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Plotly is turning its cloud into a metered compute platform with an enterprise on-ramp.

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◆Current state
Plotly now ships on two tracks. Plotly Studio, the desktop AI app-builder, releases every one to two weeks and has spent v0.0.80 through v0.0.85 on credential handling, reasoning transparency and per-user personalization. Plotly Cloud is the louder track: since late May it has added viewer-seat pricing, domain verification, per-app compute modes with credit-metered billing, and customer-owned domains with managed TLS.
◆Where it's heading
The Cloud releases are assembling the standard pieces of a hosting business in order — identity first (domain verification, explicitly framed as the step before SSO), then billing (viewer seats, then metered compute credits), and now production-grade serving (custom domains, automatic certificate renewal). Studio is being hardened as the authoring front end that feeds it: Universal Deployment pushed beyond Dash apps, credentials saved once and reused, and a Winget channel to widen Windows installs. The two tracks converge on one funnel — author in Studio, deploy to Cloud, pay by compute consumed.
◆Prediction
The Domain Verification entry names SSO as the next step and places it in the Enterprise tier, so single sign-on is the most likely Cloud release next. Studio should hold its one-to-two-week cadence, with the pending Winget approval landing inside the stated one-to-two-week window.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Custom Domains in Plotly Cloud

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    The final piece of the production-hosting story Plotly has been assembling since May: apps can now be served from the customer's own domain rather than a .plotly.app address. It lands a month after compute modes, completing the your-domain, your-sizing, your-bill package.

  2. 17d ago

    Plotly Studio v0.0.85: Breadcrumbs & minor bug fixes

    Breadcrumb navigation arrives alongside four fixes, three of which touch the skills and session-preview machinery added in earlier releases. It is the maintenance half of Studio's cadence, cleaning up features shipped over the previous two months.

  3. 28d ago

    Plotly Studio v0.0.84: Faster AI, Saved Credentials, and Winget Support

    Saved credentials let secrets be stored once in user settings and reused by name across sessions, extending the credential thread that runs through v0.0.82 and v0.0.83. A Winget package adds a second Windows install path, and AI responses move to a faster backend.

  4. 1mo ago

    Compute Modes and App Sizing in Plotly Cloud

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    This is the release that gives Plotly Cloud a consumption pricing model, and it reframes every deployment decision as a cost decision. It sits directly between the seat-pricing change in May and the custom-domain release in August, all three building the same commercial surface.

  5. 1mo ago

    Plotly Studio 0.0.83: Dash Update and macOS Fixes

    A framework bump to Dash 4.3.0 that applies itself on next restart, plus a fix for unexpected macOS Keychain prompts. The Keychain fix is fallout from the credential storage work in the preceding releases.

  6. 1mo ago

    Plotly Studio v0.0.82: Override for credential redaction, stability fixes

    A confirmation step now precedes secret redaction, so strings the model wrongly flags as credentials are no longer scrubbed automatically. Alongside personalized notes generation, it continues Studio's pattern of putting the user back in control of what the AI decides on their behalf.