Each is designed to give you the best performance and features for different types of applications. Both grids offer many out-of-the-box features like filtering, hierarchical data-binding, grouping, printing, and exporting to Microsoft Excel without any additional coding required. True DBGrid supports the most common features out of the box (requires little to no coding). FlexGrid's true value lies beyond this list as it’s flexible to do so much more than just what’s considered “out of the box.”