Backendless Free / Developer pricing & rate limits

• Backendless functions as an integrated BaaS platform, bundling a PostgreSQL database, user authentication services, file storage, and edge API runtimes into a single monthly contract rather than selling raw compute instances.
• The entry-level tier provides a minimal 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of network egress, forcing most production apps to upgrade immediately to avoid hitting hard caps.
• Authentication support is capped at 0.01 M users on the base plan, which creates a sharp bottleneck for consumer-facing mobile applications scaling beyond a simple MVP.
• Pricing is strictly custom and requires direct engagement with their sales team, effectively obscuring the cost of scaling hardware compared to transparent peers like Supabase or Firebase.

Operating on Backendless requires accepting an all-in-one dependency model. Unlike spinning up raw VMs on providers like Vultr or Linode, you are buying into a proprietary ecosystem that manages the database layer and API runtimes for you. Because the base tier limits are quite restrictive—specifically the 1 GB storage ceiling—your budget will almost certainly shift into a custom enterprise tier as soon as your application handles media uploads or significant user logs. The lack of public, transparent pricing for these upgrades makes it difficult to forecast costs as your user base grows, which differs from the predictable, utility-style billing found in AWS or Google Cloud infrastructure.

This platform is designed for teams that prioritize rapid feature delivery over the control of their own infrastructure stack. If you have a backend team capable of managing an EPYC-based VM cluster and a self-hosted PostgreSQL instance, the custom pricing model here will likely feel restrictive. However, for teams lacking dedicated DevOps resources who need a pre-configured, integrated environment that handles auth and API routing out of the box, the trade-off is the loss of granular cost control for the sake of eliminating database administration and infrastructure maintenance.