Airtable Team, 6 seats → Teable, self-hosted
Switch. At $50 an hour, Teable saves you $1,840 over 3 years.
Worth doing only if your hour is worth less than
$102.57/hrBelow that rate, moving to Teable pays for itself inside 3 years. Above it, your time is worth more than the saving, and you should stay on Airtable Team.
Every figure on this page updates as you move these. Most comparisons of this kind quietly assume your time is free and your team never changes size.
What you pay now
| Airtable Team $20.00/month × 6 seats, billed annual | $120.00 |
| Every month | $120.00 |
What the escape costs
| Vultr vc2-2c-4gb 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk · 3 TB transfer · $300 of credit for your first 30 days via our referral link | $20.00 |
| Backblaze B2 backup 40 GB at $0.00695/GB/month | $0.28 |
| Your time 0.75 h/month keeping it patched and backed up | $37.50 |
| Every month | $57.78 |
| Migration, once 8 hours of your time, our estimate | $400.00 |
The same box elsewhere, if you already have an account. The arithmetic above uses the cheapest.
- Vultr $20.00 vc2-2c-4gb · used above · $300 of credit for your first 30 days
- Linode $24.00 Linode 4GB
- DigitalOcean $24.00 2 vCPU · 4 GB
The difference
| Saved each month | $62.22 |
| After one year | $347 |
| After 3 years | $1,840 |
What you give up, and what you get
You lose
- Airtable's automations, scripting block and extension marketplace
- A decade of stability; Teable is moving fast and breaking things is part of that
- Interface Designer
You gain
- A grid that genuinely feels like Airtable rather than a spreadsheet pretending
- Real Postgres underneath, with the tables queryable directly
- Free seats at a tier where Airtable charges $20 each
Read this before you decide
- Teable is the youngest project on this site. Pin a version, read the release notes, and do not upgrade on a Friday.
- Its licence is not one GitHub recognises automatically. Check the repository before building anything commercial on it.
- If you want the mature option in this category, read the NocoDB and Baserow comparisons instead — both are older and calmer.
Is the project alive?
teableio/teable has 21,903 stars, was last pushed 0 days ago, and last cut a release (release.2026-10-16T07-06-34Z.3445) 3 days ago. Its licence is not one GitHub recognises automatically, so check the repository before you rely on it. We rate it active. We do not publish comparisons against software that has gone dormant, however good the arithmetic looks.
Every number above comes from one of these, on the date shown. The Airtable figure is the site's own wording: “our Team plan is available for $20/user/month when billed annually”.
| Airtable pricing page | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Vultr plan catalogue affiliate link | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Backblaze B2 pricing | 3 Sept 2026 |
| teableio/teable activity | 19 Oct 2026 |
Hosting requirements (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB disk), migration hours and maintenance hours are our estimates, not measurements. They are the numbers most worth arguing with, so we put them where you can see them. The cheapest plan meeting those requirements is selected automatically from Vultr, Vultr and Linode's live catalogues.