Documentation-based comparison
Activepieces versus Airtable
Compare documented scope and conditions. Unknowns remain unknown; different billing units do not establish a cost winner.
What the evidence answers
A reading of reviewed official documentation for Activepieces and Airtable. It is not a hands-on test, a ranking or a recommendation of one product.
Price
- Activepieces From $20/mo
- Free: no subscription charge
- Plus: $20.00 monthly
- Plus: $192.00 annual ($16/mo equivalent)
- Team: $200.00 monthly
- Team: $1,992.00 annual ($166/mo equivalent)
- Ultimate: Vendor quotation required
- Airtable From $24/mo per user
- Free: no subscription charge
- Team: $24.00 monthly per seat
- Team: $240.00 annual per seat ($20/mo equivalent)
- Business: $54.00 monthly per seat
- Business: $540.00 annual per seat ($45/mo equivalent)
- Enterprise Scale: Vendor quotation required
These prices use different billing units. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.
Documented for both
- Usage definition
- Activepieces One flow run uses one credit, however many steps it has.
- Airtable Automation usage is counted in runs per month against a per-plan limit (100 to 500,000).
- Included volume
- Activepieces Free: 1,000 creditsPlus: 10,000 credits per monthTeam: 50,000 credits per monthUltimate: Credits sized with you, reset yearly
- Airtable Automations per base: 75 on Free, 100 on Team, 150 on Business, 200 on Enterprise Scale; Runs per month: 100 on Free, 25,000 on Team, 100,000 on Business, 500,000 on Enterprise ScaleFree: 100 automation runs per monthTeam: 25,000 automation runs per monthBusiness: 100,000 automation runs per monthEnterprise Scale: 500,000 automation runs per month
- Premium integrations
- Activepieces Apps without a ready-made piece can be reached through the HTTP piece or a webhook; pieces are open-source TypeScript.Embed: 760+ integrations, a flow builder and AI agents inside your own product under your own brand
- Airtable Automations can work with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Facebook and Twitter, and can run JavaScript.Team: Standard sync integrationsBusiness: Premium sync integrations, Two-way sync, Verified dataEnterprise Scale: Enterprise Scale integrations
- AI charges
- Activepieces AI steps add credits on top of the run: 2 on a fast model, 10 on a smart model, 20 on a frontier model; Agentic actions are 1 credit each; On Plus and higher, your own AI provider keys make every AI step 1 credit, with the model cost billed by your provider
- Airtable Extra AI credits come in packs of 10k to 200k, starting at USD 20 a month for 10,000 credits.Free: 500 AI credits per editor per monthTeam: 15,000 AI credits per paid user per monthBusiness: 20,000 AI credits per paid user per monthEnterprise Scale: 25,000 AI credits per paid user per month
- Overage charges
- Activepieces Plus and Team keep running past the allowance at USD 0.007 per extra credit; on Free, runs past the quota wait until credits refresh; Ultimate uses a yearly pool.
- Airtable Automation runs are capped at the current plan's limit.
Limits to check
- Activepieces Users: up to 5 on Free and Plus, 25 on Team, unlimited on Ultimate; Credits: 1,000 on Free, 10,000 a month on Plus, 50,000 a month on Team; Over the allowance, Free runs wait for tomorrow; Plus and Team pay USD 0.007 per credit
- Airtable Team and Business bill every user with edit permission on at least one base; read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are free.
Not verified yet
No reviewed evidence for either product on trigger polling.
Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Activepieces: hosting responsibility.
Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.
Next steps
- Ask Activepieces about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.
- Ask Airtable about trigger polling and hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish them yet.
| Requirement | Activepieces | Airtable |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From $20/mo | From $24/mo per user |
| Who it is for | Flows, AI agents, chat and tables with MCP and API access, on every plan including Free. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly) | Trigger-and-action automations on data in Airtable bases, from a single notification to multi-step workflows. Automations can also act in tools such as Google Workspace and Slack, or run JavaScript. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable automations product page |
| Coverage limits | Users: up to 5 on Free and Plus, 25 on Team, unlimited on Ultimate; Credits: 1,000 on Free, 10,000 a month on Plus, 50,000 a month on Team; Over the allowance, Free runs wait for tomorrow; Plus and Team pay USD 0.007 per credit Team adds unlimited projects, SSO and email support. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly) | Team and Business bill every user with edit permission on at least one base; read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are free. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable pricing page: pricing FAQ |
| Usage definition | One flow run uses one credit, however many steps it has. AI steps add credits on top. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly) | Automation usage is counted in runs per month against a per-plan limit (100 to 500,000). What counts as one run is not defined on the pricing page. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable pricing page rendered: plan cards and comparison table |
| Included volume |
| Automations per base: 75 on Free, 100 on Team, 150 on Business, 200 on Enterprise Scale; Runs per month: 100 on Free, 25,000 on Team, 100,000 on Business, 500,000 on Enterprise Scale Compare-table columns are Free, Team, Business and Enterprise Scale. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable pricing page rendered: plan cards and comparison table
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| Premium integrations | Apps without a ready-made piece can be reached through the HTTP piece or a webhook; pieces are open-source TypeScript. No separate premium-connector tier is listed. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly)
| Automations can work with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Facebook and Twitter, and can run JavaScript. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable automations product page
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| Hosting responsibility | Activepieces EU cloud in Frankfurt by default; Another region on request; Or your own servers; SOC 2 is in progress, not certified The plan table lists "Cloud or on-prem" hosting for every plan. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly)
| Not verified |
| AI charges | AI steps add credits on top of the run: 2 on a fast model, 10 on a smart model, 20 on a frontier model; Agentic actions are 1 credit each; On Plus and higher, your own AI provider keys make every AI step 1 credit, with the model cost billed by your provider Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly) | Extra AI credits come in packs of 10k to 200k, starting at USD 20 a month for 10,000 credits. Enterprise Scale packs through sales. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable pricing page rendered: plan cards and comparison table
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| Overage charges | Plus and Team keep running past the allowance at USD 0.007 per extra credit; on Free, runs past the quota wait until credits refresh; Ultimate uses a yearly pool. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Activepieces pricing page: plans, plan table and FAQ (monthly) | Automation runs are capped at the current plan's limit. No pay-as-you-go runs are described. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Airtable pricing page: pricing FAQ |
1 requirement without reviewed evidence here
Not verified means the reviewed sources do not establish it; it does not mean a product lacks it or that it costs nothing.
- Trigger polling Activepieces: not verified · Airtable: not verified