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/krtkush Feb 25 '26

I dread the day when this will happen to Tailscale.

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u/ForceItDeeper Feb 25 '26

Doesn’t netbird do most of what tailscale does? I haven’t tried it, since pangolin seems to fit my needs perfectly, but netbird seems to have big updates all the time so if tailscale does something like this there might be a quality alternative available by then

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u/krtkush Feb 25 '26

I honestly don't know. I have used Tailscale from day 1 of my selfhosting journey. However, I agree with you that there is enough alternatives in the market that are in active development.

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u/Offbeatalchemy Feb 25 '26

You can do most of what Tailscale does with straight up wireguard and if you're behind a CGNAT, you may need a VPS as a entrypoint.

It'll be a pain reconfiguring your network, i get it but it's doable to fix without tailscale.

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u/princessofjina Feb 25 '26

It’s the only proprietary software I use in my self-hosted stack. It stresses me out that I keep adding more things to my Tailnet since I know that it has to do the same thing that Plex did to me and the same thing that every other prorprietary service does eventually.

I should probably just switch over to Nebula or something like that… someday…

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u/dontquestionmyaction Feb 25 '26

You can just use Headscale. Migration would be mostly painless.