# ToolJet Pricing Teardown 2026 > ToolJet went from one flat seat price to five cloud tiers, added AI credits to every plan, and kept AGPL — while Appsmith, the closest comparable, ships under Apache 2.0. That difference matters more than the per-seat number. *Source: [https://www.getbeton.ai/blog/tooljet-pricing-teardown/](https://www.getbeton.ai/blog/tooljet-pricing-teardown/)* **Published:** 2026-05-26 **Author:** Vlad Nadymov **Tags:** pricing teardown, open source, internal tools This post is a part of series on commercial open source software pricing. See full list of articles [here](/blog/teardowns/). ToolJet is the open-source internal-tool builder that shows up alongside Retool and Appsmith. Drag-and-drop frontend, 80+ data source connectors, built-in database, workflow automation. ~38k GitHub stars, v3.20 shipped May 2026 — not abandonware. - Website: [tooljet.com](https://www.tooljet.com) - Pricing: [tooljet.com/pricing](https://tooljet.com/pricing) - GitHub: [github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet](https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet) **Plans** ToolJet's cloud offering has five tiers as of mid-2026, up from three in earlier versions. All paid plans carry a 20% annual discount. - **Free — $0:** 2 builders, 50 end users, 2 apps, 100 AI credits/month. No Git sync, no SSO. - **Starter — $19/builder/month:** Same seat limits as Free (2 builders, 50 end users, 2 apps) but raises the AI allowance from 100 to 2,000 credits/builder, adds unlimited add-on credits, unlimited AI page generation, and 5 AI agents. Useful only to evaluate the AI builder without hitting the seat cap. - **Pro — $79/builder/month:** Unlimited builders, 100 end users, 5 apps, 2,000 AI credits/builder, unlimited AI agents, custom styling, version control, email support. The 5-app and 100-end-user caps bite most teams within months. - **Team — $199/builder/month:** Unlimited end users, unlimited apps, 2,000 AI credits/builder, SSO, custom user groups, white-labeling, Git sync, audit logs, modules. The production tier — the first plan where the per-seat price matches what you get. - **Enterprise — custom:** Adds SCIM provisioning, custom AI credit allocations, custom model integrations (bring your own LLM), dedicated support manager, optional expert services and training. Self-hosted Enterprise adds air-gapped deployment and multi-instance options. Self-hosted tiers mirror cloud: Pro at $79/builder/month, Team at $199/builder/month, same feature gates; Enterprise custom. **The AI credits angle** Every paid tier ships 2,000 AI credits per builder per month (Free gets 100); Enterprise negotiates custom allocations and models. The agent builder — AI workflows that call data sources and trigger actions — is capped per tier: 2 agents on Free, 5 on Starter, unlimited on Pro, Team, and Enterprise. AI credits as a billing dimension is new in 2026. Whether it becomes a real cost depends on how much your team uses AI app generation. Teams that mostly maintain existing tools won't notice; teams shipping new apps regularly should size it. **The 5-app wall on Pro** Pro at $79/builder/month looks like the "real features" tier — version control, custom styling, email support. But 5 apps and 100 end users cap it. Five tools is not many: ticket dashboard, inventory tracker, onboarding form, support queue, data entry tool, and you're done. Most production teams skip Pro and go straight to Team. Pro is effectively a long trial before committing to $199/builder. **License** ToolJet is AGPL-3.0 — the same license as Grafana's core. Copyleft, with a network provision. What it means for internal tooling: Running ToolJet privately for your own teams is fine. Modify it, extend it, self-host it — no code disclosure required, as long as you don't distribute it externally. The copyleft clause activates when you distribute a modified ToolJet as a product or service. An ISV that forks ToolJet and resells it as a white-labeled platform must open-source those modifications. For enterprises using ToolJet as infrastructure, AGPL is not a problem. The Appsmith comparison is where it matters. Appsmith is Apache 2.0: ~40k GitHub stars, comparable feature set, similar self-hosted/cloud split, $15/user/month Business tier. Apache 2.0 is permissive — fork it, modify it, ship a product on top, no obligation to open-source your changes. For a team building an internal-tools product (not just using one), Apache 2.0 removes a legal risk that AGPL introduces. ToolJet and Appsmith are close enough on UX and features that the license is a real selection criterion. Not the only one — connectors, component library, self-hosting ops all matter — but beyond pure internal use, the license difference counts. **Worth paying for?** Free is a reasonable start for a solo developer or a team prototyping one or two tools. The 2-builder cap forces a decision the moment a second person starts building. Starter at $19 is a narrow tier — AI credit flexibility, same hard caps as Free. Worth it only if AI generation is your specific bottleneck. Team at $199/builder/month is the honest production price. Three builders is $597/month, roughly $7,200/year. Retool's comparable tier (SSO, Git sync, unlimited apps and end users) runs similar or higher depending on end-user counts. Appsmith's Enterprise for 100 users is $2,500/month — a per-user axis that favors ToolJet for orgs with many end users and few builders. Self-hosting is a real cost-control option: self-hosted Pro and Team cost the same as cloud, but you own the infrastructure and data. Enterprise is justified if you need SCIM, air-gapped deployment, or your own LLM models. Otherwise Team is the ceiling. --- ## How ToolJet pricing scales ToolJet bills per builder. Starter ($19) is AI-credit-focused; Team ($199/builder) is the real production tier (SSO, Git, audit logs) — a 10× per-builder jump.
$0$2,500$5,000$7,500$10,0001 builders5 builders10 builders25 builders50 buildersStarter $19/builderTeam $199/builder
Monthly cost as ToolJet scales by builder. Production features force the 10×-pricier Team tier.
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