VithuranQ: Hey Owen, What the difference between Appsmith and Illa Cloud because your tool look like Retool.
Can i handle my storage through my API than using ILLA drive and is it included and how how much space ?
What do you mean by Unlimited plugins, i don't understand can we build plugins with that ?
owenlongbo
May 15, 2024A: Hey There:
We do have some differences compared with Appsmith and Retool. One of them is Real-Time Collaboration, we also have many AI-related features coming out soon.
One more different thing is that we don't need to pay for viewers. In other words, if you are using Appsmith and Retool to build something used by other people, you will also be charged by those users too. However, ILLA Cloud only charge for the editors. For example, let's say you have two people in your team who built something used by other 5 people. At ILLA you only need to pay for those 2 people, Appsmith and Retool will charge you with 7 persons.
ILLA Drive is another product, we designed for Internal CDN. This is different compared with the usage of Appsmith and Retool because those 5GB and usage are for your Apps. However, we don't limit the resource of the Apps you built. The ILLA Drive is only used if you upload and download new files to the App you built. The Plus Plan only has 100MB at the moment, after that is 5GB for 10 USD. Again usage will only be used when you upload or download files to store in your App. We are going to support ILLA Drive resources and APIs after September to read, store, download or delete files. And now you can read or store files via event handlers in ILLA Builder. I hope this can clarify the questions regarding the ILLA Drive.
Plugins are the new features we are planning that developed to import customized libraries from the market. That's a feature coming by the end of this year.
best,
Owen
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Same questions here
I'm on the same boat here as well. I would love to see what ILLA Cloud can provide compare with other competitors on their FREE plan - AppSmith, and Retool, unless I'm missing something here.
**Retool** (FREE plan, and super similar UI with ILLA Cloud)
âś“ Unlimited web & mobile apps
âś“ 1GB of workflow data
âś“ 5GB of data storage
âś“ Up to 5 users
**AppSmith** (FREE plan)
Unlimited users
Unlimited apps
Unlimited datasources and widgets
UI Themes
**ILLA Cloud** ($39 Tier 1)
2 editors
Unlimitd viewers & members
Remove watermark
AI SQL generation
I also tested all 3 platforms (ILLA Cloud, AppSmith, and Retool), they all can do the same thing which is pulling multiple data sources/REST API and convert into widget to deploy as app, so the question I have is why am I paying $39 when I can do everything free from other competitors and they even provide more in their free plan (5GB data storage, unlimited apps and users (5 users free for AppSmith)).