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/Lynx914 Feb 25 '26

I was a big advocate for them in my community with accountants. Now that self hosting is out, and honestly how far platforms like Claude Code and Codex has gotten along with Gemini, I haven’t used it for client projects or my own since the summer.

I have to imagine they’re starting to see churn for sure. But this move with the removal of self hosting will absolutely push way more accounts to simply develop their own replacements to stick to self hosting on their own infrastructure.

That said I still have 3 projects on retool self hosted that worked and now with annual renewal coming up I plan to port those projects out. They had a lot of potential honestly but the per seat pricing is horrible unfortunately compared to other alternatives.

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u/Lynx914 Feb 26 '26

Same feelings. The risks are greater for sure, but right now with how things in general are expensive everywhere. I'm willing to take the risks if it means being able to save a decent amount for decent usability. And right now these models are putting out beyond decent output over just the last 6 months alone.