Glide vs Softr vs Airtable

Compared on	Glide Free plan · from $25/mo VisitRemove	Softr Free plan · from $19/mo VisitRemove	Airtable Free plan · from $20/seat/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Builds internal business apps from spreadsheets, prompts or files	AI app builder for internal tools and portals, with databases and workflows	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	Free forever; 5 app users in total (team and client combined)	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	$25/mo (Basic)Glide pricing	$19/mo billed annually (Basic)Softr pricing	$20/seat/mo billed annually (Team)Airtable pricing
What it covers	100 credits, 2 team members, 2 published apps, 1 enabled workflow; annual plans are 'coming soon'.	5 team users and 5 client users, with no extra-user add-ons.	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	7-day trial of Business-plan features on sign-up, no card needed; adding a card extends it to 14 days	None stated
Platforms	Web	Web	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	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	Building a client portal where customers log in to see their own information Creating an internal tool, team intranet or knowledge base Setting up a simple CRM or inventory tracker for a small business	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: 5 app users in total Basic caps app users at 5 team and 5 client users, with no add-ons Extra app users are only available on Pro and Business and are billed monthly	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	Glide	Softr	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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