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Django Admin is free until someone needs a screen it will not scaffold.
Django Admin gives you CRUD over your models the moment you register them, and for a back office used only by your own developers that is hard to beat. Jet Admin generates the same screens from the same Postgres or MySQL, then keeps going: the workflows Django Admin has no opinion about, row-level access for people who are not staff users, and the codebase in your own repo.
Why Jet
Why teams choose Jet Admin
Django Admin gives you CRUD over your models the moment you register them, and for a back office used only by your own developers that is hard to beat. Jet Admin generates the same screens from the same Postgres or MySQL, then keeps going: the workflows Django Admin has no opinion about, row-level access for people who are not staff users, and the codebase in your own repo.
Feature by feature
CAPABILITY
Jet
Django Admin
Build on your existing database
Two-way sync & write-back
Edit & own the generated code
Self-hosting & on-premise
White-label & custom domains
Built for internal tools & ops
Granular role-based access
Audit logs
Full support
Partial / limited
Not available
The verdict
So, which should you choose?
Both can generate an app from a prompt. The difference is what happens next — who can use it, how you govern it, and whether it runs on your real data. Lovable is great for spinning up a brand-new web app with an AI prompt and a fresh Supabase backend. Jet Admin is built for the opposite job: putting governed apps and internal tools on top of the data your business already runs on.
Django Admin
may be better when…
Django Admin is free until someone needs a screen it will not scaffold.
Jet Admin is best when…
Your team needs to understand and maintain the app without engineers
You want to see your app logic visually — not hidden in code
You need a database your whole team can browse and work with directly
You want built-in permissions and no per-seat pricing
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Django Admin
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Frequently asked questions
Is Django Admin good enough for production?
<p>For a back office your own developers use, usually yes. It stops fitting when the people using it are not developers, when a screen has to do something other than create, read, update or delete a row, or when you need to prove who changed what.</p>
Can non-developers use Django Admin safely?
<p>Only roughly. Access is granted through is_staff and per-model permissions, so scoping someone to their own rows means writing custom querysets and permission classes. Jet handles row- and column-level rules as configuration on the Business plan.</p>
How is Jet Admin different from Django Admin?
<p>Django Admin reads your Django models and scaffolds forms for them. Jet reads your database directly, generates the interface from a description of what you need, and covers workflows, portals and dashboards that sit outside a single model.</p>
Do I have to move off Django to use Jet Admin?
<p>No. Jet queries your existing Postgres or MySQL in place and keeps no second copy of the data, so your Django app carries on running against the same tables.</p>
Can I edit the code Jet Admin generates?
<p>Yes. You can write custom React, Vue or Angular components and server-side functions, edit code in the app, and turn on 2-way GitHub sync on the Pro plan so the app lives in your repo.</p>
