What Is Airtable? Features, Pricing & Alternatives

Overview

Airtable is a cloud database with a spreadsheet-like interface that has expanded into app building. Its pricing page lists Interfaces for creating custom views of data and a newer “AI App Building” capability for building custom business apps without code, alongside Airtable AI and AI agents that can run inside apps^[5].

Airtable is priced per seat: Team costs US$20 and Business US$45 per user per month billed annually, and Enterprise Scale is custom^[5]. Only users with edit permissions on at least one base are charged; read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are free, which keeps costs down for apps that many people view but few edit^[5]. A Free plan is intended for individuals and very small teams, and when record or attachment limits are reached no more can be added until upgrading^[5].

Airtable is strongest when the application is essentially a structured, shared database with views, forms and automations. For customer-facing portals, many teams pair it with Softr or Noloco^[4]^[11]. The pricing page does not specify which plans include AI app building or AI agents^[5].

What Airtable does

Relational database with spreadsheet interface
Interfaces for custom views
AI app building
AI agents in apps
Free read-only collaborators
Forms and share links

Airtable pricing

Free; Team US$20 and Business US$45 per editing user per month, billed annually; Enterprise Scale custom. Read-only users, form submissions and share links not charged.