Comparison

Baserow vs Grist

Baserow and Grist both land on Depends.

Baserow

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you want a self-hosted Airtable alternative and can handle patching.

Depends

Confidence: Low

We could not verify this product: getgrist.com served our crawler a bot-verification page, so no reviews, pricing, or feature data was captured.

Baserow versus Grist
Compare	Baserow	Grist
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Self-hosters wanting data sovereignty	Guess: technical teams wanting relational spreadsheets
Who it's not for	Small teams needing just a contact list . use a spreadsheet	Guess: small teams that just need a plain contact list . use a spreadsheet
Privacy	Multiple CVEs disclosed across 2025-2026 versions, including SQL injection and missing authorization; patch discipline is essential.^⁵	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁹
Support quality	No usable evidence in sources	No support evidence captured
Public sentiment	Users average ~4.7/5, praising ease of use and value while flagging maturity gaps and the missing desktop app.^¹	No usable Grist reviews were captured; the crawl returned unrelated bot-verification pages from other sites.
Biggest gotcha	Self-hosting puts patching on you; several CVEs hit recent 2.3.x versions^⁵	Site's own security page is behind a bot check; transparency and automated access are limited^⁹

Guess: small teams that just need a plain contact list . use a spreadsheet
Guess: non-technical users wanting polished templates and onboarding
Guess: buyers who need vendors to expose security docs for scrutiny . this site blocks it