Airtable vs Xata Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Free
- 500 AI credits per editor each month.
- Unlimited bases
- 1,000 records per base
- Up to 5 editors
- 1 GB of attachments per base
- 100 automation runs
- Interface Designer
Team
Popular- 15,000 AI credits per paid user each month.
- 50,000 records per base
- 25,000 automation runs
- 20 GB of attachments per base
- Standard sync integrations
- Extensions
- Gantt and timeline view
- Expanded color, formatting, and calendar options
Business
- 20,000 AI credits per paid user each month.
- 125,000 records per base
- 100,000 automation runs
- 100 GB of attachments per base
- Premium sync integrations
- Verified data
- Two-way sync
- Admin panel
- SAML-based single sign-on
- App Sandbox
- Roadmap view and Exec Summary cards
- AI Admin controls
Enterprise Scale
- 25,000 AI credits per paid user each month at list price.
- 500,000 records per base
- 500,000 automation runs
- 1,000 GB of attachments per base
- Enterprise Scale Integrations
- App Library
- HyperDB
- Enterprise Hub
- Enhanced security and admin controls
- Enterprise API
- Extension and integration management
- Audit logs and DLP
- AI Admin controls
Open Source
- Branching
- Scale-to-zero
- Wake-up time
- Storage
- Anonymization
- Provisioning
- Support
Xata Cloud
Popular- Branching
- Scale-to-zero
- Wake-up time
- Storage
- Anonymization
- Provisioning
- Support
- Observability
- Compliance
- Multi-region
BYOC
- Branching
- Scale-to-zero
- Wake-up time
- Storage
- Anonymization
- Provisioning
- Support
- Observability
- Compliance
- Multi-region
Airtable vs Xata FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Xata is the cheaper option, starting at $0/mo vs $24/mo for Airtable.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Airtable uses per-seat pricing, while Xata goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Airtable: Airtable sits in the premium middle of the no-code/database workspace category — more expensive than Notion, cheaper than Smartsheet at scale, and directly competing with Monday.com and Asana for team workflow budgets. They're not chasing the budget buyer; the pricing signals they want teams that see this as a serious ops tool, not a free Trello alternative. Xata: At $0.012/hr for a micro instance, they're positioning as an accessible entry point compared to managed Postgres alternatives like Neon or PlanetScale — but the storage cost at $0.28/GB/mo can add up fast for data-heavy workloads. They're going after developer teams who want serverless-style database pricing without locking into a big-name cloud provider's ecosystem.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Airtable and Xata and let you know when something moves.