What is Airtable?
Spreadsheet-database hybrid with automations and built-in AI agents.
Who is Airtable best for?
Airtable is best for teams that have outgrown spreadsheets and want to build trackers and apps without code.
Teams outgrowing spreadsheets
Linked tables, forms and views such as Kanban, calendar and Gantt turn a shared sheet into a small database that several people can edit at once.
Operations and request intake
Automations and custom interfaces handle requests, approvals and vendor lists, so the work stops living in email threads.
Building apps without code
You describe the app you need in plain words or start from a spreadsheet you already have, and Airtable builds the app on top of that data.
Handing routine updates to AI agents
Agents can run approvals, follow-ups and status updates on the same records the team uses, and paid plans include 15,000 or more AI credits per user each month.
How much does Airtable cost?
Airtable has a free plan for up to 5 editors, and its paid plans cost $24 per seat a month for Team or $54 for Business ($20 and $45 billed yearly), with custom pricing for Enterprise Scale.
- 500 AI credits per editor a month
- 1,000 records per base, up to 5 editors
- 100 automation runs, 1 GB of attachments per base
- 15,000 AI credits per paid user a month
- 50,000 records per base, 25,000 automation runs
- Gantt and timeline views, 20 GB of attachments per base
- 20,000 AI credits per paid user a month
- 125,000 records per base, 100,000 automation runs
- Admin panel, SAML single sign-on and two-way sync
- 25,000 AI credits per paid user a month
- 500,000 records per base, 500,000 automation runs
- Audit logs, data loss prevention and the Enterprise API
Billed yearly, Team is $20 and Business $45 per seat a month. Only people who can edit at least one base count as paid seats; read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links cost nothing. More AI credits come in packs from $20 a month for 10,000 credits on Team and Business. Portals for outside guests is an add-on from $120 a month for 15 guests on Team and from $150 on Business. Airtable also has special plans for nonprofits and education. Full pricing on airtable.com. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect Airtable to my AI agent?
Airtable MCP is Airtable's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to look up, add and change records in your Airtable bases.
Gives your agent access to your Airtable bases, so it can find records, update fields and use your table data as part of a larger task.
$ claude mcp add --transport http airtable https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp
Claude Code connects to Airtable over the web.
Run /mcp and sign in to Airtable in the browser.
Then ask your agent
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What are the best Airtable alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do Airtable's job. All three are open source, so you can run them on your own server.
AITable.aiOpen SourceChoose it when you want open source code you can run and change yourself.
BaserowOpen SourceChoose it when you want to host it yourself and keep your data on your own server.
TeableOpen SourceChoose it when you want to host it yourself and keep your data on your own server.
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Questions about Airtable
What is Airtable?
Spreadsheet-database hybrid with automations and built-in AI agents.
Who is Airtable for?
Airtable is best for teams that have outgrown spreadsheets and want to build trackers and apps without code.
Is Airtable free?
Yes. Airtable has a free plan: 500 AI credits per editor a month.
How much does Airtable cost?
Airtable's paid plans are Team at $24 per seat per month and Business at $54 per seat per month.
Does Airtable have an MCP server?
Yes. Airtable MCP is Airtable's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can look up, add and change records in your Airtable bases. Airtable runs it on the web and you sign in with your Airtable account.
Is there an open source alternative to Airtable?
Yes. AITable.ai, Baserow, Teable and Grist and 2 more are open source tools that do the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Airtable alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are AITable.ai, Baserow and Teable.
Where can I try Airtable?
On its official website, airtable.com.
Does Airtable charge for read-only users?
No. On Team and Business, Airtable charges only for people with edit rights in at least one base in the workspace. Read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are free, and an editor added partway through the cycle is billed only from the day they join.
What happens when you hit Airtable's plan limits?
Airtable keeps your bases and never deletes data over a limit, but you cannot add more records or attachments until you upgrade. Automation runs and API calls simply stop at your plan's monthly cap, which is 100 runs and 1,000 API calls on the Free plan.
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