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 "id": "glide",
 "name": "Glide",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "glideapps.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "AI development, agents & data",
 "summary": "No-code app builder — now sold as Glide Classic, next to the newer GlideOS — that turns spreadsheets and databases into working business apps: internal tools, client portals and field apps, with workflows and an API.",
 "best_for": "teams that already run operations out of spreadsheets and want a real app on top — internal tools, field data capture, client portals — without hiring a developer",
 "skip_if": "you need heavy custom logic or a high-write consumer app: the update metering punishes exactly that shape of workload, and anything beyond the published ceilings is a quote-only conversation",
 "honest_knock": "Glide meters updates, not just seats. Your bill tracks how busy the app is rather than how many people own a licence. A write-heavy workflow can pass the included 5,000 updates and add 2 cents each without anyone changing plan. The jump from Maker to Business is also steep: $49 to $199 per month on annual billing, and the row ceiling only moves from 25k to 100k. Per Glide's partner team on 18 August 2026, those ceilings track the data source rather than the plan. 25k applies to synced spreadsheet sources whatever you pay, and the 100k+ figures belong to their Big Table source. So an upgrade alone does not lift a spreadsheet-backed app past 25k rows. The pricing page is hard to read for a reason Glide does not dispute. Asked about the Individual and Business tabs, the same team called them audience segmentation. They agreed on 18 August 2026 that the comparison tables confuse, because they never put all plans side by side. And there is a trap before any of that arithmetic applies: everything above describes the classic builder, but the free signup button on glideapps.com does not lead there. We pressed it on 7 September 2026 and landed in GlideOS, the newer AI product, which meters credits instead of updates, starts at $25 a month instead of $199, and describes its free tier only as “limited credits” with no number anywhere in the pricing page or the app. Read the classic prices, click sign up, and you are evaluating something else.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month billed yearly ($25 monthly)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(Classic re-verified 2026-09-03 in a live browser session on both tabs and both billing toggles, unchanged since 2026-08-04; the GlideOS plans were re-read the same day after a restructure) The classic spreadsheet-to-app builder still has a genuinely free tier: unlimited drafts, one editor, up to 25k rows. Its paid plans are unchanged, but they now live on glideapps.com/classic/pricing instead of the main pricing page. On the individual tab, Explorer starts at $19 per month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly (one app, 100 personal users, 250 updates, up to 25k rows) and Maker at $49 per month billed yearly or $60 monthly. On the business tab, Business starts at $199 per month billed yearly or $249 monthly, with unlimited apps, 30 users included, 5,000 updates and up to 100k rows. Extra users are $5 each on annual billing and $6 on monthly, and extra updates cost 2 cents each. Enterprise is quote-only. VAT is added at checkout, and Business comes with a 14-day free trial. Glide now sells two products from two pages. What glideapps.com/pricing shows today is GlideOS, the newer AI builder, on its own separate subscription, and its plan ladder was rebuilt between our August and September readings. The Free, Solo and Team tiers we recorded on 4 August 2026 are gone; as read on 3 September 2026 the ladder is Free, Basic at $25 per month, Plus at $50, Pro at $125 and a quote-only Enterprise. Free carries 2 team members, 10 projects and limited credits, with no published apps. Basic adds 100 credits, 2 published apps and 1 enabled workflow. Plus gives 250 credits, 3 team members, 5 published apps, 20 projects and 5 workflows, with credit bundles up to 10,000 a month. Pro starts at 5 team members with 500 credits, 50 credits included per member, unlimited published apps and workflows, premium integrations and the option to build with your own agent over MCP. Two things that used to be on the page are not any more: the $10 per additional member above five, and Glide's note that annual GlideOS plans were coming. So the GlideOS prices are still monthly only, and what a sixth seat costs is no longer published. Credit top-ups are capped at one a month on Basic and two on Plus, and are unlimited on Pro and Enterprise. One caveat on the row ceilings, from Glide's own partner team on 18 August 2026. The 25k limit applies to synced spreadsheet sources regardless of plan type, and the 100k+ figures apply to their Big Table data source. So which ceiling you hit is set by where the data lives as much as by what you pay. They also confirmed the Individual and Business tabs on the pricing page are audience segmentation rather than two halves of one plan ladder.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-07",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(Classic re-verified 2026-09-03 in a live browser session on both tabs and both billing toggles, unchanged since 2026-08-04; the GlideOS plans were re-read the same day after a restructure) The classic spreadsheet-to-app builder still has a genuinely free tier: unlimited drafts, one editor, up to 25k rows.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "Pro starts at 5 team members with 500 credits, 50 credits included per member, unlimited published apps and workflows, premium integrations and the option to build with your own agent over MCP.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-07",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Free carries 2 team members, 10 projects and limited credits, with no published apps.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-07",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "What glideapps.com/pricing shows today is GlideOS, the newer AI builder, on its own separate subscription, and its plan ladder was rebuilt between our August and September readings.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-07",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Extra users are $5 each on annual billing and $6 on monthly, and extra updates cost 2 cents each.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-07",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Softr",
  "why": "the other spreadsheet-to-app builder"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/glide.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/glide-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/glide/",
  "vendor_site": "https://glideapps.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://join.glideapps.com/bpkt7j2hkzk5",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product."
 ],
 "task_evidence": {
  "structured_checks": [],
  "sessions": [
   {
    "source": "session",
    "product_name": "Glide",
    "product_id": "glide",
    "run_date": "2026-09-07",
    "what": "We already knew from their pricing pages that Glide sells two products. What we had never done is the thing a reader does: go to glideapps.com and press the free signup button. Daan created the account; everything after that was measured in the product.",
    "findings": [
     "The free signup button does not lead to the product our pricing section describes. Both “Sign up” and “Get started” on glideapps.com point at os.glideapps.dev — GlideOS. We signed up and landed there. The classic builder, with the free tier of unlimited drafts, one editor and 25k rows, sits behind glideapps.com/classic, which you only reach if you already know to look for it.",
     "The two ladders are an order of magnitude apart. Classic business pricing starts at $199 a month billed yearly; GlideOS Basic is $25 a month. Same brand, same homepage, two different products with two different price floors.",
     "And the meter is different. Classic bills updates — 5,000 included, 2 cents each after that. GlideOS bills credits: Basic 100 a month, Plus 250, Pro 500 and upward with team size. So the “updates, not seats” warning that applies to Classic does not describe the product a new signup actually lands in.",
     "GlideOS's free tier publishes no number. Every paid tier lists its credit allowance; the free column says “Limited credits”, alongside 2 team members and 10 projects. Nowhere in the app is there a balance — not on the dashboard, not in the account menu, not on the upgrade screen. You cannot find out what you have or what you have spent.",
     "The AI itself is not walled off on free. From one sentence — “build a simple app to track software subscriptions” — it drew up a plan, asked a sensible clarifying question about where the data lives today, produced a working mockup and then began importing components one by one. We hit no credit wall during any of it."
    ],
    "not_tested": null,
    "report": null,
    "result": "reported",
    "note": "Findings as written up after the session; no pass/fail per task was scored.",
    "in_catalog": true
   }
  ]
 },
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "glide:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "glide:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "glide:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "glide:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}