No, my school is buying an IPad for me to use via Zoom instead of me using my personal IPad that I purchased in 2019. And AGAIN, I pay for everything on the app because the money they use for their grants won’t allocate for it. $4/user wasnt what I signed up for either, I signed up for 1000 with the ability to scale up if needed.
Changing the whole billing scale then questioning why I can’t afford it as a public school teacher shouldn’t be the answer to a 180 payment structure from the company.
We made a new plan just for your use case, that is $60 instead of $25 but basically gives you unlimited usage. It’s not a 180, it’s a plan we made just for you and it’s still a reasonable price.
So basically you just want more features and users but you don’t want to pay extra for it?
Given that your students likely don’t have professional emails, you should be able to do all of this with the maker plan, which will give as many user as you want. That sounds like a better deal than the legacy plans imo.
I don’t want more features. My apps have been finished since July of 2022. I am running out of public users. I have been deleting old students and students I do not have in class to free up space for those who need it. I can not disable user profiles in app because I have them on the old Glide setup. I started to try and duplicate them using the new updates, but some small tweaks have me relearning how to use the program. I haven’t changed anything on my apps, just simple links to lectures on YouTube. I just organized everything seamlessly for my students to interact with. Upgrading to new Maker costs more, and I don’t have 1 app, I have 3. 1 for math, science and History. So now I have to scale maker 3x if I upgrade. Originally $25, now who knows. Could be $75-100. Again, I created these apps to be as free as possible for students that might need it.
Reason why I have 3 apps: Having the ability to separate each area for the apps lets me ensure that they are focusing on 1 subject at a time. Most of my students have stated that it is so much easier studying with us then the surrounding bigger city areas because of the ability to use the app. Double edge sword, students now come from the bigger city to study at our school and have been sharing the link with other students outside of my small town.
If the problem with users qty:
May be, if your app is public and you don’t want unknown users stay in app, simply add delete action for self-user row if user row hasn’t approved.
This action can be placed on every flow to every content.
May be, you can simply change app link every year and share new link only for local users.
Good point. I’ll look into changing the link every fiscal year.
That could be the easiest solution 
You seem to be having a strong impact in your local education system with your Glide apps. Hopefully others working with you see it too and together you will be able to unblock the budget for a Maker plan which seems to be the right one for you.
This. What you are doing @Christian_Hoffmann seems to be having a great impact on your students and the school as a whole, so maybe the school is open to discussing the budget.
In terms of searching out other solutions - I am saying this as someone who looked into building custom apps, Softr, Bubble, this that and the other… there will ALWAYS be trade-offs. If for example, you want to go for what I would think is that cheapest and most scalable option, you would have to code it up - but again how much time can you realistically invest to learn how to code.
I think you should just present your case to your school and convince them to spend the Maker plan budget.
@Christian_Hoffmann - what you’re doing for the students sounds great, as a child of 2 educators and having spent the last 16 years on school boards, this is exactly the kind of stuff that needs to be done.
A few ideas / options / suggestions for you:
Anyway - hope that’s useful info … I’ve studied this market like crazy and have yet to find a solution as balanced as Glide in terms of bang for the buck. They spend a lot in R&D to keep making it either easier to develop, or more powerful, or both. That takes capital … and they do have to decide where to focus. They’re going B2B (or internal business) vs. B2C like Google (which has a B2B group as well, but is mostly a consumer brand).
It’s always a shame when a direction or focus for a business has a negative impact on some early users - I’m hoping the ideas can help you avoid the pain of having to start over.
Best of luck - reach out if I can be of help in any way. Happy to just bang heads together to try and come up with creative solutions here.
Hi there! I just upgraded to Maker, but then I tried to “Show API” for one of my Glide Tables, but it says I need to “Upgrade to Pro”.
Since there’s no such thing as a plan called “Pro”, can you clarify what this means? It seems like this feature (to get the API info for a table) should be included in the Maker plan, since early-stage builders will want to e.g. integrate with Zapier.
Also note: Clicking “Upgrade” just takes me to my team dashboard, with no info about upgrading.
It seems like you confusing with Glide AI, because there no access to Glide API on Maker plan.
Ok. I guess “Pro” must mean one of the “For Companies” plans. I see now that the lowest plan with “Glide Basic API” is the “Team” plan.
That’s a shame, the “For Companies” plans are very pricy. 
It could probably say
Good catch. I’ve let the team know. 
Hi @prossm,
Just some fun with numbers - and this may not change your POV … but …
Your comment about the business plans being ‘pricey’:
$99 / month is ~ $3.33 / day
Or if you have 20 users:
$99 / month is ~ $5 / user / MONTH
I don’t think there’s a Starbucks option for less $3.33 a day … I can’t think of anything for $5 / month.
So you get the list below for under $4 bucks a day:
Data Sources:
Key Features:
Support:
All of the above for under $4 bucks a day - for a single user - for unlimited apps … 4 users for less than $1 per day per user seems like the steal of the century to me.
Respectfully - and I really do mean that … this is not an attempt to invalidate how you feel … just trying to suggest a slightly different perspective … and that’s just my POV.
Quick question on this,
I’m currently on the Pro (Legacy) plan, and I’m considering switching to the new $99 Maker plan. It’s has some features that I’ve been desperately needing, so I think it’ll be a good idea.
However,
95% of the usage on my app comes from “Edit Row”, “Add Row” and “Delete Row”… which is where my concern starts to come in. I have access to the Glide API (Basic) currently, but I want to make sure that my users can still edit rows, add columns, set values, etc, through my app without needing the access to the Glide API. I’ve read through all of the documents several times, but this part appears unclear.
Secondly,
If I use the Zapier integration on the new Maker plan, would I really be able to utilize it without access to the Glide API? I don’t see a way I could connect to, well really anything without it… but maybe I just have a huge misunderstanding of how that actually works.
Any clarification on this would be much appreciated! 
Would you be using Glide tables or Google sheets as your data source?
Definitely Glide Tables, I moved everything over a few weeks ago from Sheets. At the time I was unaware that the updates still counted towards Glide Tables on the plan I’m currently on, which is why I migrated to begin with.
Yeah, once you are in the new plan then there will be a lot less updates to worry about because add, edit, delete of rows within the app with not be counted. Yes they are still counted on legacy plans though.
@bschonbrun That’s good perspective! I don’t drink Starbucks 
but I hear you.
It’s mostly just tricky for me doing this as a side-hustle. I don’t have any upfront capital or anything, so it comes down to practical limitations of my out-of-pocket budget.
I’m testing in parallel with Bubble right now, for instance, and it seems like I’ll probably successfully finish my app there first, on their $30/month plan. So thinking about paying more than triple that ($1,188 per year instead of $360) starts to feel more like I’m paying a car lease rather than buying coffee. And it makes me nervous that I’ll continue being upsold to higher plans and my product won’t scale easily.
Also, this needs to be considered in context as one component of my budget, not the only platform I’m using. If I have 5-10 platforms each asking for a cup of coffee a day, it starts to add up.
But it’s very particular to my perspective. In the end, $99/month is a good deal! And I’m really loving Glide as a product so far!
