Row usage limits explained

[blairrorani]

After not understanding this very well myself, I wondered if others would benefit from the same clarify that I now have. Thanks to @Jeff_Hager for explaining this.

(Might be common knowledge but if this helps you then great!)

Resources

Link to Glide docs on usage

Link to Glide pricing page

My explanation

Here’s what the docs and the pricing page actually mean.

The row usage limits are the total number of “spreadsheets” and high-scale data source rows.

Note: A spreadsheet data source is any one of the following:

• Glide Tables (including Google Sheets, CSV and Excel imports)
• Google Sheets (sync, not import)
• Airtable (Business and Enterprise only)
• Excel (Business and Enterprise only)

For example, on a business plan you can have:

• 10,000 Excel rows
• 15,000 Glide table rows

This = 25,000 which is your limit.

Any rows over that 25,000 limit have to be in a high-scale data source. In other words, on a business plan 100,000 is your row limit and that can be made up of a max of 25,000 spreadsheet data source rows. To use 100,000 rows, at least 75,000 rows must be in high-scale data sources.

Hope that helps

[nathanaelb]

High-scale data sources are not available on the Free plan, so instead of “25,000 combined” you could show a hyphen “-” or “0” or “Not available”.

EDIT: I just learned that Glide Big Tables are available on the Free plan. So my apologies, your table looks fine.

I agree with you that the pricing page is unclear. I think I might go as far as calling it deceptive at times. All the information is there. But one has to hover and click on the ‘i’ information bubble and read the small print carefully to understand information that could otherwise clearly be expressed.

[Jeff_Hager]

@nathanaelb

High-scale data sources are not available on the Free plan

[blairrorani]

And because I’m solutions focussed here is a feature request for how to make this clearer to customers including a UI mock up