Short answer: Base44's code export gives you the frontend, not the application — the parts that actually do something (data, logic, auth) stay dependent on Base44's own servers. Anter exports every agent to a spec file you own and exposes it over a documented HTTP API, not a vendor-only SDK.
What "code export" actually exports
No-code builders like Base44 market code export as an escape hatch from lock-in. In practice, per an independent 2026 review — not Base44's own marketing claim — the exported code renders the UI layer only. Every data read, every write, every piece of business logic still calls back into Base44's own SDK and infrastructure. You can look at the code. You can't run it without Base44.
That's a meaningful distinction for anyone evaluating a no-code agent builder for something more than a prototype: "you can export the code" and "you own a working system" are different claims, and only the review — not the vendor — makes the second one clear.
What Anter commits to, stated plainly
Anter isn't a portability story either — the managed cloud platform is proprietary, and the orchestration core it runs on (@anter/agent-runtime) isn't published publicly today (it's given to design partners directly, not shipped as an open artifact yet). Two things are concretely true regardless of that:
- Every agent exports to a versioned spec file —
.yamlor.zip— that you own, independent of whether you keep running it on Anter. - Agents are invoked over a documented HTTP API, so integration doesn't route exclusively through a closed SDK the way Base44's exported code does.
We'd rather a prospect verify this directly than take the claim at face value: the free tier runs the same orchestrator this page describes, so you can export an agent spec and inspect it yourself.
See the full side-by-side comparison for how Anter compares to Claude Managed Agents, OpenAI AgentKit, and CrewAI on other dimensions.