Pricing & licensing
Most SharePoint web-part suites charge per active user, which means their code has to track every person who opens a web part and report it back to meter the bill. Glow Cloud Kit is licensed to your tenant instead: one price, everyone included, and nothing phoning home about your people.
The metered model
You pay for each unique person who opens a web part, usually in a rolling 30-day window. To bill that way, the product has to report every user who loads a part back to the vendor, so it can count them. Your bill moves with usage, and there is normally a maximum user cap.
How Glow Cloud Kit works
One subscription licenses your whole tenant. Everyone is included, from ten users to ten thousand, for the same price. The licence check sends only your tenant ID and billing email. No one is counted, and nothing tracks who opens what.
Per-user metering is a legitimate model, and for some vendors it makes sense. We chose the opposite, on purpose, for the two reasons below: a bill you can predict, and a licence that never has to watch your users.
Side by side
What you pay for
Per user: Each unique user who opens a web part in a rolling window
Us: Your tenant. One subscription, everyone included.
Price as you grow
Per user: Changes every month with the active-user count
Us: Fixed. Budget it once and forget it.
User ceiling
Per user: Commonly capped at a maximum number of users
Us: Unlimited users, same price
What the vendor must track
Per user: Every user who loads a web part, to meter the licence
Us: Nothing. The check is tenant-level.
What leaves your tenant
Per user: Per-user usage telemetry
Us: Tenant ID and billing email, for the licence check only
In a security or DPIA review
Per user: Your people become data subjects in a vendor's analytics
Us: Nothing to assess beyond the licence data
Where it runs
Per user: Client-side, but phones home to count usage
Us: Client-side, in your own tenant
The "per-active-user model" column describes how metered licensing works in general, not any one vendor's product.
The cost shape
The Complete Kit is a flat £99/month, whatever your headcount. A per-user suite grows with every seat. The bars below are illustrative, at a typical ~£2/user/month, to show the shape.
25 users
£99 flat vs ~£50 per user
100 users
£99 flat vs ~£200 per user
500 users
£99 flat vs ~£1,000 per user
2,000 users
£99 flat vs ~£3,000+ per user
Why we built it this way
To bill per active user, a product must record who loads each web part and send it to the vendor. We did not want that data plane, so we did not build one. The licence is a short-lived, signed token bound to your tenant: activate once and every app licenses itself. Nothing counts your users, and nothing about their behaviour leaves your tenant.
Predictable
One number, fixed for the year. No true-ups, no surprise months when usage spikes.
Private by design
No per-user telemetry. Your people never become rows in a vendor's analytics to make the pricing work.
Review-ready
Nothing to assess in a DPIA beyond a tenant ID and a billing email. See the security page.
The Complete Kit is £99/month for the whole tenant, with a 14-day free trial (a card is required to start). Single web parts are £29/month. No per-seat maths, no user tracking.