Airtable vs APITable
Airtable and APITable are both internal tools and low-code software. Airtable is a commercial product from Airtable. APITable is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 16k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Airtable when
- A team has outgrown spreadsheets and wants linked records and simple apps without developers.
- Pick APITable when
- You want a self-hosted Airtable alternative with an API on every table and can run a Java plus Node stack.
Side by side
Spreadsheet-like relational database with views, forms, automations, interfaces and integrations.
An Airtable-style collaborative database with spreadsheet views, cross-table links, forms, row and column permissions and a full API.
Record limits and per-seat costs climb fast, and enterprise pricing is steep.
AGPL license, releases are still marked beta, and the vendor now steers new users to its hosted AITable product.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, Java, Spring, NestJS, Next.js and React
Closed source, sold by Airtable
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
5.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
16k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.14.0-beta.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.