Why consider Airtable alternatives?
New owners, per-seat pricing, and the cost of letting anyone else in
Airtable made relational databases usable by people who had only ever opened a spreadsheet. For a lot of teams it is still the right tool.
Plenty of teams were already looking at alternatives though. They want to cut costs and find something that fits them better. The Bending Spoons acquisition may simply be the nudge that finally moves them across.
Three reasons come up again and again.
1. New owners
On 4 August 2026, Bending Spoons agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion. Nothing in the product has changed. The deal has not closed. What it does change is the questions worth asking before you build your operations on something. More on that below.
2. Everyone who edits pays
Airtable's Team plan is $20 per seat per month on annual billing. Business is $45. A five-person team on Business is $225 a month before anyone outside the company touches it:
3. Letting clients in is a separate bill
This is the one that catches people. Airtable's Portals add-on starts at $120 a month for 15 guests on Team. On Business it is $150. If you run client work, the people who only log in to look can cost more than your own team does.
Most of this list treats that differently. Baserow gives you 500 external app users on its free plan. Fibery makes observers and guests free on every tier. Superhuman Docs only bills the people who build.
Airtable is the only tool in its own alternatives list that charges extra for people who just look.
If your problem is really project tracking rather than data, our project management software roundup is a better starting point than this page.
What if I'm still using Airtable?
The short version on the Bending Spoons deal
- Bending Spoons agreed to buy Airtable on 4 August 2026, for $1.285 billion in cash.
- The deal has not closed. It is expected to complete later this year, subject to regulatory approval.
- Nothing in the product has changed. Your bases, automations and interfaces work exactly as they did.
- Airtable is not a struggling business. It was on around $480 million of annual recurring revenue in June 2026, growing more than 20% year on year.
- Bending Spoons also owns Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Meetup, AOL and Eventbrite. Airtable is its first acquisition since listing on Nasdaq in July.
- It says it is committed to Airtable for the long run.
Our honest read
Most likely everything carries on much as it is. Bending Spoons will probably raise prices, tighten operations and sharpen the overall proposition. That is broadly what it did with Evernote. It is not automatically a bad thing. Evernote had been drifting for years, and the new owners moved it forward.
The part worth planning around is cost. Evernote's prices rose sharply after that deal and its free plan was cut back. If Airtable is already one of your bigger software lines, get ready for a price review rather than surprised by one.
What to do now
- Export your bases to CSV. Sensible whatever you decide, and it takes minutes.
- Check what would not come with you. Automations, interfaces and synced tables do not export. That is the real rebuild cost.
- If ownership itself is the worry, look at Baserow. It is open source and you can host it yourself. That is the only genuine answer to who owns this next year.
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Bottom line
Free guests, a proper document layer, and AI bundled at the price Airtable charges for Team. The databases are still the weaker half.
The closest it has ever come to replacing Airtable
Notion is where most people look first when they leave Airtable. Here is what actually transfers across, and what does not.
What you would be giving up
Worth being honest about why Airtable got popular. It found a sweet spot. Spreadsheet simplicity, with real database power underneath.
Relational linking. Flexible views. Automations. A deep integration and API layer. A public gallery where you can browse and copy other people's setups.
That last one matters more than it sounds. People build in Airtable because they can see how someone else already solved the same problem.
Notion has closed most of the gap
A couple of years ago we would not have said this. Notion is now the more attractive and more functional of the two for plenty of setups. That is a genuine shift rather than a marketing one.
Team collaboration has become strong. Notion Workers and the agentic setups are still in testing. They show where this is going: background agents working across everything your company knows, rather than a database you have to go and query.
The document layer is the bit Airtable cannot match
Airtable does have documents. They are not as structured or as robust. In Notion the doc is the primary object and the database lives inside it. That is the right way round if your team writes as much as it tracks, which is why it also tops our team wiki apps list.
The AI bolt-ons add up
AI Meeting Notes, Notion Agent and Enterprise Search all sit on the Business plan. None of them is best in class alone. Together they take three subscriptions out of the stack. That is where the value lands.
The price, compared properly
This is worth reading twice, because the headline comparison flatters Notion.
Notion Plus is $10 per member per month on annual billing. Airtable Team is $20. Half price. But Plus has no Notion Agent, no AI Meeting Notes and no Enterprise Search.
If you want those you are on Business at $20, which is exactly what Airtable Team costs. Tier for tier:
- Notion Plus $10 vs Airtable Team $20: half the price, but no AI layer.
- Notion Business $20 vs Airtable Team $20: the same money, and you gain the AI layer plus free guests.
- Notion Business $20 vs Airtable Business $45: less than half.
Guests are free and unlimited on every Notion paid plan either way. Airtable charges from $120 a month for 15.
The databases are still the weaker half
Notion databases are fine at hundreds of rows. They are not the tool for tens of thousands. If a spreadsheet broke under the weight and that is why you moved to Airtable, Notion may break in the same place.
We go deeper on this matchup in our Airtable vs Notion comparison.
Notion Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Unlimited free guests on every paid tier, where Airtable charges from $120/mo for 15
- Notion Business costs the same as Airtable Team and less than half of Airtable Business
- A document layer Airtable cannot match, with databases living inside it
- AI Meeting Notes, Agent and Enterprise Search bundled into Business rather than sold per user
- Team collaboration has become genuinely strong
- The biggest template ecosystem of anything here
Cons
- Databases struggle at the volume where Airtable is strongest
- The AI features need Business, so the half-price headline only holds on Plus
- Notion Workers and the agent layer are still in testing
- Free plan limits blocks as soon as you add a second member
- Workspaces sprawl without someone owning the structure
Bottom line
The open source pick. Self-host it anywhere, keep the data inside your own walls, and give 500 external users access on the free plan.
Run it on your own servers, or let them host it
Baserow is the answer for teams who cannot put their data in someone else's cloud. It also happens to be the cheapest way on this page to give a lot of people access.
Who is actually using it
Baserow has found a specific crowd, and it is not the general Airtable audience. It lands with teams who have a compliance, privacy or security requirement they cannot negotiate away.
The work people build in it reflects that:
- Risk management and audit tracking
- ESG reporting, where the data cannot sit in an unknown jurisdiction
- Task and project management for teams inside a firewall
- Marketing operations for agencies handling client data
Around 200,000 people use it. That is small next to Airtable. It is also the point. This is a specialist answer, not a mass-market one.
You can run it yourself
Baserow is open source. You have three routes. Use their cloud. Run it on your own infrastructure with Cloud Run, Docker, AWS or Helm. Or take a managed private instance in between.
That matters more this month than it did last month. Every other tool on this page is somebody else's cloud, and somebody else's cloud can be sold. Self-hosting is the only real answer to the question the Airtable news is making people ask. If that is your worry, it also belongs in a startup CTO stack.
500 external app users, on the free plan
This is the number that should stop you. Baserow's free tier includes 500 external app users. Airtable's Portals add-on starts at $120 a month for 15 guests.
Paid plans are $10 per user per month on Premium and $18 on Advanced, both billed yearly. External app users stay at 500 throughout. Enterprise makes them unlimited.
It does four jobs, and Kuma helps with all of them
Applications, databases, dashboards and automations. That is why it reads as a full Airtable replacement rather than a partial one. There is a library of 65+ templates to start from, plus role-based permissions and audit logs once you reach the Advanced plan.
Kuma is its AI assistant. It understands your workspace and can create or edit tables, views and fields. On a self-hosted instance you pick the AI provider yourself, so the data never leaves your environment. Nothing else on this list offers that.
What self-hosting actually costs
Worth being straight about this. Open source gets you the core. The Premium, Advanced and Enterprise feature tiers still need a paid licence key, even on your own servers.
You also own the deployment, the upgrades, the backups and the uptime. That is real work, and it never appears on a pricing page.
Baserow Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Open source, so you can self-host and nobody can sell it out from under you
- 500 external app users on the free plan, against 15 for $120/mo on Airtable
- Three deployment routes: cloud, on-premise, or a managed private instance
- Choose your own AI model when self-hosting, so data stays inside your walls
- HIPAA and GDPR on the cloud product without an enterprise contract
- Rows counted per workspace, not per base
- $10/user/mo is half Airtable's Team seat
Cons
- Self-hosting still needs a paid licence for anything above the core
- You own the ops: deployment, upgrades, backups, uptime
- Free is 3,000 rows per workspace, which goes quickly across projects
- AI starts on Premium, so no Kuma on the free tier
- A much smaller template library and ecosystem than Airtable
Bottom line
Only Doc Makers are billed, so editors and viewers cost nothing. It also arrives with Grammarly, Go and Mail attached.
One subscription, four products
This one changes the maths rather than the feature list. Before you compare anything else, work out how many people on your team actually build things. That number is your bill.
You are buying a suite, not an app
This is the thing that separates it from everything else here. Superhuman Docs does not arrive on its own. It comes as part of the Superhuman suite, alongside Grammarly, the Go assistant and Superhuman Mail.
Grammarly is included on the annual Pro plan. Mail arrives on Business. Go runs across the lot. If you were already paying for a writing assistant, that is a line item gone.
Only two other tools on this page bundle at anything like that scale. Notion is the closest, with its calendar, AI meeting notes and enterprise search. ClickUp is next, though it charges for the AI separately.
You only pay for the people who build
The pricing page still bills per Doc Maker. Doc Makers create docs and pages, and they are the ones who can use Docs AI. Editors update existing pages but cannot create new ones. Editors and viewers are entirely free on every plan, including Enterprise. Workspace admins count as Doc Makers.
Run that against Airtable. A thirty-person team where three people build the systems pays for three. On Airtable Business that same team pays for thirty, at $45 each.
It was Coda until July
Worth knowing before you go searching. Grammarly renamed itself Superhuman and rebranded Coda to Superhuman Docs on 8 July 2026. Same product underneath. Same Maker billing. New name, new URLs. The Business plan was called Team before the rebrand.
Chat with the doc, and the doc changes
The AI here does something more interesting than drafting paragraphs. You talk to the document and the document restructures itself as you go.
There is also unusually broad MCP support, covering Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Google Antigravity.
A lot of it is still in beta
AI Views turn a plain table into something closer to a small custom tool. They are in closed beta. Databases and Docs AI are both in beta too.
If you need it working today, buy it for the formulas, the automations and the billing model. Not for the beta features.
One note on price. Superhuman only publishes Docs pricing in your local currency, with no way to switch it. In pounds, Pro is £10 per Doc Maker per month billed annually, or £12 monthly. Business is £28 annually, £33 monthly. Check your own currency at the source before you buy.
Superhuman Docs Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Only builders are billed, so most of a team costs nothing
- Grammarly, Go and Mail come with it, which no direct Airtable rival matches
- Formulas and automations are stronger than Notion's
- Embeds Jira and Figma, so the doc becomes the meeting point
- MCP support across Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Google Antigravity
Cons
- Databases, Docs AI and AI Views are all still in beta
- The rebrand threw away a decade of name recognition
- Pricing is shown in local currency only, with no switcher
- Connectors refresh daily on Pro. Hourly needs Business
Bottom line
Genuinely relational and strongly visual. Model your own system, get AI in the price, and never pay for anyone who only reads.
The creative pick for people who want to design their own tool
Fibery asks more of you than anything else here. In return you get a tool shaped exactly like your work rather than someone else's idea of it.
You design the tool, it does not design you
Fibery is the creative option on this list. Most tools here hand you a structure and ask you to fit into it. This one hands you the parts.
It has an Airtable feel and it is strongly visual. Relational databases underneath. Then views, formulas, automations, documents and whiteboards on top. The AI will build databases for you rather than just write text. It is a natural fit for a product manager tool stack.
Nobody who only reads ever costs you
Fibery charges for members. Observers and guests are free on every plan, including the free one.
The free tier covers up to 10 users rather than one. Their pricing page makes a point of not being a disguised trial. Paid plans are $12 per user per month on Standard and $20 on Pro, billed yearly, with $40 on Enterprise. AI is included in all three.
One platform instead of five
The pitch is replacing Miro, Asana, Jira, docs and Google Sheets together. Not swapping one tool for another.
There is a remote MCP server on every tier including free. There is a browser extension. The mobile app is genuinely good, which is rare in this category.
The setup time is the real price
You are modelling a system, not filling in a template. That is the point, and it is also the cost.
If you need something running by Friday, pick something else. If you want the tool to fit your process rather than the other way around, this is the one.
It is built and hosted in Europe with GDPR and EU data residency by default. Startups get six months free on Pro. Non-profits and education get 50% off. Open-source projects get it free.
Fibery Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Observers and guests free on every plan, against Airtable's paid Portals
- The free tier covers a team of 10, not just an individual
- AI included in the seat price
- More relational depth than Notion, more flexibility than Airtable
- Replaces several tools at once, which is where the saving actually is
- A good mobile app, and unlimited MCP even on free
Cons
- The learning curve is steep and unavoidable
- Enterprise has a 25 paid-user minimum, which puts it out of reach for mid-sized teams
- Charts, whiteboards and dashboards are private-only on the free plan
- A much smaller community and template library than Airtable
Bottom line
Now a connected GRC platform aimed at regulated teams. Narrower than it was, and sharper for it. No free plan though.
It stopped chasing Airtable and became something else
SmartSuite is a different product from the one people remember. Worth a serious look if you are regulated. Worth skipping if you are not.
Who it is built for now
SmartSuite used to be a project management tool with an Airtable-shaped database underneath. That is not what it is now.
It calls itself a connected GRC platform for the enterprise. The product has narrowed onto four things:
- Governance, risk and compliance
- IT service delivery
- Project and portfolio management
- Business operations
That is a deliberate move away from being popular and towards being specific. If you are a security-focused or regulated team, it is a sharper recommendation than it used to be. If you wanted a general Airtable swap, it has left that fight.
AI is in the price
SmartSuite AI is listed on every paid tier, including the $15 Team plan. That includes AI assistants aimed at compliance work.
Compare that with ClickUp, where AI is a separate subscription at $9 or $28 per user on top of the seat.
HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance are in place. Recycle bin windows run 30, 45 and 60 days by tier, which matters more than it sounds when auditors are involved.
No free plan, and seat minimums
There is no permanent free tier. You get a 14-day Professional trial, with no credit card and no auto-charge at the end.
Paid plans carry minimums. Three billable users on Team, five on Professional. A two-person team cannot buy the entry plan at all.
We put it head to head in our SmartSuite vs monday comparison.
SmartSuite Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- AI included on every paid tier rather than sold separately
- Cheaper entry than Airtable at $15/seat against $20
- Unlimited Solutions on every plan
- HIPAA and ISO compliance without a bespoke contract
- Gantt and portfolio management included rather than upsold
Cons
- No free plan at all, and 3 to 5 seat minimums on paid
- Records cap at 5,000 per Solution on Team, which is low for a paid tier
- Professional more than doubles the price at $32/seat
- Deliberately niche now, so a much smaller community and template library
Bottom line
$7 a user and a usable free plan. Custom fields are not linked records though, so relational work does not translate.
Cheaper seats, if the job was really project management
ClickUp is the cheapest serious seat on this page. It is also the most likely to be the wrong shape, so start by being honest about what your base actually does.
The 80% rule
ClickUp ships micro-experiences. These are features that do about 80% of a specialist tool's job, inside the tool you are already in.
An AI note-taker that joins your meetings. Talk-to-text. Enterprise search. Whiteboards.
They are good. They are not what a specialist does. The whiteboards are great and they will not do what Miro does. That is the trade you are making, and for a lot of teams it is worth it.
Brain is the bet
The centre of the product is now Brain, pitched as a company brain. Everything your team knows, in one location. The problem it claims to solve is context switching, context missing and context stitching.
That is the same bet Notion is making, arrived at from the opposite direction. Notion started as a place to write and grew agents. ClickUp started as a place to track work and grew a brain.
What a seat actually costs
Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed yearly, with unlimited storage. Business is $12. The free plan is genuinely usable rather than a trial, with unlimited tasks and unlimited free members.
Then read this bit carefully, because it is easy to get wrong. The AI plan is its own subscription on top of the workspace plan. Brain AI is $9 per user per month. Everything AI is $28.
What is included inside that is every model. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all come with it at no extra charge.
So a Business seat with Brain AI is $21 per user per month. With Everything AI it is $40. The $7 headline is not the whole story.
It is not a database
Custom fields are not linked records. If you came to Airtable for relational data, ClickUp will not give it to you. It does sit near the top of our project management software list, which is the job it is actually good at.
ClickUp Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- $7/user/mo, the cheapest paid seat in this lineup
- The free plan is usable, with unlimited tasks and unlimited free members
- Unlimited storage from the first paid tier
- Docs, whiteboards, goals and time tracking all included
- Every AI model included once you are on an AI plan
Cons
- AI is a separate $9 to $28 per user subscription on top
- Not a relational database, so not a like-for-like swap
- Nothing in it is best in class
- Free storage is only 60 MB
Bottom line
Point it at the base you already run and give clients a real login. It now builds the database and the workflows too.
The front end your Airtable base never had
Softr is the only tool here that does not ask you to leave Airtable. It sits on top of what you already have.
It does three jobs now, not one
Softr has changed. It used to be a front end for someone else's data. It now handles the database, the app and the workflows.
That third one is the underrated part. Triggers and logic are normally what eat the build time.
You build by chatting. There are database AI agents that will populate an entire row or column from a plain-language question. Templates cover CRMs, portals, inventory, intranets, dashboards and ERP. That range makes it a regular in agency tool stacks.
The client portal case
If your problem is specifically the Portals bill, this is the usual answer.
Point Softr at the Airtable base you already run. It builds a client-facing app on top, with logins, permissions and branding. Nothing gets migrated. Your team keeps working in the base. Your clients log into a portal and interact with their own records.
GDPR, SOC 2, SSO and 99.9% uptime are all in place. That is why it holds up for larger clients.
Watch where the price actually lands
Basic is $19 a month. It gives you one builder and keeps Softr branding on the app.
Removing that branding needs Pro at $99. Anything genuinely client-facing realistically starts there, not at $19.
AI credits are tight at the bottom too. Five a month on free, ten on Basic. That is not much when chatting is how you build.
Softr Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Turns an existing Airtable base into a client portal without migrating anything
- Priced by app user rather than by editor
- Unlimited apps, databases, workflows and forms on every plan, including free
- Handles database, app and workflows, so no separate automation tool
- GDPR, SOC 2, SSO and 99.9% uptime
Cons
- If you keep the data in Airtable, you now pay for both
- Branding removal needs the $99 Pro plan
- AI credits are tight on the cheaper tiers
- Basic gives you exactly one builder
Bottom line
Zite charges per workspace, not per person. $15 a month covers everyone, which is the bluntest answer to Airtable's seat pricing.
Flat price, unlimited people
Zite prices the workspace rather than the people in it. For a team with a lot of occasional users, that single decision is the whole argument.
Apps, databases and workflows together
Zite handles all three in one place. You describe what you want and it builds it.
A worked example gives you the shape. Build a feedback database that summarises survey responses. Connect it to Slack and Google Sheets. Then the workflow layer handles the logic and the connections out to Calendly, file storage, payment systems, CRMs and messaging.
It is aimed at the MVP moment, when you need something working for your team now rather than next quarter. That makes it a natural fit alongside a founder productivity stack. Over 100,000 teams use it, including Domino's.
Nobody is billed per head
The pricing page leads with unlimited users on every plan, including free. That is the entire pitch.
Pro is $15 a month for the whole workspace. Business is $55. Users, editors, apps and databases are unlimited throughout.
Put that next to Airtable Business at $45 per editor, plus $150 a month for 15 Portal guests. The difference stops being a rounding error.
Credits are the real limit
Since you are not paying per person, the meter sits elsewhere. 100 credits a month on Pro, 200 on Business, plus caps on database records and workflow runs. If you iterate heavily, that is where you will feel it. Worth pairing with a proper automation stack if you are running lean.
Zite Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Unlimited users on every plan, including free
- $15/mo for the whole workspace, not per seat
- 5,000 records and 1,000 workflow runs a month on the free plan
- You get a working app, not a grid with a view on it
- AI training opt-out by default on Business
Cons
- Credits are the real ceiling, and they are not generous
- Records cap at 250,000, below Airtable's Business tier
- Newer and less proven than most of this list
- Generate-then-refine will frustrate anyone who wants precise control
Bottom line
The fastest tool here to get a non-technical team using. Unlimited free viewers, but it is work management rather than a database.
The easiest one to roll out
monday is the safe pick when adoption is the risk rather than capability. It is built to be rolled out, not configured.
Viewers cost nothing, and there are usually a lot of them
monday gives you unlimited free viewers from the Basic plan upwards.
For a team with a lot of stakeholders who only need to check status, that removes a whole category of cost. Airtable charges for those people.
Built to be adopted, not configured
Airtable hands you a blank base. monday hands you a board and a template.
The colour-coded status columns are the thing everyone recognises, and teams tend to be productive on day one. That guardrail is also the limit. It is less flexible than a real database, and it shows up more often in marketing project management stacks than in data ones.
What it costs, and what it costs later
Basic is $9 per seat per month. Standard is $12. Pro is $19. Paying yearly takes 18% off.
Read the small print though. Those advertised prices carry a special offer, and monday shows the undiscounted figure struck through next to them. The discount applies to your first year. Renewal is at the higher rate, so check what year two costs before you commit a team to it.
Storage runs 5 GB, 20 GB and 100 GB across those three. Automations and integrations only start on Standard. You get 250 actions a month there, rising to 25,000 on Pro.
Two things that catch people out
Seats are sold in bands, so you may buy ten when you need seven.
And the product splits into four separately priced lines: Work Management, CRM, Service and Dev. A team wanting CRM and project management pays twice, and the CRM line is dearer at $12, $17 and $28 per seat.
The free plan is close to a demo. Two seats, three boards, 500 MB of storage.
monday Pros & Cons vs Airtable
Pros
- Unlimited free viewers on every paid plan
- The easiest tool here to get a non-technical team using
- AI credits bundled into every paid tier
- Big template library and a mature app marketplace
Cons
- Not a relational database, so not a like-for-like Airtable swap
- The headline prices are a first-year special offer and rise on renewal
- Seats are sold in bands, which inflates the real cost
- Four separate product lines bill separately
- Free plan caps at two seats and three boards
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Bending Spoons buying Airtable mean for my data?
What does Bending Spoons buying Airtable mean for my data?
Nothing has changed yet. The deal was agreed on 4 August 2026 and is expected to close later in the year, subject to regulatory approval. Airtable works exactly as it did before. The reason people are asking is the track record: after Bending Spoons acquired Evernote, prices rose sharply and the free plan was cut back. Bending Spoons says it is committed to Airtable for the long run. If ownership is your concern, export your bases to CSV now and look at Baserow, which is open source and can be self-hosted.
What is the best free Airtable alternative?
What is the best free Airtable alternative?
It depends what you are running out of. Baserow is the most generous on people, with 500 external app users where Airtable charges from $120 a month for 15. Fibery covers a team of 10 on its free tier rather than an individual. Zite gives you unlimited users on free. Notion is still the most generous for a single person.
Is there an open source Airtable alternative?
Is there an open source Airtable alternative?
Yes. Baserow is open source and the only tool on this list you can run on your own infrastructure, via Cloud Run, Docker, AWS or Helm. There is a managed private instance option too, if you want the control without the operations work. One thing to budget for: the Premium, Advanced and Enterprise feature tiers need a paid licence key even when you self-host.
Why is Airtable so expensive for small teams?
Why is Airtable so expensive for small teams?
Two things stack up. Every editor needs a seat, at $20 a month on Team or $45 on Business billed annually. Then external access is a separate add-on, with Portals starting at $120 a month for 15 guests. A five-person agency on Business with a handful of client logins can pass $375 a month. Most alternatives here bill differently. Superhuman Docs only charges for people who build. Zite does not count people at all.
What is the cheapest way to give clients access to a database?
What is the cheapest way to give clients access to a database?
If you want to keep your Airtable base, Softr builds a client portal on top of it and charges by app user instead of by editor. If you are willing to move, Baserow includes 500 external app users on its free plan and Fibery makes guests free on every tier. Worth noting that removing Softr branding needs its $99 Pro plan, so budget for that rather than the $19 entry price.
Which Airtable alternative is closest to Airtable?
Which Airtable alternative is closest to Airtable?
Baserow is the nearest match on shape. A relational database with views, dashboards and automations, doing the same four jobs. SmartSuite used to be the obvious answer, but it has repositioned as a compliance and GRC platform, so it now fits regulated teams better than general use. Fibery has the most relational depth if you are willing to invest the setup time.
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