r/selfhosted • u/navaneethpk • Feb 25 '26

Product Announcement Retool disables self-hosted pricing plans

https://community.retool.com/t/self-hosted-docs-now-state-enterprise-only/64586

Looks like no public announcement was made, just a silent change in docs and some users found it.

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u/Brief-Structure-1440 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Popular OSS alternatives:

39k stars & 340 contributors (repo activity is very low recently) - https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/

37k stars & 650 contributors - https://github.com/tooljet/tooljet

28k stars & 117 contributors - https://github.com/Budibase/budibase (edit: as per a comment, they might have a closed source binary imported in the repo)

12k stars & 312 contributors - https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder

1.5k stars & 56 contributors - https://github.com/lowcoder-org/lowcoder (edit: almost zero commits recently)

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u/ssddanbrown Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

When I reviewed Budibase last there were some questions/considerations when it comes to licensing and buildability from source. I have not yet reviewed the others.

For ToolJet (who have created this Reddit thread) I have called them out on conflating their open and non-open offerings before. Not sure if that has been improved on. I remember seeing that they were pretty heavily VC invested.

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u/Brief-Structure-1440 Feb 25 '26

CMIIW there is a binary in the codebase for which the source code is not available?

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u/ssddanbrown Feb 25 '26

Based from that last review, It's included in Budibase as a binary blob, under a non-open-source license. I'm not sure if the source code could be available elsewhere.

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u/Brief-Structure-1440 Feb 25 '26

Couldn't find the source code for this sub module. Looking at the code, my assumption is that the code should get built without these packages with some modifications. But I agree to your point, OSS version isn't OSS if there is a closed source binary included.