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Grow vs Restate

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Grow

Business Intelligence

No-code BI for growing companies

From
$500/month
Free plan
No
Visit GrowFull review
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Restate

Developer Tools

Durable execution engine in Rust with a free tier and low-latency workflows

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Visit RestateFull review

The short version

  • Grow is a no-code business intelligence platform.
  • Restate has a free plan, then $300/mo; Grow starts at $500/mo.
  • Only Grow lists no-code Setup; only Restate lists durable execution.
  • Where Grow falls short: the pricing URL serves marketing content with no plan, rate, minimum or cost driver published anywhere on it.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Grow and Restate actually diverge.

Attributes where Grow and Restate differ
AttributeGrowRestate
Starting price$500/monthFree
Pricing modelSubscriptionPer month by durable action count
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, TV and consoleLinux, macOS, Web
CategoryBusiness IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

Not yet recorded: founded for Restate.

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Grow

  • No-code Setup
  • Unlimited Dashboards
  • Data Blending
  • Alerts
  • Embedding
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • QuickBooks

Only in Restate

  • Durable execution
  • Virtual objects
  • Single binary runtime
  • Multi-language SDKs
  • Workflows and sagas
  • Restate Cloud

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Grow

  • No-code dashboards and business intelligence for teams without analystsnot Restate
  • Blending data from more than 100 sources including BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Salesforce and HubSpotnot Restate
  • ETL, warehousing and visualisation in a single platformnot Restate

Restate

  • Payment or order flows where a crash between two external API calls must not double-charge or lose the ordernot Grow
  • AI agent loops that call tools over minutes or hours and must survive a deployment mid-runnot Grow
  • Replacing hand-rolled retry, idempotency key and outbox code across a set of microservicesnot Grow
  • A small team that wants durable workflows without operating a Temporal cluster and its databasenot Grow

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Grow

  • The pricing URL serves marketing content with no plan, rate, minimum or cost driver published anywhere on it
  • The only calls to action are Get Started Now and Watch Demo; there is no self-serve rate card
  • The vendor advertises unlimited users with no per-seat charges, which means the price driver is not disclosed at all

Restate

  • The runtime is under a Business Source Licence rather than an open source licence, so building a competing managed offering on it is prohibited and some procurement functions will reject it on licence grounds alone
  • Restate Cloud jumps from a free fifty thousand actions straight to 300 US dollars a month for twenty million, so a workload sitting at a few hundred thousand actions pays enterprise-shaped money for hobby-shaped volume
  • It is a young project against Temporal’s established base, so hiring engineers who already know it is unrealistic and the answer to most questions is in the docs rather than on Stack Overflow
  • The programming model requires structuring code around durable handlers and virtual objects, which is a genuine rewrite for existing services rather than a library you add
  • The single-binary simplicity that makes small deployments cheap also means fewer operational knobs at very large scale than a system designed as separable components

Pricing, plan by plan

Grow

$500/month
  • Starter$500/mo
    • Unlimited Users
    • 75+ Integrations
    • Support
  • Pro$1,000/mo
    • Advanced Features
    • Custom Integrations
    • Training

Restate

Free
  • FreeFree
    • Fifty thousand durable actions per month
    • No credit card required
    • Community support
  • Starter$300/mo
    • Twenty million actions per month
    • Two hundred actions per second, bursting to one thousand
    • Twenty GB storage
  • Pro$1,000/mo
    • Fifty million actions per month
    • Five hundred actions per second, bursting to two thousand
    • Fifty GB storage
  • EnterpriseOn request
    • Negotiated volume
    • Twenty-four seven P0 support
    • 99.99 per cent SLA

Which should you pick?

Choose Grow if

  • You need no-code setup.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, TV and console.
  • You also want unlimited dashboards.
Grow review

Choose Restate if

  • You need durable execution.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, macOS, Web.
  • You also want virtual objects.
Restate review

Questions people ask

Is Grow or Restate better?
Neither clearly leads. Grow starts at $500/month and Restate at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Grow or Restate?
Restate has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $500/month for Grow and Free for Restate.
Does Grow or Restate run on more platforms?
Grow runs on Web, iOS, Android, TV and console. Restate runs on Linux, macOS, Web.
Can I use Restate for free?
Yes. Restate has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Grow starts at $500/month.
What is Grow best used for?
Grow is most often used for no-code dashboards and business intelligence for teams without analysts, blending data from more than 100 sources including bigquery, postgresql, salesforce and hubspot, etl, warehousing and visualisation in a single platform. Of those, no-code dashboards and business intelligence for teams without analysts and blending data from more than 100 sources including bigquery, postgresql, salesforce and hubspot are not what Restate is typically brought in for.
What can Grow do that Restate cannot?
Grow covers No-code Setup, Unlimited Dashboards, Data Blending, Alerts. Restate covers Durable execution, Virtual objects, Single binary runtime, Multi-language SDKs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Grow: How much does Grow cost?

Grow does not publish pricing on their website. They offer a request-a-free-trial model that requires contacting their sales team. Pricing is determined by contacting sales through their contact form or trial request process.

Source
Restate: Is Restate open source?

The SDKs are MIT. The runtime is under a Business Source Licence, which permits self-hosting but not offering it as a competing service.

Restate: How does it compare with Temporal?

Same problem, different shape: one Rust binary with embedded storage instead of a server plus database plus workers, and lower per-step latency.

Restate: Is there a free tier?

Yes, fifty thousand durable actions a month on Restate Cloud with no card required.

Restate: Which languages are supported?

TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python and Rust.

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