Airtable vs Retool
No clear leader: Airtable (72.1) and Retool (68.4) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for no-code automation tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Airtable
An AI-native platform that enables teams to build no-code applications and intelligent workflows on top of shared data. Connects data across your organization and provides AI capabilities for automating business processes.
Retool
A low-code platform for building production-ready internal software with AI-assisted app generation, workflows, and direct secure connections to enterprise data sources.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Airtable
From $20/user/mo (Team billed annually). Free tier includes 500 AI credits/editor/month.
- FreeFree
- 500 AI credits per editor each month
- Unlimited bases
- 1,000 records per base
- Up to 5 editors
- 1 GB of attachments per base
- Team$20/user/mo billed annually or $24/mo billed monthly
- 15,000 AI credits per paid user each month
- Interface Designer
- 50,000 records per base
- 25,000 automation runs
- 20 GB of attachments per base
- +3 more
- Business$45/user/mo billed annually or $54/mo billed monthly
- 20,000 AI credits per paid user each month
- 125,000 records per base
- 100,000 automation runs
- 100 GB of attachments per base
- Premium sync integrations
- +4 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- ScaleContact sales
Retool
From £80/builder/mo. Free tier available. Annual billing provides 20% savings.
- FreeFree
- Unlimited web & mobile apps
- 500 workflow runs/month
- 5GB data storage
- Up to 5 users
- 20 hours/month of Agents
- +1 more
- Team£80/builder/mo + £40/internal user/mo
- Everything in Free
- 5,000 workflow runs/month
- Staging environment
- App release versions
- Support for >5 users
- +1 more
- Business£400/builder/mo + £120/internal user/mo
- Everything in Team
- Audit logging
- Rich permission controls
- Portals and embedded apps
- Unlimited environments
- +3 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Business
- SAML / OpenID Connect SSO
- Source control
- Custom branding
- Independent workspaces
- +4 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- GitHub
- Stripe
Airtable
- Box
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Databricks
- Dropbox
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Drive
- Jira
- Jotform
- Miro
- Outlook Calendar
- Salesforce
- Slack
- Snowflake
- Tableau Cloud
- Twilio
- Typeform
- Unito
- WordPress
- Youtube
- +1 more
Retool
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- Firebase
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.