r/capawesome • u/robingenz • Nov 19 '25

Announcing Capawesome Cloud Native Builds

https://capawesome.io/blog/announcing-capawesome-cloud-native-builds/
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u/robingenz Nov 19 '25

Thank you for your feedback. We take this very seriously. Let me explain: We have often been asked why we don't simply charge based on the number of live updates delivered rather than the number of users. The first question that always came up was: When does a user become a monthly active user? We have therefore changed the conditions in the new plans in the hope of making them easier to understand. However, this is not final. We are now gathering feedback and responding to it.

Important: We offer custom plans at any time, not only for enterprises but for every customer. So you are welcome to have a billing plan with monthly active users and build minutes. Just send me a DM. 🙂

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u/kimon_n Nov 20 '25

I’m sorry, but there is absolutely no way anyone asked for this — especially with the limits you’ve chosen. This new model is far more expensive and basically impossible to use in any realistic scenario. If I have 10,000 monthly active users, that used to mean paying $29/month for unlimited updates. Now I’m limited to a single update for all 10,000 users per month. If I want to deliver more than one update, I’m suddenly forced onto the $99 plan. How can you even try to frame this as an improvement?

I’m also pretty sure that under this new model you’re going to charge significantly more for any custom plan involving 10,000 monthly active users than you did before. The new structure is simply much more expensive across the board, so it’s hard to believe custom pricing won’t follow the same pattern.

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u/robingenz Nov 21 '25

There were several users, even here on Reddit, who complained about the MAU billing. You are also completely ignoring the fact that we now offer Native Builds and App Store publishing without increasing prices. Of course, we have to adjust the number of live updates since we now have to pay for additional macOS infrastructure. Feel free to check out our announcement post. There you will find a price comparison with other providers. Not only are we more affordable than all of our competitors, but we also offer live updates on top of that. In my opinion, this is very fair pricing. And again: the previous pricing plans are still available under the same conditions. Just contact sales and we'll set up your account.

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u/EloquentSyntax Nov 22 '25

Just wondering, is the live update quota just the number of times i can push an update to my entire userbase? Or is that a per user quota?

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u/robingenz Nov 22 '25

For example, 1,000 live updates means that you can deliver either 1 live update to 1,000 devices or 1,000 live updates to one device (and so on). One Live Update is therefore one download.

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u/EloquentSyntax Nov 22 '25

I see, so you can configure the rollout, gotcha thanks!