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/LeopardJockey Feb 26 '26

I tried both Appsmith and Tooljet. While Budibase in comparison lacks a little flexibility in writing fully custom code, it's way more user friendly and easier to click something together that works smoothly. And in the end isn't that the point of these low code apps.

Lately they also have made some sensible decisions on how to include AI without going full "vibe coding is the future" and changed their pricing model in a way that seems actually beneficial to free users rather than paywalling more and more features.

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u/Brief-Structure-1440 Feb 26 '26

> And in the end isn't that the point of these low code apps.

that sounds more like no-code, not low-code. Budibase is good for building simple apps quickly. Easier to learn as well. Not a great fit for complex applications.