Quickbase’s ‘per user’ pricing and very high resource fees punish successful customers as they build more apps. Caspio, on the other hand, believes that you shouldn’t pay user fees for your own apps. Built on a highly scalable infrastructure, we can afford to give you enormous scale at attractive pricing. If you want to scale apps, users or resources, Caspio is the better choice.
Everything about Caspio is transparent, from the exact number of data records, emails or API calls per month, to the cost of additional resources. Quickbase, however, is not upfront with the full extent of their platform fees. You should be concerned about hidden costs applied differently to different customers.
Caspio utilizes best-of-breed technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server database and global AWS data centers, ensuring a fast, secure and scalable environment anywhere in the world. In contrast, Quickbase uses a proprietary database that has to be entirely in the memory to function, causing potential lag time to load and to scale.
Quickbase lacks the capability to deploy your app on your website, forcing it to run within the Quickbase web environment and diluting your brand. Additionally, Quickbase requires app users to register with them, leading to brand erosion and user confusion. White labeling is nearly impossible with visible Quickbase URLs. In contrast, Caspio offers the flexibility to launch apps on our hosted environment or deploy them on your website, intranet or portal. With Caspio, you have full control of your brand.
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| COST & ROI |
| Pricing model | Unlimited User Pricing We provide massive scalability without charging per user. |
Seat-Based Pricing Cost-prohibitive at scale and known for substantial price increases. |
| Usage fees | Cost-Efficient App Usage You don’t get penalized for successful apps. Unlimited users for your Caspio-powered apps are free. |
Complex and High-Cost Quickbase charges for “reads” and arcane “channels” among other things, and detailed pricing is not fully disclosed. |
| Add-on fees | Fully Transparent Get resources like database records, file storage and emails as specified on our pricing table. |
Opaque Not clear how much additional resources may cost you. |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Database | Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft Gold Partner) Caspio uses a premiere backend database to achieve the highest reliability, scalability and security for your apps with many enterprise-grade features. |
Proprietary Playing catch-up to certain features, resulting in widespread complaints about reliability and performance. Their database pales in comparison to the power, scale and security of SQL Server. |
| Infrastructure | Amazon Web Services (Advanced Technology Partner) Choose from different global data centers to be closer to your app users while obeying local data residency requirements. |
Hybrid Infrastructure A hodgepodge of mixed environments running on Snowflake, Google Cloud, AWS, etc. |
| AUTHENTICATION |
| User registration | Sign Up to Your Business Users simply register through the custom sign-up form of your app or be quickly added by an admin. |
Sign Up With Quickbase Users are required to sign up for a Quickbase account before they can use your apps. |
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| DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT |
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| Application deployment | Deploy Anywhere Publish your apps directly on a Caspio-hosted site or embed them on your own branded website, intranet, portal or CMS. |
Limited Options Compromises your brand because apps must be accessed on a quickbase.com subdomain. |
| ECOSYSTEM |
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| TECHNICAL SUPPORT |
| Phone support | Avalaible for direct calls Our specialists are on call 24/5. |
No direct line Users need to ask Quickbase to call them back during limited support hours after submitting a case. |
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