This move to freemium pricing is a great match for JAMstack development cycle with other best-of-breed tools. It helps knowing you won't hit a pricing cliff in the midst of experimentation and growing your app via HOBBYIST to DEVELOPER plans. Way to go 8base!
Loving the new pricing tiers and not having to jump from the entry level plan to $149 sooner than needed. Thank you for always keeping your customer experience top of mind 8base!
About eight weeks ago I hopped on here and announced 8base to HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update.
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...
I first looked at 8base about 4 months ago and then again when you announced the product here. The pricing improvements are great but what impresses me the most is how powerful your schema builder is and that it instantly generates your GraphQL API. And, that 8base’s GraphQL engine is really badass and more powerful than any others I have seen.
Thanks, gqlfan. We have some new capabilities coming up soon related to groupings and aggregations which are going to be a HUGE enhancement to our GraphQL engine. Stay tuned!
Oh wow yes. If it’s what I understand it to be I recently had to code my ass of in my front-end to build that capability. When are you anticipating releasing that?
Yes, these new commands will be very elegant and super efficient for devs, saving tons of work and making things more memory and bandwidth-efficient on the front-end.
Love the team over at 8base, incredible customer support, and an even more impressive product. I really love how easy it is to get up and running. Much better tooling/ui/workflow than appsync/amplify.
Last time I checked in on you guys was when you posted last on HN. The new pricing looks great - you addressed one of my concerns. But even better is that I see some new killer features you've brought online! Keep up the great work.
Your Salesforce integration is amazing and then I was more surprised when in your API Explorer I saw I could use the OneGraph tooling to access my Salesforce and 8base data.
Best UI/UX in a Backend-as-a-service I've ever seen.
Happy to see the new $49/m plan! It's a nice step when you outgrow the Hobby plan, but not having to go straight to "enterprise-level"
PS. The support is probably the best customer support I've ever seen!
They actually listen to customer feedback as well. I'm thoroughly impressed by 8base!
Excited to see what features you add in the future!!!