Improving Anvil's Pricing Structure

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Updates to our price plans

We’re making some changes to our price plans to make it easier to get started with Anvil!

The headlines:

  • Custom Packages on the Free plan for everyone!
  • It’s now cheaper and easier to get started on the Business Plan
  • The new Hobby Plan replaces the Personal Plan (at the same price!)
  • The new Extra Server Resources add-on to the Business Plan is replacing the Dedicated plan

:information_source: These changes affect new and upgrading users - if you’re already subscribed, nothing is changing for you.

The changes in detail

Free Plan

:tada: Free plan users can now install custom packages! It’s our most-requested feature, and we’re pleased to be opening it to everyone.

Unfortunately, we’ve seen too much criminal abuse of custom URLs on the Free plan (eg for phishing), so we’re having to prevent developers on Free plans from choosing URLs for app deployments (public URLs will always be randomly-generated-name.anvil.app).

Business Plan

:tada: We’ve made the Business Plan more affordable for small teams! You can now get all of the Business Plan benefits - including SSO, Persistent Server, and more - starting at just $100/month.

We’ve also made it easier to add new developers to your Business Plan - you can do it from your Account Settings page (if you’re an Anvil developer) or your Management page (if you manage an Anvil subscription for someone else).

Now that you can sign up for the Business Plan with a single developer, we’re retiring the Professional Plan - get the Business Plan instead!

Extra Server Resources

We’re also offering Extra Server Resources as an add-on for the Business plan. This replaces (and costs the same as) the old Dedicated plan, and it’s got all the same benefits: Once you’ve got the add-on, you can pick any size of AWS instance to run your server code and Data Tables database, with as much RAM, CPU and disk space as you like - you just pay standard AWS prices. Now that it’s not its own plan, Extra Server Resources doesn’t include any developer licences, but the good new is that you can now add Extra Server Resources to any Business plan, even with just one developer!

To add Extra Server Resources to your plan, drop us a line at sales@anvil.works.

Note: Although, with this add-on, your server code and Data Tables are hosted on their own instance, it’s still inside our managed cluster in London, with the same front end and web servers. If you want a dedicated Anvil environment just for your users, installed anywhere in the world - whether that’s for security, compliance, geographic or performance reasons - drop a line to sales@anvil.works and let’s talk about the Enterprise plan!

Hobby Plan

The old Personal Plan is being replaced with the new Hobby Plan. It’s the same price, and gives you improved server-code performance, the ability to choose your own URLs (including one custom domain), and much more Data Tables storage than the Free plan.

To see our full range of plans, go to anvil.works/pricing.

Happy coding!
Patricia

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Hi Patricia,

that sound gread – we are now in the dedicated plan (which get luckily much cheaper) – do we get a refund for the rest of the time (for us 224 days).

What are the costs now for us ex-dedicated?

And what changes are made to enterprise costs?

Cheers

Aaron

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Hi @Aaron,

Your Dedicated plan will transform automatically into a Business Plan with the Extra Server Resources add-on. Your price will not change (the Extra Server Resources add-on costs the same as the Dedicated plan used to, but regardless existing prices aren’t changing).

If you’re interested in Enterprise pricing or Extra Server Resources, please do drop us a line at sales@anvil.works!

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  1. If you’re currently on the business plan , will the resources allocated to you be minimized at all?
  2. Do you need to “drop” your additional seats, if you were on the business plan with three seats, but only use one? or are you billed only on seats being used?
  3. Thank you ! this pricing structure seems less than before! HOW!?
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…nothing has changed! If you started out with a Business Plan with 3 developers yesterday, you still have a Business Plan with 3 developers today, with the same resources as always. You can add or remove seats from the My Account page, or from anvil.works/manage.

this pricing structure seems less than before! HOW!?

:wink:

The short answer is that we didn’t want to make individual developers buy a three-seat Business Plan to get all the additional goodies, and we wanted to make it less of a lift to bring your colleagues along too (or to collaborate with other Business users in different organisations, via GitHub). Our bet is that, by bringing the start of the ramp lower, we’ll end up with more people using Anvil professionally in the end!

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This makes a lot of sense, especially the business plan change. Makes it more doable for solo devs

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Our plan is named “Professional.” What does that correspond to, now?

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Agreed, this will make it much more affordable for clients who really should have persistent server, but can’t afford $300 / month.

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Just a brief insight. I would appreciate if there was a plan within the price range of 100-600 euro yearly. Perhaps a plan for freelancers (like myself) which is add-on based, meaning you pay for what you use/need.

At least my customers does not appreciate monthly/yearly continuous subscriptions. They have no trouble paying MORE for a service or product which has a one-time payment, or to their eyes an investment.

A question, is free or hobby plan suitable to proof-of-concept apps?

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Same here - it doesn’t seem to match any of the new ones, unless I’m being (characteristically) thick which wouldn’t surprise me…

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This generally looks very good. Thanks. One concern: calling the new level above free the “hobby” plan may create unintended difficulties in the USA in relation to Federal taxes. The IRS will not provide deductions for what it considers hobbies. If you call a plan a hobby plan, it is possible that the IRS might consider that fact if they said your small business was a hobby. Well, if they happened to know what the name of the plan was. Although as soon as I’m making enough money I plan to upgrade…

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Just one question from me, if our currently used “professional plan” becomes a business plan will all the apps that currently have ephemeral server spin ups automatically tick over to being persistent? Or will you have to manually select it in the server type / check box.
(that would be the personal preference for my use case, but someone like @david.wylie has +100 apps iirc)

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I think it’s over 500 now, though to be fair they are mostly test apps, forum demos from ages ago and failed experiments :slight_smile:

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The default for new apps is off + apps are never going to change their behavior on their own = I’m pretty sure the answer is that you will need to manually set it.

I have a dedicated plan, and keep all the apps with the server running. I think (hope) that if the memory starts running low, the Anvil server will start killing the older instances, which is exactly what I need.

There is one exception: I was recently asked to check one old app made by an ex colleague of mine, because it was slow. The first thing I did was to enable the persistent server option, but the app started misbehaving. I searched for globals that may be sharing the status across calls. I didn’t find any, so I went back without persistent server. I’m pretty sure there is some global somewhere that makes the app either non-thread safe or remembers things from other sessions, but this is a low traffic app, so I will keep this one exception rather than wasting time digging and risking to break something.

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What happens with the professional plan will it become grandfathered to those that have it? I ask because personal has no versioning but business might be more than I need at current.

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Yes it is grandfathered, you can check your account menu to see it.

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For folks on grandfathered plans (I’m still on Professional), who need to be able to see their plan’s characteristics, and compare with the current plans, you might try this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20240222014253/https://anvil.works/pricing

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