Retool

Apps and automations for the work your business actually runs on, connected to your own data, deployed in your own infrastructure, and governed by your own rules. Most teams use Retool to replace the internal tools they'd otherwise wait months for engineering to build.

Anyone who works closely with data and systems: developers, business engineers, analysts, and ops teams. Describe what you need, and the app builder generates a working starting point. Developers can go deeper from there with custom logic, integrations, and component-level control. The builder meets you where you are.

Enterprise plans can allocate different seat types to reflect how someone uses Retool. Builders are explicitly assigned by admins and can create, edit, and publish apps, workflows, and agents. Internal users are employees who use apps but don't publish changes—they can explore and draft freely without consuming a builder seat. External users are people outside your organization, like partners or clients, who access apps you've built.

Retool has entirely rebuilt the app builder from the ground up. The new builder is AI-native: describe what you need, and it generates a working app, connected to your data, that you can refine from there. Apps built in the previous builder continue to work. When you need to distinguish between them, the previous experience is referred to as the classic app builder.

Retool runs in the cloud or self-hosted in your own VPC. Self-hosted setup takes about 15 minutes via Docker. If your data can't leave your infrastructure, self-hosting is the answer. Enterprise plans support both options.

Retool meets the security and compliance requirements of the most regulated enterprises: role-based access controls, audit logging, SSO, independent workspaces, and full self-hosting. Your queries run against your own data sources. Retool doesn't store your data. See our security documentation for specifics.

Yes, students and educators can apply for a free Business account. Nonprofits can apply for 25 free seats. Both apply to cloud-hosted and self-hosted plans.

Every Retool plan includes a monthly pool of AI credits—no add-on, no separate billing. Credits are shared across your organization and cover all app building and AI actions.

Enough for real work. A Business plan includes credits for 36–84 apps per month. If it helps to think in prompts: each AI prompt uses about 12 credits, and a typical app takes 3–6 prompts to build. Credits cover all app building and AI actions. The pool works across however your team builds.

Credits renew each billing cycle. The base credits included in your plan are permanent. Bonus credits are included now and may change over time.