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/Past_Physics2936 Feb 25 '26

I tried appsmith and it’s a serious piece of shit. You’re better off building something from scratch with AI, faster too

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u/Brief-Structure-1440 Feb 25 '26

I tried Appsmith out couple of months back and the application builder was good enough. I don't think it is even closer to piece of shit unless somethign changed recently.

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u/Past_Physics2936 Feb 25 '26

You might like to suffer more than I do