A Grist alternative, hosted in Europe
Grist: A relational spreadsheet-database with Python formulas and detailed access rules, popular in the public sector. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where Grist is ahead.
| Artavolo | Grist | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | $8: Pro, per person a month billed yearly; Business $24 (at least 5 people). |
| A team of 10, a year | $720 (Standard billed yearly, VAT included) | $960 a year (Pro, 10 people), before tax |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | 5,000 per document on Free, 100,000 on Pro, 150,000 on Business |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | Its own cloud on AWS in the United States; EU hosting through partners |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | Yes, grist-core under Apache-2.0 |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | CSV or Excel per table; the whole document as Excel or as a SQLite file |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See Grist’s own AI features |
| Where Grist is ahead | Python formulas, and access rules down to the cell. | |
| An open file format (SQLite) holding everything. |
Grist’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: Grist pricing, Limits, Exports, Data security. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from Grist tell us about
- Low record limits per document.
- Its own cloud runs in the United States.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From Grist in an afternoon
Export from Grist (Excel (.xlsx), the whole document), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every table, a sheet each
- References between tables, from the referenced rows' names
- Choices, dates, numbers