AirtableProject Management
Oleh KemAirtable Pricing and Plans in August 2026: Free, Team, Business and Enterprise Scale Costs
Airtable costs $24 per seat a month on Team and $54 on Business, or $20 and $45 on annual billing as of . Free holds five editors and a thousand records to a base; Enterprise Scale is quoted. People who only read come in paid packs from $120 a month.
Each tier is a record ceiling before it is a seat price: a thousand rows to a base on Free, fifty thousand on Team, a hundred and twenty-five thousand on Business, half a million on Enterprise Scale. One table filling up moves you a whole tier no matter how few people you employ.
This page prices what the vendor publishes, at your own seat count. The guest packs, the AI credit allowance, where $20 lands against a $10 middle across eighteen tools, and the one tier that carries a ceiling and no rate. Ceilings and pack prices alike come from Airtable's own pages, read in .
This page prices Airtable the database and app platform from Airtable Inc., not the airtable furniture the name borrows from.
filled dot = rate the vendor publishes · hollow dot = quote only
filled dot = rate the vendor publishes · hollow dot = quote only
Three tiers carry a rate and one carries a ceiling instead. What every rung is really selling is room in a base.
Month to month, cancel any time. The free tier and Enterprise Scale do not move with the cycle.
Paid twelve months in front. Guest and credit packs stay monthly either way.
Bought on top of the licence, sized by the number of outside people.
Guest packs, the credit allowance, the record ceilings and the six charges outside the seat rate are all below.
Airtable pricing plans and calculator: $0 to $54, records set the tier
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Annual billing takes 17 percent off both priced tiers. Guest packs and credit packs are quoted per month and sit outside the seat rate entirely.
Vendor pricing pageWhat each Airtable upgrade costs: $300 a year a seat to reach Business
Free to Team costs $240 a year a seat, and Team to Business another $300. Both steps are really about the record ceiling: fifty thousand rows, then a hundred and twenty-five thousand.
These are Airtable’s own annual rates with its discount already inside them. Guest packs and credit packs sit outside every figure here.
What an Airtable subscription really costs: records pick the tier
What your line costs on the published rates
8 people on Team, monthly. Published rate $24 per seat, per month. That lands at $192 a month and $2,304 across twelve.
airtable.com showed that rate on August 8, 2026, and it held on June 24, June 28, July 4, July 8 and August 2 before that. That makes six dated reads with one figure between them.
Where the bill sits above the advertised rate
The cycle explains the whole gap. Put the same line on annual and it falls $384 a year at the 17 percent discount. Your tier was the right pick.
Worth knowing before you commit. $20 and $45 are twelve months paid in front, and the packs on top of them are billed by the month regardless.
What is in your bill that the advertised rate does not price
Outside collaborators cannot be given a seat cheaply, because Airtable does not sell them one. They come in guest packs, from $120 a month for fifteen on Team and $150 on Business. Fifteen guests therefore cost more than five seats, and the packs are billed monthly whichever cycle the licence is on.
AI credits are counted per paid seat each month: 15,000 a month per paid seat, so 120,000 across this line. Running past that means buying a pack, from $120 a month for ten thousand more, and on Business and above the packs are quoted rather than listed.
Each rung is a record ceiling before it is a feature list: a thousand to a base on Free, fifty thousand on Team, a hundred and twenty-five thousand on Business, half a million on Enterprise Scale. Attachments and automation runs climb with them. One table filling up moves you a whole tier, and no amount of seats prevents it.
Where your rate sits against the category
Your rate is $24 a seat a month. Set against the eighteen project management tools we price on one method, that sits above the $10 middle of a field running $5 to $15.
It also clears the top of that field. No tool we track charges more to get started.
Entry already sits at the upper end of the category and Business doubles it again. The rate is not competing on price, and the guest packs widen the real gap further, because most rivals here let outsiders read for nothing.
The configuration we would sign off
Team, annual, 8 people. The year lands at $1,920, which is $160 a month.
Set against the line you entered, that hands back $32 a month and $384 over the year. The trade is twelve months paid in front.
Rates verified August 8, 2026. Check them before you buy. If the vendor page has moved on, it is right and this page is behind.
Open airtable.com pricingWhich Airtable plan to pick: Free until one base passes 1,000 records
| Your case | Plan | Why this one |
|---|---|---|
| One person or a pair, with small tablesA content calendarA personal inventory | Free Free | Five editors and unlimited bases, but a thousand records inside any one of them. Nobody counts rows when they start, and that is the number that ends the free tier. Attachments stop at a gigabyte per base and automations at a hundred runs a month, which are the same wall from two other directions. |
| A team building something other people useAn operations tracker feeding a dashboardA product catalogue other systems sync from | Team $20 a seat a month on annual billing | Fifty times the record headroom, twenty gigabytes of attachments and twenty-five thousand automation runs a month. Five seats run $1,200 a year. Interfaces and standard sync arrive here too. For most buyers this tier is bought for the ceiling and the sync, and the interface builder is what they end up using every day. |
| A department that has to govern the data, not just hold itSAML across several teamsA warehouse sync into the same base | Business $45 a seat a month on annual billing | Premium sync, the admin panel and SAML, plus the ceiling moving to a hundred and twenty-five thousand records. Five seats are $2,700 a year against $1,200 on Team, so the step costs $1,500 at that size. It wants a governance reason. Needing more rows alone is a weaker case than needing to control who opens them. |
| Anyone with an audience that reads and never editsClients checking statusA supplier list shared outside the company | Team plus a guest pack from $120 a month for fifteen guests | Airtable does not sell a cheap read-only seat. Outside people arrive in packs, starting at $120 a month for fifteen on Team and $150 on Business. That is $1,440 a year before a single licence, so fifteen guests cost more than five seats. Count that audience before you compare this product to anything else. |
| An organisation with one base that keeps growingA record set past a hundred thousand rowsGovernance across dozens of teams | Enterprise Scale quote only | Half a million records to a base, a thousand gigabytes of attachments and half a million automation runs. No rate is published and no seat floor either. Anchor the conversation yourself: Business at twenty seats is $10,800 a year, and the quote is priced against that number, not against the ceiling. |
Airtable cost by team size: $1,200 a year for five seats, $12,000 for fifty
Licence cost only. Guest packs, credit packs and expert services are quoted separately by Airtable.
Airtable Enterprise Scale pricing: quote only, at 500,000 records a base
Enterprise Scale is the only tier Airtable will not price in public, and the thing it sells is headroom: half a million records to a base against the 125,000 on Business. Everything else Airtable publishes here is governance you can describe without a number.
- Four times the record ceiling and ten times the attachment room, which is the whole reason this tier exists
- Half a million automation runs a month, against a hundred thousand on the tier below
- The App Library and enterprise governance, sold as a set rather than as options
- Key management, which is a further add-on even here and carries no published price
- The Enterprise Scale rate. A ceiling is published for it, a price is not.
- Guest packs above the opening size. The page prints a starting figure and stops.
- Credit packs on Business and above, which the vendor routes to a conversation.
- The nonprofit and education rates, which live on a separate page without numbers.
Business at your seat count is the last figure this page can hand you, and a quote has to answer it. Price the guest packs before that conversation, not after: on this tier they are quoted rather than listed, and a bundled number hides what you are really paying for people who never edit anything.
Request a quote from airtable.comAirtable hidden costs: fifteen guests cost more than five seats
When we last opened the Airtable pricing page
Every read is dated and stays on the record. 6 of them now, and no rate has moved between any two.
One limit worth stating. We watch the published rates, and they are not where Airtable moves fastest: guest packs and credit packs are quoted in ranges that the page shows only as a starting figure.
Where this rate sits in the category
Eighteen project management tools, one method, one library. Their opening rates spread from $5 to $15 a month and land on $10 in the middle.
ClickUp$10 · $7 annual
Notion$12 · $10 annual
Smartsheet Business$24 · $19 annualEach marker carries its own August 2026 read. Jira is placed by its monthly rate, because Atlassian sells the year as a total for a band of users rather than as a price per seat.
Six costs that sit outside the seat rate
Ordered by the size of the jump each one makes to the invoice.Read-only people are a monthly pack
Guests come through Portals, from $120 a month for fifteen on Team and $150 on Business, in packs that climb to a couple of hundred. They are billed monthly whichever cycle the licences are on, and on Enterprise Scale they are quoted rather than listed. For anyone working with clients this is usually the largest line on the invoice after the seats.
The record ceiling is what actually sets the tier
A thousand rows to a base on Free, fifty thousand on Team, a hundred and twenty-five thousand on Business, half a million on Enterprise Scale. Attachment room and automation runs climb alongside. Growth in one table can force a tier change on a team that has not hired anybody, which is the opposite of how per-seat pricing usually behaves.
Your line: 8 × 15000 = 120,000 credits a month, counted per paid seat.AI credits are metered per paid seat
Five hundred a month per editor on Free, fifteen thousand per paid seat on Team, twenty thousand on Business, twenty-five thousand on Enterprise Scale at list price. Overruns are bought in packs from $120 a month for ten thousand more. Airtable publishing that overage price at all puts it ahead of most of this category, where running out is simply undocumented.
Credit packs stop being listed on Business
The pack prices are printed for Free and Team. On Business and above the same packs go to sales. A buyer moving up a tier for governance can find the AI line moving from a number to a conversation on the way.
Services and key management are separate
Ask An Expert on the lower tiers, Professional Services on the upper ones, and Enterprise Key Management on the top tier alone. None carries a published price. The last of them matters most, because key management is usually a compliance requirement rather than a preference.
Your line: $384 a year is what the monthly cycle costs you over paying in front.Nonprofit and education plans live on a separate page
Both programmes exist and neither prints a rate on the pricing page. Against a $20 opening seat an approved discount matters more here than elsewhere in the category. We record that the programmes exist and no figure, because there is none to read.
What Airtable leaves unpriced
We keep absences on the record beside the rates. On this product the gaps cluster in one place: everything sold in packs.
- 01The Enterprise Scale rate. A ceiling is published for it, a price is not.
- 02Guest packs above the opening size. The page prints a starting figure and stops.
- 03Credit packs on Business and above, which the vendor routes to a conversation.
- 04The nonprofit and education rates, which live on a separate page without numbers.
What users say
“we pay more for read only people than for the team that builds the base”
Reddit · user statement“hit the record cap on one table and had to jump a whole plan”
Reddit · user statementTwo reports from users, quoted with their source and counted in nothing. They are here because both land on the same complaint, and it is the one the published rates hide.
Airtable billing and commitment terms
| Base | One database. Record and attachment ceilings are counted per base, not per account. |
| Editor | Someone who can change the data. The free tier allows five. |
| Portal | The paid channel for outside viewers, sold in guest packs by the month. |
| Automation run | One execution of a triggered workflow. Capped monthly by tier, from a hundred to half a million. |
| AI credit | The unit AI features consume, allotted per paid seat each month and sold in packs beyond that. |
| Enterprise Scale | The quoted tier. Publishes its ceilings and not its rate. |
Airtable pricing vs ClickUp, Notion and Smartsheet: $20 against a $10 median
Priced for 8 people
Four jobs a buyer pays for, costed at the seat count you set. Every figure is per seat, per month on annual billing.
| The job | Airtable | The rival | Our verdict on this job |
|---|---|---|---|
| A shared database the whole company readsOne structured source that other tools sync from | Team $20/user/mo= $160 a month for you50,000 records to a base. | Notion Plus $10/user/mo= $80 a month for youPages first. $12 on monthly. | AirtableNotion holds documents that contain tables. This holds tables that other systems query. |
| Letting clients see the data without editing itOutside people who read and never build | Team $20/user/mo= $160 a month for youGuests are a paid pack, from $120 a month for fifteen. | Notion Plus $10/user/mo= $80 a month for youGuests included at this tier. | NotionFifteen Airtable guests cost more than five Airtable seats. This is the line that decides most bills. |
| Running the work, not storing itTasks, owners, dates and a board somebody looks at daily | Team $20/user/mo= $160 a month for youInterfaces sit on top of the base. | ClickUp Unlimited $7/user/mo= $56 a month for youBuilt for tasks. $10 on monthly. | ClickUpA third of the seat rate for the job itself. The database underneath is what you would be overpaying for. |
| Reporting a portfolio to a leadership teamRoll-ups across projects with permissions per department | Business $45/user/mo= $360 a month for youAdmin panel and premium sync. | Smartsheet Business $19/user/mo= $152 a month for youPortfolio reporting, $24 on monthly. | SmartsheetLess than half the seat rate, and reporting is what it was built to do. |
ClickUpCost of switching to Airtable from Notion or ClickUp: $10 a seat more
Deltas at 8 people
Migrations get priced before they get argued about. The figures below move with the seat count you set above.
Notion
Notion Plus costs $80 a month for this team. Airtable Team costs $160, and the guests Notion included start costing money.Count your read-only people before anything else. They are free on one side of this move and a monthly pack on the other.
- Export one busy database and check the record count against the 50,000 ceiling.
- List everyone who only reads. That number sets the guest pack, not the seat count.
- Keep Notion for the written material. Almost nobody moves the documents successfully.
ClickUp
ClickUp Unlimited runs $56 a month here against $160 on Airtable Team. Close to three times the rate.These two are not the same product. One runs the work and one stores the data, and teams that move usually end up paying for both.
- Decide which system owns the truth. Two owners is the outcome that costs the most.
- Rebuild the reporting first. That is where the record model earns its rate.
- Check automation volume against the 25,000 monthly runs on Team.
Smartsheet
Smartsheet Business asks $152 a month for this team, Airtable Business $360. The gap is the widest on this page.Grid work transfers cleanly. What does not transfer is the reporting layer, and rebuilding it is the real cost of this move.
- Price both at your real seat count. The per-seat gap compounds fast.
- Test one portfolio report on Airtable interfaces before committing.
- Add the guest packs to the Airtable side of the comparison, not after it.
Our verdict on Airtable pricing: $20 buys headroom, viewers cost extra
Updated
Two reports from users sit at R-9 with their source attached. Both complain about the same thing and neither enters any calculation here.
4.7 of 5
Rows decide the tier here, and people barely enter into it. A base stops at a thousand records on Free and fifty thousand on Team, so a pair running one busy table can land on a paid plan while ten people with small tables stay free. On price the product is the dearest of the eighteen project management tools we price: $20 a seat against a $10 middle, and $45 on Business. Neither figure counts the audience that only reads.
The reason is the audience. Every rival on this page lets outside people read for nothing or close to it, and Airtable sells them in packs starting at $120 a month for fifteen. Buy this when the database is the product and the people editing it are few. Buy something else when half the company only needs to look.
The dearest-in-category verdict inverts for exactly one buyer. When everyone in the account genuinely edits, $20 a seat buys unlimited bases, the interface builder and a real sync layer, and the guest problem never arrives because there is no audience. A small team building internal apps for itself gets this product at face value. Everyone else is paying for readers.
At 8 people on annual billing: Team $1,920 for the year, Business $4,320, a $2,400 climb.
- Most of your audience only readsthe guest packs will outgrow the seat bill, and every alternative on this page handles that for less.
- You want a task trackerClickUp does that job at a third of the rate, and the database underneath is what you would be paying for.
- Your work lives in documentsNotion holds prose that contains tables, and Airtable holds tables that other systems query.
- You are pricing Enterprise Scale on a fixed budgetthe rate, the credit packs and the guest packs are all quoted, and the tier publishes a ceiling instead of a price.
Airtable pricing FAQ: eleven answers on records, guests and credits
11.1How much does Airtable cost per user?
11.2Is Airtable free?
11.3Does Airtable charge for read-only users?
11.4What happens when you hit the Airtable record limit?
11.5What is the difference between Airtable Team and Business?
11.6How much does Airtable Enterprise Scale cost?
11.7Is Airtable expensive?
11.8How much do you save on Airtable annual billing?
11.9What do Airtable AI credits cost?
11.10Is there an Airtable discount for nonprofits or education?
11.11Can a two-person team need a paid Airtable plan?
11.12How much does Airtable cost for a team of 5?
Airtable pricing sources: four dated reads since March 2026
Every figure here came off the vendor's own page on a dated read. Those pages are linked so you can check each figure at the source, and our open pricing data is linked beside them.
- airtable.com/pricingBoth published seat rates, the record and attachment ceilings, the credit allowances and the opening guest pack price
- airtable.comPlan contents, the automation run limits and which add-ons each tier can buy
- ComparEdge open pricing dataRival rates on the same method: ClickUp, Notion and Smartsheet. The $10 median and the entry range across 18 tools
- ComparEdge revision ledgerEvery dated check on this product, six so far
- Public review platformsSatisfaction figures only. They appear in the verdict and in nothing this page computes
Last verified August 8, 2026. Rates move without warning, so confirm at airtable.com/pricing before you commit.
ComparEdge is independent of Airtable and takes no money for placement or from the vendors it checks. Rates move without warning, which is why each read carries a date and the earlier ones stay on the record.
More on Airtable pricing and alternatives
After the feature list rather than the published rates? The Airtable guide goes through what each tier holds. Still weighing a rival? The alternatives page prices Airtable against everything in the same category. Renewal on the calendar? The cost guide covers the levers that move a quote. Wondering where this rate sits in the market? The Project Management rankings order every tool we track by what it discloses.