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A MUI X alternative, in one edition.
Last updated 30 August 2026
MUI X moved to per-developer and per-application licensing in 2026, and the grid a team actually needs usually sits in the tier above the one they priced. Lattice Grid is one edition, licensed once per domain, with the developer count and the tier chart left out of it.
MUI X Premium, per developer
$11,760/yr
MUI X Premium is around $588 per developer per year, the tier that includes aggregation, pivoting and Excel export. Pro is around $180 but does not. Figures per mui.com, 30 August 2026; verify before relying on them.
lattice grid, per domain
$1,000
Charged once per domain the grid is served from. Unlimited developers, contractors and build agents. Updates included for the term.
The tier problem
MUI X Pro, at roughly $180 per developer per year, does not include aggregation, pivoting or Excel export. Those are Premium, at roughly $588 per developer per year. So the common path is to cost the grid at Pro, start building, hit the first request for a pivot or a grouped total, and discover the real price is more than three times the estimate, multiplied by every seat. Lattice Grid includes all three in the single edition. There is no tier above the one you are on, because there is only one.
Framework lock-in
MUI X is a React component. A team on Vue, Angular, Svelte or plain HTML cannot use it, and a team that later adopts a second framework cannot share the grid across both. Lattice Grid is vanilla JavaScript with no runtime dependencies: it mounts on an element, has adapters for React, Vue and Svelte, and ships a web component and an htmx integration for the no-build and server-rendered cases. The same grid and the same API run whatever the page is built with.
Where the grids line up
| Capability | MUI X | Lattice Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Licence unit | Per developer, per tier | Per domain |
| Aggregation and totals | Premium | Included |
| Pivoting | Premium | Included |
| Excel export | Premium | Included, no extra dependency |
| Tree data and grouping | Pro | Included |
| Master / detail | Pro | Included |
| Framework | React only | Vanilla, adapters for React, Vue, Svelte |
| Material UI integration | Native, if you are on Material | Not a Material component |
| Free tier | Community (MIT), capable | Free on localhost, watermarked |
Tier placement is per mui.com documentation on 30 August 2026; re-verify before relying on it.
Features MUI X has no column for
| Capability | MUI X | Lattice Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation mode | None | Scale to a room, saved views as slides, still live |
| Redaction and annotations | None | Mask a column, or draw over the grid, for a screen share |
| Statistics layer | None | Median, p95, deviation and a column profile over filtered rows |
| Charts from grid rows | Separate MUI X Charts | 35 types, drawn from the grid's own filtered rows |
| Unit types | None | IP as 32-bit, durations, unit families, hex, JSON as columns |
What we are not saying
If your application is already built on Material UI, MUI X is native to it: the theme, the components and the look are shared, and your integration cost is close to zero while ours is not. That is a real advantage and, for a Material app that never needs a second framework and stays inside the Pro feature set, it may settle the question on its own. The case here is for the team paying Premium per seat, or the team that cannot use a React-only grid at all.
Common questions
Why would I move from MUI X to Lattice Grid?
Two reasons, both structural. The features most teams reach for, aggregation, pivoting and Excel export, are in MUI X's Premium tier rather than Pro, so the price you costed is usually not the price you pay. And MUI X is React-only, so a team on Vue or Angular cannot use it at all. Lattice Grid ships one edition with all of those included, licensed per domain, and runs anywhere.
Is Lattice Grid a drop-in replacement for the MUI X Data Grid?
No. It is a separate grid with its own API, not a Material UI component, so moving means rewriting the grid layer rather than swapping a prop. It mounts on a plain element and has a React adapter, but it does not inherit the Material theme, and if your app is built entirely around Material UI that integration cost is real and worth weighing.
What does Lattice Grid cost against MUI X?
MUI X Pro is around $180 per developer per year and Premium around $588, both per seat. Lattice Grid is $1,000 for a named domain or $10,000 for a wildcard, once, with unlimited developers. A team of any size on one domain pays the same $1,000.
Does Lattice Grid include pivoting and aggregation?
Yes, in the single edition, along with row grouping, tree data, master-detail and Excel export. There is no Pro or Premium split; a licence removes the trial watermark rather than unlocking a tier.
Build the screen you need on localhost for free, then license the domain you ship on.
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