Airtable versus n8n

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
• n8n From €24/mo
  • Starter: €24.00 monthly
  • Starter: €240.00 annual (€20/mo equivalent)
  • Pro: €60.00 monthly
  • Pro: €600.00 annual (€50/mo equivalent)
  • Business: €800.00 monthly
  • Business: €8,004.00 annual (€667/mo equivalent)

These prices use different currencies and 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).

n8n One execution is one run of a whole workflow, however many steps it has or how much data it processes.

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

n8n The n8n Cloud free trial includes 1,000 executions, 5 concurrent executions, a 180-second execution timeout and 1 team project.Starter: 2,500 executions per monthPro: 10,000 executions per monthBusiness: 40,000 executions 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

n8n Every plan includes every integration, unlimited users and unlimited workflows.

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

n8n Assistant credits for AI-assisted building: 1,600 a month on Starter, 4,000 or 9,600 on Pro, none on Enterprise; Free trials include 800 Assistant credits; Credits refresh monthly, do not roll over, and extra credits can be bought; On self-hosted n8n you bring your own AI key and no credit limit applies

Overage charges

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

n8n Business: Workflows keep running over quota; overage is EUR 4,000 per extra 300,000 executions, invoiced 45 days later if you do not upgrade.

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.
• n8n The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: n8n: 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

• Ask Airtable about trigger polling and hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish them yet.

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