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Grist
By Grist Labs
Category: spreadsheets
Pricing: freemium
Free plan: Available
Free-plan limits: Free plan: unlimited documents, up to 5,000 records per document, 30-day snapshot history, 10 team members max, 2 guests/document, 1GB attachment storage/document, 3,000 API calls/month; self-hostable Community Edition is free/open source with no record cap
Best for: Spreadsheet-database hybrid with Python formulas and granular access control; also available fully self-hosted and open source.
Checked when listed: against the vendor's own page
Automated re-check: 10/5/2026, 9:34:11 AM
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