Conga Grid vs AGrid
AGrid lists at $10 a user and reaches further across objects, to siblings and to objects with no relationship between them. Conga Grid brings the breadth, the procurement paperwork and the spreadsheet basics AGrid does not document.
Which one, when
- Power users need the reading pane, grid graphs, or Conga Composer from grid rowsConga Grid. That breadth, and the link to the rest of the Conga suite, is what it does best.
- You need editable views across objects with no relationship in your data modelAGrid. Its Intelligent Related Lists reach sibling and unrelated records; Conga Grid reaches parents, children and grandchildren.
- Users paste from Excel, fill down, or revert a batch of edits before savingConga Grid. AGrid documents no paste, no fill-down and no undo.
- You price per seat and want terms in writing before you call anyoneAGrid: $10 per user per month, a $600 yearly minimum and multi-year discounts, all on the listing. Conga Grid lists at $18 with a ten-user minimum.
Where Conga Grid is stronger
- Breadth built up over twelve years. The reading pane with record detail, Chatter and charts; grid graphs; batch add of tasks, notes and campaign members; the approval center; Conga Composer from grid rows.
- Spreadsheet basics. Paste from Excel up to 100 rows, fill down with Ctrl+D, find and replace, Revert Data, and a keyboard shortcut list behind Ctrl+/.
- Procurement paperwork. SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 reports, an MSA, a DPA and a sub-processor list. Softsquare publishes no MSA, DPA or sub-processor list for AGrid.
- Shield, documented. Conga’s technical requirements state compatibility with Shield Platform Encryption. AGrid carries a Shield badge on its listing, but its documentation says nothing about encrypted fields.
Where AGrid is stronger
- Reach across objects, its signature. Intelligent Related Lists build virtual relationships with no lookup between the objects, reaching grandchild, sibling, hierarchical and unrelated records.
- Grouping across more rows. Three levels with Sum, Average, Min, Max and Record Count, up to 10,000 records in a group. Conga’s grouping covers the page on screen.
- Price and terms in the open. $10 per user per month, a $600 yearly minimum, and 10% or 20% off a two- or three-year prepayment.
- Collisions, and more views. A Review Before Save dialog when two people edit the same field; kanban, chart, card and split views; and Experience Cloud pages that guests can view without signing in, where Conga Grid does not support the Guest User profile.
Conga Grid and AGrid, side by side
| Capability | Conga Grid | AGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Editing | ||
| Inline edit | Yes | Yes |
| Mass edit: many cells, one save | Yes | Yes |
| Update a field across a selection | Yes | Yes |
| Inline create (add a row) | Yes | Yes |
| Delete from the grid | Yes | Yes |
| Undo and redo | Partial | No |
| Copy and paste Excel ranges | Yes | No |
| Finding and shaping | ||
| Resize and reorder columns | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-column sort | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Row grouping | Partial | Yes |
| Subtotals and aggregates | Yes | Yes |
| Conditional formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Related data | ||
| Several objects in one grid | Yes | Yes |
| Parent and child expand under a row | Yes | Partial |
| Moving data | ||
| Export | Yes | Yes |
| Import and upsert | Partial | No |
| Views and placement | ||
| Named, shareable saved views | Yes | Yes |
| Lightning page embed | Yes | Yes |
| Flow screen component | Not documented | Partial |
| Experience Cloud | Partial | Yes |
| Mobile | No | Yes |
| Actions | ||
| Row actions, flows and quick actions | Partial | Yes |
| Access, security and scale | ||
| Keyboard navigation | Partial | Partial |
| Screen reader | Not documented | Not documented |
| Field, object and sharing security | Yes | Yes |
| Shield Platform Encryption | Yes | Not documented |
| Large lists | Partial | Yes |
| Offline | No | No |
| AI features | No | No |
Three years, as the team grows
Grid configuration (Conga Grid View and 15 other packaged custom objects, plus generated Visualforce pages).
Grid configuration (16 packaged custom objects in the subscriber org; moved between orgs as a JSON file exported and imported through the product).
The incumbent and the $10 grid
Conga Grid is an application you buy seats for, broad and long established, with a reading pane, graphs and the Conga suite behind it. AGrid is a no-code grid from Softsquare, a Salesforce consultancy, priced at a little over half of Conga’s list and built around reach: views that join objects your data model never linked, three levels of grouping over them, and kanban, chart and card views of the same configuration.
What each leaves out
Conga Grid publishes 1,000 rows per view and 100 rows per paste, groups what is on the page rather than the whole list, runs in a Visualforce page, and is not supported on Salesforce mobile, by its own technical requirements.
AGrid documents no undo, no paste, no fill-down and no record import, and one keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+S. Its summaries and charts stop above 50,000 filtered records, and its install guide asks for org-wide sharing defaults of Public Read/Write on its own configuration objects. To its credit, it publishes a Known Issues page of about fifty entries, kept current to August 2026.
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Checked 2026-10-07; due for a re-check by 2027-04-07. Both columns are the vendors’ own published claims; nothing was installed or tested. Something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Conga Grid vs AGrid: questions
Which reaches further across objects?
AGrid. Both reach well past one object: Conga Grid edits parent fields from a child grid and shows related records down to grandchildren. AGrid’s Intelligent Related Lists also reach siblings and unrelated objects with no lookup between them, though its inline edit reaches one level of parent fields.
How many rows does each load?
Conga publishes 1,000 rows per view. AGrid loads 2,000 records at a time up to a documented maximum of 10,000, and its summaries and charts are documented to stop above 50,000 filtered records. Neither vendor publishes a benchmark.
How do grids move from sandbox to production?
Neither keeps grid configuration as deployable metadata. Both store it as records in sixteen packaged custom objects. Conga moves it with its own export and import wizard as a zip file; AGrid exports a JSON file and imports it with a validation pass that names missing fields and references.
Do both keep data in my org?
Yes. Conga Grid runs in a Visualforce page and AGrid is a Lightning Web Component, and both query and save inside your Salesforce org as the logged-in user.
Three things you can verify without asking us
Nobody should pay per seat to edit a thousand rows.
Compare it on your own data: install it beside the grid you have, and keep both until you are sure.