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What are Airtable alternatives with higher rate limits?


We are using Airtable to record test runs. It is working great, and I especially like the ability to link multiple tables and share views with the team. However, we are constantly hitting rate limits of their API/actions (we are on the Pro plan). What are some of the alternatives that provide comparable UI/UX/API?

  👤 seancolsen Accepted Answer ✓
[Baserow], [APITable], [Grist], and [Rowy] are all open source Airtable alternatives which offer hosted SaaS versions that include API access, though it's a bit difficult to compare the API rate limits across all these products.

Self-hosting an app like this would allow you to bypass API rate limits altogether, if you're open to it. All the above products can be self-hosted — and you might want to look at [NocoDB] and [Mathesar] if you're considering self-hosting.

There are some other proprietary Airtable competitors like [Retable], [Retool], [Rows], [Lists], [SeaTable], and [Tables] that might be worth looking at too.

(Disclosure: I'm an engineer on the Mathesar core team.)

[Baserow]: https://baserow.io

[APITable]: https://apitable.com

[Grist]: https://getgrist.com

[Rowy]: https://www.rowy.io

[NocoDB]: https://nocodb.com

[Mathesar]: https://mathesar.org

[Retable]: https://www.retable.io

[Retool]: https://retool.com

[Rows]: https://rows.com

[Lists]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-list...

[SeaTable]: https://seatable.io

[Tables]: https://tables.area120.google.com/