Retool
Engineering teams building many internal apps on production databases and APIs, who want the widest connector set and are fine paying per builder and per internal user.
Quick overview
- Pricing
- Free (5 users); Team from $10/builder + $5/internal user/month
- Plans
- Free: up to 5 users, 500 workflow runs/month, 250 AI credits/month. Team: $10/builder and $5/internal user per month billed annually ($12 and $7 monthly), 5,000 workflow runs, staging environment, 1,000 AI credits/month. Business: $50/builder and $15/internal user per month billed annually ($65 and $18 monthly), adds audit logs, richer permissions and external users (first 50 free, then $8/user/month annual for 51-250, $6 for 251-500, $4 above 500). Enterprise: custom, adds SAML/OpenID SSO, source control and unlimited end users. A builder is any user who built or edited an app or workflow during the billing cycle. Free, Team and Business run on Retool cloud only; self-hosted and air-gapped deployment is an Enterprise option.
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Key features
- Visual editor for admin panels, dashboards and forms on top of your own databases and APIs
- Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery and more, plus REST, GraphQL, SOAP and gRPC APIs
- New builder with a Chat tab that generates a React app from a prompt
- Workflows for scheduled and event-driven jobs, plus Agents for AI automation
- Self-hosted or air-gapped deployment on Enterprise (Kubernetes with Helm for production)
Pros
- Broadest mix of database and API connectors in this group
- Enterprise can run in Retool Cloud, self-hosted or air-gapped
- Team plan is cheap for small groups ($10 per builder, $5 per internal user, annual)
- Apps, Workflows and Agents live in one product
Cons
- Internal users are billed separately, so cost grows with headcount
- Audit logs start on Business ($50 per builder, annual); granular roles, SSO and self-hosting are Enterprise only
- SAML/OpenID SSO and Git source control are Enterprise only
Retool in our comparisons
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Pick Retool if developers will build many tools on your production data. Pick Budibase or Appsmith if you need open source and self-hosting, and Softr if the builder is not a developer.
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Pick Bubble if you are building a real product without developers. Pick Glide or Softr for internal tools and portals on existing data, and FlutterFlow if you want to own the code.
Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026Retool alternatives
Stay with Retool if you need the most complete platform and can pay for Business or Enterprise. Pick ToolJet or Budibase if you need SSO without an enterprise contract, and Softr only if your builders are not developers.
Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026