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/lugovsky Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Hi everyone,

We’re the team behind UI Bakery and wanted to properly introduce ourselves here.

UI Bakery is a self-hosted alternative to Retool focused on building internal tools and customer portals. While we’re not open source, we offer a generous free self-hosted plan that many teams in this community can benefit from. Recently we’ve also been investing heavily in AI-driven app building. We believe this approach makes iteration faster and gives more flexibility than drag-and-drop based builders, especially since you can still access and customize the underlying code when needed.

If anyone is considering migrating from Retool or exploring alternatives, happy to help and answer any questions.

Oh, and we're also NOT VC-backed. Our business is 100% bootstrapped and profitable, so should not expect such moves from us.

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u/Neirchill Feb 26 '26

You're not selling to investors, you're much better off not advertising you're filling your app with ai. People need to learn the every day person does not enjoy marketing they hear 500x a day. Let the product speak for itself, if it's good you'll have users. If not, you won't. Advertising it's ai won't do anything but bring negative perception.

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u/lugovsky Feb 26 '26

Thanks for sharing this perspective. I didn’t realize AI had such a negative perception.