Automate Basics

Airtable vs Notion

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 23 September 2026.

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Airtable

Free plan · from $20/seat/mo

Notion

Free plan · from $10/member/mo

What it isSpreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built inWorkspace for docs, wikis, databases and projects with built-in AI
Free planUp to 5 editors; 1,000 records per base; 1 GB of attachments per base; 100 automation runs; 500 AI credits per editor per month; 1,000 API calls per workspace per month; 2 weeks of revision history.Pages and blocks unlimited for individuals but limited for workspaces with 2+ members; file uploads up to 5 MB; 7-day page history; up to 10 external guests; 1 chart; Notion AI as a limited trial only.
Cheapest paid plan$20/seat/mo billed annually (Team)Airtable pricing$10/member/mo billed annually (Plus)Notion pricing
What it coversSeats are charged for users with edit permissions; read-only collaborators are free. Includes 15,000 AI credits per paid user per month.Notion AI is only a limited trial on Plus. Full Notion AI starts on Business: $24 per member/month billed monthly, or $20 billed yearly.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Tracking clients, inventory or content calendars in a shared database
  • Building a simple internal app or dashboard for a team without code
  • Automating notifications and record updates
  • Keeping a team wiki, meeting notes and project tracker in one shared workspace
  • Building simple databases for clients, content calendars or hiring without code
  • Summarising meetings and drafting documents with AI on the Business plan
Watch out for
  • Free plan caps each base at 1,000 records and 1 GB of attachments, with up to 5 editors
  • On paid plans, every user with edit access to a base is billed as a seat
  • SAML single sign-on and two-way sync require the Business plan
  • Notion AI is only a limited trial on Free and Plus; full access starts on Business ($20 per member/month billed yearly)
  • Free plan limits file uploads to 5 MB and page history to 7 days, and block storage is limited once a workspace has 2+ members
  • Custom Agents and premium AI models use Notion credits, which are charged separately
Made byAirtableNotion Labs, Inc.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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