Glide Pricing: Plans & Features 2026
Unlike typical flat-rate builders, Glide charges per user, scaling from a free tier up to $25/month for the Business plan.
Glide plans and pricing
Free
FreeBest for: Learn to create your first app
- ✓Unlimited drafts
- ✓1 editor
- ✓40+ UI components
- ✓Community support
Explorer
$25/moBest for: Explore core features
- ✓2 Editors
- ✓1 published app
- ✓Glide AI
- ✓Workflows
- ✓Third-party integrations
Maker
$60/moBest for: Launch apps to the world
- ✓Up to 3 published apps
- ✓Unlimited personal users
- ✓Custom domains
- ✓Custom branding
- ✓Standard Support
Glide pricing: the quick answer
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 as of July 5, 2026, with Enterprise on a custom quote. Annual billing takes 20 percent off, so those land at $19, $49, and $199/mo. Business is a flat base, not per seat: it includes 30 business-email users, and each user past 30 adds $5/mo on annual billing. Updates past a plan's monthly quota run $0.02 each on every paid tier.
- FreeFree
- Explorer$25/mo
- Maker$60/mo
- Business$249/mo
- EnterpriseCustom
At $25/mo to start, Glide sits 56% above the $16/mo median across 21 website builders tools we track.
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What Glide really costs
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.
Pricing Expert Take
Independent analysis · Glide
Value Analysis
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.
Hidden Costs
- Extra 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.
- Update 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.
- Row 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.
Red Flags
Users report hitting sudden usage walls and watching features move to higher tiers over time.
"Glide starts hitting per-row pricing walls or update limits"
"more and more features are moved to higher pricing steps"
Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.
Green Wins
- 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.
"Glide is very slick and easy to learn. Great interface."
"The platform-cost-versus-rebuild-cost math almost always favors staying on Glide"
Verdict
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.
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Research Reports
Sources & Data Trail · Glide
- 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
- 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
- 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.7/5 · 810 reviews
- 4.Capterra·Capterra verified user reviews · 4.6/5
- 5.PeerSpot·PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews