Alternatives to Airtable
The base filled up.
Airtable is a superb database.
Airtable
Spodus- Records
- Capped per tier
- 250,000 on Starter, 1,000,000 on Growth, per workspace
- Automation runs
- Capped at the plan's usage limit
- Monthly allowance, generous
- Interfaces, sync and extensions
- Included
- Not offered
- Field types and modelling depth
- Included
- Custom objects and fields
What actually pushes people off Airtable.
Two limits and one structural problem with building your own software.
Records and runs are capped per tier
Each tier caps records and attachments per base, and you cannot add more until you upgrade.
Everyone who can edit is billed
Anyone with edit permission on at least one base is a charged seat.
You built the software, so you maintain it
A base that models your business is genuinely impressive and it is also a system with no vendor behind it.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
Products that already know what a customer, an invoice and a ticket are.
Room for the records you have
250,000 records on Starter and 1,000,000 on Growth, counted across the whole workspace rather than per base.
The common shapes are already built
You do not model a deal, an invoice with a tax rate, a ticket with an SLA or an employee with time off, because those are five finished products.
Nobody inherits a puzzle
When the person who set up your workspace leaves, what they leave is configuration on a supported product rather than an application they wrote.
What you would be giving up.
Airtable is a better database than Spodus and it is not particularly close.
Side by side.
| Spodus | Airtable | |
|---|---|---|
| Records | 250,000 on Starter, 1,000,000 on Growth, per workspace | Capped per tier |
| Automation runs | Monthly allowance, generous | Capped at the plan's usage limit |
| Interfaces, sync and extensions | ||
| Field types and modelling depth | Custom objects and fields | |
| Purpose-built CRM | Build it yourself | |
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | ||
| Help desk with SLAs and a portal | ||
| HR, time off approvals and org chart |
Airtable's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 28 August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Tables map onto objects.
An Airtable table exports to CSV and imports as a Spodus custom object with fields mapped and duplicates caught on the way in.
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Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
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Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
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Questions, answered
No. It has custom objects and custom fields with relations, table, board and calendar views, which covers a lot of what people build in Airtable. It does not have interfaces, scripting, extensions, sync or Airtable's field type depth.
Yes: 50,000 records on Free, 250,000 on Starter and 1,000,000 on Growth, across the whole workspace, and Enterprise sets its own. Views, boards and pipelines are not counted. What else differs between plans is storage, automation allowance, workspaces and the admin controls a larger company needs.
Anyone you give a Spodus account. Customers who open or track a ticket in your portal and people who fill in a public form never hold an account, so they are free and unlimited.
Yes, table by table, by CSV. Import the tables that other tables link to first so the relations can be resolved as the children arrive.