I’ve been in love with Coda since Day 1. The support has been amazing, the features are great and the possibilities endless (literally). We all knew a pricing model was coming, but I must say this is not ideal.
The first thing I don’t understand is the size limitation on the free plan. I get that this is a model used by Notion and others, but this will be a big turnoff for our clients. We built docs to manage every aspect of their life, and those docs can get big really fast. Most of them are over the limit without any rows. Having to tell them: Look, we built this great system that comes with our training, it’s like a google sheet on steroids, but you’ll have to pay 240$ a year for it. - Is far from ideal
PLUS
it this case, they would have to upgrade to a team account to get features like Gmail, Calendar and cross-doc, which also doesn’t make sense since they are realtors (usually a team of 1-3, not 7+).
Then, I’m not sure to understand the difference between a guest editor and a doc maker. Sure, one can create docs, but that’s it. We have dozens of VA’s working in our docs. This will get pretty expensive for just pushing buttons and checkboxes.
I agree a lot with @Paul_Danyliuk:
I think I posted my ideal pricing model suggestions somewhere in the community long ago. The idea was Robin Hoodish: keep Coda free for individual makers and small teams, and compensate by charging mid- and large businesses more (since they can afford paying an extra). This would be achieved by making only those features paid that are important to enterprise uses: locking, permissions, perhaps cross-doc (because free users still have Zapier to simulate cross-doc, just not as convenient), longer history, premium packs etc. And small teams and individual users can live well without permissions or, say, Slack integration. The number of rows or elements should have never been a limiting factor.