Zion

What Zion is

Zion is a full-stack no-code platform made by Functorz (函子科技), a company whose footer lists a Shanghai address and whose about page describes a young, technology-driven team. The site's tagline calls it a "全栈 Vibe No-Coding 开发工具" (full-stack Vibe No-Coding development tool) and promises that you can generate a full-stack app in one click, with every front-end and back-end element still adjustable visually. The site is in Chinese, with a link to an overseas version in the footer menu.

It is built for founders and product teams making web apps, H5 pages and WeChat mini-programs, for builders of SaaS and consumer apps, and for teams making AI apps. The about page describes the vision as a no-code cloud environment where page design, business logic and data models are designed visually, then generated, deployed and published automatically. It also says the founding team came from Silicon Valley, with backgrounds at Google, Facebook, Groupon and Medallia.

What you build and how

3 layers: data, logic, design. The home page organizes the editor around those 3 words. Data models are edited visually and the platform generates the back end for them. A data model also produces an admin back office automatically, with fine-grained permission settings, and the site says it can carry data at the 100-million-record scale. On the logic side, the feature page describes "action flows" (行为流) for complex logic, which can be started by a component action, a timer or a database trigger. Design happens on what the company calls a self-built design canvas that supports responsive layout and more than 150 animation effects, with pixel-level reproduction of design drafts claimed. The feature page adds atomic components plus custom code components, so a developer can extend the set.

AI-generated starting point and in-editor help. The site headline is the one-click generation of a full-stack app from your idea. The home page also announces a built-in Copilot for visual full-stack building and says a new account gets 200,000 AI Points. The pricing page confirms an in-editor AI copilot to help you build an app quickly. This answers the ai-builders reader: you can start from a description and keep editing visually, instead of receiving a generated project you cannot read.

Agents and chatbots. The chatbot-builders reader is served by the feature page's "commercial-grade AI Agent" section: built-in agent tooling to customize prompts, RAG and tools, built-in common large models, and support for connecting model services deployed on other platforms. The home page adds an AI application foundation with data preprocessing and model access, described as a way to get accurate answers from an AI app at low cost. A user-facing chatbot built this way would be one of the AI apps the home page names, next to SaaS apps and consumer apps.

Publishing. The home page says you can build web pages, H5 pages and mini-programs quickly, so a single project can serve several business scenarios, and a "微信小程序" (WeChat mini-program) and web are the 2 targets on the hero. Custom domains are a listed feature, and the pricing page makes custom domains, SEO settings and official web publishing part of the paid tiers. Multi-client support lets one app back end serve several clients, which the feature page ties to building SaaS. One-click deployment is described as fully automated. The pages do not mention native iOS or Android store apps.

Growth tools. The feature page lists SSO, SEO tools with a choice of rendering mode, sitemaps and page title, description and keyword settings, and payments through WeChat Pay and Alipay. The home page says payments carry no extra fee, and the Professional plan adds subscription payments with no commission.

Integrations. A blog article explains the API connection feature: you configure third-party APIs with custom headers and parameters and use an API as an action trigger or as a data source. Its examples are logistics tracking, weather and company registry lookups, and fronting data from SaaS platforms such as 简道云, 明道云 and 伙伴云. The company says Zion apps normally only need Zion's own back end and database.

Data analysis. A second article describes event tracking, more than 60 preinstalled charts and a one-stop analytics dashboard. The home page lists the data service with "敬请期待" (coming soon).

Collaboration and governance. The feature page says up to 30 users can edit a project at once, and team members can be placed in separate shared spaces. Permissions combine role-based (RBAC) and attribute-based (ABAC) control. Logging is listed for diagnosing problems, kept for 1 day on Basic, 7 days on Premium and 30 days on Professional. Every tier can import and export database data as Excel.

Private deployment. The pricing page offers 私有化部署 (private deployment), which it says lets a company run the software on its own servers for data security and privacy. Project privatization covers a single project, which Zion can still maintain and iterate, from ¥1.5万. Platform privatization covers Zion itself, so that all application and operating data stays private, from ¥260万. Both are arranged by contacting the company.

Pricing, plans and claims

Pricing is per project, shown monthly or yearly, with yearly billing saving at least 15%.

• Basic, ¥0, for product demos. Unlimited published projects, pages and data requests, 1 custom AI, API or action flow, and preview-only access for web. Resources: shared basic server with 5 RPS peak, 20 MB database, 200 MB object storage, 200 MB monthly outbound traffic, 1,000 monthly action-flow runs, 50,000 AI Points and 10 text messages.
• Premium, ¥99 per project per month, for showcase and campaign apps. It removes the watermark, allows unlimited custom AI, API and action flows, 1 collaborating editor, SEO settings, a custom domain and official web publishing. Resources: 200 MB database, 2 GB object storage, 2 GB monthly outbound traffic, 10,000 monthly action-flow runs, 500,000 AI Points and 100 text messages.
• Professional, ¥229 per project per month, for commercial apps. It includes all Premium features plus payments, multi-client support (bought separately), multi-role permissions, WeChat mini-program subscription messages and 3 collaborating editors. Resources: a shared Professional server with 25 RPS peak, 1 GB database, 10 GB object storage, 10 GB monthly outbound traffic, 50,000 monthly action-flow runs, 2,500,000 AI Points and 100 text messages. Professional subscribers also get a discount on extra resource packs.

Add-on packs include 500 GB of traffic for ¥150 a year, 100 GB of object storage for ¥150 a year, a 10 GB database for ¥500 a year, 800,000 AI Points for ¥10 and 1,000 text messages for ¥55. A single-tenant compute pack at ¥500 a month gives you a server not shared with other users, with unlimited peak RPS and unlimited action-flow runs, on 1 dedicated CPU core and 4 GB of memory, with 2 GB of database, 50 GB of object storage and 50 GB of monthly traffic. Teachers and students get a 50% discount through the Zion education program. An Enterprise column in the comparison table has custom resources, a shared 250 RPS, up to 30 collaborators, unlimited roles and SSO based on the OIDC protocol. Every tier gets community support, a user group and the in-editor AI copilot, and free one-to-one technical support by email is marked for Enterprise. Consulting and technical support cost ¥400 an hour, and a full course of 21 lessons and 42 hours is free.

On scale, the home page says over 9,000 projects are live and it is "深受37w+用户信赖" (trusted by 370,000+ users), as of August 2026. Those are the company's own numbers.

Who it suits and who it does not

Zion suits a Chinese-speaking founder who needs a web app or a WeChat mini-program with payments, a business-ready back end and per-project pricing, and an agency that wants to prototype on the ¥0 Basic tier and pay only when a project goes live. It suits a team building an AI app that wants prompts, RAG and models inside the same editor as the data and screens.

The caveats are practical. The site is in Chinese, with an overseas version linked for other teams. Real publishing needs a paid plan, since Basic is preview-only for web. SSO and one-to-one support sit at the Enterprise level. Cost grows per project and with extra resources, which a studio running many apps should price in. Moving off the shared cloud means a private deployment, which starts at ¥1.5万 for a single project.