Announcement: Plans Changes and New Projects Home

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Dear @Community, we have some important news.

It has been five amazing years, since Speckle became your free, open-source data hub—no limits, no paywalls.

As more of you rely on us (with over 620,000 models or over 1.9 billion walls, windows, beams, and other objects stored!), our costs have grown tremendously. You don’t need a PhD to understand this is not sustainable in the long term.

To keep improving—faster connectors, even better 3D viewer, analytics, and automation features—we’re making two important changes:

  1. All projects are moving to workspaces (replacing personal projects).
  2. We’re introducing limits to support sustainable growth and adding a free Viewer seat.

It’s not just about keeping things afloat; it’s about scaling Speckle to help you work better together and shape a more connected future for our industry.

So, what does this mean for your workflows today?

  1. Your workspace projects and personal projects now live in separate spaces in the web app. You can navigate between them using the top-left navigation. Check it out at app.speckle.systems!
  2. The project roles have been renamed from Contributor → Can edit and Reviewer → Can view. Most importantly, the Can view role can no longer receive/load in connectors. You’ll now need the Contributor/Can edit role to be able to do this.
  3. Existing workspaces
    1. Trial workspaces → Now on the Free plan without any time limits #Speckle4EVER. Previously expired workspace trials have also been reborn on the Free trial.
    2. Inviting is FREE People joining a workspace join on a free viewer seat. So: INVITE YOUR ENTIRE TEAM! You can upgrade them to an Editor seat later if they need to create and contribute to projects beyond viewing and commenting.

After the migration, you might want to double-check the roles and permissions. Talk with your workspace admin and/or project owners!

So, what does this mean for you in the coming months?

You’ll have to move your projects to a workspace by June 1st to:

  • Create new projects and models (will be disabled for personal projects; existing projects and models stay editable)
  • Invite new project collaborators (new invites will be unavailable for personal projects)
  • Preserve version and comment history (history is reduced to 7 days for personal projects)

What does this mean for you until the end of the year?

All projects will be archived if not moved into a workspace. Don’t worry, we’ll give you plenty of reminders before then.

What’s changing with pricing? We’ve designed the new Speckle plans to match how teams actually use Speckle:
• You only pay for Editors (teammates who publish/load data with connectors).
• Viewers are free! Clients, reviewers, or anyone just viewing models in the 3D viewer and commenting won’t cost a thing.

These are the must-know things at the moment, as well as a conversation opener. Your feedback on the plans, questions or concerns are extremely important to us—we’re all ears!

To get the full story behind these changes and explore the FAQ we prepared after talking to a few power users beforehand, check out the announcement here: Speckle projects get a new home and pricing plans

For an overview of our new pricing plans, you can see them over at /pricing.

PS: If this means you cannot use Speckle anymore, don’t worry: Speckle is still open source, and this means you can still use it for free, without any limits, if you deploy the server yourself.

PPS: If you are a student or an academic, we offer all our plans for free without any limits. We’ve all been scrappy students on ramen budget, so this is a forever pledge.

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I think that that is a great idea.

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In regards to free and basic plans, will all version be removed in 7 and 30 days, respectively? Or the latest version will be saved?

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Hi trisha! The versions will be there, they just won’t be visible (besides the last one - that is always available).

This is a good moment to ask: how do you use versions?

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What concerns me is the rapid pace of price increase - while at the same time you are raking in millions of dollars of investment.

In Oct 2024 you had free tier only with a promise that in your FAQ’s “Standard” would always be free - Get Started With Speckle!

In Feb 2025 you had a new tier for $12 which included SSO (still ensuring a free Standard tier) - Pricing

Now everything is much more expensive - your Standard tier is essentially gone, SSO is 3x the price, and you say that your business model was never sustainable. Why would you create a business that isn’t sustainable, and then make it our problem? What will the price be in 3 months from now?

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Does Self Hosted Speckle comes with all functionalitys?

Workspaces, comparing, comments… Etc?

Best Regards

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Great question! Self-hosted Speckle includes nearly all core functionality, including versioning, comments, comparisons, and more.

The two main exceptions are Workspaces and Automate, which are currently only available through our managed (hosted) offering, these features rely on infrastructure and services we run ourselves.

It’s also worth noting: We can only guarantee security certifications for the servers we operate. If you’re self-hosting, the responsibility for compliance, patching, and monitoring lies with you — though of course, we’ll keep publishing updates and improvements as part of the open source release.

Our approach is simple: Build open source first. Operate it responsibly. Layer on powerful, optional product experiences.

Self-hosters just need to keep an eye on release notes; we’re moving fast, and we want improvements to reach everyone.

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Thanks for taking the time to dig into this — I really do appreciate it, especially as your first post here. Welcome.

Totally fair question. No — we’re not planning another change in 3 months.

This update reflects feedback from those who’ve been paying since November when first introduced Workspaces as an alternative to the archive you uncovered which was stark between free and full-fat dedicated enterprise servers out of reach of many teams.

Free everything on our infra is no more — but the mission remains: supporting the open source core for everyone, backed by stable revenue.

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Hi! Thanks for your message. A couple of corrections:

  • SSO wasn’t included in the £12 plan before. I understand your confusion because this was just poor design in the previous pricing page. SSO was included in the old Workspace Plus plan which came in at £49. You can see that on the page you linked to if you scroll down a little.

  • We’ve switched from charging in GBP to USD, so a little currency math is needed when comparing the old and new pricing. Old plan with SSO: £49 ≈ $65. New plan with SSO: $49 ≈ £36. So we have actually reduced the entry price for getting access to SSO (and also custom data residency which came in at £75 before and is now accessible also for $49 ≈ £36!).

  • Last, in the old plans we charged for all members in your workspace. In the new plans we’ve introduced a free Viewer seat that makes it free to just view projects in the web app and comment. We only charge for members on Editor seats who need to create and contribute to projects.

I hope this clears things up a little. We are very open to input and feedback and are truly trying to be fair.

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Hello, my question is the following: According to the new conditions of the platform, under the Starter plan, I will be able to create up to 5 projects and have 25 models per workspace. However, it doesn’t specify how many workspaces I can create per project. Are they unlimited? Or should I understand that it is one workspace per project, and I can only upload a total of 125 models? Or can I only upload 25 models in total? If that’s the case, what happens if I need to upload more models?

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I have another question, How do I buy?

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Hi Camilo,

I replied to your email but I’ll copy paste here for others with he same doubt:

Inside a Workspace with the Starter plan you can create up to 25 models (in total) or 5 projects. If you reach that limit, you can simply purchase the Unlimited projects & models addon for $15/editor/month.

You can create as many Workspaces as you want, but 1 Workspace = 1 Speckle Plan, so you’ll need to pay seats for each Workspace.

To buy, simply create a free workspace and then upgrade it to Starter or Business: https://app.speckle.systems/

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Ok, thanks for your answer!

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Hi Matteo,

Does it make sense for medium to large organizations, though?
If I understood correctly, for a company with 25 active projects and, say, 20 Speckle editors, you would need to create 5 separate workspaces with segmented Starter plan editors.
Isn’t that somewhat against the spirit of Workspaces as a place to centralize all projects?

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You’re right to consider scaling, and also that the way Speckle Workspace is designed, for medium to large organisations, a single Workspace with the Unlimited Projects & Models add-on is the more optimal path.

  • One Workspace = one centralised hub for all projects.
  • One billing entity = much easier to manage users, access, and security.
  • No fragmentation across multiple Workspaces.
  • No paying for the same people multiple times.
  • Keeps collaboration, project discovery, and IT admin clean and scalable.

The Unlimited add-on ($15 per editor per month) is specifically designed to unlock this at scale.

That’s the real intent behind the pricing design.
Splitting into multiple Workspaces would only occur if you wanted isolation (such as separating business units, joint ventures, subsidiaries, etc.), not due to project limits.

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