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Modified Pricing Model for Nonprofits
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Nonprofits can innovate very quickly with Outsystems, but their wallet is not nearly as large as the enterprise organizations that Outsystems has been doing pricing for.  For registered 501(c)(3) organizations in the US, I would recommend a much lower price in order to help them gain entry to this amazing product.  For a typical setup that would cost, say, $60K USD for enterprises, I would recommend lowering it to $10K or $20K USD.

13 May 2016
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I still think we should have a community version with at least database 5gb would be excellent and enough!
13 May 2016
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I doubt this will happen as it's just not the type of clients they are trying to attract but if they did this it shouldn't be limited to non-profits.  Small businesses have been looking for this kind of solution and pricing too.

Curt
16 May 2016
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2016-04-21 20-09-55
J.
 
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Yup, had to revert back to angularJS en php-backend for a simple site...
took me 1 day to build it in Outsystems.
took me weeks to build it in angular.. (I admit, it was new to me, but still)

17 May 2016
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We all would like OS to be free completely..that is one end of the spectrum. But how far you go up the spectrum form there is not really down to understanding what people want as a price which is quite an easy proposition but it is the alignment of the boards strategy at price point at which will attract their preferred audience. So who is the preferred audience is the question and a tool vendor is unlikely to be too clear on this for obvious reasons.

Consider the native app in Version10....if this was free then every app developer in the world would have a look at OS but at the moment I think the board is concentrated on the enterprise and not for app developers hence the price model will be prohibitory to app developers outside of the enterprise. I noticed this at NextStep in Portugal that people were saying OS must doing something about the price model for native app development but I don't think OS should go after native app developers who create their apps at home as it were just yet.....won't be a popular view but you can grow too quickly so a price model helps control growth.
17 May 2016
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2018-04-06 14-15-37
Pedro Martinho
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Hi Joshua,

OutSystems is a for profit company and we need to price according to our target market, ensuring we have the cashflow to enable us to continue to evolve our platform.

Having said that we do have non-profit organizations as clients and we do like to give back to the community.

We will take into account the needs and capacity of the non-profit organizations when pricing specific deals.

Thanks for your idea!

Pedro

08 Jun 2018
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Joshua Austin, you are right! As an IT and Marketing Expert and knowing that Outsystems today targets startups also, there is  a sales business development issue to solve.

Is Outsystems capable of enhancing their sales model?

The main question is how to sell more user licences, how to you increase sales? 

Example:

By expanding your reach to other NICHE markets: For example, what if there were 3 level packages prices for startups and all small entreprises excluding IT development cies (Bescause that's their business to create apps in B2B markets). So a new price Niche could apply for development firms. 

Other niche prices like actually for business with internal dev, intranet, extranet wich seems to be the actual OS's  main market nice.

New external Niche for the average (Startup) with B2C markets

Ok here, when talking about B2C external Niche, it means that users (OS sales) go beyond Internal user licences and a few external more.  It means startups working on public solutions like marketplace such as e-bay, amazon, indeed,  other B2C marketplaces, etc... Opening the potential for millions of licences sales per OS-customer.

So, Package 1: Same as today, Free with 2 gig for Apps and Espace(system);

Package 2 : Upgrade to  2 Gig of space (Apps usage) system space Free (No space usage) annual Cost - 500$ to a 1000$/year.

Let's say that this incubator creates the first year 1000 to 10000 new and old startup's paying customers today for package 2: At 500$/year it would create 500k$ to 5M$ of new cash at 1000$/year ----) 1M$ to 10M$;

New Users licences B2C model  would need to be though of, since every startup could end up with millions of external users; So 2 millions users for one OS startup could be ,01$ or .10$ per user. 

Scenarios need to be done here for pricing.

Package 3:

Well you get the idea, but to do this OS Corp needs to analyse the impact of adding new  scalable offers without disavantaging existing paying customer. At most adding new niches shoud be a plus also for existing customers by giving more edge more economies while scaling their offer.

I have been observing seen 2016 but  with limited understanding of OS pricing model. In Oct. 2022 when I decide to try to understand the pricing for a project force me to understand more the licensing formats at OS wich was very hard to get info since I never though and still not sure the interest for startup exists.

If you think the idea of doing an overhaul ThinkTank would help in sales? Just push the Like button.

Regards,

The NumÉricGuy!! ---) NumEricGuy.com

IT & Marketing Consulant



27 Nov 2022
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Merged this idea with 'New Licence type for non-profit or CSR related projects' (created on 07 Dec 2021 11:47:00 by Marta Fonseca)
22 Aug 2025
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It could be a smart strategy to offer a new type of licencing for projects related with CSR (corporate social responsibility) or for developers that have a usefull idea related with a social or environmental aspect and even for NGOs, which purpose is non profitable related.

Outsystems wouldn't loose anything with this and could be an amazing motivation for developers that have an idea that can make the difference.

In my specific case I would like to have more options in managing my application, including access to SEO rules and also not having to wake up my environment every month.

07 Dec 2021
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Amazing idea, even if not completely free, it could have a small subscription fee for the database maintenance, that could increase with the amount of data stored

07 Dec 2021
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Well it is good news that the standard license price has been lowered considerable to now 1500 USD / Month.

08 Dec 2021
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Really good idea!

08 Dec 2021
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Daniël for a starting non profit, with just 2 people that is not manageable, 18k a year just to keep a small application up, that is not going to have a lot of data in it should not cost that much.

08 Dec 2021
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what a meaningful idea! 

08 Dec 2021
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I have often thought about this myself. How can we use the platform and a potential distributed skillset to pay it forward to helping charities/not for profits do more with less. 

Gets my vote!



14 Dec 2021
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Sounds like a noble ideia. It has my vote.

16 Dec 2021
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Indeed, Licensing for CSR is a humble idea. However, I believe it is complicated in terms of governance.

29 Dec 2021
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idea that would help many


24 Mar 2022
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Merged this idea with 'Feasibiliy of discounted or donated licenses for nonprofits and charities' (created on 09 May 2025 12:47:16 by Alex Man)
22 Aug 2025
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I wonder if OutSystems can offer discounted or donated licenses for organization recognized as a nonprofits and charities in their country/region. 

Some companies such as Atlassian, Adobe, Microsoft, Google already offered grants, sponsorship or discounted plans for nonprofits, and I believe it could be a smart marketing strategy to increase market share.

09 May 2025
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