Conga Grid vs RavenApps Grids
RavenApps publishes a case for leaving Conga Grid: cost against use, features paid for and never switched on, and a runtime that is not Lightning Web Components. Here is that case read against both vendors’ own documents, fairly to each.
Which one, when
- Power users need the reading pane, grid graphs, or Conga Composer from grid rowsConga Grid. RavenApps opens related grids and quick views, not a reading pane with Chatter and charts.
- You want the grid built from Lightning Web Components, looking like a Salesforce related listRavenApps Grids. Conga Grid runs inside a Visualforce page.
- Users group rows or paste ranges from Excel into the gridConga Grid, within its limits: it groups the rows on the page and pastes up to 100 rows. RavenApps documents no row grouping, and takes pasted cells through its 500-row import dialog.
- You want to evaluate without a trial clock, or start with two users for nothingRavenApps Grids. Every sandbox runs its full Pro edition with no time limit, and production starts on a free edition of two grids and two users.
Where Conga Grid is stronger
- Breadth built up over twelve years. The reading pane with record detail, Chatter and charts; grid graphs; find and replace; batch add of tasks, notes and campaign members; the approval center; Conga Composer from grid rows.
- Spreadsheet basics. Grouping, paste from Excel up to 100 rows, fill down with Ctrl+D, Revert Data, and a keyboard shortcut list behind Ctrl+/.
- Procurement paperwork. SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 reports, a DPA and a sub-processor list. RavenApps’ terms say it holds no security documentation of its own, because the service runs inside the customer’s org.
- Shield, documented. Conga’s technical requirements state compatibility with Shield Platform Encryption, and name the permission needed to clone records that hold encrypted fields.
Where RavenApps Grids is stronger
- Lightning Web Components and Apex. Built natively, with the Native App badge on its listing, and styled to match a Salesforce related list.
- A lower price, and a free way in. $12 per user per month list; a free edition of two grids and two users in production; every sandbox on the full Pro edition with no time limit.
- Release pace. Fifteen documented releases between January and September 2026, including dependent picklist editing, Excel workbook export and spreadsheet import with upsert.
Conga Grid and RavenApps Grids, side by side
| Capability | Conga Grid | RavenApps Grids |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
| Finding and shaping | ||
| Resize and reorder columns | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-column sort | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Row grouping | Partial | No |
| Subtotals and aggregates | Yes | Partial |
| Conditional formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Related data | ||
| Several objects in one grid | Yes | Yes |
| Parent and child expand under a row | Yes | Yes |
| Moving data | ||
| Export | Yes | Yes |
| Import and upsert | Partial | Yes |
| Views and placement | ||
| Named, shareable saved views | Yes | Partial |
| Lightning page embed | Yes | Yes |
| Flow screen component | Not documented | Not documented |
| Experience Cloud | Partial | Yes |
| Mobile | No | Partial |
| 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 | Partial |
| Large lists | Partial | Partial |
| Offline | No | No |
| AI features | No | Partial |
Three years, as the team grows
Grid configuration (Conga Grid View and 15 other packaged custom objects, plus generated Visualforce pages).
Grid configuration (SOQL string plus JSON columns, filters, sorts and summaries stored on Grid custom-object records in the subscriber org).
Visualforce against Lightning Web Components
Both grids run inside your Salesforce org, so data residency does not separate them. The runtime does. Conga Grid is a JavaScript grid inside a Visualforce page — Conga’s documentation has a topic on “Browsers and Kendo limitations” — placed on Lightning pages by wrapper components. RavenApps Grids is a set of Lightning Web Components on Salesforce’s base datatable, with its own cell types layered on top. The difference shows in how each looks beside standard Salesforce, and in how each sits with Lightning pages and Flows. Neither publishes an accessibility conformance report: Conga refers Section 508 requests to Salesforce, and RavenApps publishes nothing on accessibility.
Reading the switching case
RavenApps’ case holds on price and on runtime. What it leaves out is in RavenApps’ own documents: no row grouping, no undo, and no way to paste cells except through the import dialog. Advanced grids are hand-written SOQL and JSON, which two of its reviewers mention, and each conditional-formatting rule is a new formula field on the object.
Conga’s side has published limits too: 1,000 rows per view, 100 rows per paste, grouping on the page on screen, and no support on Salesforce mobile, by its own technical requirements. A team moving from one to the other trades breadth for a native runtime and a lower price, and should list the features its people use before it does.
Rowhouse is a free, open-source grid for Salesforce, with its configuration kept as metadata in your org. See how it compares with both →
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 RavenApps Grids: questions
What does RavenApps say about Conga Grid?
An August 2026 post on its blog argues that teams re-evaluate Conga Grid at renewal over cost against actual use, features they pay for and never switch on, and a runtime that is not native Lightning Web Components, which it says can create friction with Flows. RavenApps also publishes a customer story about a firm that moved off Conga Grid. Conga does not name grid competitors in its own marketing.
Was RavenApps Grids tested for this comparison?
No. RavenApps’ terms bar competitors from accessing the product and from benchmarking it, so every RavenApps value here comes from its listing, user guide, release notes, price page and terms. Conga Grid was not installed or tested either.
Is Conga Grid a Lightning product?
It runs in Lightning Experience, but through a Visualforce page: Conga’s own FAQ says so, and its package adds Lightning components that host that page. RavenApps Grids is built with Lightning Web Components and, its user guide says, on Salesforce’s lightning-datatable component.
What does each cost?
Conga Grid lists at $18 per user per month with a ten-user minimum and a 30-day trial. RavenApps Grids Pro lists at $12, billed yearly; its price page adds 15% for support and maintenance and a ten-user minimum purchase that an FAQ on the same page contradicts. Both prices were read on 7 October 2026.
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.