Self-Hosted
Need to host your data? You can!
Host Grist on your own infrastructure, and integrate it into your stack.
Grist on your infrastructure
Address governance, compliance or data residency requirements.
Integrate into your organization’s SSO.
Run with extra CPU and memory for more power.
Create advanced customizations and integrations.
Grist for Enterprise
All Grist features
Advanced customization
Build with Grist experts
Looking for Grist Community edition?
Scalable data solution for any team, any infrastructure
Familiar spreadsheet software interface in a no-code database
Intuitive UI for spreadsheet users, while keeping data structured in a SQLite database.
Support for familiar Excel functions and Python formulas.
Automatic database backups.
Secure collaboration with granular access rules
Share one copy of data with granular permissions, controlling who can see what data.
Set rules by role, limiting who can see what from CEO to intern.
Access rules scale seamlessly as data grows.
Drag-and-drop dashboards
Build app-like views by linking related tables, and drill into data with a few clicks.
Add dashboards with pivot tables and charts to see the big picture.
Robust filtering options and conditional formatting bring relevant data to the fore.
Extend Grist to meet your needs
Custom data views
Select from Grist’s ready-made specialty widgets, like maps or invoices, or code your own custom view.
REST API
Connect Grist to other apps with our robust API.
Fully portable data
No data lock-in. Download Grist databases as CSV, XLSX, or SQLite files.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Grist and Grist Community edition?
The full edition of Grist includes all features enabled for improved security, governance, and collaboration, such as advanced admin controls, automations, email notifications, AI assistance, and more.
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.
See the full breakdown of feature differences on our Pricing page, and learn more about self-hosting Grist in our Help Center.
How much does grist cost?
Visit our Pricing page for full breakdowns of all our plans, or contact us directly at success@getgrist.com to discuss custom solutions.
I am satisfied with Grist Community edition but still want to support Grist labs. How can I do that?
You can sponsor Grist on GitHub. And thank you!
“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
Templates
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Sales Commission Sheet Structure Template
Track sales, calculate commissions, and summarize revenue and commission pay out in vibrant charts.
View TemplateDigital Sales CRM
Track sales of digital products (courses, e-books, etc.) and generate revenue summaries by product or customer.
View TemplateBillable Hours Spreadsheet Template
Track billable hours and generate invoices in this streamlined template.
View TemplateTake control of your data
Unlock your data’s true potential with the better spreadsheet
