[jamesmcintyre]

Thanks for answering!

As far as pricing if I'm comparing against, say, Firebase your pricing seems higher for less infrastructure but I understand that Firebase wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison given your enterprise-data-integrations value-adds.

I guess it's just hard to swallow the idea of building an entire app with your platform then potential having high cost of scaling- but again, I understand why some may not see it that way and be happy with that pricing.

If you had lower monthly base plans and then pay-as-you-go for each functionality like the serverless functions, no. of end-users, etc. then it'd seem more attractive.

Anyway I'm sure your guys have put a lot of thought into the pricing so this is just from a web dev's perspective!

[asantalo]

Thanks so much for your comments. As Andrei mentioned, open source is something we are constantly considering but it's one of those decisions that is irreversible and must, therefore, be very carefully considered. Our belief is we must focus on a sustainable business model given the history with products like Parse, Graph.cool and Scaphold.

8base was founded after having spent decades in enterprise software and feeling the tremendous pain associated with designing, hosting and supporting multi-tenant SaaS. Our product is significantly differentiated from Firebase today but we expect that over the rest of 2019 we will diverge further and address some of the major pain points that exist in the market.

We will be coming out Beta in the next few months but we already have some great logos building on the product and paying us real revenues. We are also well funded.

[andr111]

We're definitely still iterating on the pricing. Currently the platform is completely free (while in Beta). We are yet to implement billing and welcome all feedback that can help make our pricing more attractive for target use cases.