Ten people, one year: Baserow Premium runs about $1,200. Airtable's equivalent is more than double that once you're on the plan most teams actually need. Same core job — a shared database that behaves like a spreadsheet — priced roughly 2x apart.
| Paid entry | 10-user annual (cloud) | Self-host | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baserow | Premium $10/user/mo | ~$1,200 | yes, free |
| SmartSuite | ~$12–15/user/mo (3-user min) | ~$1,800 (Team) | no |
| Airtable | Team $20/paid collaborator/mo | ~$2,400+ | no |
Airtable is the category's default and the most expensive. Its Team plan is $20 per paid collaborator per month annually, capping bases at 50,000 records; the self-serve Business plan is $45. It has the deepest ecosystem — integrations, extensions, an automations engine — and that's what you're paying the premium for.
SmartSuite pitches itself as the more capable middle option — it does more project-management and workflow stuff out of the box than Airtable — at a lower per-user rate, though the three-user minimum means the smallest teams pay for seats they don't fill.
Baserow is the budget and open-source pick: $10/user on Premium cloud, or self-hosted for free with no user cap. It covers the fundamentals of a no-code database well, and for a team that mostly needs shared structured data — not a huge automations layer — it's hard to justify paying Airtable's rate over it.
If your workflow leans heavily on Airtable's automations and integration ecosystem, the premium is defensible. If you mainly need a shared, structured database that a team can edit like a spreadsheet, Baserow does that for less than half the price — or free if someone can run it — and SmartSuite is the middle ground when you want more built-in project tooling without Airtable's bill.