Anvil vs Retool

Anvil and Retool both land on Depends.

Anvil

Depends

Confidence: Low

Buy only if you are a Python shop building internal tools or MVPs; the vendor's own case study supports that use.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you have developers building admin panels, dashboards, and CRUD apps on real databases and APIs.

Anvil versus Retool
Compare	Anvil	Retool
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Python teams building internal tools and dashboards	Dev-led ops teams
Who it's not for	Non-Python engineering orgs (Guess)	Non-technical small teams
Privacy	No CVEs or breaches found for this product; its public security page 404s and a 2026 community thread reports vulnerabilities (unverified).^⁵	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Support quality	Active forum since 2021; staff support unverified	No evidence in reviewed sources
Public sentiment	Direct user feedback is scarce in these sources: one G2 snippet shows praise (truncated) and the vendor solicits reviews via its own forum.¹⁰	Users and reviewers describe Retool as powerful and flexible for developer-led internal tools, while competing platforms position it as engineering-oriented and lock-in prone.¹²
Biggest gotcha	Vendor actively solicits G2 reviews through its own forum . ratings may skew positive.^⁸	Business plan costs $50/month per builder . fees multiply as more people build.¹³