Airtable versus Zapier

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
• Zapier From $29.99/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Professional: $29.99 monthly
  • Professional: $239.88 annual ($19.99/mo equivalent)
  • Team: $103.50 monthly
  • Team: $828.00 annual ($69/mo equivalent)
  • 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).

Zapier Trigger steps, Filter and Paths steps, failed or halted actions and skipped steps use no tasks; Tables, Forms, Formatter, Delay, Looping, Sub-Zap, Digest, Zapier Manager and Storage steps use no tasks; Zapier Agents use a separate activity quota, not tasks; Example: a Zap with two actions that runs ten times uses 20 tasks

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

Zapier Task tiers from 100 to 2M tasks a month, plus a custom task limit.Free: 100 tasks per monthProfessional: The help center's billing example is a Professional 750 plan: 750 tasks a month, with up to 1,500 more on pay-per-task.

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

Zapier Premium apps are available only on paid plans.Free: Two-step Zaps only (a trigger and one action)Professional: Multi-step Zaps, Unlimited premium apps, Webhooks

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

Zapier AI by Zapier steps and their tool calls use 1 task on standard models or with your own model provider (you also pay the provider), 3 tasks on advanced models and 5 on premium models.Agents Free: 400 agent activities per monthAgents Pro: 1,500 agent activities per month

Overage charges

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

Zapier Tasks beyond the plan limit are charged separately through pay-per-task billing; Pay-per-task stops at three times the plan task limit; further runs are held until the billing cycle ends; Without pay-per-task, new Zap runs are held at the task limit until the billing cycle resets

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.
• Zapier Every successful action uses its own task, so the monthly need is actions per run multiplied by runs per month.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on hosting responsibility.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Zapier: 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 Zapier about hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish it yet.

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