--- title: "Agents write the app, Glide keeps the software" description: "Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can now build and edit business apps inside Glide, and since October 19 agent-made changes trigger the same workflows as human ones. The pricing marks where Glide thinks value settles when agents write code: with the layer that runs it." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Platforms" published: 2026-11-04T04:22:15.961Z modified: 2026-11-04T04:22:15.961Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/agents-write-the-app-glide-keeps-the-software language: en keywords: "AI Agents, MCP, Pricing, No Code" --- # Agents write the app, Glide keeps the software > Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can now build and edit business apps inside Glide, and since October 19 agent-made changes trigger the same workflows as human ones. The pricing marks where Glide thinks value settles when agents write code: with the layer that runs it. [Glide](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/glide) has opened its rebuilt platform to other companies' AI agents: any MCP client, from the chat clients Claude and ChatGPT to the coding agent Cursor, can [sign in at the public endpoint mcp.glideapps.dev/mcp](https://www.glideapps.com/byoa) and build apps, query data and ship workflows inside the seven-year-old no-code builder, now reborn as the AI platform GlideOS [1][2][3]. ## Anthropic built the pipe, Glide priced the gate MCP, the open standard [Anthropic](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/anthropic) [introduced in late 2024](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol) for connecting AI agents to outside systems, has become the default way agents reach external software [2][3]. The agent feature starts at $125 a month on the Pro plan, and that gate is the bet: once an agent can draft an app, Glide is pricing its value in the layer that hosts and runs the software [4]. Since October 19 the pieces connect [5]. A workflow now starts the moment a row is added, updated or deleted, and a change made by the customer's own agent over MCP counts like any other [5]. The chain is short: the agent writes the app, Glide runs it, and the running is what bills. ## Tokens bill to Anthropic, credits bill to Glide The split is explicit. Reasoning runs on the Claude, ChatGPT or [Cursor](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/anysphere) subscription the customer already pays for; Glide's credits cover what happens underneath, the hosting, database, permissions and automations [1]. Below Pro the feature does not exist: Basic is $25 and Plus is $50 [4]. Glide's summary of the arrangement: "Your agent is replaceable. Your software is not." [1] October also shipped what a business needs before it lets an agent near its operations: an audit log recording who changed what, four member roles, guest access for outsiders, branded sign-in screens, [42 changes in all](https://www.glideapps.com/changelog) [5][6]. This is the work that turns an agent's output into software a company can still run next year. ![GlideOS auth and user management screens: SSO sign-in, a role picker with Admin, Editor and Viewer, guest access and publishing approval](https://storage.googleapis.com/theinference-public/img/efbd36f29d199234.png) *The governance layer that turns agent output into runnable software: role-based permissions, guest seats, publishing approval and SSO sign-in inside GlideOS. (Courtesy of Glide)* *Chart: **Glide puts its agent endpoint behind the Pro plan** Bar chart of GlideOS monthly plan prices: Basic $25, Plus $50, Pro $125, with MCP agent building gated to Pro and above* *GlideOS monthly plan prices; build-with-your-own-agent (MCP) is included on Pro and above. Source: Glide pricing page. [4]* ## No-code was repriced in October, and Glide is the counter-case The backdrop is last month's repricing of the category. [Bending Spoons](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/bending-spoons), which listed on Nasdaq in July, agreed in August to pay $1.28 billion in cash for [Airtable](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/airtable) and is cutting a large part of its staff; [as we reported](https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-cuts-much-of-airtable-s-staff-weeks-after-1-28-billion-deal-glide-sells-a-25-replacement), the price clears only if a fraction of the people who built the product can run it [7]. Recode reports that small and mid-sized businesses [increasingly build internal tools in Glide rather than in Bubble](https://recodenews.com/glides-nocode-app-builder-is-quietly-2/), a rival no-code app builder, and Glide says its original product has served more than 100,000 businesses over seven years [8][3]. ## The test is live, but not yet tradable The threat Glide is answering is stated by the founders building MCP infrastructure: software without an agent surface risks becoming a "system of record" that agents merely query, while Anthropic and [OpenAI](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/openai) bet their chat products become the primary interface through which people use software [2]. Glide's move is to be the place agents build into rather than the database they read from. The listed expression of this question is the opposite bet: Bending Spoons is buying installed bases on the assumption that far fewer people can run them [7]. Glide's answer, if it works, shows up in Pro upgrades and credit burn, which the company does not disclose [4]. The position is worth marking anyway. When any agent can draft an app, the durable revenue belongs to whoever keeps the software running, permissioned and recoverable after the agent that wrote it is gone. ## Takeaway Any MCP agent can now build inside Glide, and Glide prices the value in the layer that runs the software: Pro from $125 a month. ## Sources 1. [Glide, "MCP: Build apps from Claude, Cursor, Codex" (Bring your own agent), product page, accessed 4 November 2026](https://www.glideapps.com/byoa) 2. [VentureBeat, Michael Nuñez, "Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the 'USB-C for AI' powering ChatGPT and Claude apps", 11 March 2026](https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/manufact-raises-usd6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and) 3. [Anthropic, "Introducing the Model Context Protocol", 25 November 2024](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol) 4. [Glide, "Pricing: Free, Pro, and Enterprise plans", accessed 4 November 2026](https://www.glideapps.com/pricing) 5. [Glide Blog, Jack Vaughan, "What's new in Glide: October 2026", 29 October 2026](https://www.glideapps.com/blog/whats-new-in-glide-october-2026) 6. [Glide, "Changelog: Newly shipped product features", weeks of 19 and 26 October 2026](https://www.glideapps.com/changelog) 7. [The Inference, "Bending Spoons cuts much of Airtable's staff weeks after $1.28 billion deal; Glide sells a $25 replacement", 12 October 2026](https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-cuts-much-of-airtable-s-staff-weeks-after-1-28-billion-deal-glide-sells-a-25-replacement) 8. [Recode, "Glide's No-Code App Builder Is Quietly Cornering Bubble's SMB Base", 18 October 2026](https://recodenews.com/glides-nocode-app-builder-is-quietly-2/) --- Agents write the app, Glide keeps the software — The Inference. Canonical: https://theinference.org/article/agents-write-the-app-glide-keeps-the-software