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Audited 2026-07-31 · RXed table v1.0

Airtable AI

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“AI that's built for the way your business actually works” — the vendor’s own words

Airtable's agent stack is the deepest in this category outside a frontier lab - Field Agents, Omni, an official MCP server, and a new multi-agent Superagent - but three separate billing meters (seats, records, automation runs) mean the real cost shows up well after the $20/seat sticker price.

The verdict, read by Jan · AI clone of Jan’s voice, generated locally with his consent.
Best for: Operations, marketing and product teams that want AI acting directly inside a real structured database rather than a chat sidebar, and who are disciplined about tracking seats, records and automation runs against their plan.
Scope13/20
Quality6/10
Where the quality sits
7Reactive
—Retrieval & Memory
7Orchestration
6Validation
5Models
Enterprise platformAutomation & AgentsProductivityResearchFreemium
Vendor
Airtable (Formagrid, Inc.) · www.airtable.com
Origin
US — San Francisco
Pricing
Free $0 · Team $20/user/mo · Business $45/user/mo · Enterprise Scale Custom
Users (official only)
500,000+ organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100 (source, 2026-07-31)

PRICING

Free$01,000 records/base, up to 5 editors, 500 AI credits/editor/mo
Team$20/user/mobilled annually ($24 monthly); 50,000 records/base, 25,000 automation runs/mo, 15,000 AI credits/collaborator
Business$45/user/mobilled annually ($54 monthly); 125,000 records/base, 100,000 automation runs/mo, 20,000 AI credits/user, SSO
Enterprise ScaleCustom500,000+ records/base, custom automation runs, 25,000 AI credits/user at list, audit logs

Three independent billing meters - per-editor seat, records-per-base cap, and automation-runs-per-base cap - can each independently force an upgrade. The Team-to-Business jump is roughly a 125% per-seat increase with no intermediate tier. AI credits are pooled per workspace/organization and reset each billing cycle; extra credit packs are sold separately.

checked 2026-07-30 · vendor pricing page

Element scores

Reactive
Retrieval & Memory
Orchestration
Validation
Models
Primitives
Compositions
Deployment
Emerging
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Strengths

A genuinely layered agent architecture: Field Agents work continuously at the record level, Omni builds and orchestrates for free, Superagent adds real multi-agent research coordination, and an official MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor read and write bases directly. Guardrails are real too - AI is off by default for EU/GDPR customers, Omni strictly mirrors user permissions, and MCP-built automations start paused for human review.

Honest dings

No embeddings, vector store, or evaluation tooling of its own, and reasoning-model access is Enterprise-only. The bigger issue is billing: per-seat pricing, per-base record caps (50,000 on Team, jumping 125% to Business), and monthly automation-run caps are three independent triggers that can each force an upgrade, and a February 2026 cut of the Free tier's record cap (1,200 to 1,000, with no advance notice) shows Airtable will change the terms without much warning.

Prices and details change — this passport is re-verified at least quarterly.
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