Retool pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Retool (retool.com) is a internal tool builder. Per user per month, with builders who edit apps paying more than internal users who only use them, banded external users on Business, and custom Enterprise pricing.. Free plan: Up to 5 users, unlimited web and mobile apps, 500 workflow runs and 250 AI credits a month, 5GB database..
What Retool costs
- 2 builders + 8 users: $80/mo (Team: 2 builders x $12 + 8 internal users x $7 = $80. Free caps at 5 users, so it cannot cover 10 people. No minimum seat count is shown for Team.)
- 1 builder: $12/mo (One Team builder seat at $12/mo monthly. Free plan ignored for this point; no minimum seat count shown.)
- 5 builders + 45 users: $375/mo (Team: 5 builders x $12 + 45 internal users x $7 = $375. Business external users (free up to 50) are not used because end users here are internal staff, which Retool calls internal users since its Apr 2026 rename; using them would give $325.)
Plan compared: Team plan, monthly billing: 2 builders at $12 and 8 internal users at $7 per user per month.. Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the vendor's hosted plan: a team where 2 people build apps and 8 use them (or 5 and 45), or one builder on the cheapest paid plan. A free plan counts as $0 only if it connects your PostgreSQL or MySQL database and shares apps privately with every user; free self-hosted open-source editions are not priced.
What Retool does
Core: Visual point-and-click edits, Connectors & API integrations, Custom code steps, Team collaboration and governance, Internal app builder, Live SQL database connections, API and SaaS connectors.
Important: Prompt-to-app generation, Built-in database & backend, End-user sign-up & login, AI features inside your app, Team workspaces, SSO & compliance (partly), Open source, local & own keys (partly), Multi-step workflows, Logic and data tools (partly), Webhooks and HTTP requests, Built-in AI steps, AI agents, Built-in tables and forms, Self-hosting and open source (partly), Security and compliance, Built-in database (partly), Custom code and components, Backend workflows and jobs (partly), AI agents and LLM actions, Granular permissions, Git and environments (partly), Self-hosting (partly), SSO, audit logs and compliance (partly).
Also has: Native mobile apps (partly), Autonomous build agent (partly), Managed site hosting (partly), Code export & GitHub sync (partly), In-browser code editor (partly), Payments & subscriptions (partly), Templates & community gallery (partly), Build from your phone (partly), Custom connector builder (partly), AI workflow builder (partly), Human approval steps (partly), Mobile and device triggers (partly), Auto-generated admin panel (partly), Forms and approval processes (partly), External portals on data (partly), Mobile apps for field teams (partly).
Retool price hikes
- Retool quietly cut what you get · Jul 4, 2026
Retool ended its limited-time unlimited AI prompt credits on Team and Business and set fixed monthly allowances of 1,000 credits on Team and 3,000 on Business; no seat price change is recorded.
Alternatives to Retool
Retool is the cheapest internal tool builder we track at a 10-person team (2 builders, 8 app users). The others:
Retool alternatives: 2 internal tool builders compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Retool
- Lovable (AI app builders): covers 73% of Retool; missing or partial: Internal app builder (partly), Live SQL database connections (partly), API and SaaS connectors (partly), AI agents and LLM actions (partly), Granular permissions (partly)
Every change we logged
- Jul 4, 2026 · Limits cut: Retool ended its limited-time unlimited AI prompt credits on Team and Business and set fixed monthly allowances of 1,000 credits on Team and 3,000 on Business; no seat price change is recorded.
Sources
Pricing page: retool.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices are from the official retool.com/pricing page, read twice with identical seat prices; the $6 entry price on PricingSaaS conflicts with the official Business prices and was not used. The 10,000 and 50,000 query runs are assumed unmetered (no query cap is shown; Team includes 5,000 workflow runs/month as a separate meter), and an external-user band above 500 users that PricingSaaS says moved from free to paid in 2025 is omitted because its exact date is unknown.