Currently. There is only the Free (but the free is not usefull for creating a real project, only for studying purpose, because it has a deleting of the project if you don´t "wake-up" it constantly, this is tiring), and the annual $1,513, wich for the most part of the small business and single-developers it´s unreachable. 

I´d suggest that had another option for, for example 100~200USD/year or something like that, where the small users could use Outsystems as their MAIN and REAL (serious) development IDE. For their own and their businesses projects! It would be great.
Maybe you can limit some resources for those pricings... Or just create a "start" plan, and sell the resources appart when the user needs it by demand.

This is a dream of mine since 2018 when I´ve known Outsystems for the first time!! I guess it´s a dream of lots of other users...

Independent developers can benefit greatly from a licensing structure which grows more organically with the growth of their client applications. 

The natural response would be to refer to the Personal Environments as a solution, however they do not address the complete requirements of full production grade application (single development environment, limited application capacity, auto environment deprecation). 

Perhaps a lightweight licensing structure can be offered to developers at a reduced rate. The light weight version could have all the benefits of fully fledged enterprise environment, however an additional fee is charged per application released to production. 

This will allow independent developers to create applications for potential customer who then eventually pay for the application in production. This fee will contain both the cost of the application in the production environment, as well as the additional cost for the actual development.  

I am not aware of any licensing structure or program which might facilitate this, perhaps there should be?

Would be beneficial for a lot of freelancers and small players I think. Thumbs up!

Creating a cheaper environment with some advantages over the personal environment. For example, allowing URL custamization, more database space, not inactivating the environment. This would motivate independent developers to develop in OutSystems for small customers.

Great! I would need that. It would really help a lot of people and increase interest in the platform for more people and small businesses.

+1

The IPP is good but pretty strict. Need some reasonable priced freelancer cloud account.

I appreciate your Free tier of Outsystems and use it from time to time, even though it is a bit slower and falls asleep from time to time. Sometimes though, we just need a little more

Problem: 

But, as an Outsystems Developer who wants (needs) just a little more than what the Free tier offers, most working people cannot afford the Basic $4,000/month package and neither can many small businesses.

Solution:

Engage with AWS or Azure and offer a monthly Outsystems DEV subscription tier at a reasonable and affordable price point (e.g. 20-50 USD/month) 

This would include 2 environments, an additional pipe and enhanced customer success and up scaled performance. This new revenue stream could open new opportunities for small independent developers and increase Outsystems exposure.

Not the same, but related idea:
https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/5665/provide-different-editions-of-service-studio-better-adjusted-to-developers-citiz

Any software application lasts long when it is acceptable by masses. OutSystems is fantastic PaaS solution. It should be used by maximum developer community. 

At present few things are not available for personal environments

1- Analytics

2- Testing cicd in lifetime

3- Code review by Architectural dashboard

If such feature available to personal environments, outsystem will find more competent developer base.

Also out systems must have small paid version. 4000$ per month is not affordable amount to small entrepreneurs in third world. 

Some leading it companies came up with such editions to ensure masses will do development.

Personal and economy editions(50$ per month) with all development and operational features of service center and lifetime will provide more stability to the OutSystems.

PROBLEM: 

Currently, there is no option for non-enterprise users of Outsystems to use applications in production due to the high starting price for a commercial license. This makes the platform practically impossible to be used from a solopreneur/ solo developer/ small development teams and startups, due to the high initial costs involved. 

IDEA: 

Introducing a free/per usage licensing option for developers to launch commercial apps in production. Possible options include:

- resource-based usage (similar to AWS) or per external user number (similar to PowerApps; Mendix; Appian) hosted commercial business model.

- entirely free/cheap self-hosted on-premise infrastructure for non-profits and/or solo developers/ small teams (similar to Microsoft's Community editions for Visual Studio, which is entirely free for commercial use for teams of up to 5 developers; Appgyver).

Such a move could potentially grow the user base and the community enormously, which in turn could drive extremely high revenues in the long run, not mentioning the fact, that OutSystems would be the first major low-code platform leading the way with such a huge move and further popularizing the platform and making the brand stronger.

As an independent developer or part of small startup that can't afford license fee I would like to have option for licensing that allows to publish apps to play and App Stores or add custom url. It would be fair to pay fee depending on load amount or revenue generated (limit of installations for example). This will allow to propose OutSystems to small businesses and startups. 

Lightweight licensing and cost-effective availability of all features will help small Firms to opt Out Systems  for delivering solution. Microsoft is widspread because offers all solutions with student edition. More people know and master Microsoft technologies at free. If outsystems follows it , it will help to build more skilled community

Hi Mangesh,

I get what you write, but mastering OutSystems technology is also for free. All I learned on OutSystems, and I have come a long way, I did from the free training material. If you play it smart and with some luck you can get your hand on free certification vouchers too. And the OutSystems certifications don't expire, as they do with a lot of other technology stack certification programs.

The question is if you want to be an OutSystems developer for a small company with little budget to develop applications, or a bigger enterprise company with more budget and opportunities to build cool software.

Regards,

Daniel