Comparison table

The main differences between the JSS distributions:

Distributions	CE distribution	Pro distribution
Feature	CE	Base	Premium
License	Free (MIT)	Required	Required
Spreadsheet-like formulas	Yes	Advanced	Advanced
Copy and paste features	Yes	Advanced	Advanced
Lazy loading	Basic	Yes	Advanced*
Compatible with Formula Premium (Requires a special license)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cloud support	No	Yes	Yes
Persistence support	No	Yes	Yes
Plugins support	No	Yes	Yes
Advance filtering and multiple column filtering	No	Yes	Yes
Worksheets management	No	Yes	Yes
Native persistance features	Limited	Yes	Yes
Automatic formula update on copy and paste	No	Yes	Yes
Automatic formula update on corner copy	No	Yes	Yes
Formula returning DOM objects to cells.	No	Yes	Yes
Cell renderer	No	Yes	Yes
Cross worksheet calculations	No	No	Yes
Editor definitions at a cell level	No	Yes	Yes
Native validations	No	No	Yes
Column and row grouping	No	No	Yes
Defined names (Range and variables)	No	No	Yes
Premium extensions	No	No	Yes
Certificate management API	No	No	Yes

More details

Worksheet management

This includes events and actions such as drag-and-drop, deleting or renaming a worksheet, adding a new worksheet button and the context menu.

Persistence support

The native persistence features include the internal row id, internal sequences, update row id, saving methods, and persistence plugin integration.

Advanced lazyloading

Better DOM management is offered with pagination and lazy loading in the PRO distributions, creating and showing the DOM elements only when needed. From version 8, the lazyloading is based on the viewport and extends the virtual DOM management to the columns.

Definitions at a cell level

The Pro distribution allows the developer to define configurations at a cell level, such as masking and format, type, among the other properties available.

Premium extensions

The list of premium extensions is available here.