Best for
Best for engineering and operations teams building internal tools on top of existing databases and APIs.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI App Builders Comparison
Retool vs. WeWeb
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams and agencies that want a visual front end on top of Supabase or Xano and the option to export the code and host it themselves.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Retool | WeWeb |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free; paid plans from $10 / builder / month Annual billing: Team $10 per builder and $5 per internal user per month, Business $50 per builder and $15 per internal user. On monthly billing that becomes $12 / $7 and $65 / $18. Enterprise on request. | Free plan; paid seat and hosting plans are priced separately Pricing is split in two. A seat plan (Free, Essential, Pro, Partner) controls editor access, AI tokens, code export and MCP access; a hosting plan (Free, Launch, Grow, Scale) covers WeWeb-hosted deployments, with limits on bandwidth, storage and app sessions. A seat plan is required before a hosting plan can be added, and self-hosted apps have no session limit. |
| Free trial | Free plan for up to 5 users | Free plan with the visual editor, WeWeb-hosted deployment with a session limit and a monthly AI token allowance |
| Output | Internal web and mobile apps, workflows and AI agents | Vue.js single-page web apps, hosted by WeWeb or exported and self-hosted |
| API | Yes, the Retool API manages the organisation, its users and Spaces | Not stated |
| Hosting | Retool cloud or self-hosted | WeWeb cloud on AWS, or self-hosted after code export |
| What it generates | Internal tools: web and mobile apps, scheduled and event-driven workflows, and AI agents; an AI app builder starts an app from a prompt next to the classic drag-and-drop editor | Production web apps such as SaaS products, customer portals, internal tools, directories and MVPs, built visually or generated from a description by the WeWeb AI assistant |
| Stack and frameworks | Drag-and-drop component library with JavaScript in queries, bindings and transformers; custom components are written in React and TypeScript and published to the organisation's component library | Vue.js single-page applications, editable visually or extended with coded components |
| Auth and database | Connects to any database, API or LLM provider, with a hosted Retool Database included; permissions and audit logging from the Business tier, SSO and SCIM on Enterprise | Supabase, Xano, Airtable, Algolia, SmartSuite and any REST API, with internal databases connected without replication; auth through Supabase Auth, Xano Auth, Auth0, OpenID, custom tokens or WeWeb Auth |
| Hosting and deploy | Retool cloud or self-hosted; the free, Team and Business tiers can both be self-hosted, Enterprise adds unlimited end users and white-labelling | WeWeb cloud hosting on AWS, or self-hosting anywhere after code export, with a documented Cloudflare route |
| Payments | No built-in billing or checkout; a payment provider is connected as an API resource like any other | Yes, a Stripe plugin among the documented extensions |
| Access to the code | Apps live in Retool rather than as an exportable codebase; JavaScript and custom React components extend them, and Git-backed source control is an Enterprise feature | Yes, full Vue.js code export and self-hosting from the Essential seat plan upwards |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Community forum | more entries Chat, Community forum |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI | more entries Supabase, Xano, Airtable, Algolia, SmartSuite, Stripe |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Retool Free; paid plans from $10 / builder / month WeWeb Free plan; paid seat and hosting plans are priced separately
- Free trial Retool Free plan for up to 5 users WeWeb Free plan with the visual editor, WeWeb-hosted deployment with a session limit and a monthly AI token allowance
- Company size Retool Small and mid-sized, Enterprise WeWeb Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Retool Retool cloud or self-hosted WeWeb WeWeb cloud on AWS, or self-hosted after code export
- Support Retool Community forum WeWeb Chat, Community forum
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Retool
Strengths
- Connects to any database, API or LLM provider instead of starting from its own data
- Self-hosting is available on every tier, the free one included
- Extensible with JavaScript everywhere and custom React and TypeScript components
Limitations
- Priced per builder and per internal user, so cost tracks headcount rather than apps
- Apps are not an exportable codebase, so leaving the platform means rebuilding
- Git source control, SSO and SCIM are Enterprise-only
WeWeb
Strengths
- Exports the generated Vue.js source, so an app can be self-hosted and is not locked to the platform
- Connects to Supabase, Xano, Airtable, Algolia, SmartSuite and any REST API, including internal databases without replication
- Six documented authentication routes, from Supabase Auth and Auth0 to a custom token flow
- Official MCP server, so outside agents such as Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT can build inside a project
Limitations
- Seat plan and hosting plan are billed separately, so the cost of a project depends on both
- Code export and self-hosting require at least the Essential seat plan
- MCP access needs a Pro or Partner plan once the 14-day trial on a new workspace ends
- The MCP server does not expose plugin actions, so an agent cannot build with the Xano or Supabase plugins
- It builds the front end and expects a backend such as Supabase or Xano alongside it
Plans
Pricing
Retool
- Free $0 Up to 5 users, unlimited apps, 500 workflow runs a month, 5 GB database and 5 GB file storage, 250 AI credits a month.
- Team $10 Per builder per month on annual billing ($12 monthly); internal users $5 ($7 monthly). 5,000 workflow runs a month, staging environment, release versions.
- Business $50 Per builder per month on annual billing ($65 monthly); internal users $15 ($18 monthly). Adds audit logging, rich permissions, portals and external user access.
- Enterprise Custom Quoted by the vendor. Adds SSO and SCIM, Git source control, unlimited end users and white-labelling.
WeWeb
- Free (seat) $0 Visual editor, API integrations, WeWeb-hosted deployment with a session limit, and a monthly AI token allowance. No code export.
- Essential (seat) Not stated Adds code export and self-hosting, and is the minimum seat plan required before a hosting plan can be added.
- Pro (seat) Not stated Adds team seats and continued access to the WeWeb MCP server after the 14-day trial.
- Partner (seat) Not stated For building in customer workspaces; MCP use there requires the customer workspace to be on at least Pro.
- Hosting plans Not stated Free, Launch, Grow and Scale, added on top of a seat plan for WeWeb-hosted apps. They set deployment location, bandwidth, storage, compute and app sessions.
What users say
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Retool
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WeWeb
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Retool https://retool.com · no check date recorded yet
WeWeb https://www.weweb.io · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
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