Compare · checked 2026-10-12
Airtable alternatives, compared fact by fact
Airtable, NocoDB, Baserow, Teable, Grist, Feishu Bitable / Lark Base and Rowflare: prices, billing units, limits and licenses from each vendor's pricing page and GitHub repository. Where a fact was not in our sources it says "Not checked". We make Rowflare, so read its column with that in mind.
Which one fits
- You want to stop paying per seat and already use Cloudflare: Rowflare. One $5/month Workers Paid plan covers the whole team, and the self-hosted edition is the full product under AGPL-3.0.
- Your bases are larger than 125,000 rows: not Rowflare. NocoDB's self-hosted Community edition has no record limit, and the cloud plans of Baserow, Teable and NocoDB go to 250,000 to 1,000,000 rows.
- You want a spreadsheet UI on a database you already run: NocoDB connects to existing PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite databases.
- You need an OSI-approved license for commercial use: check NocoDB's Sustainable Use License first, which allows internal business or non-commercial use only. Baserow's core is MIT, Grist's Community edition Apache-2.0, Teable and Rowflare AGPL-3.0.
- You build interfaces and apps on top of your data: Airtable's Interface Designer, or Teable's App Builder. Rowflare deliberately has no app builder.
- Your company already runs on Feishu or Lark: Bitable / Base is part of the suite you pay for, priced per user.
Every statement above comes from the fact tables below and the sources on each comparison page. See also the Airtable pricing calculator.
Rowflare vs Airtable
Per-seat SaaS: Team $20, Business $45 per seat / month billed annually. No self-hosting.
See the fact tableRowflare vs NocoDB
Sustainable Use License (not OSI). Cloud per seat or $108 / $216 per month for unlimited seats.
See the fact tableRowflare vs Baserow
MIT open-source core plus paid Premium / Enterprise. Cloud from $10 per user / month.
See the fact tableRowflare vs Teable
AGPL-3.0 on PostgreSQL, paid AI and enterprise features. Cloud from $13 per seat / month.
See the fact tableRowflare vs Grist
Apache-2.0 Community edition; SSO removed from it in 2026-09. Cloud from $8 per user / month.
See the fact tableRowflare vs Feishu Bitable / Lark Base
Part of the Feishu / Lark suite, per user: Lark $6 to $12 per user / month billed yearly; 2,000 to 50,000 rows per table.
See the fact tableAll products
| Fact | Rowflare | Airtable | NocoDB | Baserow | Teable | Grist | Feishu Bitable / Lark Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted price | Cloud: free plan, Paid $29 per workspace / month, unlimited members | Free $0 (up to 5 editors); Team $20 per seat / month billed annually, $24 monthly; Business $45 annually, $54 monthly; Enterprise Scale custom | Free $0 (3 editors); Plus $12 per seat / month billed annually ($15 monthly) or $108 / month for unlimited seats ($135 monthly); Business $24 per seat ($30 monthly) or $216 / month unlimited ($270 monthly); Scale $45 per seat ($54 monthly), minimum 3 seats; Enterprise custom | Free $0; Premium $10 per user / month billed annually ($12 monthly); Advanced $18 ($22 monthly); Enterprise on request | Free $0; Pro $13 per seat / month billed yearly ($24 monthly); Business $20 yearly ($36 monthly) | Free $0; Pro $8 per user / month billed annually ($10 monthly); Business $24 annually ($30 monthly), minimum 5 users; Enterprise contact sales | Per user / month, billed yearly. Lark: Starter $0, Basic $6, Pro $12, Enterprise quote. Feishu: CNY 0 / 50 / 80 / 120 |
| Unit of billing | Per workspace (Cloud); none when self-hosted | Per seat | Per seat, or a flat price for unlimited seats (you pay for 9 users) | Per user | Per seat | Per user (team member); 2 free guests per document | Per user (sold as part of the Feishu / Lark suite) |
| Self-hosting cost | Free software. Cloudflare Workers Paid from $5/month covers the whole team | Not offered | Community edition $0 with unlimited records and seats; self-hosted Business $24 per seat / month billed annually | Open-source core $0; self-hosted Premium $10 per user / month | Not checked | Community edition $0; self-hosted Grist $24 per user / month annually ($30 monthly), free activation key for organizations under $1M total annual income | Not checked (no official self-hosted offering found) |
| Self-hosted edition license | AGPL-3.0 | Not offered | Sustainable Use License 1.0 (fair-code, not OSI-approved) | MIT core; Premium and Enterprise features under a paid license | AGPL-3.0 community edition; paid tiers unlock AI and enterprise features | Apache-2.0 Community edition; paid self-hosted edition for admin, SSO and audit features | Not checked |
| Record limits | 50,000 rows per base (designed target); 125,000 rows per base supported | Per base: Free 1,000; Team 50,000; Business 125,000; Enterprise Scale 500,000 | Cloud: Free 1,000 (per workspace, per the pricing FAQ); Plus 50,000; Business 300,000; Scale 1 million. Self-hosted Community: unlimited | Cloud, per workspace: Free 3,000; Premium 50,000; Advanced 250,000; Enterprise 1,000,000. Self-hosted: Not checked | Cloud, per space: Free 1,000; Pro 250,000; Business 1,000,000. Rows per table: unlimited | Per document: Free 5,000; Pro 100,000; Business 150,000; Enterprise custom | Rows per table. Lark: Starter and Basic 2,000, Pro 20,000, Enterprise 50,000. Feishu: 2,000 to 50,000 by plan |
| Underlying database | SQLite inside a Cloudflare Durable Object, one per base | Proprietary; each base is read into memory on a dedicated worker (engineering blog) | Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | Not checked | Not checked |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary | Sustainable Use License 1.0 (updated 2026-01-29); internal business or non-commercial use only | MIT core + paid premium / enterprise | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 | Not checked |
| SSO in the free / open version | Never paywalled. SSO itself is on the roadmap, not in the MVP | No. SAML SSO starts on Business ($45 per seat / month) | No. SAML SSO is in self-hosted Business ($24 per seat) and cloud Business | Not checked (SSO is listed in the plan comparison; the plan column was not captured) | Cloud: Business plan only. Self-hosted community edition: Not checked | No. Removed from the Community edition in 2026-09; Custom SSO is in paid self-hosted and Enterprise | No. Lark: Enterprise only. Feishu: Business Ultimate (CNY 120) and Enterprise |
| GitHub stars | New project | Not open source | 65,251 | 6,131 | 21,884 | 11,939 | Not open source |
| Calendar view | Yes, month and week, all editions | Yes; Free has a limited calendar (no date ranges or multiple date fields), full on Team and up | Yes, including free self-hosted Community | Paid only: Premium, Advanced, Enterprise | Yes (no plan limit stated on the pricing page) | Yes, Calendar widget, all plans | Not checked (not in the official view API list) |
| Timeline / Gantt view | Yes, with lanes, all editions | Timeline and Gantt on Team, Business, Enterprise Scale (not Free) | Timeline and Gantt on Business and up (Cloud or licensed self-hosted) | Premium and up, not Free | No timeline or Gantt view in the official view list | Not checked (only a community widget found) | Gantt view on all Feishu plans incl. Free |
| Gallery view | Yes, all editions | Yes, all plans | Yes, Free plan and self-hosted Community | Yes, all plans incl. Free | Yes (no plan limit stated on the pricing page) | Card and card list widgets, all plans | Yes |
| Dashboards and charts | Yes: metric, bar, line, pie and pivot; all editions | Yes, Interface Designer chart element, all plans | Cloud Free 1 dashboard, Plus and up included; self-hosted needs Business; not in Community | Yes (summary, bar, line, pie widgets); chart widget listed on Premium | Through the App Builder; on Free per the pricing page | Charts and page layouts, all plans | Yes, all plans; per-viewer dashboards on Pro and up |
| Automations | Yes, 7 triggers and 7 kinds of steps; self-hosted run limit set by you (default 10,000 per base / month) | Yes; runs per month: Free 100, Team 25,000, Business 100,000, Enterprise Scale 500,000 | Workflows; Cloud Free 100 runs / month; Community capped at 2 workflows per base | Yes; Cloud credits / month: Free 2,000, Premium 100,000, Advanced 500,000; self-hosted unlimited | Yes; runs / month: Free 100, Pro 25,000, Business 100,000; self-hosted limits not stated | Row triggers sending email or webhooks; Business and Enterprise, or self-hosted full edition | Runs / month on Lark: Starter and Basic 1,000, Pro 50,000, Enterprise 500,000; extra 50,000 runs for $599 |
| AI that fills cells | Yes: AI fields and an AI automation step with your own key (Anthropic or any OpenAI-compatible service) or Workers AI; all editions | Yes, AI fields; credits included, extra credit packs paid; no own API key | AI on cloud plans incl. Free; own LLM key: Plus 1, Business and up unlimited; none in Community | AI prompt field on Premium and up; self-hosted uses your own key | AI field on Free with 200 one-time credits; Pro 2,000, Business 3,000 per seat; own model on Pro and up | AI Assistant for formulas and chat, credit based; not a column that fills cells | AI field shortcuts with many models; Lark plans list a trial of Base AI; billing and own key not checked |
| Official MCP server | Yes, built in at /mcp, all editions | Yes, official hosted MCP server, all plans | Yes; Community gets record tools only, Cloud and licensed self-hosted the full set | Yes, built-in MCP server; plan not stated | No official MCP server found; the official route is an agent skill plus CLI | Yes; hosted on all plans; self-hosted full edition, off by default | Yes, official Feishu / Lark OpenAPI MCP (beta), with Bitable tools |