Bubble vs Airtable

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Compared on	Bubble Free plan · from $29/mo Visit Remove	Airtable Free plan · from $20/seat/mo Visit Remove
What it is	No-code builder for web and native mobile apps, with AI prompting	Spreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built in
Free plan	Development version only (no live app), 1 app editor, 50K workload units/month, 6 hours of server logs	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.
Cheapest paid plan	$29/mo billed annually (Starter (Web))Bubble pricing	$20/seat/mo billed annually (Team)Airtable pricing
What it covers	175K workload units/month, live website and custom domain; the Web & Mobile Starter plan is $59/month billed annually.	Seats are charged for users with edit permissions; read-only collaborators are free. Includes 15,000 AI credits per paid user per month.
Free trial	Free trial offered on Starter (length not stated on the pricing page)	None stated
Platforms	Web	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	8K plugins	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Building a customer portal or marketplace app without code Launching a web app and a matching mobile app from one project Building a first version of a product to test a business idea	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
Watch out for	Free plan is for development only: no live app or custom domain Workload units are capped per plan; extra workload is bought as an add-on The Free plan has 1 app editor; Growth allows 2 and Team 5	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
Made by	Bubble Group, Inc.	Airtable

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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