Spodus vs Airtable
Airtable gives you tables. Spodus gives you the products.
In Airtable you design the schema, wire the automations, and own the result when it breaks.
Spodus- Starting price
- $20/seat/mo, Team, annual
- Quoted per seat — one rate at any size
- Purpose-built CRM
- You build it
- Built in
- Invoicing & finance
- You build it
- Built in
- HR & people
- You build it
- Built in
What sets us apart
Airtable is a database. Spodus is what you would build with it.
Every hour spent designing tables, linking records and rebuilding a pipeline is an hour not spent using one. These five products already exist, already connected.
Airtable
The database you build on
- Airtable Team is $20 per seat a month, $45 on Business, both billed annually.
- You build the CRM, and you maintain it every time the process changes.
- Automation runs are capped by the usage limit on your plan.
- Tables and interfaces, not invoices with balances or tickets with SLA timers.
Spodus
The whole suite, one seat
- One rate per seat, billed annually, and it never changes with team size.
- Built, not assembled. A real pipeline, ledger, queue and org chart on the first day.
- One customer record shared by all five products, with nothing to link by hand.
- Board, table and calendar views over records that already know what they are.
What the bill is counted by
The build is the hidden cost.
Airtable Team is $20 per seat a month, so ten people is $200, or $450 on Business.
Airtable figures are their own published prices as of August 2026.
A Spodus bill has one meter.
- Seats, and only seats: the people you give a login.
- Not contacts, not the customers in your portal, not payroll headcount.
- No packs, no bands. The eleventh person is one more seat.
- One rate covers all five products. A plan sets limits and controls, never which products you get.
The argument
Why teams switch.
Three arguments for moving off Airtable, the row-by-row table behind them, and one argument against.
- 01
Nobody has to be the maintainer
An Airtable base is somebody's second job: the person who designed it owns every change, and the team stalls when they leave. Five finished products have no such person.
- 02
Real invoices, not a table called invoices
A balance that updates when a payment is recorded, a status that reopens on a credit note, an SLA timer that actually counts. Those are behaviours, not columns.
- 03
One rate per seat, at every size
Ten people on Airtable Team is $200 a month, or $450 on Business. Spodus charges one rate per seat at any size.
Side by side.
Row by row, with Airtable’s own published plans in the right-hand column.
| Spodus | Airtable | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quoted per seat — one rate at any size | $20/seat/mo, Team, annual |
| Custom fields & relations | ||
| Board, table & calendar views | ||
| Build your own schema | Customise ours | |
| Purpose-built CRM | Built in | You build it |
| Invoicing & finance | Built in | You build it |
| HR & people | Built in | You build it |
| Help desk with SLAs | Built in | You build it |
| Shared inbox |
Airtable plans and pricing reflect publicly listed information as of August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat; customers in the support portal are free.
The honest part
Being fair about it.
Where Airtable fits better: it will model something that does not exist yet, and Spodus will not.
Can Spodus be customised like Airtable?
Partly. You get custom fields, custom stages, custom views and automations on records that already exist. What you do not get is a blank schema: you are shaping a CRM rather than designing one. That is the trade, and it is the whole point.
We already built a CRM in Airtable. Why move?
Usually because of who maintains it. A base is only as durable as the person who designed it, and every process change is a build task. If yours works and somebody owns it happily, keep it.
Can we import our bases?
Yes. Export to CSV and import contacts, companies, deals and invoices onto the matching Spodus records, with your fields mapped across.
Head to head
Compare Spodus with the rest of your stack.
The same side-by-side, for the other tools a Spodus seat replaces.
Trade Airtable for the whole suite.
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