Airtable vs Quickbase Comparison

Why choose Airtable

• Higher Cost score (4/10 vs 3/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for startups (8/10 vs 2/10)
• Better fit for freelancers (5/10 vs 1/10)

Why choose Quickbase

• Higher Scalability score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 6/10)

Airtable

Pros

• Linked records, rollups, lookups, and formulas give real relational modeling that non-developers can maintain, and reviewers rate its customization at 4.6 on G2.
• The same data can be shown as grid, Kanban, calendar, timeline, or Gantt views, and Interface Designer can turn it into simple apps.
• Read-only collaborators, form submitters, and share-link viewers are not billed, which helps teams that share work with clients or stakeholders.
• A broad set of integrations, including Salesforce, Jira, Snowflake, Databricks, Slack, Claude, and ChatGPT, plus a public API.
• Security credentials include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, SAML SSO, and HIPAA support with a BAA on Enterprise Scale.

Cons

• Every user with edit access pays for a seat, so costs grow quickly as more people adopt it.
• Moving past 50,000 records per base forces a jump from 20 to 45 dollars per seat on annual billing, with no tier in between.
• Reviewers report slower performance and limited advanced reporting on large bases.
• Complex setups take time to learn, and reviewers score its ease of use and support lower than its flexibility.
• Bending Spoons bought Airtable in 2026 and followed with layoffs, which leaves customers unsure about future pricing and the product roadmap.

Quickbase

Pros

• Customization is deep: teams build their own data models and workflow apps with little code, which reviewers cite as the main strength.
• Business includes compliance-oriented features such as SSO, SCIM, a sandbox, and support for HIPAA and FDA requirements.
• Prebuilt Pro Apps and FastField mobile forms suit construction, manufacturing, and field operations.
• The Pave AI builder generates a starter app from a plain-language description.

Cons

• Annual billing only, with user minimums reported at 20 (Team) and 40 (Business) plus an unpublished platform minimum.
• Every user on an account must be on the same plan tier.
• Reviewers report a steep learning curve for advanced workflows, and say heavily customized apps can be hard to fix.
• A third-party source reports large price increases at renewal and caps such as 50 apps on Team and 500 MB per table.