Airtable versus Power Automate

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
• Power Automate From $180/yr per user
  • Premium: $180.00 annual per seat ($15/mo equivalent)
  • Process: $1,800.00 annual per unknown ($150/mo equivalent)
  • Hosted Process: $2,580.00 annual per unknown ($215/mo equivalent)

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

Documented for both

Usage definition

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

Power Automate Power Platform requests: every connector call, HTTP action and built-in action (even initialising a variable or a compose step) counts, successful or failed, including retries and pagination.

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

Power Automate Premium: 40,000 Power Platform requests per user per 24 hoursProcess: 250,000 Power Platform requests per flow per 24 hours, independent of the users' licences; Up to 10 Process licences can be stacked on one flow, each adding 250,000 requests; Or one licence can be shared by up to 25 solution-aware flows in a flow group, without stacking

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

Power Automate The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.

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

Power Automate AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.

Overage charges

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

Power Automate No per-request charge is listed; Microsoft may enforce limits by throttling; Capacity is added to the user or flow that exceeds its limit; Each Power Platform requests add-on raises a limit by 50,000 requests per 24 hours, and several can be assigned

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.
• Power Automate A cloud flow uses its owner's licence; if the owner leaves the organisation, the flow falls back to the Low performance profile.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

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