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We haven’t yet worked out out our pricing model for Budibase Cloud. However, it will most likely be user-based / per seat - similar to platforms like Retool & Airtable.

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Such pricing models would prevent any kind of resale for most products. Please at least consider a pricing model which allows for something like 1 USD per MAU, for instance if data isn't shared between users (could a SaaS be build on budibase which cost 10 USD per month to the end-user).

I hear you! Budibase is not meant for building a SaaS product. However, it's good for "Customer Portals" - whereby you are giving access to external users. This is a problem for per-seat pricing, but there are ways to solve it.

We've thought about pricing per MAU. The difficulty is that we would always be charging for last month's usage, rather than more predictable upfront charging. Also - coming up with an exact definition of "active" is not trivial!

Thanks for the feedback!

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