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Open-source alternatives to Google Sheets

2 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Google Sheets. Grist is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

2 / 2

Pushed in the last 90 days

2 / 2

With a container command

1 / 2

Permissive licence

Google Sheets’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Google Sheets
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Grist	11,972	Active	Permissive	Docker	TypeScript
Baserow	6,175	Active	Not identified	Docker	Python

Each one, briefly

Grist11,972 stars · permissive · active
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.
Also replaces Airtable, Excel
Baserow6,175 stars · not identified · active
Build databases, automations, apps & agents with AI — no code. Open source platform available on cloud and self-hosted. GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 compliant. Best Airtable alternative.
Also replaces Airtable

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Google Sheets comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Google Sheets. Browse every open-source alternative.