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Knock vs ToolJet

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Knock and ToolJet — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Knock vs ToolJet: at a glance

FeatureKnockToolJet
SectorInfra & APIsInfra & APIs
Velocity score6.35.0
Sparks · 30d10
Top themesnotifications, developer-infrastructure, rbac, workflow-automationlow-code, component-library, lts-releases, ai-integrations
Last editorial update13h ago21h ago
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What is Knock?

Knock is hardening for enterprise buyers while its agent takes over the analysis work.

Knock ships weekly, in small, legible increments across three lanes: account governance (custom roles, passkeys), workflow primitives (wait-for-event, branch rebasing), and data ingress (Amplitude, Clay). The newest entry adds granular custom roles, which closes the last obvious gap in account-level access control. Alongside that, the in-product agent gained analytics, letting teams interrogate delivery performance without building reports.

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What is ToolJet?

ToolJet's LTS and beta trains both narrow to component polish and CVE patching

ToolJet runs two parallel release trains — a 3.20 LTS line and a 3.21 beta line — and this window is dominated by small fixes on both. The most substantive tag is v3.20.212-lts, which brings dynamic-height support to several widgets, a dynamic number format for Currency Input, mobile camera flip, and AI build notifications. Everything newer than it is single-issue: a table header wrap fix, a gRPC discovery freeze, a stale row-click value.

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Knock vs ToolJet: editorial side-by-side

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Knock
INFRA · APIS
6.3

Knock is hardening for enterprise buyers while its agent takes over the analysis work.

◆ Current state

Knock ships weekly, in small, legible increments across three lanes: account governance (custom roles, passkeys), workflow primitives (wait-for-event, branch rebasing), and data ingress (Amplitude, Clay). The newest entry adds granular custom roles, which closes the last obvious gap in account-level access control. Alongside that, the in-product agent gained analytics, letting teams interrogate delivery performance without building reports.

◆ Where it's heading

Two arcs run in parallel. The infrastructure lane is buying enterprise credibility — roles, passkeys, audit-grade permissions — the checklist items that decide procurement rather than daily use. The data lane keeps widening what can trigger a workflow: product analytics from Amplitude, enriched rows from Clay, internal Slack channels as a destination. Together they push Knock from a notification API toward the messaging control plane, with the agent as the layer that explains what the plane did.

◆ Prediction

Expect the roles work to continue into audit logs or scoped API keys, since granular permissions without an activity trail is an incomplete enterprise story. More data sources are likely on the same cadence, with the CRM and warehouse categories the obvious remaining gaps.

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ToolJet
INFRA · APIS
5.0

ToolJet's LTS and beta trains both narrow to component polish and CVE patching

◆ Current state

ToolJet runs two parallel release trains — a 3.20 LTS line and a 3.21 beta line — and this window is dominated by small fixes on both. The most substantive tag is v3.20.212-lts, which brings dynamic-height support to several widgets, a dynamic number format for Currency Input, mobile camera flip, and AI build notifications. Everything newer than it is single-issue: a table header wrap fix, a gRPC discovery freeze, a stale row-click value.

◆ Where it's heading

The component library is where the work is going — dynamic heights, sizing modes, and overflow handling have appeared across four of the last six releases, which reads as a systematic pass over layout behaviour rather than isolated requests. The AI surface is growing quietly at the edges: build notifications here, an AI credits portal domain change, hardened guards on the AI onboarding API. Cherry-picks in both directions suggest the LTS and beta lines are being kept deliberately close.

◆ Prediction

Expect the dynamic-height and sizing pass to continue across remaining widgets, and the beta line's AI datasource integrations to graduate into the LTS train.

Alternatives to Knock and ToolJet

Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Knock or ToolJet.

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Recent activity from Knock and ToolJet

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 22h agoToolJetTable headers grow in height when set to wrap
  2. 1d agoToolJetFix for gRPC proto discovery freezing the instance
  3. 1d agoKnockCustom roles and permissions
  4. 4d agoToolJetToolJet 3.21.60-beta fixes stale table row-click values
  5. 4d agoToolJet3.20.212-LTS: AI build notifications and more dynamic heights
  6. 6d agoKnockPower internal Slack alerts
  7. 6d agoToolJetToolJet 3.20.211-LTS adds global data source certificates
  8. 7d agoKnockCategory + tag management
  9. 7d agoToolJetToolJet 3.20.210-LTS patches critical and high CVEs
  10. 13d agoKnockAmplitude data source
  11. 20d agoKnockAnalytics in the Knock agent
  12. 21d agoKnockWait for event function

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Knock and ToolJet?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Knock is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Knock better than ToolJet?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Knock is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Knock?

Top Knock alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Knock alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/knock for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to ToolJet?

Top ToolJet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ToolJet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tooljet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.