Salesforce Is Retiring Quip: What Changes and When
Salesforce announced in March 2026 that all Quip products are being retired — Quip Starter, Quip Plus, and Quip Advanced. Subscriptions cannot be renewed after March 1, 2027, and new paid, free, and trial accounts stopped being sold to non-customers on February 17, 2026. Salesforce is pointing existing use cases toward Slack canvases and Agentforce, and has said Quip instances stay fully functional until the end of each subscription term.
That last point matters more than the headline date. Your practical deadline is when your own contract expires, not March 2027. Two companies on the same product can have very different windows.
Content is not migrated for you. Exporting before read-only mode begins is the only step with a hard deadline attached.
Verify the dates against the primary source before planning around them: Salesforce publishes a Quip Retirement knowledge article in Salesforce Help, and the Quip pricing page still lists live plan tiers. Check the numbers yourself rather than take ours.
If you are mapping options now, get started with Taskade free — the import path below takes the same files Quip hands you on the way out.
Taskade vs Quip at a Glance
| Feature | Taskade | Quip |
|---|---|---|
| Product status | Actively developed | Retiring — no renewals after March 1, 2027 |
| Pricing | Free Forever; Pro $10/mo billed annually, 10 seats | $10-100 per user per month |
| AI App Building | Taskade Genesis turns prompts into deployed apps | None |
| AI Agents | Agents v2 with a large built-in toolkit, persistent memory | None |
| Project Views | 9 (List, Board, Table, Mind Map inline; Docs (Beta), Gantt Chart, Calendar, Actionsheet, Org Chart under More Views) | Document view |
| Templates | 500+ AI-enhanced templates | Document templates |
| Collaboration | Real-time multiplayer, chat, video, screen share | Doc collaboration, chat rooms |
| Standalone | Works without any other subscription | Salesforce-focused; CRM sync on Advanced only |
| Integrations | 100+ bidirectional (including Salesforce) | Salesforce-native, limited elsewhere |
| Permissions | 7-tier role-based access | Basic sharing |
| Best For | Teams shipping docs, knowledge, and apps together | Salesforce-centric doc collaboration, through end of term |
How to Move From Quip to Taskade
Every file format Quip exports is a format Taskade imports. That is the whole migration in one sentence — there is no converter to buy and no intermediate tool in the middle.
Quip exports documents as .docx, spreadsheets and embedded sheets as .xlsx, and slide decks as .pdf. Taskade's Import with AI accepts .pdf, .docx, .txt, .md, .pptx, .xlsx, .xls, .epub, and .csv, then structures each file into a working project rather than dropping it in as a flat blob.
| Quip content | Export as | Taskade path |
|---|---|---|
| Document | .docx |
Import with AI |
| Spreadsheet or embedded sheet | .xlsx |
Import with AI or Import CSV |
| Slide deck | .pdf |
Import with AI |
| Long reference doc | .pdf |
Summarize with AI into an outline |
| Chat threads | copy/paste | Paste into a project, or Import Markdown |
Quip has no one-click bulk export for a whole company. Documents come out one at a time from the UI, or in volume through Quip's developer APIs, which carry a per-company rate limit. Plan two quarters if your library is large: inventory what is still load-bearing, test an export of the most formula-heavy documents, import a pilot set, then freeze new Quip work so the target stops moving. Small teams often finish in an afternoon, because the formats already match.
The step Quip never had is the one after import. Once a document is a Taskade project, it can be viewed as a Board or a Gantt chart, handed to an AI agent that reasons over it, wired into automations, or published as a live app. A deadline becomes an upgrade.
See the Alternative Working
These are real applications, running now. No signup, no credit card, and each one clones into your own workspace.
- Live AI knowledge base demo → — searchable team docs with an AI assistant that cites its sources. This is the closest single replacement for a Quip doc library.
- Live client portal demo → — per-client sign-in, deliverables, billing status, and an agent that drafts weekly status updates.
- Live sales pipeline demo → — a Kanban deal board with an AI deal-scoring agent and automated follow-ups, for teams whose Quip docs lived next to CRM records.
More are in the Community Gallery, where every app is cloneable.
What Is Taskade?
Taskade is an AI-native productivity and collaboration platform founded by John Xie, Dionis Loire, and Stan Chang in 2017. The Y Combinator-backed company unifies documents, projects, AI agents, and automations in a single workspace: you write collaborative docs, build hierarchical project plans, run AI agents that act on your content, automate workflows across 100+ integrations, and turn an idea into a deployed Taskade Genesis app without leaving the tab.
New teams usually start from the collection of 500+ templates, or open a blank workspace and let an AI agent draft the first pass.
What Is Taskade AI?
Taskade AI runs on 15+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-weight providers. Routing is automatic by plan tier, so no API keys are wired by hand.
- AI Agents v2 — Custom AI teammates with a large built-in toolkit, persistent memory, and the option to embed publicly inside Taskade Genesis apps.
- AI Generators — Turn a brief into a structured project, mind map, or flowchart.
- AI Chat — Talk to your docs. Summarize meeting notes. Draft the next step.
- Taskade EVE — The assistant built into every project as
/assistant. - Taskade Genesis — Turn a prompt into a deployed app with a database, agents, and automations attached.
Browse the full list of AI-powered features.
The Workspace DNA Advantage
Quip is document collaboration with a CRM attached. Taskade runs on Workspace DNA, a self-reinforcing loop that connects what you write to what happens next.
- Memory (Projects) — Your docs, tables, files, and structured data become the substrate every agent reasons over.
- Intelligence (Agents) — Custom AI agents with persistent memory and a large built-in toolkit live inside the workspace as first-class teammates.
- Execution (Automations) — Durable workflows triggered by external events (Slack, Gmail, Stripe, Salesforce, GitHub, webhooks) read from Memory, act through Intelligence, then write results back. The loop closes.
Read the full architecture in How Workspace DNA Works.
Key Features of Taskade
- Project Views — Nine views: List, Board, Table, and Mind Map as inline tabs, plus Docs (Beta), Gantt Chart, Calendar, Actionsheet, and Org Chart under More Views. The Timeline scrolling component lives inside the Gantt Chart view.
- Real-time Communication — Chat, video, and screen share on every project.
- 500+ Templates — Across 26 categories.
- User Roles & Permissions — 7-tier role-based access: Owner, Maintainer, Editor, Commenter, Collaborator, Participant, Viewer.
- Search — Full-text plus semantic search across every project.
- Team Calendar — Two-way Google, Apple, and Outlook sync.
- Version History — Restore any earlier snapshot in one click.
- Salesforce Integration — Create records, run SOQL queries, and update objects from automations or directly from an AI agent's chat.
See the full list of Taskade features.
Quip Pricing vs Taskade Pricing in 2026
The structural difference is per-seat versus per-plan. Quip charges per user at every tier. Taskade Pro is a flat monthly price that already includes 10 seats.
| Plan | Quip | Taskade |
|---|---|---|
| Free | None — new free accounts closed February 2026 | Free Forever — 1 seat, unlimited projects |
| Entry paid | Starter, $10 per user per month billed annually ($12 monthly) | Pro, $10/month billed annually ($120/yr) — 10 seats included |
| Mid tier | Plus, $25 per user per month billed annually — adds SSO and enterprise API | Business, $25/month billed annually ($300/yr) — unlimited seats, SSO |
| Top tier | Advanced, $100 per user per month billed annually — adds 2-way Salesforce sync | Max, $100/month billed annually ($1,200/yr); Enterprise $250/month billed annually ($3,000/yr) |
Run the arithmetic on a ten-person team. Quip Starter at $10 per user per month is $1,200 a year. Taskade Pro is $120 a year total, because the 10 seats are in the plan. On the tier where Quip's live Salesforce sync lives — Advanced, $100 per user per month — the same ten people cost $12,000 a year.
Taskade monthly billing is Pro $20, Business $50, Max $200, Enterprise $500; annual billing is a flat 50% less across every tier. Current numbers live on the pricing page.
What Is Quip?
Quip is a collaborative productivity tool founded by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs in 2012. Salesforce acquired it for $750M in 2016 and folded it into the CRM.
Quip at a glance: Founded 2012 by Bret Taylor, later CTO of Facebook and co-CEO of Salesforce. Acquired by Salesforce in 2016 for $750M. Strongest at collaborative documents with embedded spreadsheets, especially for Salesforce-native teams. Retirement announced March 2026.
Quip's signature idea was the living document: a doc, a spreadsheet, and a chat thread in one surface rather than three tabs. It was mobile-first before that was standard, and offline editing worked genuinely well.
What Quip Does Well
- Documents: Collaborative docs with offline editing, permissions, and version history.
- Embedded spreadsheets: Real spreadsheets living inside a document, not linked from it — the format Quip arguably did better than anyone.
- Inline chat: Comment threads on documents plus 1-on-1 and team chat rooms.
- Live Salesforce data: On the Advanced tier, two-way sync means an account plan reads and writes actual CRM records.
Where Quip Stops
- No AI agents, and no app generation
- No built-in video calls
- No Board, Calendar, Mind Map, Gantt, or Org Chart views
- Salesforce record sync is gated to the $100-per-user Advanced tier
- No native bulk export — documents come out individually or via a rate-limited API
- The product is retiring, so new work built in Quip has a fixed shelf life
Choose Quip If…
There are real reasons to finish your term on Quip rather than move today.
- Your documents are bound to live CRM records. Quip Advanced's two-way Salesforce sync puts real Salesforce data inside an editable document. If your account plans and QBR docs update themselves from the CRM, nothing replaces that as a like-for-like swap — you would rebuild it as an integration rather than inherit it.
- The doc-plus-spreadsheet-plus-chat format is exactly your workflow. Quip's embedded spreadsheets and inline chat threads are a genuinely good design. Teams that live in that single surface should not pretend otherwise.
- You have subscription runway and no forcing function yet. Salesforce has confirmed instances stay fully functional through the end of the term. If yours runs well into 2027, a considered migration beats a rushed one. Export early, decide calmly.
Quip's retirement is a deadline, not an emergency. The mistake is not moving late — it is discovering the read-only window with nothing exported.
Why Teams Choose Taskade
Taskade covers the collaborative documents, tables, and team chat Quip is known for, then adds the layer Quip never had. AI agents with a large built-in toolkit reason over your content, automations execute across 100+ bidirectional integrations, and Taskade Genesis publishes any of it as a deployed app with a custom domain. Pricing is per plan rather than per user, so a 10-person team pays $120 a year instead of $1,200. And it is actively developed, which for anyone leaving Quip is not a small consideration.
| Capability | Quip | Taskade |
|---|---|---|
| Product roadmap | Retiring | Actively shipping |
| Free tier | Closed to new accounts | Free Forever, 1 seat with public link sharing |
| AI agents | None | Built-in toolkit, persistent memory |
| Automations | Limited to spreadsheet formulas | Durable workflows, 100+ integrations |
| Deployed apps | None | Taskade Genesis, custom domains, app sign-in |
| Views | Document | 9 project views |
| Salesforce | Native on Advanced ($100/user/mo) | Integration on any paid plan |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Quip being discontinued?
Yes. Salesforce announced in March 2026 that all Quip products are being retired — Starter, Plus, and Advanced. Subscriptions cannot be renewed after March 1, 2027, and new paid, free, and trial accounts stopped being available to non-customers on February 17, 2026. Existing instances keep working until the subscription term ends.
What happens to my Quip documents after the retirement date?
Once a subscription ends, the instance moves through a staged shutdown: roughly 90 days of read-only access where documents can be viewed but not edited, then a period with logins blocked, then permanent data deletion. Content is not migrated automatically. Exporting before read-only mode begins is the only step with a hard deadline.
What is the best free Quip alternative in 2026?
Taskade is the closest free replacement for teams that used Quip for collaborative documents, embedded spreadsheets, and inline chat. Free Forever covers one seat with unlimited projects and public link sharing, imports the files Quip exports, and adds AI agents, basic project views, real-time chat and video, and 100+ bidirectional integrations. All 9 project views come with any paid plan.
Which Quip alternatives do teams compare most often?
Notion, Coda, Confluence, Google Docs, Microsoft Loop, and Taskade. Notion and Confluence lead on wiki structure, Coda on doc-shaped databases, and Google Docs on universal familiarity. Taskade is the option that adds AI agents, automations, and deployed app generation on top of the doc layer.
Can I import my Quip documents and spreadsheets into Taskade?
Yes. Quip exports documents as .docx, spreadsheets as .xlsx, and slide decks as .pdf. Taskade imports .pdf, .docx, .txt, .md, .pptx, .xlsx, .xls, .epub, and .csv. Every format Quip can export is a format Taskade can import — see Import with AI.
How much does Quip cost compared to Taskade?
Quip is per user: Starter $10, Plus $25, and Advanced $100 per user per month billed annually. Taskade is Free Forever for one seat with unlimited projects, and Pro is $10 per month billed annually with 10 seats included. A ten-person team pays $120 a year on Taskade Pro versus $1,200 on Quip Starter.
Does Taskade work without a Salesforce subscription?
Yes. Taskade is a standalone AI-native workspace with no Salesforce dependency. Teams that do use Salesforce can connect it as one of 100+ integrations, where automations and AI agents create records, run SOQL queries, and update objects from inside a project. See the Salesforce integration guide.
Can my team chat and video call inside a Taskade document?
Yes. Every Taskade project has built-in chat, video, and screen share attached to the document itself. Quip has comment threads and chat rooms but no built-in video. Permissions use a 7-tier role-based access model: Owner, Maintainer, Editor, Commenter, Collaborator, Participant, Viewer.
Which AI models does Taskade use?
Taskade routes work across 15+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-weight providers. Routing is automatic by plan tier, so no API keys are wired by hand and no model has to be picked per task.
Can I build apps in Taskade, not just documents?
Yes. Taskade Genesis turns a single prompt into a deployed application with a database, AI agents, and automations attached. Custom domains, password protection, and built-in email-and-password app sign-in are included. Quip stayed at the document and spreadsheet layer.
Taskade vs Quip: The Short Version
Quip was a good product with a fixed end date. For a team deep in Salesforce with documents bound to live CRM records, finishing the subscription term is reasonable — the export has a deadline, the decision does not. For everyone else the migration is an opportunity: the same documents land in a workspace with 9 views, AI agents that act on the content, automations across 100+ integrations, and the option to publish any of it as a live app.
Create your first Taskade Genesis app from a single prompt, or clone one from the Community Gallery first.