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Grist

Relational spreadsheet that combines spreadsheet formulas with database tables, self-hostable as grist-core and available as a hosted service.

Grist is a relational spreadsheet that combines spreadsheet formulas with database tables. Formulas can be written in Python. Each document is a SQLite file, and the server runs as a Docker container or from a source build. It serves a browser interface, an Admin Panel at /admin and a REST API.

A document with public access can be embedded on another site with HTML code, and grist-static is a separate build for displaying spreadsheets on a website without back-end support. Grist Labs, a company based in New York, maintains it and also offers a hosted service at getgrist.com.

Worth knowing

Grist Labs sells a full edition with features that grist-core does not include, among them single sign-on through OIDC or SAML, audit log streaming and automations. The default Docker image holds extensions for that edition under a non-open-source license, inactive in the Community edition. The gristlabs/grist-oss image holds only open-source code.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Grist Labs Inc.4
Maintained by
Company
First release
20218
Headquarters
United States4

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on5
Install with
docker5

Releases

Current major version
16
Last release
2026-10-297

Adoption

GitHub stars
12,0432
Contributors
1639

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: links
    www.getgrist.com/
  2. 2026-11-03: links, Written in, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/gristlabs/grist-core
  3. 2026-11-03: links
    support.getgrist.com/
  4. 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Headquarters
    www.getgrist.com/terms/
  5. 2026-11-03: Categories, Runtime, Databases, Admin interface, Content API, Multilingual, Install with, Runs as, License
    github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/blob/main/README.md
  6. 2026-11-03: Current major version
    github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/releases/tag/v1.7.22
  7. 2026-11-03: Last release
    api.github.com/repos/gristlabs/grist-core/releases/latest
  8. 2026-11-03: First release
    api.github.com/repos/gristlabs/grist-core/commits/v0.1.1
  9. 2026-11-03: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/gristlabs/grist-core/contributors?per_page=1

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