Infinite Table vs AG Grid

AG Grid is the most established commercial data grid on the market, used across React, Angular, Vue, and plain JavaScript. It has a massive feature surface and a large community. The AG Grid team has been shipping for over a decade and the result is an impressively comprehensive product.

The core difference is not price. It's how each grid relates to React.

AG Grid supports four frameworks from a single codebase. That multi-framework architecture is a genuine strength — it means your organisation can standardise on one grid across Angular, Vue, and React projects. The trade-off is that AG Grid's core is framework-agnostic: state and rendering live inside the grid engine, with a React adapter layer on top. Configuration goes through a gridOptions object, and many operations use imperative API calls like api.setColumnDefs() or api.refreshCells().

Infinite Table is built for React, and that choice shapes the API. Columns, sorting, grouping, and filtering are React props — controlled or uncontrolled, like any React form component. Cell renderers are plain JSX. The grid participates in React's component tree, re-rendering when props change.

Neither approach is wrong. They reflect different design priorities: AG Grid optimises for framework reach and breadth; Infinite Table optimises for feeling native to React.

With AG Grid, updating columns typically goes through the API:

// AG Grid: update columns via the imperative API
const onButtonClick = () => {
  gridRef.current.api.setColumnDefs(newColumnDefs);
  gridRef.current.api.refreshCells({ force: true });
};

With Infinite Table, the same operation is a state change:

// Infinite Table: update columns via React state
const [columns, setColumns] = useState(initialColumns);

const onButtonClick = () => {
  setColumns(newColumns); // grid re-renders automatically
};

<DataSource<T> primaryKey="id" data={dataSource}>
  <InfiniteTable<T> columns={columns} />
</DataSource>

The same value / onChange pattern you use for a React <input> works for the entire grid.

AG Grid covers a huge number of enterprise use cases, and its API reflects that breadth. The GridOptions interface spans hundreds of props across 25+ categories — from row grouping and pivoting to charting, clipboard, and server-side row models. For teams that need that coverage, it's all there.

That breadth naturally comes with complexity. Over a decade of multi-framework development, the API has grown to include multiple ways to configure the same behaviour — for example, overlays can be customised through overlayComponent, or through the older loadingOverlayComponent and noRowsOverlayComponent, or through template strings, all of which still work. Row grouping alone involves roughly 20 grid-level props. These aren't flaws — they're the result of supporting many years of backwards compatibility across four frameworks, and teams that rely on those options are glad they exist.

Infinite Table makes a different trade-off: keep the API surface small and composable.

These are genuinely different philosophies. AG Grid's large surface means there's usually a dedicated prop for any specific requirement. Infinite Table's smaller surface means you compose general-purpose building blocks to get there.

This page is our reading of AG Grid's public docs and pricing as of mid-2026. We want it to stay accurate. If you work on AG Grid — or you've spotted something that's wrong, outdated, or missing context — please tell us. We will update the page.