Airtable pricing: the list price, and what a team actually pays

Airtable's per-seat price is the easy part of the bill, and not the part that surprises people. The rest is decided by three things: who on your team counts as a billable seat, whether you pay monthly or annually, and what happens when somebody joins in March. All the figures below were read from Airtable's own plans, pricing and support pages on 5 September 2026.

The published prices

Per seat, per month, in US dollars.

Plan	Billed annually	Billed monthly
Free	$0	$0
Team	$20	$24
Business	$45	$54
Enterprise Scale	no published price — sales-led	—

Two footnotes to that table. Registered non-profits pay $12 a seat a month, and pay the same whether they choose monthly or annual. And Enterprise Scale has no list price at all: third-party figures for it circulate, none of them from Airtable, so this page doesn't print one.

Billing attaches to a workspace, not to an account. Two workspaces are two plans and two bills.

Business and Enterprise Scale also need a private email domain. An account on a Gmail or Yahoo address cannot upgrade to either one.

Who counts as a billable seat

Airtable bills collaborators, and the definition moves between plans:

• Read-only collaborators are never billed. True on every plan, and both of Airtable's support pages agree on it.
• Owners, creators and editors are billed on Team and on Business alike.
• Commenters are the one class we can't tell you about. Airtable's two support pages say different things: the plans page says Team bills anyone with commenter permission or higher, and the billable-collaborators page says Team bills owners, creators and editors. Both were read on 2026-09-05. If your team has a lot of people who only leave comments, that is the question to put to Airtable in writing before you count seats.

What five people actually pay

Five people who all build things. On Team billed annually, five billable seats at $20 is $100 a month. Pay monthly instead and it's five at $24 — $120 a month — so annual billing is $4 a seat a month cheaper, in exchange for a year-long commitment.

Five people, paying by the month, on Business. Five billable seats at $54 is $270 a month; billed annually the same five are $45 each, $225. Business also needs a private email domain, so a team on Gmail cannot buy it at all.

The seat you add in March

This is the number nobody budgets for.

On monthly billing, a new billable collaborator isn't charged until the next billing date. Add someone today, pay for them next month.

On annual billing, the owner is charged for that seat's full remaining annual contract, at once. A Team seat added with seven months left on the contract is 7 × $20 — $140 charged then, not $20.

And it runs one way only: removing a collaborator mid-cycle doesn't reduce the current invoice. Somebody who joins in March and leaves in September is paid for to the end of the term. If your headcount moves during the year, the annual discount is worth less than it looks.

The limits that come with each price

	Free	Team	Business
Records per base	1,000	50,000	125,000
Attachments per base	1 GB	20 GB	100 GB
Automation runs a month	100	25,000	100,000
API calls a month	1,000	100,000	no monthly cap

Enterprise Scale is missing from that table on purpose. Airtable's plans page sends you to its sales team for that tier rather than publishing the numbers, so we have none to give you that would be theirs.

The units are not the same down that table, which is easy to miss. Records and attachments are counted per base. Automation runs and API calls are counted per workspace — every base in it shares the one allowance.

Three details worth having before you pick a plan:

• Failed automation runs count. A misconfigured automation that errors 25,000 times has spent a Team workspace's month.
• The API rate limit is 5 requests a second per base, on every tier — 300 a minute — and Airtable publishes that it cannot be raised. Money buys monthly volume here, not speed.
• The monthly call caps behave differently at each end. The free plan's 1,000 calls come with a one-time 30-day grace period. Past Team's 100,000 you are throttled to 2 requests a second rather than stopped.

The free column has a page of its own: what 1,000 records per base means once three tables share it, and what stops when you reach it, is in Airtable's free plan.

When you go over a limit

Airtable's pricing FAQ answers this plainly: you keep your data, your bases keep working, you're notified, and you can't add more records or attachments until you upgrade. Nothing is deleted for being over the line.

AI is included on every plan

Airtable AI is on every plan, the free one included, as monthly credits: 500 per editor-and-above on Free, 15,000 per billable collaborator on Team, 20,000 per paid user on self-serve Business, 25,000 on Enterprise Scale. Extra capacity is sold in credit packs starting at $20 a month for 10,000 credits.

This replaced an earlier per-seat AI add-on, so any write-up quoting a separate per-seat price for AI is describing the old shape, not the current one.

The prices have not moved since 2023

The current plan structure dates from Airtable's pricing announcement of 24 August 2023. There has been no published change to Airtable's prices or plan limits in 2026.

That's worth stating because the search results say otherwise. Several third-party posts claim the free plan was cut from 1,200 records to 1,000 in February 2026. It wasn't; the figure Airtable publishes is 1,000, and that isn't a 2026 reduction.

The owner changed; the price list didn't

On 4 September 2026, Bending Spoons completed its acquisition of Airtable — both companies published it the same day, and the agreement announced a month earlier put enterprise value at $1.285 billion. Neither company has published anything about pricing. The plans, the seat rates and the limits above are the ones on Airtable's pages the day after the deal closed.

How we price

Since you're reading this on our site: Tabla counts editors and nothing else. Viewers are free at any number, the first editor is free, and the count stops at 25 — the 40th person doesn't move the bill. Every feature is on every plan, so there is no matrix to learn and no capability waiting behind an upgrade. The API has no monthly call cap and runs at 600 requests a minute per key. Everything is free during the open beta, and whatever rate you're on when it ends is the rate you keep. The rates are on pricing, the explanation is in what's free during the beta, and every number we actually enforce is in every limit in Tabla.

If you're weighing a move rather than a renewal, the vocabulary and the things that land differently are in coming from Airtable, and getting a copy of your data out first is exporting an Airtable base.