My team and I are looking for the best no-code option to allow our students to track their attendances and update their personal information (as well as filling some forms).
As for now, we plan on having about 1000 new students on our programs in 2025. Our database is on Airtable.
Our needs:
Unlimited personal users access
Over 50,000 updates per year
Double sync between Glide and Airtable
What would be the best plan?
I’m a bit confused as the Maker plan would be the best (unlimited personal users) and we could add additional updates to the plan, but it doesn’t connect to Airtable…
So… Enterprise?
By the way, I haven’t been contacted by a Sale agent so far even though I completed the form for that purpose
Over 50,000 updates per year make it around 4,200 per month on average. The Team plan allows you to have 5,000 updates per month.
You have 20 users for free on that level, and then $3 per additional user.
So, without taking into account volume pricing, you would have to talk to Sales about this:
$99 (Team plan pricing/month, paid annually) * 12 = $1,188
$3 * (1000 - 20) * 12 = $35,280 (assuming all students do log in in one month, which I doubt is the case)
If you pay this annual bill in one go, it would come at $36,468 annually, and $3,039 monthly.
You can always purchase additional updates if you go over 5,000.
So, when they say 500, 5,000 or 10,000 updates on the pricing plans, it’s actually per month (which would be a total of 60,000 updates for the Team plan)? Thank you for the clarification!
About $3000/month for just 1 nocode tool would be way too expensive for our company.
It’s a 45-people start-up, and our “students” are actually refugees and newcomers in France. We are not “that kind of” start-up
I have now got an appointment with a Sale agent. Let’s see how it goes!
Thank you for your feedback.
I meant as the Team plan allows up to 5,000 updates per month, that would allow us to have 60,000 per year (5000*12).
One more question:
If 1 update = 1 action from our User on the Glide app (for example: “I update my profile picture” or “I update my administrative status file”), as our Airtable database is synched to Glide, does it mean for each update my team and I directly do on Airtable, it would also cost 1 update on Glide as it updates the synched field?
My co-worker was asking : “If we add a button on Glide that leads the user to an external form, such as Tally/Typeform/Fillout, and this updates Airtable, which ultimately update the synched field on Glide, would it cost like 1 update?”
I think yes, but if you make updates in quick succession, those updates might be batched into one, at least that was the case with Google Sheets years ago.
I have an appointment tomorrow with a Sale agent from Softr, let’s see what they have to offer because from what I see, they are way more competitive with their Business plan ($269 /month for 2500 app users, 200,000 Airtable records and no extra fee when updating the fields).
They are not built for public-facing apps if you’re not ready to pay for public users like your case. They seem to focus on internal apps with Team+ plans, and your best bet to have a public-facing app is the Maker plan, but you’re also limited in updates.
Glide is focused on business use. If you need a cheap solution for thousands of students at a school, you’ll have better luck with less business-focused platforms.
My two cents. If Glide focused on BC2 apps, then I don’t think the mission to create 1 billion app developers would be remotely realistic. The world could not create 1 billion developers out of thin air to create B2C apps to serve 8 billion humans.
However, if you consider everyone working at a computer a potential developer because creating an app would be as easy and useful as creating a PowerPoint or Excel sheets, then I think the goal is ambitious and makes sense.
