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  "slug": "airtable-to-baserow",
  "title": "Airtable Business to self-hosted Baserow",
  "summary": "At ten seats Airtable Business is $5,400 a year. That is enough that the arithmetic stops being interesting and starts being obvious.",
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    "source_url": "https://airtable.com/pricing",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-19",
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      "description": "Build databases, automations, apps & agents with AI — no code.  Open source platform available on cloud and self-hosted. GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 compliant. Best Airtable alternative.",
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      "verified_at": "2026-10-19T10:53:42.716Z"
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      "pricing_url": "https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing",
      "quote": "the amount of data stored per byte-hour over the last month at a rate of $6.95/TB/30-day",
      "verified_at": "2026-09-03",
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    "url": "https://www.pikapods.com/",
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    "quote": "Baserow Create your own … Run Your Own From $6.7/month",
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  ],
  "tradeoffs": {
    "you_lose": [
      "Airtable's automations, scripting and the extension marketplace",
      "Interface Designer and published interfaces",
      "Enterprise controls that Baserow gates behind its own paid tier"
    ],
    "you_gain": [
      "Postgres underneath, queryable by anything you own",
      "Free seats at a tier where Airtable charges $45 each",
      "A documented Airtable importer"
    ]
  },
  "caveats": [
    "Baserow's advanced and enterprise features are separately licensed. The comparison here is against the free core; check the feature matrix if you need row colouring, audit logs or SSO.",
    "Twelve hours assumes a handful of bases. A decade of accumulated Airtable across a company is a much bigger job."
  ],
  "category": "database-spreadsheet",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19"
}