# Rowflare

> Rowflare is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) Airtable alternative that runs on your own Cloudflare account, one SQLite-backed Durable Object per base. Pay Cloudflare $5/month for the whole team instead of $20 per seat.

Facts checked 2026-10-12:

- License: AGPL-3.0 (open source). Commercial license available for closed-source embedding, white-label and client delivery (one-time fee, includes one year of updates).
- Self-hosted price: $0. Runs on the user's own Cloudflare account; requires the Cloudflare Workers Paid plan, $5/month per account, unlimited users.
- Rowflare Cloud: a Free plan (3 bases, 1,000 records per base) and a Paid plan at $29 per workspace per month or $290 per year, unlimited members, all features in both.
- No per-seat pricing. SSO, audit logs and permissions are never paywalled. Features that are open source today never move to a paid tier.
- Architecture: one SQLite-backed Cloudflare Durable Object per base; Workers serve the app and REST API; D1 stores accounts; R2 stores attachments.
- Limits: designed for 50,000 rows per base; supports up to 125,000 rows per base.
- Views: grid (grouping by up to 3 fields with group totals), kanban, calendar (month and week), timeline with lanes, gallery, form.
- Dashboards: metric cards, bar, line and pie charts, pivot tables, a shared date range, and the records behind every number.
- Automations: triggers on record created, updated or matching conditions, schedules, dates reached, webhooks and buttons; steps that create, update and find records, send HTTP requests and email (Cloudflare Email Service, Resend or SMTP), run an AI prompt, and branch; run log, retries and loop protection.
- AI fields: text, choice, number, date or checkbox fields filled by a model from a prompt over other fields and images, with the workspace's own key for Anthropic or any OpenAI-compatible service (OpenAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Zhipu, OpenRouter, Gemini, Ollama), or Workers AI on Cloudflare.
- MCP server at /mcp for Claude, Cursor and other AI clients, with a personal access token: records, tables, views, dashboards, automations and grouped totals by name.
- Performance at 50,000 rows (median, inside the Durable Object): open view 0.14 ms, edit cell with rollup update 1.4 ms, filter by any field 74 ms, sort 80 ms, full formula column recompute 575 ms.
- Performance at 125,000 rows: edit cell with rollup update 9-12 ms, filter 405 ms, sort 406 ms, full formula column recompute 2,709 ms.
- Why the free Cloudflare plan is not enough: 10 ms CPU per request and 5 million SQLite rows read per day; one filter on a 50,000-row base reads 50,000 rows, so about 100 filters a day exhaust it.
- Cloudflare Workers Paid includes 25 billion SQLite rows read, 50 million rows written and 5 GB-month storage per month.
- Airtable comparison: Airtable Team is $20 per seat per month billed annually ($24 monthly) with 50,000 records per base; Business is $45 ($54) with 125,000 records per base.
- Import: CSV import with type inference, and direct Airtable import (personal access token with schema.bases:read and data.records:read) that copies tables, fields, records, links, lookups, rollups, formulas and attachments.

## Key pages

- [Try Rowflare Cloud](https://app.rowflare.com/signup): sign up and use the free plan
- [Features](https://rowflare.com/features/): views, dashboards, automations, AI fields, MCP server, each with its test record
- [Test results](https://rowflare.com/verification/): automated test counts, benchmarks and hands-on scenarios per feature
- [Pricing](https://rowflare.com/pricing/): self-hosted free, Cloud Free and Paid ($29 per workspace per month), commercial license
- [Deploy to Cloudflare](https://rowflare.com/deploy/): one-click deploy, requirements, environment variables, costs
- [Airtable pricing calculator](https://rowflare.com/airtable-pricing-calculator/): Airtable Team and Business cost by seat count vs Rowflare
- [Import from Airtable](https://rowflare.com/import-airtable/): CSV and direct import, field type mapping
- [Templates](https://rowflare.com/templates/): project tracker, CRM, content calendar, bug tracker, inventory
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/rowflare/rowflare)
- [One-click deploy link](https://deploy.workers.cloudflare.com/?url=https://github.com/rowflare/rowflare)

## Comparisons

- [All products](https://rowflare.com/compare/)
- [Rowflare vs Airtable](https://rowflare.com/compare/airtable/): Per-seat SaaS: Team $20, Business $45 per seat / month billed annually. No self-hosting.
- [Rowflare vs NocoDB](https://rowflare.com/compare/nocodb/): Sustainable Use License (not OSI). Cloud per seat or $108 / $216 per month for unlimited seats.
- [Rowflare vs Baserow](https://rowflare.com/compare/baserow/): MIT open-source core plus paid Premium / Enterprise. Cloud from $10 per user / month.
- [Rowflare vs Teable](https://rowflare.com/compare/teable/): AGPL-3.0 on PostgreSQL, paid AI and enterprise features. Cloud from $13 per seat / month.
- [Rowflare vs Grist](https://rowflare.com/compare/grist/): Apache-2.0 Community edition; SSO removed from it in 2026-09. Cloud from $8 per user / month.
- [Rowflare vs Feishu Bitable / Lark Base](https://rowflare.com/compare/feishu-bitable/): 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.

## Docs

- [Self-hosting on Cloudflare](https://rowflare.com/docs/self-hosting/): Deploy Rowflare to your own Cloudflare account with one click or from the command line, or run it with Docker on any server. Requirements, created resources, settings, updates, backups and costs.
- [Import from Airtable](https://rowflare.com/docs/import-airtable/): Move Airtable bases to Rowflare with CSV import or direct import using a personal access token. What is copied, what is not, and how field types map.
- [REST API](https://rowflare.com/docs/api/): Read and write records over HTTP with personal access tokens. Modeled on the Airtable Web API so existing scripts port with small changes.
- [MCP server](https://rowflare.com/docs/mcp/): Connect Claude, Cursor and other AI clients to your bases over the Model Context Protocol to read, write, build tables and get grouped totals.
- [Architecture](https://rowflare.com/docs/architecture/): How Rowflare stores a base in one SQLite-backed Durable Object, keeps lookups, rollups and formulas up to date, and pushes changes to every open browser.

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://rowflare.com/llms-full.txt): all docs and comparison facts in one file