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.
Builds internal business apps from spreadsheets, prompts or files
Spreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built in
Free plan
Limited credits, 2 team members, 10 projects, 0 published apps, 0 enabled workflows
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.
100 credits, 2 team members, 2 published apps, 1 enabled workflow; annual plans are 'coming soon'.
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
None stated
None stated
Platforms
Web
Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)
Not stated
Not stated
Open source
No
No
Good for
Turning an operations spreadsheet into an internal app
Building inventory, field sales or work order tools for a team
Replacing a patchwork of ad-hoc spreadsheets with one shared app
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 cannot publish apps or enable workflows
Annual billing is not yet offered ('coming soon')
GlideOS is separate from Glide Classic: it needs its own subscription, cannot share data with Classic apps and has no migration tool
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
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Glide
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.
