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Preserve these limitations and costs: Cloud starts from $299 per month with 2 creators, 20 end users, 250K monthly actions and 50K monthly AI credits; actions and AI credits are metered and overage rates are undisclosed; Community self-hosted is $0 but limited to one workspace and standard SSO; Enterprise features such as extended audit logs, backups, enterprise identity controls, air-gapped deployment and SLAs require a custom sales quote. Do not describe Budibase as free overall and do not invent third-party review evidence, integrations, customers or prices. 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