Airtable versus Make

Price

• 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
• Make From $9
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Core: $9.00 billing period not stated
  • Pro: $16.00 billing period not stated
  • Teams: $29.00 billing period not stated
  • Enterprise: 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.

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Usage definition

Airtable Automation usage is counted in runs per month against a per-plan limit (100 to 500,000).

Make Each module action, such as reading a record, writing a spreadsheet row or posting a message, uses one credit; Reading, searching, creating, updating and deleting data, transforming it, aggregating rows and iterating rows all count; One scenario run can use from two to thousands of credits

Included volume

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

Make Unused credits expire at the end of the term; Extra credits expire after one month on monthly subscriptions, or at the end of the year on annual Pro and Teams subscriptionsFree: 1,000 credits per monthCore: 10,000 credits per monthPro: 10,000 credits per monthTeams: 10,000 credits per month

Premium integrations

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

Make Every plan, including Free, includes the visual builder, routers and filters and 3,500+ apps.Enterprise: Enterprise app integrations

AI charges

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

Make Make's AI Provider is available on all plans in Make AI Agents and Make AI Toolkit; Credits are charged by input and output tokens and the model chosen; Small and Medium tiers: 18,080 input or 2,260 output tokens per credit; Large tier (GPT-5 mini): 3,616 input or 452 output tokens per credit

Overage charges

Airtable Automation runs are capped at the current plan's limit.

Make When credits run out, scenarios stop until credits are added; Incoming webhooks queue up to the plan webhook queue size; Extra credits come in bundles of 1,000 or 10,000 at a price set in your subscription; Core, Pro and Teams can auto-purchase 10,000 credits before running outEnterprise: Overage protection keeps scenarios running once the credit limit is reached.

Limits to check

• 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.
• Make Active scenarios: 2 on Free, unlimited on paid plans; Minimum interval between scheduled runs: 15 minutes on Free, 1 minute on paid plans; Maximum run time: 5 minutes on Free, 40 minutes on paid plans

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Make: trigger polling and 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

• Confirm whether Make's displayed price is billed monthly or annually.
• Ask Airtable about trigger polling and hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish them yet.

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