Workflow API Bug or Intentional Behavior (Free plan only)?

If anyone has a minute, could someone help verify if this is a bug to report…

A quick note: It seems that at some point recently Bubble finally opened up backend workflows to the free plan. Thank you to the Bubble god(s)! This is such a positive step as there was no way previously to test a backend workflow on an app unless you started paying for an app plan immediately (the exception was of course Agency Plans).

Scenario: I was working on a new API call for a public workflow and I could not figure out why I kept getting a 401 unauthorized error in a brand new app (and yes I had all of the no-auth boxes checked - see below). This same API call was working with no problem in other apps.

After much testing of different scenarios I decided to try changing the app plan to the Agency Plan and the API call immediately started working.


Screenshot 2024-12-03 at 10.29.52 AM

To reproduce:

  1. Create a new app (on the free plan)
  2. Enable workflow and backend API
  3. Create a simple workflow, check all the boxes noted above to ignore auth, etc
  4. Use Postman to try to initialize the request (check if you get 401 Unauthorized)

If so, is this intended behavior? @georgecollier want to give it a go?

(and for what it is worth, I also tried using an API token to set the Bearer token and it still returned 401)

The free plan doesn’t have access to the Bubble app API, so that’s probably why you go that error on the free plan and not agency (agency plan allows for access to the Bubble app API)

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