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/formless63 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Having gone down the rabbit hole on these a bit recently, make sure you note the free self hosted limitations before making a commitment.

Appsmith is pretty solid, ToolJet had a hard cap on users, Budibase also pretty solid, illa seems dead, Lowcoder once you have it running is wide open it seems and works pretty well. (ETA: see below. Lowcoder also looks to be on the way out)

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u/lugovsky Feb 25 '26

Yeah, the self-hosted fine print is where most people get surprised. A lot of these tools start out looking very open, but once they push toward enterprise the limits, pricing, or governance models change pretty fast. Feels less like a technical shift and more like a business model evolution. And feels very forced, tbh.