Airtable vs Smartsheet

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.

Written head to head: Airtable vs Smartsheet, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Airtable Free plan · from $20/seat/mo Visit Remove	Smartsheet Free trial · from $9/member/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Spreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built in	Spreadsheet-style work management for projects, programs and processes
Free plan	Up 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.	No
Cheapest paid plan	$20/seat/mo billed annually (Team)Airtable pricing	$9/member/mo billed annually (Pro)Smartsheet pricing
What it covers	Seats are charged for users with edit permissions; read-only collaborators are free. Includes 15,000 AI credits per paid user per month.	1 to 10 members with unlimited free contributors; 250 automations per month.
Free trial	None stated	30-day free trial
Platforms	Web, API	Web
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
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	Planning a project on a Gantt timeline shared with clients as contributors Collecting requests through forms into a tracked sheet Reporting on several projects in dashboards
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	No free plan; a 30-day free trial only Pro is limited to 10 members and 250 automations per month SAML SSO, portfolios and scenario planning require Enterprise
Made by	Airtable	Smartsheet 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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