The price per update was $0.01 and is now $0.02, meaning a 100% increase from one day to another!
Every plan has a number of updates included e.g. 5,000 for the Team Plan which costs $125.
Considering $0.02 per update this would represent a cost of $100 per month.
It seems therefore that all clients using exclusively Glide Tables without any Integrations are paying a heavy fee for something they are not using at all!!!
IMHO These new plans make no sense at all, one had 5 apps on Starter for $25 and now 1 (limited) app costs $60! And lets not start talking about this bloody user pricing mess!
PS Just wondering if Glide is not preparing themselves for a BIG, FAT buyout!!!
First, it looks like we are getting grandfathered in (for awhile)
However, even though Maker seems like it would be a fit for me, a significant portion of my users are small business owners who sign in with their business email. This isn’t allowed on Maker - however none of the other plans make sense for me.
Workers/ volunteers for a nof-for-profit organisation or i.e. schools can’t use their non-for-profit e-mailaddress? Crazy!
The maker plan will never work for a non-for-profit organisation if it failes for these e-mailadresses
No unless those 70 brokers are going to login to the App.
If data is coming through Webhook, that will cost only Updates and not the pay per user price.
Wow! Once again Glide leaves me speechless! I just tell you that just yesterday I founded a new company based mainly on Glide, with the plans that I just discovered today are now obsolete! I have never seen a company managed so badly, you can’t change prices every year so quickly, I have contracts with some customers based on the old prices. Believe me, I’m mortified, dismayed and angry, I’m dedicating a lot of time to app development with Glide and now I feel cheated.
Again, that messaging was related to the minimum notice you can expect if ever Glide were to “sunset” an existing plan. Others have noted that they have been grandfathered for years on past pricing plans and really only see the change for new teams/projects or when upgrading a project. I can’t speak for Glide, but based on past experiences, it’s highly unlikely that Glide is planning on sunsetting all previous plans 3 months from now.
Do you know how a company works? We proceed with the drafting of a business plan based on the annual costs expected by the company, we also have price lists, agreements made with new customers and I could go on forever!
I reached out to Glide sales late last year regarding the feasibility of building a specific type of app on Glide. The reason I reached out was because I needed clarification on how many external users a business could have and how much it would cost to add users. The app requires business clients to access the app. I was told that price changes were coming towards the end of January, and that I should keep building on Glide in the meantime. The new pricing has gone in the complete opposite direction of what I inquired about - and now makes Glide a non-starter for my use case.
I have no problem with Glide changing plans or pricing. They are a business and they have to make money. I do question the logic and motive behind some of the changes though.
While I haven’t done the math myself, at first glance it looks like the cost of updates has doubled from $0.01 to $0.02. In some cases this negates the inclusion of free updates within Glide, as it will cost twice as much for external updates.
The biggest issue I have is with paying for external users. The fact that they are differentiating between emails with public domains versus private domains makes no sense. A business can’t control what email address a customer signs up with.
One of the selling points / benefits @David has made in the past, is Glide doesn’t charge per seat - saving you money. This benefit is gone. I have no problem paying per seat for internal business users, but having to pay for customers to access an app is a deal breaker for so many applications. I think more thought and consideration has to be given to this. This current pricing structure really limits Glide’s use cases - unless you are only focused on Enterprise customers with deep pockets.
In Canada, over 95% of all businesses are small businesses. I’m sure the same is true in the U.S. Many of these small businesses have money to invest in an app like Glide, but they need these investments to be reasonable, clear, and predictable. The amount a small business would have to invest to provide customers with access to their apps is not reasonable and these changes are not clear or predictable.
I see so much potential with Glide. I want to use Glide, but it seems like a risky investment. It would be nice if Glide clearly stated the direction they want to head in and who their primary target audience is. It seems to be skewing more towards Enterprise, and less towards small business. This is fine - just draw a line in the sand and tell us who you want as your customers.
In any case I promise that I will never write another word on the subject, I can’t waste any more time with David and the investors’ games! I have to work to live.
Seems like a big strategic shift by them. Encouraging more to use glideapp tables ensures lockin especially since airtable are really starting to build out their interface capabilities. I didn’t realise how far airtable have come along. The glideapp pricing has forced me to look for alternatives.
I too was about to embark on this journey. Sounds like I dodged a bullet
I think Glide were probably at a crossroads in terms of their target audience. The shift was apparent with the transition of classic apps to pages. Personally, I had always felt the update quota was somewhat miserly so the introduction of unlimited updates for CRUD operations in Glide Tables is a really nice touch. Unfortunately, this is offset by the marked decrease in users (business plan)
We provide a service to our clients and one of the companies we use to deliver this is Glide. This scenario is always a possibility and something we have contingency for. That said having no control over the change can be challenging but that’s the risk of this setup. This move isn’t entirely unexpected as Glide are looking to punch up.
We are building a couple of apps using Glide for medium size businesses and will need to re-evaluate and possibly consider alternatives. We may also need to open up a dialogue with existing customer regarding current pricing. In this scenario we do have time as the current plans are still in play.
Glide is a brilliant app but there are other great apps out there too.
BTW I think the mission statement ‘into the hands of a billion new creators’ has probably not helped
When the new prices were introduced in late 2022, the older plans were active for about another year before they were migrated to new one.
So those on the current grandfathered plan can expect bout 6-12 months ‘shelf life’ before losing the legacy benefits aka expires. Or it could happen sooner…
Glide needs to reword from a billion to a million.