Grist vs. Grist Community edition
Improved security, governance, and collaboration.
Which edition is right for me?
Grist Community edition is the free and open-source heart of Grist, with everything you need to open and edit Grist documents, control access, create forms, connect to single sign-on (SSO) providers, and much more. This edition works well for personal use and small teams.
The full edition of Grist includes an additional suite of features designed for improved security, governance, and collaboration. This edition is ideal for medium-to-large enterprises with many collaborators and organizations who require formal auditing.
Both editions leave your data in your hands – fully portable SQLite files with no lock-in.
What the full edition gets you:
Automations
Automatically trigger actions like dynamic email notifications and webhooks when your data changes. Extend your data and reduce redundant manual tasks. Learn more.
Grist Assistant
Our powerful but unobtrusive AI Assistant can create, modify and analyze your data in addition to helping build advanced Python formulas.
Advanced Admin Controls
A spreadsheet to manage your spreadsheet management, making large deployment administration a breeze.
Comments
Collaborate with threaded comments on specific cells in data tables and receive configurable email notifications.
Audit log streaming
Maintain compliance and identify misuse by streaming events to an external destination, such as a security information and event management (SIEM) system, like Splunk or Vector.
More
- Azure back-end for document storage: Lets Microsoft-based organizations can store document versions on Azure.
- Invite notifications: When a user is added to a document, or a workspace, or a site, with email notifications they will get emailed a link to access the resource.
Try the full edition now
There’s a 30 day free trial available for all, and we offer free activation keys for organizations whose total finances are less than USD $1M.
Enterprise Training
Grist Workshop
A free training workshop that equips teams to build their own complex solutions and workflows.
From basics to mastery, fast
Multi-day curriculum covering fundamentals, data modeling, dashboards, reporting, and governance.
Personalized building lab
A Grist expert works alongside your team to turn ideas into production-ready workflows.
“I love Grist. It’s crazy powerful. I still can’t believe what we’ve been able to achieve in it. It’s the dream that low-code was sold as for years – we can do incredible things in each column with Python and we can build our own widgets to run on those! Wild!”
Elliot Lee
User Researcher
“Grist has become our go-to for more complex, structured data. It sits somewhere between Excel and Access—powerful, relational, and flexible enough for prototyping real data-driven applications.”
Olivier Lambert
CEO at Vates
“The more I use Grist, the more I LOVE it. I have been surveying self-hosted database GUI tools, and I was consistently disappointed with their shortcomings or bugginess. Grist is the first to have tilted the balance the other way.”
Stephen S.
Publications, Personal City Guides
“Grist has given us incredible flexibility to solve data problems and find solutions, whether it is for a small team at the district, or at scale with the entire district staff. We’re really excited about the different ways we can use it going forward.”
Director of Product
EdTech Company
“What I like about Grist the most is its focus. It appears simple, but it’s very powerful in a focused way. Grist has really improved our workflow and communication.”
Chris Scott
Co-founder in Digital Marketing
“If people spend some time learning a new tool they’ll have more power to do their work and research. I said to one of my students, ‘You will be very very happy using Grist because you are miserable using Excel!'”
Eduardo Dalcin, Ph.D.
Biodiversity Informatics Expert
“Most CRMs don’t work the way Grist works. Grist’s layouts are simple and do exactly what we need.”
Jennifer Bledsoe
IT Tech at Law Firm
“I discovered Grist after becoming frustrated with the limitations of Excel and Google Sheets. Grist has been a breath of fresh air, especially with its ability to handle structured data in a way that feels familiar to anyone with experience in relational databases, but with the added flexibility of Python.”
Will Bailey
Small Business Manager
“Sharing an Access database is near impossible, but Grist makes sharing a relational database simple.”
Walt Rice
IT Consultant
“I needed an open-source master database that could connect to n8n and AI tools. After trying Notion, Airtable, Siyuan, Baserow, and NocoDB, I chose Grist for its Python-native AI support, flexible integrations, and simple n8n connections.”
Robin A.
Project Manager
“I’ve worked extensively with NocoDB, Notion, SeaTable, and Baserow, and Grist really stands out. The balance between spreadsheet-style flexibility and structured, low-code database design is excellent.”
Andriy Kostyuk
Automation Engineer, Founder at Enceladus
Enterprise overview
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