Full-stack app builders / rank 19 of 20 / cycle 04
Trickle benchmark
The best public page output in the lower half, with real server rendered text and clean metadata, which lifts its SEO subscore well above its neighbours. Everything behind the marketing surface is thin: no key management, no signed webhooks and no durable background work.
Composite index
58.11
of 100 | withheld vs. cycle 03
Delta not shown for cycle 04: the roster was re-based from one merged ranking into two class boards, so cycle 03 and cycle 04 ranks are not on the same scale. Resumes cycle 05.
At a glance
Composite index
58.11
rank 19 of 20
Rank
#19
of 20 on the full-stack app builders board
Median turn latency
87.0 s per prompt
13.1 min across the full nine prompt spec, derived
Reliability
51.1%
strict pass rate
SEO score
63.0
0 to 100, SEO and GEO axis
Three strongest axes
- Design output79.0
- Turn latency score74.9
- Value74.0
Three weakest axes
- API and MCP41.0
- Code ownership45.0
- Integrations49.0
Median turn latency
87.0 s per prompt
p10 49.4 s, p90 137.1 s
Strict pass rate
51.1%
23 pass, 11 partial, 11 fail
Executions recorded
45
5 runs of 9 prompts
Entry price
USD 17 / month
Vendor's own unit and billing period. Never a currency conversion
Per axis subscores
Composite recomputed from these 10 rows: 58.11. That is the arithmetic behind the index, and you can repeat it by hand. Rounding rule: half up at two decimals, applied uniformly to all 37 published products.
| Axis | Subscore 0 to 100, tick is the roster median | Score | Median | Weight % | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent performance | 62.0 | 71.5 | 18 | 11.16 | |
| Reliability | 51.1 | 71.1 | 18 | 9.20 | |
| Scalability | 52.0 | 66.0 | 13 | 6.76 | |
| SEO and GEO | 63.0 | 63.5 | 12 | 7.56 | |
| API and MCP | 41.0 | 58.0 | 9 | 3.69 | |
| Integrations | 49.0 | 65.0 | 8 | 3.92 | |
| Design output | 79.0 | 78.5 | 7 | 5.53 | |
| Turn latency score | 74.9 | 66.5 | 7 | 5.24 | |
| Value | 74.0 | 74.0 | 5 | 3.70 | |
| Code ownership | 45.0 | 73.0 | 3 | 1.35 |
Turn latency distribution
Every recorded prompt duration for Trickle, in seconds. Median wall clock time for one prompt, not for a whole build. The cyan tick on the whisker is the median.
Spread against the cohort
p10 49.4 s / median 87.0 s / p90 137.1 s
Scale is shared with every product in the cohort, so the bars are directly comparable between pages. Ratio of p90 to median is 1.58x.
Outcome split
23 pass / 11 partial / 11 fail
SEO and GEO measurements
Taken from the public marketing page this product generated in prompt 8, fetched with JavaScript disabled.
HTML bytes, no JS
15.0 KB
15,360 bytes of real text content with scripts blocked
LCP
2,260 ms
Throttled connection, cold cache
CLS
0.070
Cumulative layout shift on load
SEO and GEO subscore
63.0
0 to 100, worth 12 index points on this board
Raw run data: 45 executions
One row per prompt execution. Nothing is aggregated away, nothing is hidden, including the failures.
| Run | Prompt | Prompt target | Started | Duration (s) | Outcome | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R01 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 11 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 78.6 | pass | |
| R01 | P02 | Authentication and session | 11 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC | 131.4 | partial | Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded. |
| R01 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 11 Aug 2026 08:07 UTC | 107.1 | pass | |
| R01 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 11 Aug 2026 08:11 UTC | 109.2 | fail | Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced. |
| R01 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 11 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC | 96.4 | pass | |
| R01 | P06 | Background jobs | 11 Aug 2026 08:18 UTC | 60.8 | fail | Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled. |
| R01 | P07 | Admin panel | 11 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 90.4 | pass | |
| R01 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 11 Aug 2026 08:25 UTC | 39.0 | pass | |
| R01 | P09 | Hardening pass | 11 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 114.6 | fail | Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced. |
| R02 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 12 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 87.0 | pass | |
| R02 | P02 | Authentication and session | 12 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC | 85.8 | pass | |
| R02 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 12 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 46.4 | pass | |
| R02 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 12 Aug 2026 08:09 UTC | 133.3 | partial | Pagination off by one at the final page boundary. |
| R02 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 12 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 106.7 | partial | Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded. |
| R02 | P06 | Background jobs | 12 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC | 79.2 | fail | Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled. |
| R02 | P07 | Admin panel | 12 Aug 2026 08:20 UTC | 85.1 | pass | |
| R02 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 12 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC | 34.0 | pass | |
| R02 | P09 | Hardening pass | 12 Aug 2026 08:26 UTC | 73.1 | fail | Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced. |
| R03 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 13 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 87.1 | partial | Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded. |
| R03 | P02 | Authentication and session | 13 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC | 77.7 | pass | |
| R03 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 13 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 79.3 | partial | Required one clarifying instruction before the criterion was met. |
| R03 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 13 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC | 61.7 | partial | Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints. |
| R03 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 13 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 119.4 | fail | Generated migration conflicted with the existing schema and was not reconciled. |
| R03 | P06 | Background jobs | 13 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC | 122.0 | fail | Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled. |
| R03 | P07 | Admin panel | 13 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 90.1 | pass | |
| R03 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 13 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC | 80.2 | pass | |
| R03 | P09 | Hardening pass | 13 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 73.8 | fail | Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced. |
| R04 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 14 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 32.6 | fail | Agent looped on the same edit for the full timeout window of 20 minutes. |
| R04 | P02 | Authentication and session | 14 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC | 93.1 | pass | |
| R04 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 14 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 53.9 | pass | |
| R04 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 14 Aug 2026 08:08 UTC | 151.7 | pass | |
| R04 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 14 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 136.4 | pass | |
| R04 | P06 | Background jobs | 14 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC | 74.3 | fail | Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled. |
| R04 | P07 | Admin panel | 14 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 106.8 | pass | |
| R04 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 14 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC | 69.1 | pass | |
| R04 | P09 | Hardening pass | 14 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 137.5 | partial | Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints. |
| R05 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 15 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 64.0 | partial | Required one clarifying instruction before the criterion was met. |
| R05 | P02 | Authentication and session | 15 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC | 56.4 | pass | |
| R05 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 15 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 152.3 | partial | Pagination off by one at the final page boundary. |
| R05 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 15 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC | 38.0 | partial | Delivered the main path, missed the boundary case named in the pass criteria. |
| R05 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 15 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 204.4 | pass | |
| R05 | P06 | Background jobs | 15 Aug 2026 08:18 UTC | 117.0 | fail | Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled. |
| R05 | P07 | Admin panel | 15 Aug 2026 08:22 UTC | 204.0 | pass | |
| R05 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 15 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 81.0 | partial | Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints. |
| R05 | P09 | Hardening pass | 15 Aug 2026 08:31 UTC | 104.2 | pass |
Pricing
Free tier for public pages. Paid plans from USD 17 per month.
Pricing note
Trickle's pricing page uses a bare dollar sign throughout and names no currency. The USD label is this lab's reading of the symbol, not a vendor statement, and the euro conversion depends on it.
- Entry price
- USD 17 / month
- Priced from
- vendor pricing page
- Value subscore
- 74.0
- Index points per euro
- 4.00
Entry price is the vendor's own published figure, fetched 21 Aug 2026, never a currency conversion. The currency label is the vendor's own except where the pricing note above records that this lab inferred it. Index points per euro is computed from a separate, euro-normalised figure used only for the Value axis: Converted at the European Central Bank euro reference rate of 1.1699 US dollars to the euro, August 21, 2026.
Capabilities as measured
- stack
- Site oriented platform with a light data layer
- deploy
- Hosted only
- database
- Built in collections
- auth
- Basic
- background jobs
- No
- webhooks
- Inbound only
- rest api
- Read mostly
- mcp server
- No
- export code
- No clean self host path
- custom domain
- Yes on paid plans
- ssr
- Server rendered public pages
Screenshot
Trickle landing page, captured by the lab on 14 Aug 2026 at 1440 by 900. Stored locally, never hotlinked.

Trickle, captured 14 Aug 2026.
Sources and fetch dates
Every claim on this page traces to one of these.
| Source | URL | Fetched |
|---|---|---|
| Trickle pricing page | https://trickle.so/pricing | 14 Aug 2026 |
| Trickle product site | https://trickle.so | 14 Aug 2026 |
| LLM Tier run harness output | https://www.llm-tier.com/api/runs.json | 14 Aug 2026 |
Rich results carry this composite as 2.9 on a 0 to 5 scale because that is the only scale the format accepts. The number on this page, 0 to 100, is the real one.
Reader index
Voted by readers with an account, one score per person per axis. Published beside the lab index, never inside it.
Reader index
not rated yet
Lab index
58.11
2 readers have scored 100% of the index weight so far. A reader index is published at 3 voters and 50% coverage.
Seeded at launch
The reader scores, lab notes and open ratings published here were written by this lab in August 2026 to populate the reader column before the site had readers. They are not customer submissions, they are not vendor supplied and nobody was paid for them. Anything submitted since then comes from a registered account. The lab index is measured from logged runs and is unaffected either way.
| Axis | Weight | Lab | Readers | Votes | Reader mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent performance | 18% | 62.0 | 57.0 | 2 | |
| Reliability | 18% | 51.1 | 41.0 | 2 | |
| Scalability | 13% | 52.0 | 48.0 | 2 | |
| SEO and GEO | 12% | 63.0 | 59.0 | 2 | |
| API and MCP | 9% | 41.0 | 37.0 | 1 | |
| Integrations | 8% | 49.0 | 46.0 | 2 | |
| Design output | 7% | 79.0 | 76.0 | 2 | |
| Turn latency score | 7% | 74.9 | 31.0 | 2 | |
| Value | 5% | 74.0 | 76.5 | 2 | |
| Code ownership | 3% | 45.0 | 33.0 | 1 |
The reader index is a weighted mean of reader submitted axis scores using the published index weights, renormalised over the axes readers have scored. It is never blended into the lab index. How this works.
Open rating mean
65.50
2 published open ratings, submitted without an account
Lab index
58.11
Measured, not voted
Gap to the measurement
7.39
Positive means open raters put it above the measurement
What agent performance looked like in practice
The best public page output in the lower half, with real server rendered text and clean metadata, which lifts its SEO subscore well above its neighbours. Everything behind the marketing surface is thin: no key management, no signed webhooks and no durable background work.
Across 45 recorded executions this product met the published pass criterion cleanly 23 times, partially 11 times and failed 11 times. The rows above carry the reviewer note for every non clean outcome, which is the only way to tell a product that fails loudly from one that fails quietly.