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Ignite UI gives Blazor developers two data grids. Grid Lite is free, open source and MIT-licensed: sorting, filtering, column resizing and theming in a lightweight package you can ship commercially today. The Ignite UI for Blazor Data Grid (IgbGrid) is the commercial grid for editing, grouping, summaries, Excel export, tree and hierarchical data, and datasets past a million rows. Both run on Blazor Web App, WebAssembly and .NET MAUI Blazor on .NET 8, 9 and 10.
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Does Infragistics have a free, open-source Blazor grid? Yes. Ignite UI for Blazor Grid Lite is MIT-licensed, free for commercial use, and installs with dotnet add package IgniteUI.Blazor.GridLite. Source, license and demo app are on GitHub. For built-in editing, grouping, export and hierarchy, use the commercial grid.
| Capability | Grid LiteFree, MIT | Enterprise Data GridIgbGrid, commercial |
|---|---|---|
| Package and license | ||
| NuGet package | IgniteUI.Blazor.GridLite | IgniteUI.Blazor |
| Component | <IgbGridLite> | <IgbGrid> |
| License | MIT, commercial use permitted | Per-developer subscription, 30-day trial |
| Grid features | ||
| Sorting, filtering, column resize and hide | Yes | Yes |
| Row virtualization | Yes | Yes, plus column virtualization |
| Cell and row editing with validation | No | Yes |
| Group by, summaries, paging | No | Yes |
| Excel-style and advanced filtering | No | Yes |
| Excel export, clipboard | No | Yes |
| Tree grid, hierarchical grid, pivot grid | No | Yes |
| Remote data operations (paging, sorting, filtering on the server) | Custom implementation via component hooks | Custom implementation via component hooks |
| Themes and support | ||
| Themes | Material, Bootstrap, Fluent, Indigo, light and dark | Same, plus Theming MCP |
| Support | GitHub issues, Discord, Stack Overflow | 24x5 engineering support, SLA |
Links: Grid Lite overview · Grid Lite on GitHub · NuGet · Enterprise grid docs
Live Samples
Stock levels, reorder points and supplier detail across 250K rows.
Org hierarchy with expandable reporting lines, pinned columns and export.
Asset tracking and profit-and-loss analysis with interactive dynamic charts.
Vehicle records with master-detail rows, status filters and dark theming.
Compatibility
| Environment | Grid Lite | Enterprise grid |
|---|---|---|
| Environment | ||
| Blazor Web App (Interactive Auto) | Yes | Yes |
| .NET versions | 8, 9, 10 | 8, 9, 10 |
| Blazor WebAssembly | Yes | Yes |
| .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid | Yes | Yes |
| Rendering | Blazor wrapper around the Ignite UI web component via JS interop | Blazor wrapper around Ignite UI web components via JS interop |
Documentation
Jump straight to the docs for the most common grid tasks.
Performance
Does IgbGrid virtualize rows and columns? Yes. IgbGrid renders only the rows and columns in the viewport, so DOM size stays constant as the dataset grows.
As you scroll, the grid reuses a fixed set of row and column elements and swaps the data into them, instead of adding new elements for every record.
Virtualization documentationCompetitive Comparison
IgbGrid competes with Progress Telerik UI for Blazor Grid, DevExpress Blazor Grid (DxGrid), Syncfusion Blazor DataGrid, and the open-source Radzen and MudBlazor grids. All four commercial grids virtualize rows and columns, edit, group and export; the differences are hierarchy patterns, suite breadth, licensing and AI tooling.
| Capability | Ignite UIIgbGrid | ProgressTelerik UI for Blazor Grid | DevExpressDxGrid | SyncfusionBlazor DataGrid | RadzenOpen source | MudBlazorOpen source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid features | ||||||
| Row + column virtualization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Row only | Row only |
| Cell / row editing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Grouping + summaries | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tree grid | Yes | Yes | Yes (TreeList) | Yes | Yes | No |
| Hierarchical / master-detail | Dedicated component | Template-based hierarchy | Nested detail levels | Master-detail template | Master-detail template | No |
| Excel export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Accessibility and licensing | ||||||
| WCAG conformance | 2.1 AA | 2.2 documented | Documented | 2.2 documented | Partial | Partial |
| Free MIT tier | Grid Lite | No | No | Community license, revenue-capped | MIT | MIT |
| Tooling | ||||||
| MCP / agent skills | Theming MCP, CLI MCP, Agent Skills | MCP + Agentic UI Generator, subscription | MCP + skills, free | MCP + skills | No | No |
Sources: Progress, DevExpress, Syncfusion, Radzen, MudBlazor
For full methodology and per-vendor notes, read The Best Blazor Grid in 2026: Top 10 Comparison.
Install
One command adds IgniteUI.Blazor.Lite and IgniteUI.Blazor.GridLite to an existing Blazor project, with the bootstrapping and theming setup done for you.
dotnet scaffold aspnet blazor-igniteui --project ./MyBlazorApp/MyBlazorApp.csprojReplace the path with your project's .csproj file.
Grid Lite getting started docsRequires the licensed NuGet feed or a 30-day trial. Setup differs by project type (Blazor Web App, WebAssembly or .NET MAUI), so follow the guide for yours.
AI coding assistants are only as good as the context they have. Ignite UI's MCP toolchain gives GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI agents live, accurate access to your Blazor component APIs, eliminating hallucinated props, wrong imports, and broken scaffolds.
Give your AI the power to scaffold, configure, and extend your Ignite UI project from the command line. The Ignite UI CLI MCP Server turns natural language prompts into CLI commands, letting agents create components, modules, and project structures that follow enterprise architecture conventions.
Purpose-built instructions that give AI coding assistants the exact component knowledge they need: correct props, import paths, and usage patterns, so agents generate accurate Ignite UI code on the first pass. No prompt engineering required. Works with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, JetBrains AI, and Windsurf out of the box.
Go from a natural language prompt to a production-ready component scaffold in seconds. Ignite UI scaffolding respects your project structure, framework conventions, and design system, so what AI generates is what your team ships, not a starting point for an hour of cleanup.
Ask in plain language. The CLI and MCP server resolve it against live, versioned component APIs, and what lands in your project compiles and matches your design system.
You describe it
In plain language
“Add a claims review screen — filterable table, monthly trend, and Excel export.”IgbGridIgbCategoryChartexcel-export
Works from Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, JetBrains AI or Windsurf — no special syntax.
MCP grounds it
Against live component APIs
typed4 filesWCAG AA0 fixesIt lands in your project
Themed, accessible, compiling
Open claims
3,418
4.1%
Value
$8.6M
2.4%
Resolved
97.2%
1.2 pts
| Claimant | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Halvorsen Group | $18,240 | Resolved |
| Redwood Mutual | $9,115 | In review |
Refine the prompt and the same loop runs again — only the affected parts change.
Questions and Answers for the Ignite UI for Blazor Data Grid
Ignite UI for Blazor Grid Lite is MIT-licensed and free for commercial use: install IgniteUI.Blazor.GridLite from NuGet; source and license are on GitHub. Radzen Blazor and MudBlazor also ship MIT-licensed data grids.
Sorting, filtering, column resizing and hiding, row virtualization, keyboard navigation and four themes. It does not include editing, grouping, paging, advanced filtering or export.
Ignite UI for Blazor does: start with MIT-licensed Grid Lite (IgbGridLite) and move to the commercial IgbGrid when you need editing, grouping, export or hierarchical data. Both share the same themes and run on the same Blazor render modes.
QuickGrid has no JavaScript dependency and covers sorting, paging and virtualization. Evaluate whether you need built-in editing with validation, grouping and summaries, Excel-style filtering, export, or tree and hierarchical data; those are where a commercial grid such as IgbGrid fits. Grid Lite sits between them as a free option with filtering and themes.
When you need editing with validation, grouping and summaries, Excel-style filtering, export, tree grids or hierarchical grids.
Free: IgniteUI.Blazor.GridLite and <IgbGridLite>. Commercial: IgniteUI.Blazor and <IgbGrid>. <IgbDataGrid> is deprecated.
Ignite UI for Blazor supports Agent Skills, the Ignite UI CLI MCP and the Ignite UI Theming MCP in GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and JetBrains AI Assistant. Progress Telerik, DevExpress and Syncfusion also publish Blazor MCP servers.
Both grids are supported in all three. The grid renders through web components via JS interop; in Blazor Web App, custom server-side data operations built on the grid’s hooks keep large datasets off the client.
Neither grid does this out of the box. Both Grid Lite and IgbGrid expose component hooks you use to run paging, sorting and filtering on the server; see Remote data operations for the EF Core, OData and REST samples.
Grid Lite is free outright under MIT. The enterprise grid has a 30-day trial with no credit card.
Resources
Every grid feature carries the same set of resources, so you are never more than two clicks from working Blazor code.
Install the NuGet package and every grid, chart, layout and input control is available to your project. The Ignite UI CLI and MCP server can do the same steps from a prompt if your team works with an AI assistant.
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