By Alpit Patel and the aibrevo team · October 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Airtable Pricing and Limits 2026: Records, Automation Runs, Attachments, AI Credits and API Rate Limits by Plan
Airtable's pricing page lists Free, Team at $20, Business at $45 and Enterprise Scale per seat per month billed annually. Limits per base step from 1,000 records on Free to 50,000 on Team, 125,000 on Business and 500,000 on Enterprise Scale. This page tables every limit and the API ceiling, with costs for 5, 10 and 25 seats, checked October 17, 2026.
Key takeaways
- Airtable lists Team at $20 and Business at $45 per seat per month billed annually, or $24 and $54 billed monthly. Free costs nothing and Enterprise Scale is priced through sales (Airtable pricing page, read October 17, 2026).
- Records per base: 1,000 on Free, 50,000 on Team, 125,000 on Business, 500,000 on Enterprise Scale. Automation runs: 100, 25,000, 100,000 and 500,000. Attachments per base: 1 GB, 20 GB, 100 GB and 1,000 GB.
- Free allows up to 5 editors. Paid plans are priced per seat, and Airtable's own plan sheet counts AI credits per paid user: 15,000 on Team, 20,000 on Business and 25,000 on Enterprise Scale at list price.
- The API is limited to 5 requests per second per base and 50 requests per second per user or service account for personal access tokens. Exceeding either returns a 429 and a 30-second wait.
- For a 10-person team, annual billing costs $2,400 a year on Team and $5,400 on Business. Monthly billing costs $2,880 and $6,480, about 20% more.
Airtable sells four plans, and almost every limit that matters to a CRM team sits in the plan sheet: records per base, automation runs a month, attachment storage and AI credits. This page tables each one as Airtable’s pricing page showed it on October 17, 2026, then adds the API ceiling from Airtable’s developer documentation and the yearly cost for 5, 10 and 25 seats.
What does each Airtable plan include?
| Limit | Free | Team | Business | Enterprise Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per seat, billed yearly | $0 | $20 | $45 | Contact sales |
| Price per seat, billed monthly | $0 | $24 | $54 | Contact sales |
| Bases | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Records per base | 1,000 | 50,000 | 125,000 | 500,000 |
| Automation runs | 100 | 25,000 | 100,000 | 500,000 |
| Attachments per base | 1 GB | 20 GB | 100 GB | 1,000 GB |
| AI credits | 500 per editor each month | 15,000 per paid user each month | 20,000 per paid user each month | 25,000 per paid user each month at list price |
| Editors | Up to 5 | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
What each plan adds, according to the same page:
| Plan | Features listed beyond the plan below it |
|---|---|
| Free | Interface Designer |
| Team | Standard sync integrations, extensions, Gantt and timeline view, expanded color, formatting and calendar options |
| Business | Premium sync integrations, verified data, two-way sync, admin panel, SAML single sign-on, App Sandbox, roadmap view and Exec Summary cards, AI admin controls |
| Enterprise Scale | Enterprise Scale integrations, App Library, HyperDB, Enterprise Hub, enhanced security and admin controls, Enterprise API, audit logs and DLP |
Two add-ons change the bill. Portals, for guests outside your organisation, starts at $120 a month for 15 guests on Team and $150 on Business, and is quoted by sales on Enterprise Scale. AI credits can be bought on top, in packs of 10k, 20k, 50k, 100k and 200k credits, starting at $20 a month for 10k on the plans where the page shows that option.
What do 5, 10 and 25 seats cost on Airtable?
Annual billing is the lower price, and the same arithmetic gives the monthly-billing cost for comparison.
| Seats | Team, billed yearly | Team, billed monthly | Business, billed yearly | Business, billed monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $1,200 | $1,440 | $2,700 | $3,240 |
| 10 | $2,400 | $2,880 | $5,400 | $6,480 |
| 25 | $6,000 | $7,200 | $13,500 | $16,200 |
Monthly billing costs 20% more than annual billing on both plans ($24 against $20, and $54 against $45). Those figures exclude Portals, extra AI credits and any tax. For how these totals compare with seven other CRMs, see the CRM pricing comparison, whose Airtable rows match this page.
What are Airtable’s API rate limits?
They are set in Airtable’s developer documentation and apply to every plan unless Airtable states otherwise.
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Requests per base | 5 per second |
| Requests per user or service account, all personal access token traffic | 50 per second |
| When exceeded | HTTP 429, then a 30-second wait before requests succeed again |
| Plan tiering | Airtable says it may change limits “including tiered based on pricing plan” |
Airtable recommends backing off after a 429, says its official JavaScript client has built-in retry logic, and suggests a caching proxy for high read volume.
What 5 requests a second means in practice. The limit is per base, so one busy CRM base is the bottleneck, not your whole account. If every request touches one record, rewriting 125,000 records (a full Business base) takes 125,000 / 5 = 25,000 seconds, a little under 7 hours. Any integration that syncs a large table on a schedule has to be built around that, not around the 50 requests per second per-user ceiling. The API rate limits comparison sets this against GoHighLevel, monday.com and Pipedrive.
Which Airtable limit does a CRM hit first?
For a sales team the record cap tends to arrive before the others, because every table in a CRM base draws on one number. The example below is illustrative; the caps in the last column come straight from the plan sheet.
| Illustrative CRM base | Records | Smallest plan that fits |
|---|---|---|
| 3 sales reps, 2,000 contacts, 500 companies, 300 deals | 2,800 | Team (over Free’s 1,000) |
| 10 reps, 20,000 contacts, 5,000 companies, 8,000 deals, 15,000 logged activities | 48,000 | Team, with little headroom |
| Same team two years later, 35,000 contacts, 8,000 companies, 14,000 deals, 60,000 activities | 117,000 | Business |
| Agency pooling 30 client CRMs in one base | 150,000+ | Enterprise Scale, or split into several bases |
Automation runs are the second trigger. A lead-routing, a follow-up and a task automation each firing on 3,000 new records a month use 9,000 runs, well inside Team’s 25,000 but a third of the way through it. Row counts like these come from your own data, not from Airtable, so count records across all tables before choosing a plan. Import size is covered in CRM import limits.
Has Airtable’s pricing changed since the acquisition?
No change has been announced. Bending Spoons completed its purchase of Airtable on September 4, 2026, and the plan sheet read on October 17, 2026 lists the same Team and Business prices we recorded on October 6. The full timeline and what is and is not confirmed is in our Airtable acquisition news page. Airtable’s own wording says limits and prices can change, so check the pricing page before a renewal.
Is Airtable the right tool if you want a CRM?
It fits teams that want to design their own pipeline and already live in Airtable for operations. It fits less well when you need ready-made sales features, because the plan sheet lists database, interface and automation capabilities, not email sync, dialing or forecasting. If you are weighing a move, monday CRM vs Airtable and the Airtable to monday.com FAQ cover the trade-offs. For a second opinion on your own base, book a free 30-minute call.
Sources
- Airtable, pricing page, plan sheet and feature grid, read October 17, 2026. The page can vary by region and may change.
- Airtable developer documentation, Rate limits, read October 17, 2026.
- Airtable newsroom, Airtable is now part of Bending Spoons, September 4, 2026.