Documentation-based comparison
Airtable versus Tray.ai
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 Airtable and Tray.ai. It is not a hands-on test, a ranking or a recommendation of one product.
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
- Tray.ai Quote only
- Pro: Vendor quotation required
- Team: Vendor quotation required
- Enterprise: Vendor quotation required
A complete like-for-like price comparison is not established; the next checks say what is missing.
Documented for both
- Usage definition
- Airtable Automation usage is counted in runs per month against a per-plan limit (100 to 500,000).
- Tray.ai Every step that runs is a task, including the webhook trigger; Loop and boolean steps count each time they run, once per list item, plus the loop's final check; Example: a webhook delivering 2 records through Clearbit, a loop, a boolean and Slack used 9 tasks in one run
- 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
- Tray.ai Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard.Pro: 3 workspaces; 7-day insights and 7-day log retentionTeam: 20 workspaces; 30-day insights; 7-day log retention that can be extendedEnterprise: Unlimited workspaces; 180-day insights
- 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
- Tray.ai 700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans.
- 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
- Tray.ai AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support.
- Overage charges
- Airtable Automation runs are capped at the current plan's limit.
- Tray.ai Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged
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.
- Tray.ai Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features.
Not verified yet
No reviewed evidence for either product on trigger polling.
Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Tray.ai: 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
- Request a written quote from Tray.ai for your seats, usage and term.
- Ask Airtable about trigger polling and hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish them yet.
- Ask Tray.ai about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.
| Requirement | Airtable | Tray.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From $24/mo per user | Quote only |
| Who it is for | 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 | One governed platform (Tray iPaaS) for integration, automation, MCP services and AI agents, sold by quote. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ |
| Coverage limits | 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 | Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ |
| Usage definition | 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 | Every step that runs is a task, including the webhook trigger; Loop and boolean steps count each time they run, once per list item, plus the loop's final check; Example: a webhook delivering 2 records through Clearbit, a loop, a boolean and Slack used 9 tasks in one run Tray describes a task as roughly one workflow step each time it runs; a connector that makes several API calls in one step counts once. Retries are not charged. Each Connectivity API Call Connector request is 1 task. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is |
| 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
| Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is
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| Premium integrations | 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
| 700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ |
| Hosting responsibility | Not verified |
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| AI charges | 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
| AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support. Merlin Text Generation, Merlin Text Analysis and AI-Agent-Utils generate token usage; document processing (Merlin IDP) counts pages. Agent Development (Agent Gateway for MCP and Merlin Agent Builder) is an add-on. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is |
| Overage charges | 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 | Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged Usage alerts go out at 80% and 100% of the task entitlement, which includes AI token tasks. No overage rate is published. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is |
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 Airtable: not verified · Tray.ai: not verified