vsag grid.
A full enterprise grid vs a Svelte-native headless table toolkit
at a glance.
AG Grid is a complete, styled data-grid platform with community and paid Enterprise features, including pivoting, master/detail, range selection, charts, and a server-side row model. It has no first-party Svelte adapter; Svelte applications can mount the JavaScript grid directly or use an outdated community wrapper. @humanspeak/svelte-headless-table is a first-party Svelte 5 headless toolkit for applications that want to own the markup and do not need spreadsheet-grade enterprise features.
side-by-side.
Every surface that matters, compared without spin.
| feature | @humanspeak/svelte-headless-table | AG Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Svelte 5 Native `ag-grid-svelte@0.3.0` is an unofficial wrapper declaring `svelte: ^3` and `ag-grid-community: ^28 || ^29 || ^30`; current `ag-grid-community` is v36.1.0. Direct JavaScript mounting remains possible. | yes | no |
| First-Party Svelte Support | yes | no |
| TypeScript Support | yes | yes |
| Headless Rendering | yes | no |
| Sorting | yes | yes |
| Column Filters | yes | Set / number / date filters |
| Pagination | yes | yes |
| Group By | addGroupBy plugin | Row + value grouping (Enterprise) |
| Pivot Tables | no | Enterprise only |
| Tree Data / Sub-Rows | yes | Enterprise only |
| Master / Detail | no | Enterprise only |
| Row Selection | yes | yes |
| Column Resizing | yes | yes |
| Column Reordering | yes | yes |
| Virtual Scroll | addVirtualScroll plugin | First-class row virtualisation |
| Server-Side Row Model | BYO — store handles fetch | Enterprise only |
| Range / Cell Selection | no | Enterprise only |
| Licence | MIT | Community MIT, Enterprise commercial |
| GitHub Stars | Smaller community | ~15k |
where each shines.
- +First-party Svelte 5 support via the package peer dependency — no community wrapper required
- +Application owns semantic table markup and can use any design system
- +Every shipped plugin is MIT; grouping and hierarchical rows are not paid features
- +Smaller conceptual and bundle surface for conventional application tables
- +Industry-leading feature set — pivot, master/detail, range selection, integrated charts
- +Server-Side Row Model handles infinite / large datasets through the framework, not the app
- +Enterprise support contracts available with SLAs
- +Battle-tested in financial, analytics, and BI dashboards at very large scale
where each falls short.
- −You build all table markup, controls, and styling
- −Far smaller ecosystem and less evidence from very large production datasets
- −No pivot tables, range selection, or master/detail out of the box
- −No managed server-side row model — you wire data fetching yourself
- −No first-party Svelte integration; the unofficial wrapper targets Svelte 3 and AG Grid v28–30 while the current core is v36
- −Pivot, tree data, master/detail, and server-side row model are gated behind the paid Enterprise licence
- −More package and API surface than conventional tables need
- −Markup and theming are controlled through AG Grid APIs rather than application-owned table elements
the honest call.
Choose AG Grid when the grid is a major product surface and you need pivoting, master/detail, range selection, managed server-side data, enterprise support, or its mature ecosystem. Choose @humanspeak/svelte-headless-table for a Svelte 5 application table when first-party Svelte integration, application-owned markup, a smaller surface, and MIT grouping or hierarchical-row features matter more than enterprise-grid breadth. AG Grid Community is also MIT; licensing only differentiates features that AG Grid reserves for Enterprise.
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