Thank you for the reply.
Is it still at 10 updates per scan.
That will only allow for 30 scans a day approx. 1000 per month on a business plan… if i’m not mistaken its 0.2$ a scan
do you see any changes happening with barcode scanning and its pricing?
Maybe Glide has been rolling with punches on additional User costs? I wonder if that comes from the user-specific column feature, or maybe they are trying to balance users with eating costs on making their GT free?
I really like Glide, but I’ve always been cautious about using it because of the price: too many major model & level changes in too little time.
That’s why I only use Glide for prototyping, and don’t dare go into Production.
Until now… Because, funnily enough, I very recently decided to test with an SME who agreed to consider using Glide for a small use; they have 100 employees, most of whom would probably use the application once a week.
With the new pricing, the deal is closed before it even starts; they will continue to use the ‘old practices’.
To this we often read here:
1/ “Hey, it’s only $5 for a given employee, that’s nothing compared to the cost”,
→ SMEs (rightly) reply: “It’s not just your Glide, we have lots of other applications, MS Office, Notion, CRM etc etc etc, and at some point that represents a budget”.
2/ “If they don’t use Glide, they have to go through a developer and pay for the server-storage”.
→ A Glider is a developer (he doesn’t work for free)
→ The cost of storage is out of all proportion to what Glide offers.
Just like Glide, we need to ensure the “profitable growth” of our business.
Until now, Glide’s speed of execution was a valid argument.
Now, when you compare Glide’s price with a real webapp: between the very cheap hosting, the freelancers and GPT’s support, the difference is tighter.
My feeling, disappointed, is that if I’d invested all the time I spent on Glide (3 years) in learning Python + SQL (especially with GPT), I’d be autonomous and not dependent on a very unreassuring pricing model.
nb: “3 months’ notice”…no comment
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Can you clarify, If I provide an update to the glide table from make.com, does it eat an update?
This pricing does two things:
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Forces one to be creative in the way they create the apps
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Kills a huge sector of the market that is using these apps.
I was getting ready to scale this app and resell to other business’s use. This is not possible with this pricing structure, as other apps on the market that do the same thing only cost $500/month and are more powerful. I was planning to enter the market around $350/month, however with the new pricing a new client would have to pay over $1000/month for a small business.
I am sad
Glide really dropped a bomb. I don’t know how they’re going to solve all of this, but there are agencies built on your platform, and now they don’t know what to do with the significant price increase and the change of plans. The truth is, you go through all the plans, and what one has in excess, another lacks. I want to reiterate that storage is the cheapest thing in cloud services; it costs practically nothing. I don’t understand their limitations.
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Its evident that their bread and butter is coming from the enterprise clients. I doubt they will plan to solve this for the little guys that are using and pushing the limits on our plans. To me it seems like the small clients became an inconvenience, and this is a way to push them in a different direction. They must be incurring high level costs for all the small guys that they were not willing to ride anymore.
Either way, waiting for clarification, maybe they are having a break out meeting right now about this, but I doubt it, you don’t drop this type of drastic change without the assumption of the fallout, its all pre determined.
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I was assuming that Legacy pricing meant as long as that account is active, like most companies do when they update pricing. Knowing that I might only be able to keep it for 3 months at any given time would definitely change my strategy going forward regarding Glide
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I only just discovered glide this week and build my first app. Was so impressed with it that I was considering investing the time to become certified and begin building up a little agency through glide. This pricing change has really stopped me in my tracks. Many organisations will just revert to using ms power apps now.
Very disappointing.
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Correct. For me Glide is finished!
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To me the more I look at the pricing the less sense it makes!
Business plan - 20 users, 10k updates - $249
Business plan - 40 users, 20k updates - $609
In the world when you order in bulk, the pricing per unit usually goes down, I import from china all the time, MOQ is always highest price, not the other way around. Who in the world penalizes their paying customers per unit for using their services more?
Star bucks - 2 coffees - $10
Star Bucks - 4 coffees - $24.40, this is the math glide is using in this specific case.
At least starbucks gives us a rewards system to give us the illusion of getting a discount LOL!!
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Precisely. You could build a HRM app for a company at a fraction of price which is very attractive for orgs. Now with new pricing the decision is an easy one, orgs will just use a more full featured saas product. Very sad indeed
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I see more business for me! Now my pricing looks really good…
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Ouch. 
Updates are used to change data and sync changes from external data souces like Google Sheets or Aittable.
Does it mean no any changes in glide table will be couted?
Looks like if the user updates the glide sheet from inside the app, no charges.
If user performs action inside the app that does any api, webhook, or external mingling. it costs updates.
Hi Guys, I was chatting to softr and they’ve mentioned they’ve seen a significant up tick in enquiries since the new price changes. Also they do not charge per record updated. Ps. I’m not affiliated with them and have not used their service. I’ve built my app using glide but now have no choice but to consider alternatives given the price model change
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If this true, so it solves legacy overost and newly 10$ per user is equal to legacy with rich updates. Great if it true
Changes to Glide Tables made by users within apps are not counted as updates.
Edit: Updated my wording, hopefully that’s clearer!
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