Compare · checked 2026-10-12
Rowflare vs Grist
Grist: Apache-2.0 Community edition; SSO removed from it in 2026-09. Cloud from $8 per user / month.
| Fact | Rowflare | Grist | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted price | Cloud: free plan, Paid $29 per workspace / month, unlimited members | Free $0; Pro $8 per user / month billed annually ($10 monthly); Business $24 annually ($30 monthly), minimum 5 users; Enterprise contact sales | 2026-10-12 |
| Unit of billing | Per workspace (Cloud); none when self-hosted | Per user (team member); 2 free guests per document | 2026-10-12 |
| Self-hosting cost | Free software. Cloudflare Workers Paid from $5/month covers the whole team | Community edition $0; self-hosted Grist $24 per user / month annually ($30 monthly), free activation key for organizations under $1M total annual income | 2026-10-12 |
| Self-hosted edition license | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 Community edition; paid self-hosted edition for admin, SSO and audit features | 2026-10-12 |
| Record limits | 50,000 rows per base (designed target); 125,000 rows per base supported | Per document: Free 5,000; Pro 100,000; Business 150,000; Enterprise custom | 2026-10-12 |
| Underlying database | SQLite inside a Cloudflare Durable Object, one per base | Not checked | 2026-10-12 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-10-12 |
| SSO in the free / open version | Never paywalled. SSO itself is on the roadmap, not in the MVP | No. Removed from the Community edition in 2026-09; Custom SSO is in paid self-hosted and Enterprise | 2026-10-12 |
| GitHub stars | New project | 11,939 | 2026-10-12 |
| Calendar view | Yes, month and week, all editions | Yes, Calendar widget, all plans | 2026-10-12 |
| Timeline / Gantt view | Yes, with lanes, all editions | Not checked (only a community widget found) | 2026-10-12 |
| Gallery view | Yes, all editions | Card and card list widgets, all plans | 2026-10-12 |
| Dashboards and charts | Yes: metric, bar, line, pie and pivot; all editions | Charts and page layouts, all plans | 2026-10-12 |
| Automations | Yes, 7 triggers and 7 kinds of steps; self-hosted run limit set by you (default 10,000 per base / month) | Row triggers sending email or webhooks; Business and Enterprise, or self-hosted full edition | 2026-10-12 |
| AI that fills cells | Yes: AI fields and an AI automation step with your own key (Anthropic or any OpenAI-compatible service) or Workers AI; all editions | AI Assistant for formulas and chat, credit based; not a column that fills cells | 2026-10-12 |
| Official MCP server | Yes, built in at /mcp, all editions | Yes; hosted on all plans; self-hosted full edition, off by default | 2026-10-12 |