What is Glide?
Glide is a business operations platform that turns the Excel files and Google Sheets a team already runs on into apps and AI agents. Its current product, GlideOS, is described on the pricing page as an AI software development platform for building internal business apps from a spreadsheet, a prompt, or a file. GlideOS is a standalone product, separate from the original Glide platform (Glide Classic), with its own plans and a separate subscription.
The home page walks through the workflow. You drop in a spreadsheet and say what you need, an agent reads the sheets, formulas and lookups and builds a working app for desktop and phone, and you can click any number to see how it was calculated. Apps stay private to your company by default and run on your company's data inside the permissions you set. Field staff can log data from a phone and the back office updates instantly.
Outside agents can build too: Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and others connect to Glide over MCP and build into the same apps, data and permissions as Glide's own agent. Plans start at $25 per month, and a Free plan with a limited number of credits lets you try GlideOS before buying.
Key capabilities
- Spreadsheet to app Build from Excel, Google Sheets, a prompt or a file.
- Agent builder An agent reads your sheets and builds a working app for desktop and phone.
- Calculation inspection Click any number to see how it was calculated.
- Permissions Apps are private to your company by default.
- MCP access Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT can build into the same apps.
- Credit-based plans Free plan, then paid plans from $25 per month.
Where Glide fits
- Internal business apps built from spreadsheets
- AI agents that answer questions from live company data
- Field data capture from a phone with instant back-office sync
- MCP connections for outside AI agents
- Credit-based GlideOS plans
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