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Airtable: pricing, features and alternatives
Spreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built in
What is Airtable?
Airtable is a cloud database with a spreadsheet-style interface that teams use to organise records and build internal apps and workflows on top of them. It includes automations, an interface designer, sync integrations and AI features that run on monthly AI credits included with every plan. Paid plans are billed per seat for anyone who can edit a base.
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
Key features
- Bases of linked tables and records
- Interface Designer for building team apps on top of data
- Automations (100 runs on Free up to 500,000 on Enterprise Scale)
- AI features funded by monthly AI credits on every plan
- Sync integrations and extensions (Team and above)
- Portals add-on for sharing with external guests
Limitations to know about
- 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
Airtable pricing
Airtable has a free plan. Paid plans start at $20 per seat a month billed annually (Team).
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Up to 5 editors, 1,000 records per base, 1 GB attachments per base, 100 automation runs, 500 AI credits per editor |
| Team | $24 per seat/month billed monthly, or $20 billed annually | 50,000 records per base, 25,000 automation runs, 20 GB attachments per base, Gantt and timeline views |
| Business | $54 per seat/month billed monthly, or $45 billed annually | 125,000 records per base, 100,000 automation runs, two-way sync, admin panel, SAML SSO |
| Enterprise Scale | Contact sales | 500,000 records per base, 500,000 automation runs, HyperDB, audit logs and DLP |
Free plan limits: 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.
What a team pays: For a team of five on Team: $100 a month billed annually ($1,200 a year), or $120 billed monthly.
Airtable alternatives
Smartsheet
Spreadsheet-style work management for projects, programs and processes
Notion
Workspace for docs, wikis, databases and projects with built-in AI
Superhuman Docs
Docs that combine pages, tables, formulas and automations, now Superhuman Docs
ClickUp
Work management app combining tasks, docs, chat and AI in one workspace
Julius AI
AI workspace for analysing data and turning it into charts, reports and slides
Glide
Builds internal business apps from spreadsheets, prompts or files
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Frequently asked questions
Is Airtable free?
Airtable has a 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. Paid plans start at $20/seat/mo billed annually.
How much does Airtable cost?
Airtable's cheapest paid plan, Team, costs $24 per seat a month billed monthly, or $20 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. There is also an enterprise plan priced on request. Prices as published on Airtable's pricing page on 23 September 2026.
What is Airtable used for?
Airtable is a cloud database with a spreadsheet-style interface that teams use to organise records and build internal apps and workflows on top of them. People use it for tracking clients, inventory or content calendars in a shared database, building a simple internal app or dashboard for a team without code and automating notifications and record updates.
What are the alternatives to Airtable?
Tools that do a similar job include Smartsheet, Notion, Superhuman Docs, ClickUp and Julius AI. Each has its own page here with its plans, limits and prices.
Who makes Airtable?
Airtable is made by Airtable, based in San Francisco, California, US. The company was founded in 2012.
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from the pages below, read on the dates shown: Airtable's own pages first, and a named public reference where they are silent.
- airtable.com/pricing (annual prices, plan limits and features, seat billing rules (rendered in a browser)) read 23 September 2026
- support.airtable.com/docs/airtable-plans (monthly prices, free plan limits, AI credits per plan) read 23 September 2026
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtable (company founded and headquarters) read 23 September 2026
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