Is Airtable free? What it actually costs in 2026
Yes, there is a free tier — with limits.
Free plan ($0) is capped at 1,000 records per base, 1 GB attachments, and 100 automation runs/month (up to 5 editors). Team is $20/seat/month billed annually (about $24 monthly) with 50,000 records per base and 25,000 automation runs/month. Business is $45/seat/month annually (about $54 monthly) with 125,000 records per base, SSO, and an admin panel. Enterprise Scale is custom-priced with up to 500,000 records per base. Verified against Airtable's published plans as of July 2026.
When paying is still the right call
Airtable's polish, templates, Interfaces, and automations are still ahead of every alternative. If your team leans on those daily and the per-seat pricing fits, staying is a defensible choice — the alternatives win on cost, data ownership, and on-premise control, not on gloss.
What you are locked into
Bases, records, linked-table relationships, interfaces, and automations live inside Airtable's cloud; there is no self-hosted deployment. You can export individual tables to CSV, but that flattens relationships, interfaces, and automations — there is no clean one-click export of a full multi-table base with its links and app logic intact. Migrating a complex workspace generally means rebuilding schema, relationships, and automations in the destination tool. You also depend on Airtable's pricing, record limits, and uptime.
If you would rather not pay: Baserow
Baserow
MIT-core, self-hostable no-code database with the closest Airtable-style experience.
Free to self-host (MIT core); paid cloud and self-hosted premium/enterprise tiers available
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Pricing is verified against the vendor's published figures and dated above. Vendors change prices — confirm current numbers with Airtable (Formagrid, Inc.) before you commit. More no-code databases decisions on Macrostack.