Show HN: 8base BaaS launches free tier

Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update of our pricing (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256). Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Albert

I've been using 8base for 4 months, and I'm loving it. Top-notch UI/UX in a backend-as-a-service.

The new $49/m plan is a step when you outgrow the Hobby plan, not having to go straight to "enterprise-level"

I haven't had any issue with support either.

Keep adding features, you're on the right path. :)