Airtable is best for small agencies, consultants tracking client work and teams outgrowing spreadsheets. Its clearest advantage: Structures client work a spreadsheet cannot.
- Avoid if
- solo users who only need a simple list
- Cheapest useful plan
- $24.00/mo · Team
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- moderate: 1 hr
- Main limitation
- Per-seat pricing gets expensive fast for a small team
- Structures client work a spreadsheet cannot
- Free plan is genuinely usable for a solo operator
- Views let each person see the same data their own way
- solo users who only need a simple list
- teams needing a real relational database at scale
What it actually does
Relational records with multiple views per table, interfaces and built-in automations, Omni, which builds apps from a conversation, AI agents that work across thousands of records.
Before you pay
Free or Team
The free plan is usable for one person structuring client work, with record limits that arrive before feature limits. Team is for a group editing the same bases with automations and interfaces. Read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are not charged on paid plans, so clients who only look do not need a seat.
What a year costs
Team is $24 per user a month billed monthly, $288 a year, or $20 a month on yearly billing, $240 a year. Business is $54 per user a month billed monthly, $648 a year, or $45 on yearly billing, $540 a year. Our first reading, on 6 August, took the yearly figure; the record holds the monthly price since 12 September, a correction rather than a price rise.
What we would check before paying
How many records you will hold in a year, since that is the limit people reach first. Whether you are rebuilding software you could simply buy. Bending Spoons signed an agreement to acquire Airtable on 4 August; once the deal closes, watch the pricing page.
What changed recently
Automations can trigger when a field changes from one specific value to another; list and Kanban views show totals and summaries; long formulas open in a full-screen editor; all files in an attachment cell download at once. Source ↗
Read on each vendor's official changelog, not tested by us.
The limits to know
- Per-seat pricing gets expensive fast for a small team
- Record limits bite before feature limits do
- Tempting to rebuild software you should just buy
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- $24.00/mo · Team
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- $24 per seat/month billed monthly; $20 per seat/month billed annually
The pricing page, as read
What it costs at 1, 3, 5 and 10 users
Airtable bills per seat, so the invoice follows head count. Calculated at the rate on record, before tax, with no annual commitment.
| Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $24.00 | $288.00 |
| 3 | $72.00 | $864.00 |
| 5 | $120.00 | $1440.00 |
| 10 | $240.00 | $2880.00 |
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android
- Integrations
- Slack, Zapier, Make, Google Workspace
- Setup
- moderate: 1 hr
Airtable in our comparisons
Alternatives to Airtable
Compare side by side:Airtable / ClickUpAirtable / NotionAirtable / Trello
Frequently asked questions
What is Airtable?
Airtable is a tool used mainly for client and project tracking, content calendars, lightweight internal tools. Main features: relational records with multiple views per table, interfaces and built-in automations, Omni, which builds apps from a conversation. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is $24.00/mo · Team.
How much does Airtable cost?
The paid entry point is $24.00/mo · Team. Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: $24 per seat/month billed monthly; $20 per seat/month billed annually. Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Airtable have a free plan?
Yes. Airtable publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: per-seat pricing gets expensive fast for a small team.
What devices and tools does Airtable work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Airtable runs on: Web, iOS, Android. Documented integrations: Slack, Zapier, Make, Google Workspace. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Corrected to the month-to-month figure already recorded in this record's own billing condition
Published by us from the vendor's annual view: our error, read on 2026-08-06
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 17 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 98 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.