Airtable versus Pipedream

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
• Pipedream From $150/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Startup: $150.00 monthly
  • Startup: $1,188.00 annual ($99/mo equivalent)
  • Business: 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).

Pipedream External user: each distinct user of your app who connects at least one account; one user with five connected apps counts once; Usage credit: 30 seconds of compute for an action run, an MCP tool call, a Connect proxy request or an event emitted by a deployed trigger; Listing apps and accounts, configuring components and other management calls use no 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

Pipedream Development is free; serving real external users in production requires Startup.Free: Development only; a daily credit limit that cannot be exceeded and a limited number of connected accounts.Startup: 10,000 usage 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

Pipedream Managed auth for 3,000+ APIs, 10,000+ prebuilt tools and triggers, and MCP servers on every plan.Business: Volume pricing for users and usage; SSO, SCIM and HIPAA; Dedicated static egress IPs; SLAs and dedicated Slack support

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

Pipedream AI agent tool calls through MCP use 1 credit per 30 seconds of compute, like any action.

Overage charges

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

Pipedream Credits above the included amount are added to the next billing period's invoice.Startup: USD 0.012 per credit beyond 10,000 a month, lower at higher volume; USD 2 a month per external user beyond 100

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.
• Pipedream Pipedream Workflows and String shut down on March 31, 2027; Workflows are in maintenance mode: existing workflows run until then, with no new features; New Workflows sign-ups and subscriptions are no longer accepted; Pipedream Connect is not affected

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on hosting responsibility.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Pipedream: trigger polling.

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

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