Retool
Low-code platform for internal tools, dashboards, workflows, and AI agents.
About
Retool is a low-code platform for building internal tools — admin panels, dashboards, workflows — with 90+ drag-and-drop components plus JavaScript and SQL extensibility, connecting to virtually any database or API. Engineering and ops teams ship in hours instead of weeks, with enterprise-grade RBAC, audit logs, and self-hosted VPC deployment.
Retool's 2025–2026 AI build-out is its biggest product bet: Retool Agents (launched May 2025) are hourly-billed autonomous AI workers for data enrichment, report generation, and approval workflows with human-in-the-loop controls and MCP integration; AppGen (public beta October 2025) generates schema-aware, permissioned apps from natural-language prompts; and an early-access agent harness puts governed agents inside Slack, Teams, and Google Chat. Pricing runs from a free tier through Team and Business plans to custom Enterprise, with AI credits and per-hour agent billing on top.
What it can do
- Drag-and-drop builder with 90+ components and custom code
- Retool Agents for autonomous multi-step work with guardrails
- AppGen natural-language app generation
- Workflows, forms, and AI integrations with major LLM providers
Setup
Sign up at retool.com, connect a database or API, and build from components or generate with AppGen.
Prerequisites
Data sources to connect (databases, APIs); a Retool account.
Use cases
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Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 60; Trending score 82/100 from researcher assessment.
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