# Migrating from Kendo UI Grid (Telerik) Kendo UI Grid is the polished, commercial enterprise grid from Telerik / Progress, available for jQuery, React, Vue, and Angular. Moving to SvGrid trades the multi-framework commercial suite for a Svelte-5-native grid with an MIT core - and a much cheaper paid tier. > Estimated effort: **3-6 hours** per grid - column / event translation > plus re-theming. > > Kendo's exact API differs across its jQuery / React / Vue / Angular > flavours; map your version's column and event names onto the SvGrid > equivalents below. > **Facts, checked 12 Sep 2026.** `@progress/kendo-react-grid` 16.1.0, Commercial (see licence file), last published 8 Sep 2026, 385,000 npm downloads in the 30 days to 10 Sep 2026. `@svgrid/grid` 3.0.3, MIT, last published 11 Sep 2026, 16,900 npm downloads in the same window. Bundle, minified and gzipped, each package built alone with Svelte external: SvGrid 3.0.27 99.7 KB JS + 11.3 KB CSS (measured 28 Oct 2026). Kendo UI Grid pricing, as its site states it: telerik.com lists the Kendo UI bundle at $799, $849 or $1,299 per developer per year depending on the support tier, and KendoReact alone from $649 per developer per year; no free tier for the grid (https://www.telerik.com/purchase.aspx, read 12 Sep 2026). SvGrid: MIT core; @svgrid/enterprise from $299 per developer per year (Indie, under $1M revenue), $599 for Enterprise. Side by side, with sources: [SvGrid vs Kendo UI Grid (Telerik)](https://svgrid.com/compare/kendo-ui-grid/). ## Concept map | Kendo UI Grid | sv-grid | | ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | | `columns: [{ field, title }]` | `columns: [{ field, header }]` | | `template` / cell render | `cell: (c) => renderSnippet(...)` | | `editable` + editor | `enableInlineEditing` + `editorType` | | `sortable` / `filterable` | `rowSortingFeature` / `columnFilteringFeature` | | `group` / aggregates | `columnGroupingFeature` + `api.setGroupBy()` | | `dataSource` (local / remote) | `data` array or `externalSort/Filter` | | `pageable` | `showPagination` | | Kendo themes (Default / Bootstrap) | `--sg-*` tokens / Tailwind | | Grid events (`change`, `dataBound`) | `onCellValueChange`, `onApiReady`, ... | ## Shape of the change The example at the end of this page runs against these rows: ```svelte ``` ```diff - $('#grid').kendoGrid({ - dataSource: { data: rows, pageSize: 25 }, - sortable: true, filterable: true, pageable: true, editable: true, - columns: [ - { field: 'name', title: 'Name' }, - { field: 'amount', title: 'Amount', format: '{0:c}' }, - ], - }) + ``` ## Why teams switch - **Svelte 5 native** instead of a jQuery / multi-framework suite. - **MIT community core** - no per-developer license for the grid itself. - **Paid support at a fraction of enterprise-suite pricing.** - **No design-system lock-in** - theme via `--sg-*` tokens. ## What to weigh - Kendo bundles a **huge component suite** (charts, scheduler, editor) and decades of vendor support. If you need the whole suite across several frameworks, that has real value. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is SvGrid a cheaper alternative to Kendo UI Grid? For a Svelte stack, yes: the `@svgrid/grid` core is MIT (free, including commercial use), and the paid `@svgrid/enterprise` tier is a fraction of enterprise component-suite pricing. ### How long does a Kendo Grid migration take? About 3-6 hours per grid. It is a column / event rename pass plus re-theming; the columns and editing concepts map closely. ### Does SvGrid match Kendo's feature set? For the grid itself it covers the common enterprise surface - sorting, Excel-style filters, grouping, virtualization, editing, master/detail, tree. Kendo's value beyond that is the wider suite and multi-framework parity. ## What you end up with Sorting, filtering, grouping and editing, with the column menu Kendo users expect. ```svelte ``` ## See also - [SvGrid vs Kendo UI Grid](https://svgrid.com/compare/kendo-ui-grid/) - the side-by-side comparison - [Pricing](https://svgrid.com/pricing/) - the SvGrid Enterprise tiers - [Architecture](https://svgrid.com/docs/help/architecture/) - engine + render-component split --- SvGrid is the Svelte 5 data grid (`npm install @svgrid/grid`, MIT). This page: https://svgrid.com/docs/help/migrating-from-kendo-grid/ . All docs: https://svgrid.com/llms.txt