable: SSO starts at Business. SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise only.
Bolt: SSO, audit logs and data retention policies are Enterprise features.
v0: SAML SSO and role-based access control are Enterprise only.
Replit: SSO, SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise only.
GlideOS: SSO and audit logs are Enterprise only.
Softr: SSO, SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise only.
Retool: SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only. Audit logs start at Business.
Google AppSheet: Okta, Active Directory and OIDC sign-in, plus governance policies, are Enterprise Plus only.
Airtable: SAML SSO is available on Business and Enterprise Scale only.
FlutterFlow: activity logging is Enterprise only.

For platforms not listed here, such as Bubble and Base44, ask the vendor's sales team which plan includes each control and get the answer in writing.

Platform	SSO	SCIM	Roles	Audit logs
Lovable	From Business	Enterprise	Ask which plan	Enterprise
Bolt	Enterprise	Not listed	Ask which plan	Enterprise
v0	SAML SSO on Enterprise	Not listed	RBAC on Enterprise	Not listed
Replit	Enterprise	Enterprise	Ask which plan	Enterprise
GlideOS	Enterprise	Not listed	Ask which plan	Enterprise
Softr	Enterprise	Enterprise	Ask which plan	Enterprise
Retool	Enterprise	Enterprise	Ask which plan	From Business
AppSheet	Okta, AD, OIDC on Enterprise Plus	Not listed	Ask which plan	Ask which plan
Airtable	SAML on Business and Enterprise Scale	Not listed	Ask which plan	Not listed
FlutterFlow	Not listed	Not listed	Ask which plan	Activity logging on Enterprise

"Not listed" means the item did not appear in the verified pricing information for that platform. It does not mean the feature is missing, only that you should ask.

The pattern is clear. On most platforms, the controls a business needs on day one sit on the tier that requires a sales call, and that tier's price is usually not published.

Why small companies skip these controls, and why they should not

Owners of small companies often decide that SSO, roles and audit logs are big-company problems. Everyone knows everyone, and the office manager can just remove people by hand. That works until one of three ordinary things happens:

Someone leaves on bad terms. Without a reliable way to remove access everywhere, a former employee may still be able to open the customer list from their phone.
A number is wrong and nobody knows why. A price, a pay rate or an inventory count changed. Without an audit log, the conversation becomes guesswork and blame.
A customer, auditor or insurer asks. A larger customer's vendor review, a cyber insurance application or a compliance check asks who can access customer data and how you know. "We trust each other" is not an answer they accept.

None of these require a large company. They require a company with staff turnover, money moving and customers who care about their data, which is every company. The controls are cheap to have from the start and expensive to add after an incident.

What happens when access controls are missing

These incidents are public, attributed and linked in the sources. Each vendor responded, and several fixed problems quickly. They are here because they show where access breaks.

Sign-in bypassed (Base44, July 2025). Wiz found a flaw that let anyone with a public app ID register on private Base44 apps, bypassing single sign-on. It was fixed in under 24 hours, and Wiz reported no evidence of exploitation. Lesson: SSO on the front door does not help if there is a side door.
Records exposed "by design" (Power Apps portals, 2021). UpGuard found 38 million records exposed across 47 Power Apps portals in August 2021. Microsoft first called the behavior "by design." Lesson: how a platform behaves out of the box matters as much as the features on its pricing page.
In-app rules missing (Lovable, 2025). Researcher Matt Palmer found 170 of 1,645 scanned Lovable apps (303 endpoints) exposed through missing database access rules in March 2025, recorded as CVE-2025-48757 with a severity score of 9.3. Lovable disputes the CVE, saying each customer is responsible for protecting their app's data.
Rules backwards (one Lovable-hosted app, February 2026). Researcher Taimur Khan found 16 vulnerabilities, 6 critical, in one app, exposing 18,697 user records, The Register reported.
The scale of it (August 2026). A reeve.page scan of 18,554 Lovable apps found 57% of 3,553 checkable Supabase databases had tables readable without logging in.
Phishing past the login (Retool, 2023). Retool reported that an SMS phishing attack compromised 27 cloud customers, all in the crypto industry, in September 2023. Lesson: sign-in protection is one layer, and the record of what happened afterwards is another.

Notice that most of these are in-app access problems, the second layer, not missing SSO. A platform's Enterprise checklist does not guarantee that the apps built on it protect their data.

A worked example

As an example, take a home health agency with 80 caregivers, 6 schedulers, a billing lead and an owner. They want one app for visit scheduling and visit notes.

The roles they need:

Caregivers see only their own visits and write notes for those visits.
Schedulers see and assign all visits in their region.
Billing sees completed visits and hours, not clinical notes.
The owner sees everything and manages who has access.

And the records they need:

Who wrote or edited each visit note, and when.
Who reassigned a visit.
Who gave a new hire access, and who removed a caregiver who left.

On a platform where roles and audit logs sit on Enterprise, this small agency is pricing the top tier for a basic need. On a platform where in-app rules are generated by AI and not checked, nobody on staff can confirm that caregivers cannot read each other's patients.

How to choose

List your roles. Write down every kind of person who will use the tools and what each must and must not see.
Find the tier with your controls. For each platform, find the plan that includes SSO, roles and audit logs, and price that plan.
Test the second layer. In a trial, log in as the lowest role and try to see what you should not. Try the direct link to a record that is not yours.
Ask about defaults. Is a new app private and role-restricted by default, or public until someone changes it?
Ask who checks the in-app rules. On AI builders, ask what is reviewed before an app holding personal data goes live.
Read a sample audit record. Ask the vendor to show you what an entry looks like and how long records are kept.
Plan offboarding. Decide who removes access when someone leaves, and how fast.
Ask about invitations. Find out whether anyone with a link can join, or only people you invite.

How FORGE handles it

FORGE treats roles and records as the foundation of a business tool, not an upgrade.

Every app lives inside your company, and people join by invite only. Each person has a role: owners run the company account, admins manage people and settings, builders create and change tools, and app users use them. The role decides what each person sees and can change, and there is a complete record of who did what across your tools. A small agency gets the same controls as a large one.

The in-app rules are part of the build. Your manager describes who should see what in plain words, a panel of top AI models plans the tool around those roles, a dedicated AI crew builds it, and every piece is checked for quality and security before it is saved, with the tool checked at every step. Most teams have their first real tool the same day, on web, mobile or desktop.

Pricing does not punish adding people. App users are free, and you pay $49 a seat a month for each person who builds, with 3 builds included. Changes are a small fraction of a build, packs of 10 builds are $150, a build FORGE fails is free, and nothing ever bills by itself. Our team onboards you ourselves, starting with a workflow workshop where we map your roles with you.

To see how your roles would work, talk to us, or read more about security.

Questions people ask

What is role-based access control?

Role-based access control means each person gets a role, such as manager or technician, and the role decides what they can see and change. It is how a technician sees only their own jobs while a dispatcher sees the whole board.

What is an audit log?

An audit log is a record of who did what and when: who created a record, who changed a price, who approved a request, who gave someone access. It answers questions after a mistake or a dispute, and it is often required for compliance reviews.

What is SCIM and do small teams need it?

SCIM is a standard that automatically adds and removes people from an app when they join or leave your company directory. Small teams can live without it if offboarding is disciplined, but it removes the risk of a former employee keeping access.

Which AI app builders include audit logs below Enterprise?

Of the platforms in this guide, Retool lists audit logs starting at its Business plan as of October 2026. Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Softr and GlideOS list audit logs as Enterprise features, and FlutterFlow lists activity logging as Enterprise only.

Is single sign-on enough to protect an app?

No. Single sign-on controls who can log in. It does not control what they see once inside. Wiz found a Base44 flaw in July 2025 that let anyone with a public app ID register on private apps and bypass SSO, which shows that sign-in and in-app access both need checking.

Does FORGE include roles and audit records?

Yes. Every FORGE company has owner, admin, builder and app user roles, people join by invite only, and there is a complete record of who did what. These are part of the platform, not an upgrade.

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