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Backendless pricing
Backendless publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $15/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Backendless plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Scale Variable | $15/month | 5 | +$15/month, 5 more features |
| Scale Fixed | $15/month | 2 | +$0/month, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 50 api requests/minute, 20 database tables, 1 gb file storage, 1 visualization, basic cloud code.
Scale Variable
$15/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited API requests/month
- 100 database tables
- 10 GB file storage
- Daily backups
- 1,000 real-time connections
Scale Fixed
$15/monthOver Scale Variable, this tier adds:
- Same as Scale Variable
- Fixed monthly pricing
Where Backendless stops being free
Free, Free
- 50 API requests/minute
- 20 database tables
- 1 GB file storage
- 1 visualization
- Basic cloud code
Scale Variable, $15/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited API requests/month
- 100 database tables
- 10 GB file storage
- Daily backups
- 1,000 real-time connections
What the product covers
The full Backendless feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- REST API
- Real-time database
- Cloud code
Integrations
- Custom integrations
- Webhooks
- Cloud functions
Platform
- Cloud support
- Visual builder support
People bring Backendless in for api development, api gateway, api testing, api documentation, microservices. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Backendless are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Backendless
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $15/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Backendless runs on cloud, visual builder, and is published by Backendless of San Francisco, California, USA. The full record is on the Backendless review.
Backendless pricing questions
- How much does Backendless cost?
- Backendless publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $15/month for Scale Fixed. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Backendless have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 50 api requests/minute, 20 database tables, 1 gb file storage. Paying starts at $15/month for Scale Variable.
- What is the difference between Free and Scale Variable on Backendless?
- Scale Variable costs $15/month against Free, and adds unlimited api requests/month, 100 database tables, 10 gb file storage, daily backups.
- Is the Scale Fixed plan on Backendless worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is same as scale variable, fixed monthly pricing. It costs $15/month against $15/month for Scale Variable. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Backendless?
- The record lists 8 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api development, api gateway, api testing.
- Does Backendless charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Backendless prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Backendless against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Backendless to make a useful price comparison.