# Glide Big Tables Confusion **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [May 21, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974 "2023-05-21T06:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/abdo/32/36540_2.png) [@abdo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abdo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/1 "2023-05-21T06:23:25Z")
Can someone help explain Glide Big Tables functionality & pricing in simple terms. We want to use Glide Big Tables for order history data. That means adding 5000 rows every few days into 2 big tables (Orders & Order Items) - how is the data loaded to the app user device & can we control that? we are most likely only interested in the last few thousand rows added (the newest processed orders) - what is the pricing of using big tables. Lets say a user searches for a very old order how many syncs will that cost? or if a user decides to browse through the pages of 100,000 orders? - Is every row imported into a big table counted as 1 sync? has anyone used big tables… it seems to be a very big feature added by Glide & yet there is minimum public feedback on anyone using it regularly and its pricing ---
**Author:** ![Mns\_Glide](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mns_glide/32/2514_2.png) [@Mns\_Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mns_Glide)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/2 "2023-05-21T10:03:51Z")
I am also having the same confusion as I wanted to develop for something which may need BIG Tables. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ronald/32/49776_2.png) [@Ronald](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ronald)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/3 "2023-05-21T11:00:39Z")
I have also the same question. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![gvalero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gvalero/32/1037_2.png) [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/4 "2023-05-21T13:40:53Z")
Hola! Here you can start [https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-pricing/](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-pricing/) Short answers: - Every time a query is fired, it counts as an update. - Your entire data is not loaded into APP, only a subset of it so you need to create queries to retrieve specific data and work with it. I hope it helps. Saludos @abdo ! ---
**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/abdo/32/36540_2.png) [@abdo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abdo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/5 "2023-05-21T16:21:37Z")
Thank you bro appreciate you trying to assist But that other post was started by me, it’s not really of much help at all otherwise I wouldn’t have started this. I’m also part of the special slack channel and that wasn’t really of much help regarding this topic - are you saying that each query counts as 1 update only? that is 0.01 cents. - what subset of the data is loaded on default. and when I add new data what happens to the already loaded subset. ---
**Author:** ![gvalero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gvalero/32/1037_2.png) [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-big-tables-confusion/61974/6 "2023-05-21T16:49:28Z")
Uufff… sorry! I didn’t notice you were the author of that post! 🤣