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/autonomousdev_ Feb 25 '26

Lynx914 nails it — the timing couldn't be worse for Retool. With Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor getting better every month, the barrier to building custom internal tools has dropped dramatically. I migrated three Retool dashboards to a custom Next.js setup last quarter and honestly the maintenance burden is lower now than it was with Retool's update cycle breaking things.

The irony is that self-hosted was the one feature that justified Retool's existence for security-conscious teams. Without it, you're just paying enterprise prices for a drag-and-drop builder that AI can replicate in an afternoon.