Guides / Moving off a platform
SAP Build Apps retired 23 March 2026.The applications still have to run somewhere.
SAP Build Apps is no longer maintained. SAP already told you what happens to the frontend. This is what happens after: where the converted application runs, who patches it, and what you own when the migration is done.
What SAP's tool does, and what it leaves undone
SAP's own migration path converts the pieces it can see. It does not extend to the pieces around your application.
SAP's tool is the right first step for the frontend. It was never meant to answer where the application lives afterward: that's the part we do.
How the first one goes
The first application is the one that teaches the team the pattern. The rest go faster.
1
Inventory what is actually used
Most retiring platforms carry applications nobody opens. Decide what gets rebuilt, what gets archived, and what quietly stops.
2
Rebuild one, in code
Start with a single application your team knows well. Build it in a chat with Claude, with the coding agent your team already uses, or by hand, in a repository you own.
3
Run it side by side
Deploy to a dev environment, then staging, then production when the people who need it are ready. The old platform keeps running until you switch over.
What teams ask first
What happens to the code if we leave you too?
The repository is always yours. Clone it, move it, self-host it, or hand it to the client, at any time while the application exists. If you delete the application, you can restore it for 30 days, and we email your admins before the repository is permanently purged. That is the whole point of the exercise.
Can someone else hold the repository instead of us?
Yes. Ownership is organisation-scoped, so the work can run in the client's or the business's own organisation with your people as members, or in yours, and be handed over later.
What does it cost per application?
A development environment is free. Beyond that you pay for the machine tier each environment runs, plus backups and outbound traffic. We're in early beta and are not publishing per-tier rates yet. Pricing will be usage-based, never metered per credit or per token.
Where does it run?
In the EU: eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), on a dedicated instance per environment. That is the only region we run today: good for data residency if your data must stay in the EU, and worth raising early if it must sit somewhere else.
Bring us the Build Apps applications on your list.
Tell us how many are still in use, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right place for them to land.
Get your spot in the beta.
We open spots from the waitlist, oldest first. When yours opens, the free tier is a real environment with a real URL. No card.
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