Airtable Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Per-Seat Cost, and Hidden Fees
Airtable has four plans in 2026: a Free tier, Team at $20 per user/month, Business at $45 per user/month (both billed annually), and a custom-priced Enterprise Scale plan. Every paid plan is billed per seat, and the advertised prices are the annual-billing rates. Pay month to month and the same seats run about $24 (Team) and $54 (Business) per user.
Those headline numbers are the easy part. What actually decides your bill is how many people have edit access, which record and storage limits you hit, and whether Airtable’s AI features push you past your included credits. Airtable changes its plans and prices regularly, so treat the numbers here as a July 2026 snapshot and confirm the live figures on the official Airtable pricing page before you commit.
Airtable plans at a glance
| Plan | Price (annual) | Price (monthly) | Records/base | Attachments/base | Editors | AI credits/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1,000 | 1 GB | 5 max | 500 per editor |
| Team | $20/user/mo | ~$24/user/mo | 50,000 | 20 GB | Unlimited (billed) | 15,000 per billable collaborator |
| Business | $45/user/mo | ~$54/user/mo | 125,000 | 100 GB | Unlimited (billed) | 20,000 per paid user |
| Enterprise Scale | Custom | Custom | ~500,000 | Custom | Unlimited (billed) | 25,000 per paid user |
Prices and limits from the Airtable pricing page and plans overview, July 2026.
Free plan
The Free plan gives you unlimited bases, but each base caps at 1,000 records, 1 GB of attachments, and 2 weeks of revision history. You also get 500 AI credits per editor per month and 1,000 API calls per workspace per month.
The real ceiling is people: a Free workspace allows a maximum of 5 collaborators with Editor or Creator permissions. Read-only viewers and commenters don’t count, so a Free base can still be shared widely for viewing. But the moment a sixth person needs to edit, you’re upgrading.
Team plan — $20/user/month
Team is the plan most small teams land on. Billed annually it’s $20 per user/month; month to month it’s about $24, so annual billing saves you roughly $48 per seat per year. You get 50,000 records per base, 20 GB of attachments per base, 1 year of revision history, 25,000 automation runs per month, and 15,000 AI credits per billable collaborator.
The key word is billable. Every user with edit permission on at least one base in the workspace counts as a paid seat.
Business plan — $45/user/month
Business more than doubles the per-seat cost to $45/user/month annually (about $54 monthly, a ~$108/seat/year annual discount). In return you get 125,000 records per base, 100 GB of attachments, unlimited API calls, 20,000 AI credits per paid user, and admin/security features like SAML SSO and more granular permissions. If you’re buying Business mainly for the higher record cap, read the record-limit math below first — it’s often cheaper to restructure your bases than to jump a tier.
Enterprise Scale plan
Enterprise Scale is custom-priced through Airtable sales. It raises the record cap to roughly 500,000 records per base, adds 25,000 AI credits per paid user, and layers on enterprise governance, audit logs, and enhanced support. There’s no public price, and per-seat rates are negotiated based on volume.
The hidden costs that inflate your Airtable bill
The sticker price rarely matches the invoice. Four things drive the gap.
Every editor is a billable seat
On Team and Business, you’re charged for every user who has edit permission on at least one base in the workspace — not per base, per workspace. Add a freelancer to one small project base and they cost a full seat. Airtable does prorate seats added mid-cycle, and read-only collaborators, form submitters, and share-link viewers are free. But teams routinely underestimate this: audit who actually needs edit access before you assume a headcount.
AI credits are bundled, then metered
As of June 24, 2025, Airtable stopped charging for AI on a per-seat add-on basis. Instead, each plan bundles a pool of AI credits (15,000/collaborator on Team, 20,000/user on Business) shared across the workspace. Building apps and agents with Omni, Airtable’s AI builder, is free and doesn’t burn credits — but running AI does. A simple field-classification action might cost 1–5 credits; a document-analysis run can cost around 200; a complex research task, 50–100.
When the pool runs dry, work stops until you buy more. Extra credit packs run $20/month for 10,000 credits, $200/month for 100,000, and $800/month for 400,000 (Airtable AI billing). For an AI-heavy workflow, that overage can quietly exceed your seat cost.
The record cap forces upgrades
Each base caps records by plan — 1,000 on Free, 50,000 on Team, 125,000 on Business. Hit the ceiling and you can’t add new records until you upgrade or delete data. This is the most common reason teams jump from Team to Business: not because they need SSO, but because one base outgrew 50,000 rows. Before you pay 2.25× more per seat for the whole workspace, see whether splitting or archiving data keeps you under the cap — the mechanics are in our Airtable record limit guide.
Annual billing is the default advertised price
Every price Airtable advertises is the annual-commitment rate. Choosing monthly billing adds roughly 20% to each seat. That’s a legitimate discount if you’re confident in the tool, but it means the “$20 Team plan” is a 12-month commitment, and the flexible option is closer to $24.
Is Airtable free?
Yes, genuinely — the Free plan has no time limit and no credit-card requirement. It’s workable for a solo user or a small side project: unlimited bases, interfaces, and 500 AI credits per editor.
The two walls you’ll hit are the 1,000-records-per-base cap and the 5-editor limit. Both arrive faster than people expect once a base becomes a real system of record. If you’re bumping the record ceiling specifically, our Airtable record limit guide covers how the count works and how to stretch the Free tier further before paying.
When Airtable isn’t worth the price
Airtable’s per-seat model punishes two situations: teams where lots of people need edit access but only lightly, and use cases that are really just a spreadsheet. If your data fits in rows and columns and you don’t need Airtable’s linked-record relations, interfaces, or automations, a spreadsheet is far cheaper — see Airtable vs. Excel and Airtable vs. Google Sheets. If you want a connected-docs workspace instead of a database, compare Airtable vs. Notion. And if you like the database model but the seat math doesn’t work, we round up cheaper and free-tier-friendlier options in Airtable alternatives.
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FAQ
How much does Airtable cost per month? Team is $20/user/month billed annually (about $24 billed monthly), and Business is $45/user/month annually (about $54 monthly). The Free plan is $0, and Enterprise Scale is custom-priced.
Does everyone on my team count as a paid seat? Only users with edit permission on at least one base in the workspace are billable. Read-only viewers, commenters, form submitters, and share-link recipients are free.
Are Airtable’s AI features included or an add-on? Included, up to a point. Each plan bundles a monthly pool of AI credits (500 per editor on Free, 15,000 per collaborator on Team, 20,000 per user on Business). Building with Omni is free, but running AI consumes credits, and you buy more in packs starting at $20/month for 10,000 once the pool is exhausted.
What happens when I hit the record limit? You can’t add new records to that base until you delete data or upgrade to a higher plan. The caps are 1,000 (Free), 50,000 (Team), and 125,000 (Business) records per base.
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