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Glide Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Unlike typical flat-rate builders, Glide charges per user, scaling from a free tier up to $249/user/month for the Business plan.

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Glide plans and pricing

High· Verified July 8, 2026

Interactive calculator

Billing surface

Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.

$199Business · effective monthly, billed annually

Free

Learn to create your first app

Free

Unlimited drafts

1 editor

40+ UI components

Community support

Get started

Plan

Explorer

Explore core features

$19/mo

$25 /mosave 24%

2 Editors

1 published app

Glide AI

Workflows

Third-party integrations

AI-assisted support

Choose Explorer

Plan

Maker

Launch apps to the world

$49/mo

$60 /mosave 18%

Up to 3 published apps

Unlimited personal users

Custom domains

Custom branding

Standard Support

Choose Maker

Business

Turn spreadsheets into tools

$199/mo

$249 /mosave 20%

Unlimited published apps

10 Editors

Automation (Glide API, Call API, Workflows)

Users signing in with work emails

Express Support

Choose Business

Custom

Enterprise

Deploy at scale

Custom

Single Sign-on (SSO)

Data Backups

Enterprise Integrations

Custom support

Contact sales

Glide pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 8, 2026

Glide has a free forever plan (1 editor, one app, 25,000 rows) and then charges $25/mo for Explorer, $60/mo for Maker, and $249/mo for Business, with Enterprise on a custom quote. Annual billing takes roughly 20 percent off, so those land at $19, $49, and $199/mo. Business is a flat base, not per seat: it includes a block of business-email users, and users past that add to the bill. Updates past a plan's monthly quota are metered on every paid tier.

FreeFree
Explorer$25/mo
Maker$60/mo
Business$249/mo
EnterpriseCustom

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan and compare monthly against annual billing.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Per Seat

Cheapest paid

$25/mo

Annual discount

Save ~24%

At $25/mo to start, Glide sits 39% above the $18/mo median across 21 website builders tools we track.

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Glide Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

Glide's plan price assumes you stay inside the included users, updates, and rows. Cross any of those lines and the meter starts running on top of the sticker.

Extra Business users past 30

Business includes 30 business-email users. A 45-person rollout means 15 extra users at $5/mo each on annual billing, so the real bill is $199 plus $75, or $274/mo, before any update overage. On monthly billing the extra seats are $6 each, which pushes the same team higher.

$5/mo per user over 30 (annual)

Update overage at two cents each

Every plan bundles a fixed number of monthly updates (250 on Explorer, 500 on Maker, 5,000 on Business) and bills $0.02 for each one beyond that. A busy internal tool logging 10,000 updates on a Maker plan burns through the 500 included and adds $190 in overage, which can quietly dwarf the $49 base fee.

$0.02/update

Row limits force the next tier

Data caps climb by plan: 25,000 rows on Free and Explorer, 50,000 on Maker, 100,000 on Business. Hit the ceiling and there is no add-on to buy rows, you upgrade the whole plan, so a dataset outgrowing Maker's 50,000 rows jumps you to the $199/mo Business tier whether or not you need its other features.

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The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the Glide true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

Glide Cost Analysis

Glide pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$25/moentry price

39% above the category median

low $4.50median $18 · n=21high $97

Glide splits into an Individuals track and a Business track. The Free plan is a real starting point: 1 editor, one app, 25,000 rows. Paid tiers run Explorer $25/mo, Maker $60/mo, and Business $249/mo ($19, $49, and $199 on annual billing). Business is where Glide changes character, moving from a flat hobby price to a base fee that assumes a team: 30 business-email users, the Glide API, and unlimited apps. It is priced for internal-tool teams that have already proven the app pays for itself, not for someone building a first prototype.

Cost drivers

1Extra Business users cost $5/mo each above 30 on annual billing ($6 monthly), so a 45-user rollout is really $274/mo, not the $199 sticker.
2Update overage is $0.02 each past the included quota (250 Explorer, 500 Maker, 5,000 Business), which can outrun the base fee on a busy app.
3Row limits gate the tiers at 25,000 (Free/Explorer), 50,000 (Maker), and 100,000 (Business); you cannot buy rows, you upgrade the whole plan.

Watch-outs

Users report hitting sudden usage walls and watching features move to higher tiers over time.

Strengths

Business is a flat base, not per-seat, up to 30 users, which is cheaper for mid-size teams than true per-editor tools.
It turns a Google Sheet or Airtable base into a working app in minutes with live two-way sync.

Editor’s take

Small projects live comfortably on Free, and a solo builder shipping one app is fine on Maker. Business at $249/mo only makes sense once an internal tool is load-bearing and you have counted the users and updates it will actually consume. If you just need a public website rather than a data app, Squarespace is the cheaper fit.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 8, 2026

Glide price history

Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 31, 2026 · CE-WEBS-2026W31-BD3405 · ✓ Pricing updated

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