Quadratic Personal replaces 2 paid apps

Compare Quadratic Personal with 2 paid apps. Each pairing describes a recorded use case and its limits; check the current license, feature availability and hosting requirements at the source.

Quadratic Personal free option→compared with 2 paid appsthey host it🗄️ databases
recorded product details

licenseproprietary, free

runstheir cloud

installHosted signup in the browser

enginesQuadratic currently defaults to Claude Sonnet 5 and selects among frontier hosted models; self-hosted deployments can instead bring provider API keys

dataSpreadsheet files live in Quadratic Cloud and can be downloaded or shared as local files; connected database data remains in the source and query results enter the sheet

setup✓ installs clean

source checked 2026-08-10

compare these paid apps
Equals KINDA$39/mo per seat

A spreadsheet that can query databases and run Python or JavaScript, without pretending every analysis is a dashboard.

the verdict →
Rows KINDA$8/mo

A real analysis spreadsheet with database connections and programmable cells; API work is less point-and-click than Rows.

the catchQuadratic makes database and API work more code- and query-driven, lacking Rows' large catalog of point-and-click integrations and API-powered spreadsheet functions.

the verdict →all Rows alternatives →

latest recorded source check 2026-08-10 · up to $564/yr replaced · no votes, no pay-to-list

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