Quip in 2026: what's deprecated and where to go

2026-05-24·9 min readquipmigration

By Sankalp Agarwal · Founder, Anchorify

Salesforce has not issued a formal end-of-life announcement for Quip. As of May 2026, the service is operational, the pricing page still shows three tiers, and you can still buy a new Quip Starter subscription today. So: what does "quip deprecation" actually mean, and should you be planning a migration?

The honest answer depends on which kind of Quip customer you are. For Salesforce enterprise sales teams using Quip Advanced, nothing has changed. For standalone Quip Starter customers (small teams, consultants, companies that picked Quip as a general-purpose doc tool) the product has effectively moved away from you. Quip's blog has been silent since August 2022. The homepage now reads "Quip helps sales teams accelerate business in real-time." The Starter plan is explicitly blocked from Salesforce integration. This is what a slow sunset looks like before the formal announcement arrives.

What Salesforce has actually said about Quip's deprecation

Salesforce has not published a deprecation date for Quip, but the product's trajectory since 2022 makes the direction clear. The service remains operational: the Quip status page showed all systems green as of May 2026, and all three pricing tiers are still sold at quip.com/pricing.

What has changed is everything around the product. The Quip blog published its last post in August 2022: four years without a feature announcement, product update, or changelog entry. The homepage repositioned from a general team-productivity tool to "Salesforce's productivity platform that transforms the way enterprises work together." The pricing page added an explicit constraint that defines the new perimeter: "Starter cannot be purchased or combined with Quip for Salesforce."

The absence of a press release is not reassurance. It means the product is being wound down quietly rather than officially. For Starter customers, the practical result is the same: a plan that receives no new investment, has no upgrade path to Salesforce features, and whose roadmap ran out years ago.

Two kinds of Quip customers, two different situations

Your migration urgency depends almost entirely on whether you're a standalone Quip Starter customer or using Quip through a Salesforce license. These are different products with different futures.

Quip Starter ($10/user/month) was the original Quip: a lightweight, real-time document collaboration tool for teams that didn't use Salesforce. It attracted small businesses, solo consultants, agencies, and non-profits that wanted a cleaner alternative to Google Docs or a lighter-weight alternative to Confluence. These users are now on a plan that the pricing page explicitly separates from the Salesforce ecosystem. The product still works, but the roadmap ended. There is no upgrade path that doesn't involve buying a Salesforce license.

Quip Plus ($25/user/month) and Quip Advanced ($100/user/month) are Salesforce products. Quip Advanced (the $100/user/month tier) is built for enterprise sales teams and integrates directly with Salesforce CRM records: live account plans embedded in opportunity records, mutual close plans with real-time Salesforce data, document editing inside Salesforce itself. These customers are not in a deprecation situation. Salesforce is actively investing in this segment, because it ties Quip's value proposition directly to CRM retention.

If you're on Starter, plan for a migration. If you're on Plus or Advanced and your team is inside Salesforce, the urgency is lower.

Migration options ranked by use case

The right Quip alternative depends on what you were actually using Quip for. There is no single replacement that covers every Quip use case, because Quip served several different workflows. Picking the right tool means identifying which of those workflows you actually need.

Use case Recommended tool Price (team) Recipient account required?
Team wiki / knowledge base Notion Free to $16/user/month No (public pages supported)
Enterprise wiki + Jira teams Confluence From $6.05/user/month No (public spaces supported)
Real-time doc collaboration Google Docs Free to $12/user/month No (link sharing)
Docs + spreadsheets combined Coda Free to $10/user/month No (shared pages)
Client deliverables, no recipient signup Anchorify Free (beta) No (public URL, no account needed)
Staying in Salesforce ecosystem Quip Plus/Advanced $25 to $100/user/month Yes (Quip account required)

Team wiki and knowledge base. If you used Quip as an internal knowledge base (FAQs, runbooks, product specs, onboarding docs) Notion is the most common destination. Its free tier is generous for small teams, and Notion pages can be made public without requiring the reader to sign up. Confluence is the right call if your company is already on Jira; the integration is native and the permission model maps closely to how Quip's org-and-space model worked.

Real-time collaboration. If the main use case was editing a document together with colleagues in real time, Google Docs has the lowest switching friction of any migration path. Everyone already has a Google account. Link-sharing requires no recipient signup. Compared to Google Docs, the main tradeoff is that Docs is not Salesforce-integrated. But if you were on Quip Starter, that wasn't a feature you had access to anyway.

Docs plus spreadsheets combined. Quip's doc-plus-spreadsheet-in-one model is genuinely distinctive. Coda is the closest structural match: it supports document blocks and table blocks in the same file, with formula logic that bridges the two. The free tier covers most small-team use cases.

Publishing deliverables to clients without requiring recipient signup. This is the use case Quip Starter served for consultants: write a document, share it with a client, have the client open it without creating a Quip account. Quip has never supported true public sharing; recipients need a Quip account to access any shared document. If this was your workflow, Anchorify is purpose-built for it: publish a markdown file with one command, get a stable URL, share the link with anyone. No client signup required. This is not a full Quip replacement for internal collaboration; it is the right tool for the one specific workflow where Quip's account requirement created friction. Consultants sharing client deliverables are the primary use case.

Staying in Salesforce. If your team is inside Salesforce and you need embedded document workflows, there is no migration required. Quip Plus or Quip Advanced continues to be the right tool.

What Quip's data export looks like before you leave

Quip lets you export documents as HTML, PDF, or XLSX. Run those exports before making any migration decisions, not after. Format fidelity varies by destination, and testing one document first will save time.

Per-document export is in the File menu. There is no bulk export built into the Quip UI, which is a genuine inconvenience for teams with hundreds of documents. Larger teams will need to script against the Quip API or use a third-party migration service.

Quip spreadsheets export as XLSX files, which import cleanly into Google Sheets and Coda. Quip documents export as HTML or PDF; Notion's HTML import and Confluence's import tools can handle the HTML output, though formatting will need cleanup. Test on a representative sample before committing the whole workspace.

One practical note: if you are on Quip Starter and your subscription is up for renewal, do the export before renewal day. The export functionality itself is not at risk (the service is still running) but having your data in portable formats is good hygiene regardless of where you land.

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions cover the most common confusion points about Quip's status in 2026, who is actually affected, and what migration looks like in practice.

Is Quip being shut down in 2026?

Salesforce has not announced a formal shutdown date for Quip. As of May 2026, the product is still sold and the service is operational. The practical situation for Quip Starter customers is that the plan receives no new investment and cannot be combined with any Salesforce product. The blog has been silent since August 2022. The product is not formally shut down, but the roadmap for standalone Quip is finished.

What is the difference between Quip Starter and Quip Advanced?

Quip Starter ($10/user/month) is a standalone collaboration tool for teams not using Salesforce. Quip Advanced ($100/user/month) is built for Salesforce enterprise customers and enables embedded document editing inside Salesforce CRM, two-way data sync, and sales workflows like mutual close plans. The pricing page states explicitly that "Starter cannot be purchased or combined with Quip for Salesforce," so there is no upgrade path between them without entering the Salesforce ecosystem entirely.

Can I still buy Quip in 2026?

Yes. All three Quip tiers are still available for purchase as of May 2026. The service has not been pulled from sale. Quip Starter customers should weigh the absence of new product investment and the Salesforce-only roadmap before renewing, but there is no forced migration deadline.

What is the best alternative to Quip for small teams?

For real-time document collaboration, Google Docs has the lowest switching friction and requires no new accounts. For team knowledge bases, Notion's free tier is generous and supports public pages without requiring recipient accounts. For a team that needs spreadsheet-style documents alongside prose documents, Coda is the closest structural match to how Quip worked.

Does Quip require recipients to have an account to view a shared document?

Yes. When you share a Quip document, the recipient needs a Quip account to access it. This has always been a limitation for client-facing workflows where the goal is to share a deliverable without requiring the client to sign up for anything. Tools like Notion (public pages), Google Docs (link sharing), and Anchorify (public URLs) all support account-free viewing for recipients.

Sources

If you were using Quip Starter to share deliverables with clients, Anchorify does the same job without requiring your client to create an account. Publish a markdown file with one command and get a stable URL that updates in place each time you run it. Free during beta. Start at anchorify.io or read the getting started guide.

For the full feature-by-feature comparison of Quip and Anchorify, see the /vs/quip page being built in parallel with this post.

Last updated: 2026-05-24