Airtable vs Smartsheet Grids
Airtable and Smartsheet Grids are both internal tools and low-code software. Airtable is a commercial product from Airtable. Smartsheet Grids is a commercial product from Smartsheet Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Airtable when
- A team has outgrown spreadsheets and wants linked records and simple apps without developers.
- Pick Smartsheet Grids when
- Teams want shared tracking tables with approval workflows and already use Smartsheet.
Side by side
Spreadsheet-like relational database with views, forms, automations, interfaces and integrations.
Smartsheet's grid sheets used as a structured, shared table with forms, automations and reports.
Record limits and per-seat costs climb fast, and enterprise pricing is steep.
It is a spreadsheet model, not a relational database, so linking data is limited.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Cloud service and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Airtable
Closed source, sold by Smartsheet Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
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No Wikipedia article of its own
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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.