The short answer
- ToolJet's official migration guide moves 1 partly; 4 things stay behind. What moves
- 1 public account of making this switch: 1 switched. Read them
- Switching help: ToolJet offers migration consultations for people moving from Retool: 'book a migration consultation and we'll walk through your Retool estate with you.' The recommended path is rebuilding apps via a coding agent over ToolJet's MCP server, which consumes no ToolJet credits. tooljet.com
What Retool and ToolJet cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retool Team (builder) | $12/user/mo | $10/user/mo | Per builder (anyone who built or edited an app or workflow that billing cycle); 5,000 workflow runs a month ($75 per 5,000 more); staging environment and app release versions; 1,000 AI credits a month. Self-hosted Team allows up to 100 users. |
| Retool Team (internal user) | $7/user/mo | $5/user/mo | Per enabled user who only uses apps (didn't build or edit) that billing cycle. |
| Retool Business (builder) | $65/user/mo | $50/user/mo | Audit logs, rich permission controls, portals and embedded apps, unlimited environments and modules, custom branding, external-user pricing; 5,000 workflow runs a month ($75 per 5,000 more); 3,000 AI credits a month. |
| Retool Business (internal user) | $18/user/mo | $15/user/mo | Per internal user on Business. |
- Retool free plan: Up to 5 users; unlimited web and mobile apps; 500 workflow runs a month; 5 GB database; 5 GB file storage; up to 20 agent hours and 250 AI credits a month. Also available self-hosted, still up to 5 users. retool.com
ToolJet's plans aren't in the Stackcut catalog yet; check ToolJet's own site.
Moving from Retool to ToolJet
What ToolJet's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To ToolJet
Official guide tooljet.com · Tools: ToolJet MCP server (Claude Code / Codex plugins), Retool app export (JSON)
Moves: App pages, queries, and events (partial). tooljet.com
Doesn't move: User accounts and SSO; Retool-proprietary UI definitions (converted/rebuilt, not imported); Retool Workflows (rewritten as ToolJet workflows or app logic); Resource credentials (recreated in ToolJet). tooljet.com
Watch out for:
- There is no automatic importer for Retool exports — the MCP-agent rebuild is the practical path. tooljet.com
- Self-hosting and the MCP server are available from the free Community Edition, but agent subscriptions are billed separately. tooljet.com
Switching help: ToolJet offers migration consultations for people moving from Retool: 'book a migration consultation and we'll walk through your Retool estate with you.' The recommended path is rebuilding apps via a coding agent over ToolJet's MCP server, which consumes no ToolJet credits. tooljet.com
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Retool to ToolJet
1 public accounts of leaving Retool: 1 switched. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
In an Ask HN thread about Retool for user-facing apps, xtracto says his startup went with ToolJet instead of Retool because it is open source with exportable dashboards, enabling a dev-stage-prod release cycle for internal tools; reports it has been pretty good so far. Hacker News
FAQ
Can I move my Retool data to ToolJet?
ToolJet's official guide moves: App pages, queries, and events. It doesn't move: User accounts and SSO; Retool-proprietary UI definitions (converted/rebuilt, not imported); Retool Workflows (rewritten as ToolJet workflows or app logic); Resource credentials (recreated in ToolJet). tooljet.com
Does ToolJet help people switch from Retool?
ToolJet offers migration consultations for people moving from Retool: 'book a migration consultation and we'll walk through your Retool estate with you.' The recommended path is rebuilding apps via a coding agent over ToolJet's MCP server, which consumes no ToolJet credits. tooljet.com
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