# Public vs Private

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**Created:** [July 13, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/public-vs-private/44434 "2022-07-13T21:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Brassnyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Daniel\_Brassnyo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Daniel_Brassnyo)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/public-vs-private/44434/1 "2022-07-13T21:29:35Z")

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This is probably a newbie question, but the difference between private and public users is still unclear to me.  
Here is a hypothetical situation.  
I have an airtable base with users:

- Clients
- Vendors
- Employees
- Managers
- Admins

Now I want all of them to access the same data based on their role (potentially from different apps). All users must log in via email (so it’s a private app). In this situation, who counts as a private and who as a private user?  
Since it’s an internal tool with a client and partner dashboard feature with potentially hundreds of users, the limited number of private users even in the business tier worries me.  
But since the data from Airtable is already filtered, can I count all my users as public?  
What’s really the difference between user types in terms of features?

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