A no-code database that keeps a spreadsheet and the apps built on it in one place.
Teable is the stronger pick for a small team that has outgrown spreadsheets but does not want a build project, because the grid stays familiar while linked records, automations and app screens sit underneath it. The free plan is generous enough to learn on and far too small to run on, and the paid ladder prices per seat, so cost follows headcount rather than the size of the data. A team with a handful of records and no plans to build on top of them would be renting a platform far larger than the job.
Not for you if you want to keep working in a file that lives on your own machine. Everything here sits in a hosted space, and only a project export or a CSV moves it out.
How Teable scored
Why trust these scores: the overall 4.4 weights these five at 25% data model and scale, 25% automation and AI, 20% app building, 15% permissions and governance and 15% price and value. Data model and scale leads because a database that will not hold the rows, or link them the way the work needs, leaves the automations and the apps with nothing to stand on. The row ceilings, the field list, the run allowances, the credit counts, the role list and the two rates all come off the company's plan comparison, and the app-building and governance scores track what that table reserves for the Business tier rather than a build of our own. Judgement enters on the data model alone, since no published benchmark exercises the field types under load and the score follows the field list and the limits the table states. No vendor can pay for a score. Read how we rate.
What we like
- A free plan generous enough to test the whole platform before a card is needed
- The grid, the linked records and the app screens sit in one product rather than three
- Self-hosting is a real option rather than an enterprise sales route, and it costs nothing to run
- Pricing counts only the people who edit, so a team that mostly reads is cheap to run
- The security page answers the questions a business buyer asks, certification included
Watch out for
- The run allowance on Free is small enough that a working automation exhausts it in days
- Unused AI credits reset each period instead of carrying over, so a quiet month banks nothing
- Governance features sit behind the Business tier, where the seat price steps up sharply
- A paid self-hosted licence is fixed once issued and cannot be reduced or refunded
- Support routes to a community hub and a contact form, with no response time published anywhere
How we rated Teable
Teable sells a workspace it calls a space, and the plan ladder runs along two axes rather than one: how much data a space may hold, and how much work it may do each month. Both are printed on the company’s plan comparison, alongside the field and view lists that decide what a space can represent and the tier each governance feature starts on. The plan table, the security page and the two legal documents are what the scores rest on, and no space of ours was set up to produce them. What each score is drawn from sits at the foot of the article with the day it was read.
Data model and scale
The grid is a familiar one, and what sits under it is a relational database: a record can be linked to records in another table, and the value can be pulled back through a field that looks up or rolls those linked records up. Formula, auto number, created time and last modified time cover the calculated columns, and the rating, checkbox, user and attachment types cover most of what a tracker needs without a second tool bolted on beside it.
The limits are published rather than discoverable only by hitting them. A space holds 1,000 rows on Free, 250,000 on Pro and 1,000,000 on Business, while a single table has no ceiling on any tier. Attachments follow a similar ladder at 1GB, 10GB and 100GB a space. All field types are named as a Pro feature, which is worth reading closely: the free tier carries the grid and the views, but the fuller field list is where the paid plans start to earn their place.
4.5 for a data model that covers linked records, rollups and formulas without a build, held from the top because the fuller field list begins on Pro and the row ladder tops out at a figure a large team can reach.
Automation and AI
Automation here is a run count rather than a feature toggle. Free carries 100 runs a month, Pro 25,000 and Business 100,000, and a run is what a workflow spends each time it fires. The same ladder governs email sent through the built-in service, at 100, 1,000 and 5,000 messages a month, with a custom SMTP provider as the route that does not draw on that quota at all.
The AI side is four surfaces on one credit pool: a field that turns record data into summaries, tags, scores or extracted values, a chat panel that reads the current table or the selected records, an agent that answers through Slack and Telegram, and the app builder itself. Free starts at 200 credits, Pro at 2,000 per seat and Business at 3,000 per seat, drawn down by all four surfaces together.
4.4 for a broad set of AI surfaces drawing on a single pool and run limits that are documented rather than vague, scored below the data model because the free plan’s allowance is small for a team doing real work.
App building
The app builder turns the data into something people who will never open a grid can use: dashboards, portals and small internal tools, drawn from the same records. It is listed on the free plan, so the capability can be tried before a subscription starts, and it is where a team that has been running its work in a spreadsheet usually ends up.
What the Business tier adds is the part that matters once an app has an audience: a custom domain, so it is not served from a vendor address, and a GitHub sync for the app code, so the build can live in version control alongside everything else a team ships. Neither is available lower down the ladder. The developer route sits beside this, with a web API for reading and writing records and a rate limit of ten requests a second on every tier.
4.4 for an app layer that reaches the whole plan range, held back because the domain and the source-control link are Business-only and the API ceiling is the same on a free space as on a paid one.
Permissions and governance
Five roles run from Owner down to Viewer, and the people who only read or comment do not count against the seat bill. Above that sits the Authority matrix, which sets access at the table, field and record level and covers actions such as view, edit, delete, comment and copy. It is the control a team needs when one base holds salaries or client records beside the work everyone shares.
The rest of the governance list is gated in a way a buyer should read before choosing a tier. The matrix, domain verification, single sign-on and audit logs sit on Business or on a self-hosted deployment rather than on Pro, and the record history that answers who changed what is kept for two weeks on Free, a year on Pro and three years on Business. Password protection on shared links and the trash window are available across the whole range.
4.4 for an access model that reaches down to the record when it is switched on, scored where it is because the audit trail and the identity features are held for the top tier and history is kept in windows that differ by plan.
Price and value
The ladder is three steps and the top two are billed yearly. Pro is $13 per seat/month billed yearly against $24 paid monthly, and Business is $20 against $36, both quoted as a 44% saving for the annual commitment. Automation runs can be bought on top in blocks of ten thousand for $10 a space/month on the yearly rate, and that add-on is open to Pro or above rather than to everyone.
What the price buys is not one product but a range of them. The free plan is a working version of the platform with a small ceiling, and it is enough to learn whether the shape suits a team. The step that costs is the one into governance: the features a business adopts this platform for, single sign-on and the authority matrix among them, arrive with Business, where a seat costs roughly half again what Pro charges.
4.2 for a fair monthly rate with a usable free tier to try it on, held back because the features a growing team adopts it for sit one tier above the plan it would start on.
Who Teable is for
The team this fits is one whose work has outgrown a spreadsheet but does not justify a build: operations, client work, project tracking, a small CRM. What sells it over a plain sheet is the same table answering two audiences, the people who want a grid and the people who should never have to see one.
The team it does not fit is one that only ever needed a better spreadsheet. Everything here is priced and shaped around building on top of the data, and a buyer who never switches on an automation, an AI field or an app is paying for a platform to use a fraction of it. A team that wants its data on its own machines should weigh the self-hosted edition against the hosted one before signing up, because only the first of those puts the database inside the building.
Frequently asked questions
How is a seat counted, and does a viewer cost anything?
Do unused AI credits carry over to the next month?
Can Teable be run on our own servers?
What happens to deleted data, and who processes what we send to the AI features?
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Our verdict
What separates buyers here is what the contract does on a bad day. The company may suspend or close an account at its own discretion, limits what it owes to a maximum of fifty US dollars, routes a dispute to an arbitrator rather than a court unless the buyer opts out within thirty days, and states no obligation to provide support. None of that is unusual for the category and all of it is written down, which is the point: the weight falls on export, and a team that keeps a current project file or a CSV has a way out of an arrangement whose own terms promise very little.
Not for you if you need the vendor to carry the risk. A fifty-dollar ceiling on liability and a written statement that support is not owed mean the cost of anything going wrong is sized by the contract rather than by the loss.
Sources
Teable (teable.ai), checked 15 September 2026: the plan comparison for the tier rates, the row ceilings, the attachment storage, the automation run and credit allowances, the field and view lists, the seat rule and the add-on run pack.
Teable (teable.ai), checked 15 September 2026: the pricing questions for how seats are counted, how credits behave between periods, the self-hosted licence position and the support routes, and the terms of service for the liability cap, the arbitration clause and the termination provision.
Teable (teable.ai), checked 15 September 2026: the privacy policy for the deletion and backup retention windows and the AI processors, and the security page for the encryption standards, the certification, the role list and the identity providers.
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