I also use it for consulting and have setup multiple clients on Airtable in one form or another, but some are already finding themselves up against even the limits of the Pro plan due to the attachment space far more than the records limitation. Unfortunately Plus doesn't meet our needs and the main reason is the personal/locked views and sections to group those views, plus the timeline view since we have what we call "buddy reads" where groups of people organizing reading a book or series together and so one sheet is dedicated to tracking those from start to finish. But pricing isn't one of them.Īgreed on all fronts. I'm moving my longtime FileMaker consulting practice out of FileMaker and to the newer web-based tools, including Airtable, and I have lot of good reasons for doing so. And with FileMaker you get unlimited records and a lot more. (Stacker also claims "unlimited records" but I don't know what that means if it is connecting to an Airtable base on the back end, since the Airtable base has a 50K limit.) For small projects, Stacker's not cheap, but the $60/month Starter plan (1 app) may be all you need.Īirtable basically costs more than FileMaker, which is a massively richer, more flexible, and more mature RDBMS than Airtable. At the moment I'm kind of frustrated with Knack for technical reasons but it's got a lot of good things going, including considerably better user-management features than Airtable.Īnd if you use Stacker or Softer or Noloco (the newest and also the cheapest, last time I checked) you can pay for 1 Airtable account, 1 (say) Stacker account, and get basically unlimited users. But in theory it's possible.įor what it's worth, Knack charges by the number of apps (individual databases) and the max number of records but provides for unlimited users. From a security standpoint this is a terrible idea. A "user account" is of course supposed to be a person, but it could be a shared staff account at a small organization. Have you considered a Plus plan?Īirtable (like the new Baserow.io) base their pricing partly on record quotas, but they charge by the user account. Yes I agree: pricing is one of Airtable's major weaknesses, from my perspective as a consultant. What we've started doing is organizing all the big data in Airtable and then when it requires collaboration that data is then copied over into Google Sheets and a larger group of people chime in and make changes, and then unfortunately those changes are manually copied back over as needed, but at least it's better than paying almost $1000 more to add 4 more collaborators to the base. I run a large book club community on Discord and Airtable is the backbone for a large amount of information tracking and things that we do, but I am buried under the volume of data that we use to it to track and the cost required to add more people to help me manage it since I'm already paying for myself and another person out of pocket. The fact that Pro is $20 per person per month is just not reasonable for personal or non-profit use (in my opinion). I have been using Airtable for about 8 years now and I have no plans of stopping, but I also find their pricing structure to be absolutely ridiculous and not really attainable for small businesses let alone anything that isn't a money generating venture.
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