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AI tools · Spreadsheets and data
Airtable pricing, use cases, and first steps
Airtable is a team database that looks like a spreadsheet: rows and columns, but also links between tables, forms, and custom screens. Its assistant, Omni, builds the app from a description, answers questions about your data, and edits rows. “Field agents” fill in a column by themselves: sorting, summarizing, searching the web.
Airtable has a free plan. The recommended plan to start with: Free, $0. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
AirtableThe team database you build by describing it- Vendor
- Airtable (United States)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Recommended plan
- Free, $0
- Page checked on
- October 3, 2026
What Airtable does
Who it’s for: Teams that keep living lists together: requests, inventory, job applications, campaigns, contracts. Especially when the shared Excel file is no longer enough.
Ask your data a question
Omni reads the base and answers: a total, a trend, a filtered list. It can also look something up on the web, create rows, or edit them when you ask. It only sees what you are allowed to see.
Field agents: a column that fills itself in
A column handed over to AI. For each row, the agent reads the other columns and writes the result: a category, a summary, an amount, a piece of information found on the web. It can run on demand or whenever a row changes.
Also
- Read attached documents
- Automations that run without you
- Custom screens for each team
- Airtable in Slack, Claude, and ChatGPT
Airtable pricing
Prices are published in dollars. AI credits are pooled across the whole workspace. Extra credits are sold in packs, from $20 per month for 10,000 credits.
| Plan | Price | Who it’s for |
|---|---|---|
| Free Recommended to start | $0 | Getting started, small team |
| Team | $20 per user per month, billed yearly ($24 billed monthly) | A team that works in it every day |
| Business | $45 per user per month, billed yearly ($54 billed monthly) | Several teams, connected data |
| Enterprise Scale | Custom pricing | Large organizations |
What the free plan includes
Up to 1,000 rows per base, 5 editors, 1 GB of attachments per base, and 100 automation runs per month. Omni is included, with 500 AI credits per month per editor.
Nova’s advice
Start for free: 1,000 rows and 500 credits are enough to build a first tracker with Omni and see whether the team adopts it. Move to Team when you go past 1,000 rows or when you want field agents every day. Keep in mind that the price is counted per editor: a team of ten adds up quickly.
A first try, in 10 minutes
Your data. Your data is not used to train AI, but it is stored in the United States, except on the most expensive plan.
What it does less well
- AI credits go fast on documents: 200 credits for a ten-page contract according to Airtable, and up to 1,500 for a document of more than fifty pages. On the free plan, two contracts are enough to use up the month.
- A field agent set to “Run automatically” runs again on every change. On a table with several thousand rows, it can use up the whole team’s credits.
Have a quote request tracker built for youAirtable- On the home page, click “+ Create,” choose your workspace, then “Build an app with Omni.”
- Paste the prompt below and send it. Building with Omni uses no credits.
- Omni creates the tables, the columns, and a tracking screen. Look at what it did, then add three rows by hand with real requests.
- Click the Omni icon at the top left and ask: “Which requests have been waiting for a reply for more than ten days?”
- Add a field agent: click the + to the right of the last column, then “Build a field agent.” Ask it to sort each request into Small, Medium, or Large. Click “Create field.”
- Review the first cells it fills in. The first ten are free: this is the time to adjust your instructions.
The prompt to copy
Build an app to track quote requests. For each request: the customer, the date received, the estimated amount, the sales rep in charge, and the status (Received, Quote sent, Followed up, Won, Lost). Add a screen that shows the requests by status.
Jobs that use Airtable
In the starter kit for one job.
Alternatives to Airtable
Notion
If you mostly want pages and notes, with a few tables and an interface available in French.
Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda)
If you prefer a document that mixes text and tables, rather than a database.
ClickUp (ClickUp Brain)
If what you need is project management: tasks, deadlines, team workload.
Lovable
To make a real web app by describing it, without going through an Airtable base.
Frequently asked questions about Airtable
How much does Airtable cost?
Free: $0; Team: $20 per user per month, billed yearly ($24 billed monthly); Business: $45 per user per month, billed yearly ($54 billed monthly); Enterprise Scale: custom pricing. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
Can you use Airtable for free?
Yes. Up to 1,000 rows per base, 5 editors, 1 GB of attachments per base, and 100 automation runs per month. Omni is included, with 500 AI credits per month per editor.
What happens to my data with Airtable?
Your data is not used to train AI, but it is stored in the United States, except on the most expensive plan.
What are the alternatives to Airtable?
Notion: If you mostly want pages and notes, with a few tables and an interface available in French. Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda): If you prefer a document that mixes text and tables, rather than a database. ClickUp (ClickUp Brain): If what you need is project management: tasks, deadlines, team workload. Lovable: To make a real web app by describing it, without going through an Airtable base.
Official pages consulted
Page checked on October 3, 2026. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.