Compare · checked 2026-10-12
Rowflare vs Airtable
Airtable: Per-seat SaaS: Team $20, Business $45 per seat / month billed annually. No self-hosting.
| Fact | Rowflare | Airtable | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2026-10-12 |
| Unit of billing | Per workspace (Cloud); none when self-hosted | Per seat | 2026-10-12 |
| Self-hosting cost | Free software. Cloudflare Workers Paid from $5/month covers the whole team | Not offered | 2026-10-12 |
| Self-hosted edition license | AGPL-3.0 | Not offered | 2026-10-12 |
| 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 | 2026-10-12 |
| Underlying database | SQLite inside a Cloudflare Durable Object, one per base | Proprietary; each base is read into memory on a dedicated worker (engineering blog) | 2026-10-12 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary | 2026-10-12 |
| 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) | 2026-10-12 |
| GitHub stars | New project | Not open source | 2026-10-12 |
| 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 | 2026-10-12 |
| Timeline / Gantt view | Yes, with lanes, all editions | Timeline and Gantt on Team, Business, Enterprise Scale (not Free) | 2026-10-12 |
| Gallery view | Yes, all editions | Yes, all plans | 2026-10-12 |
| Dashboards and charts | Yes: metric, bar, line, pie and pivot; all editions | Yes, Interface Designer chart element, all plans | 2026-10-12 |
| 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 | 2026-10-12 |
| 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 | 2026-10-12 |
| Official MCP server | Yes, built in at /mcp, all editions | Yes, official hosted MCP server, all plans | 2026-10-12 |