Open source. Self-hosted. Built by the agent you already use.

Yes. ToolJet runs in production at Tencent, Swisscom, Duolingo, Gojek, Orange, Unity, ClearScore, Bandwidth, Toss, Endeavour Group, ShareChat and YMCA NYC, among others. It is SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant. The Team plan includes SSO with SAML, OpenID Connect and LDAP, audit logs, Git sync, custom user groups and white labelling; Enterprise adds SCIM provisioning, multi-environment, custom data retention, air-gapped deployment and a dedicated support manager.

Yes. ToolJet's Community Edition is open source under AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted on Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, OpenShift or air-gapped, on the Free, Team and Enterprise plans. Retool offers self-hosting on its paid tiers, with unlimited users, SSO and advanced self-hosted features reserved for Enterprise.

No. Retool bills per builder and per end user on every plan, $50 and $15 a month respectively on Business. ToolJet charges per builder and includes end users up to the plan limit: 50 on Free and Pro, 100 on Team, unlimited on Enterprise.

Yes. ToolJet ships an MIT-licensed MCP server, packaged as Claude Code and Codex plugins and usable from VS Code, Copilot or any MCP client, against cloud or self-hosted instances. It exposes around 50 tools for pages, queries, components, events and tables. The agent composes the app directly and verifies it in a browser. No application code is generated, no ToolJet credits are consumed, and the result stays editable in the visual builder.

Retool's MCP server, in public beta since May 2026, has more than thirty tools for administration, resources and queries, but only one builds apps: it forwards your prompt to Retool's own AI, which generates a React app and consumes Retool AI credits on top of your agent's tokens. The other route is to write a React app locally with your agent and import it through the MCP, which avoids the credits but means you own and maintain React code. With ToolJet the agent builds a native app itself, so there are no credits and no codebase.

On both platforms, bring-your-own-key is an Enterprise feature. Retool does not charge credits for BYOK usage. ToolJet Enterprise supports Anthropic, Google Gemini, Grok and OpenRouter keys, does not consume credits when one is configured, and additionally offers ToolJet AI Enterprise, an AI server image that runs inside your own infrastructure so no request reaches ToolJet at all.

On ToolJet all three are included on the Team plan at $199 per builder per month, with SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, Google and GitHub SSO. On Retool, SSO/SAML and source control require Enterprise, and audit logs require Business.

There is no automatic importer for Retool exports. The practical path is to point a coding agent at your Retool app definition and have it rebuild the app in ToolJet through the MCP server, which handles the pages, queries and events. ToolJet also offers migration consultations for larger estates.

In-product AI uses ToolJet credits: 100 on Free, 2,000 on Starter and Pro, 3,000 per builder on Team, with pay-as-you-go top-ups on paid plans. Builds driven through the MCP server from your own Claude or Codex subscription consume no ToolJet credits.