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About the Free version

I want to start with the development of a mobile application in order to have an MVP that allows me to test the market. 

That is why I have some questions about the free version. So, it is mentioned that a maximum of 100 end users is allowed:

  • how will I know how many end users I already have in my project after deploying it?

  • what happens when the maximum of 100 end users is exceeded?, do I start to be charged an additional amount to keep the project running? 

As for the database, I saw that it can connect to AWS, so:

  • could the end user limit of the free version increase if I host my users there?

I know it's a lot of questions in one, I hope you can understand and address my queries. 

Thank you very much in advance.

2022-12-09 04-50-17
Shubham Doshi

Hello Harold,

You can always check users in your projects from Users Application.

Kindly go through the below post for more information, as the same question has been asked here:

https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/67564/included-number-of-end-users-in-all-packages/


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Harold Rueda

Actually, I feel that the answer is outdated because now there is no classification for "included" end-users anymore. So, in fact, the second and last questions have not yet been answered.

2022-12-09 04-50-17
Shubham Doshi

For the second question, you can configure the end users that is option available in paid licenses. You can visit for more information on configuration on the below link:

https://success.outsystems.com/Documentation/11/Developing_an_Application/Secure_the_Application/End_Users/Classify_Users_as_Internal_Users


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Harold Rueda

Sorry, you are not answering my second question by the link, actually is for the first one.

2024-07-05 14-16-55
Daniël Kuhlmann
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MVP

Why is this relevant information if the question is about the Free Personal Edition?

2019-09-24 18-41-25
Jorge Martins
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MVP

Hi @Harold Rueda,

The free version has a limit of concurrent users because the hardware resources are being shared between multiple personal environments (free environments) and sized for prototyping and exploratory learning, not production.

As far as I'm aware, it's not a restriction that needs to be enforced, because above 100 concurrent users you will likely start noticing a performance impact, and cloud ops may decide to do maintenance on your environment if it's impacting the performance of other environments using the same shared resources (there is no guarantee of availability/service for personal environments).

Using an AWS database instance will not impact any user limits/restrictions in personal environments, but it will allow you to workaround the 2GB OutSystems database limit.

To be clear, since you haven't provided any payment information, OutSystems won't be able to automatically charge you for anything.

Hope this helps!

2024-07-05 14-16-55
Daniël Kuhlmann
Ā 
MVP

Hi,

You can see the max number of users in service center under the tabs Administration > License

Furthermore, there are no options to extend the limitations of the free license.

The free license is for developers to learn and experiment with OutSystems, not to run production.

You can request a trial license of a month, sometimes you can request it to be extended with 1 month extra.

Then you have to take a paid license.

Of course, you could decide to run an app in production in your personal edition, but there are serious limitations:

  1. You only have one environment, so any code change, including the bad once, are immediately effective to your users.
  2. You cannot control downtime (upgrades) of your environment, they will be automatically scheduled.
  3. Furthermore, you will remain to only have 2 gb of DB data and a lot of it will be consumed with metadata
  4. You cannot change domain name
  5. You cannot set up a VPN if you need that
  6. You only have one developer account
  7. Max 100 end user accounts
  8. I never tested it, but I expect poor performance if you have actually 100 concurrent users

Regards,

Daniel

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