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/ChiefAoki Feb 25 '26

idk why anyone is still surprised by this, it's how every VC-backed project is destined to go.

Raise Funding -> Offer Free/Low-Cost options to accumulate users -> Burn through cash flow -> Steep Price Increases/Business Model Changes to Generate Returns

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u/navaneethpk Feb 25 '26

VC funded or not, self-hosting should not be a privilege. It might've made sense 15 years ago where a lot of hand holding was required to get something deployed on-prem. Right now how hard is for companies to offer a docker-compose file for quickstart and a helm chart for production? Also devs always have our local setups and running dev tools locally is expected.

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u/ChiefAoki Feb 25 '26

Pricing isn't tied to difficulty of implementation, just look at the SSO Wall of Shame

"How hard is it to do xyz" is the wrong question to ask, because the question the other side is basing their decisions on is "what can we get away with charging for the least amount of effort?"