Thoughts on Baserow’s Pricing for Small Teams

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I’ve been testing Self-Hosted Baserow on the Premium plan for a month now, and it’s truly an amazing product. However, I’ve noticed that despite the open-source philosophy, the functionality feels somewhat limited for solo users or small teams.

As someone who also uses paid plans on Notion and Coda, I see some differences that could impact small businesses. For instance, even with a Premium subscription, I can’t give clients read-only access, and there’s no way for clients to comment or see my comment on rows. When I inquired about this, I received an Enterprise offer at $4200 per year — a steep price for a small business. This amount could fund several, actually 7-10 years of Airtable use for my needs.

I’m ready to support Baserow and am curious if there are ideas or plans to make it more accessible for small companies with limited budgets to work with read-only commentors. Lower-cost options would open up more opportunities for smaller teams who would love to benefit from Baserow’s capabilities.

Thanks for your consideration!

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Hello @DarkPower, welcome to the Baserow community :wave:

Thank you for sharing your feedback! I’ll make sure to discuss your point about the read-only commenters with the team. I’ll get back to you on this :slightly_smiling_face:

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I am in the same boat. I would like to use baserow for a small non-profit I volunteer at. Our only option right now is either 50% discounted Airtable or free Baserow tier with limitations.

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Hey @DarkPower, getting back to you on this. Due to how our subscription plans work, it would be technically very difficult to introduce new roles for the Premium plan. For now, we only plan to look into adding this feature: Prevent users from deleting table and/or database (#2243) · Issues · Baserow / baserow · GitLab. Technically, it is a big change, but we plan to look into it.

Hope for your understanding! :raised_hands:

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Dear Olga, thank you for feedback!