Glide
Turns spreadsheets and connected business tools into internal apps and AI agents your team, customers and partners can trust.
By Glide · 4.7/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Operations teams that need internal apps built from spreadsheets without waiting on engineering.
- Field operations, inventory, logistics and inspection workflows that need a mobile app on live data.
- Employee, customer and partner portals with granular per-user and per-row permissions.
- Teams that want to build and manage apps from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through Glide's MCP server.
- Companies consolidating a patchwork of spreadsheets and point tools onto one shared data layer.
Ideal size: 10–200 people · Ops-led scale-up or mid-market team with spreadsheet-driven processes
Not for
- Consumer-scale or internet-facing products needing bespoke engineering and high-availability SLAs.
- Workloads that require heavy custom code, bespoke algorithms or deep system-level integration.
- Buyers who need on-premise hosting or data residency outside Glide's US Google Cloud region.
- Teams with no structured data or spreadsheet to start from.
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
First app in minutes; live in days
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$1,500/yr
Starts at $0 · Per-workspace subscription billed monthly with included credits; Free, Basic ($25/mo), Plus ($50/mo), Pro ($125/mo and up), Enterprise custom
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free and Basic 2 members; Plus 3; Pro starts at 5 members and scales upward; Enterprise custom
Add-on costs
- Extra credits purchasable as top-ups on paid plans
- SSO, premium and enterprise integrations, audit logs and org-level LLM choice require Pro or Enterprise
Company & support
Who is behind Glide, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumAll plans
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Documentation and the Glider community are open to everyone. Pro includes human support (channel not specified), and Enterprise adds priority support plus a dedicated success manager.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Glide sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Glide
- Taskade
- Lindy
- Paperform
- Detrack
- Payhawk
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Glide. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Glide ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Glide Agent builds apps from a prompt or spreadsheet; Ask Glide answers questions over your business data. Glide AI generates UI components, extracts structured data from audio, image and text files, and adds AI steps to workflows for ticket prioritisation, stock-shortage prediction, personalised drafts and anomaly spotting.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- OpenAI
- AI pricing
- Billed by usage or credits
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Glide turns spreadsheets and connected business tools into internal apps and AI agents. Upload data or describe what you need and Glide builds apps with permissions, workflows and mobile access; 1,000+ integrations cover Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Salesforce, Snowflake and Slack. Plans start free, Basic $25/mo, Plus $50/mo, Pro $125/mo+, credit-based, with Enterprise adding SSO, audit logs, a dedicated success manager and LLM choice. SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR; MCP server for building in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can we get a working app into production?
Glide is self-serve and credit-based, so there is no implementation fee or professional-services gate. The vendor positions GlideOS as turning months of coding or weeks of no-code into minutes, and a customer quoted on the site describes going from concept to a working app in about 15 minutes. Published case studies show teams building on existing data sources inside their trial period.
What does Glide cost for a mid-market team?
Pricing is published: Free ($0, limited credits), Basic ($25/month, 100 credits), Plus ($50/month, 250 credits) and Pro ($125/month, starting at 5 members with 50 credits per member). Enterprise is custom and adds SSO, enterprise integrations, audit logs, a dedicated success manager and choice of your organisation's LLM provider. Extra credits are available as top-ups on paid plans only.
Do we need engineers to build and maintain the apps?
No. Glide is aimed at operators and business teams: you upload a spreadsheet or connect a data source, and Glide reads the structure and generates screens and workflows. Technical teams can go further by building through Glide's MCP server from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, while still keeping hosting, data, auth and workflows in Glide.
Is our data secure and compliant?
Glide states it is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant, with apps private by default, granular access control, row-level ownership rules, AES 256-bit encryption in transit and at rest, and 30-day data retention after deletion. Servers run on Google Cloud in Iowa, USA. SSO, audit logs and 30-day backups are Enterprise plan features.
Does Glide train AI models on our data?
No. Glide's AI page states that Glide AI never trains on your data, and that its agreement with its AI subprocessor explicitly keeps information you enter private and prevents that data from being used to further train the model. Glide AI is described as using OpenAI, Azure ML and Google Cloud.
Can we use our own AI agent or model provider?
You can bring your own agent. Glide exposes a remote MCP server so agents in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can sign in as you and build apps, query data and ship workflows, with tokens running on the agent subscription you already pay for. On Enterprise, organisations can also choose their own LLM provider.