Airtable alternatives in Europe: 8 no-code tools compared

Rangee is our product; we compared it on public criteria, checked on 1 November 2026.

Choosing between Airtable alternatives comes down to four verifiable facts. They are the price per seat, viewers included; the features in each plan; where the data is hosted; and the law that applies to the vendor. We checked these facts on 1 Nov 2026 on the official pages of eight tools: Rangee, Airtable, Baserow, SeaTable, NocoDB, Grist, Teable and Notion. Every figure links to its source.

This comparison is for teams leaving Airtable, Baserow or NocoDB over cost, features, hosting or server upkeep. It doesn’t name a single winner. It says which tool suits which situation, including when that tool isn’t Rangee.

Why look for an Airtable alternative?

Teams look for an Airtable alternative for three verifiable reasons. The Team plan costs $20 per seat per month on annual billing. Several features require a paid plan. European data residency is reserved for the Enterprise Scale plan. All three appear on Airtable’s official pages, checked on 1 Nov 2026.

The price per seat, and who counts as a seat

On the Team plan, Airtable charges $20 per billable collaborator per month on annual billing, and $24 on monthly billing, according to its plans page. Read-only collaborators aren’t billed on Team and Business, as its pricing page states. However, the plans page lists commenters among billable collaborators.

So the bill rises with every person who edits or comments on at least one base. In an SME, the line between ‘viewing’ and ‘editing’ shifts quickly. The salesperson who updates a status, the technician who ticks off a job: each one becomes a paid seat. Our article on Airtable pricing for 10, 25 and 50 people sets out these calculations.

Features spread across plans

The Airtable plans page lists Timeline and Gantt views, extensions and Interface Designer among the additions in the Team plan. The Free plan is capped at 5 editors, 1,000 records per base and 100 automation runs per month. A team that wants a Gantt chart to track its projects therefore moves to a paid plan, whatever its volume.

This isn’t unique to Airtable. The Free plan from Baserow includes grid, form and gallery views; all views come with Premium. At NocoDB, the self-hosted Community edition limits workflows to 2 per base and interfaces to 2 per workspace. The question to ask of each tool is simple: are you paying for volume, or for access to a feature?

Data residency or sovereignty?

Residency is the country where the data is stored. Sovereignty is the law that applies to the vendor. The two aren’t the same thing: a US vendor can store your data in Frankfurt and still be subject to a request from a US authority.

The key text is section 2713 of the US Code, introduced by the CLOUD Act. It requires the providers concerned to disclose data in their control, ‘regardless of whether’ it is stored in the United States or elsewhere (18 U.S.C. § 2713). So the server’s location alone doesn’t settle the question.

For Airtable, the help page on European data residency states that only Enterprise Scale customers can enable it. Even then, base metadata, workspace names, user data and authentication remain in US data centres. Base content, attachments and history, on the other hand, can be stored in Europe.

Which criteria matter when comparing alternatives?

Seven criteria are enough to compare no-code databases in a verifiable way. First the vendor’s country, hosting, licence and self-hosting; then the entry price, the free plan and whether viewers are billed. All of them appear on the vendors’ official pages, so you can check them yourself before signing.

We left out perceived speed, quality of support and ease of use: you judge those during a trial, not in a table.

Airtable alternatives compared in one table

Of the eight tools checked on 1 Nov 2026, three come from European vendors: Rangee in France, Baserow in the Netherlands and SeaTable in Germany. The other five are US companies. Five tools can be self-hosted. Entry prices range from €5 to $20 per user per month.

Prices are for the first paid plan, on annual billing where the vendor distinguishes annual from monthly. ‘Not stated’ means the official page doesn’t give the information.

Sources: each vendor’s pricing, help and legal pages, listed at the end of the article, checked on 1 Nov 2026. Notion’s pricing page shows €9.50 without specifying the billing interval; it advertises savings of ‘up to 20%’ on annual billing.

Two findings stand out. None of the US vendors in the table advertises European hosting on a self-service plan. And both Rangee and Teable keep viewers and commenters free on all their plans; Baserow only does so on Advanced.

How much does a team of 10 editors and 20 viewers cost?

For 10 editors and 20 viewers, the monthly cost recorded on 1 Nov 2026 ranges from €50 at Rangee to $240 at Grist, on annual billing. The gap comes less from list prices than from the rule for viewers: free at Rangee, Teable, Airtable and Baserow Advanced, billed at SeaTable and Grist.

This scenario matches many SMEs: a small team builds and updates the tool, and the rest of the company looks things up. For each tool, we used the cheapest paid plan that covers this case.

The calculation in detail, with monthly billing for comparison:

Baserow’s case is surprising. For a team with many viewers, the Advanced plan costs less than Premium. It only bills the Editor, Builder and Admin roles, according to its subscriptions page. For Airtable, the calculation assumes your viewers don’t comment: a commenter counts as a seat.

SeaTable and Grist both leave room for workarounds. Sharing a view by link, without an account, avoids a licence. At Grist, each document also allows 2 free guests, according to its limits page. At SeaTable, a user set to inactive no longer counts towards licences, according to its billing page.

What does each Airtable alternative offer?

Each tool has a situation where it fits better than the others. Baserow and NocoDB suit teams that want to self-host, Grist those who think in Python, SeaTable those who want a German vendor. Teable appeals to anyone who wants an AGPL licence. Rangee is aimed at SMEs that want EU-hosted data with no server to run, and free viewers.

Rangee

Rangee is a no-code database from a French company, with data hosted in the European Union on every plan. The Pro plan costs €5 per editor per month; readers and commenters are free. All eight views, Timeline and Gantt included, come with every plan, and plans differ only in volume.

Two features deserve a mention. Smart import turns an Excel file into a base and an interface suited to how you use it. The aggregation field calculates totals and averages across tables, with no junction table. Interfaces can also publish portals for your customers on your own domain. To start from an existing file, see our Excel dashboard guide.

Its limits: Rangee isn’t open source and can’t be self-hosted. Its Free plan is more modest than the other tools’ free plans: 1 base and 500 records per base. The limits are soft: beyond the cap, only new records are blocked, with no data loss.

The right choice if you want European hosting with no server to manage, and many of your users only view data.

Baserow

Baserow is published by Baserow B.V., a Dutch company based in Amsterdam, and its code is almost entirely MIT-licensed. Its FAQ places the servers in Germany in one answer and the data in Amsterdam in another: Europe either way. The Premium plan costs $10 per user per month on annual billing, Advanced $18.

Its main strength is self-hosting: according to the FAQ, the self-hosted version will never have limits on rows, storage or API calls. Only the premium features are paid for. Its cloud Free plan offers 3,000 rows and 2 GB per workspace, but only three views.

The right choice if you want to self-host a European tool and have a team able to maintain a server, or want a European cloud with a generous Free plan.

SeaTable

SeaTable is published by SeaTable GmbH, based in Mainz. Its prices page states that data is processed exclusively in German data centres. The Plus plan costs €7 per user per month on annual billing, €9 on monthly billing. The Free plan allows up to 25 users and 10,000 rows, the most generous in this comparison for rows.

SeaTable also offers a server edition that is free for up to 3 users, then licences for 10, 25, 50 users or more. Its limit for a large team: every user with their own login needs a licence.

The right choice if you want a German vendor, a generous Free plan, or a small free in-house server for 3 people.

NocoDB

NocoDB, published by NocoDB Inc. in the United States, can connect to an existing PostgreSQL or MySQL database, according to its documentation. In the cloud, this connection requires the Business plan, at $24 per seat on annual billing. Its Community edition can be self-hosted for free, with unlimited records, storage and seats.

Its cloud Plus plan costs $12 per seat on annual billing, capped at $108 a month: from the 10th user onwards, seats are free. For a large team, that’s a very predictable price. Worth knowing: the repository shows the Sustainable Use License, known as ‘fair-code’. And its sub-processor list names AWS as its host, located in the United States.

The right choice if you already have a database on your own server and want to open it up to non-developers, or if a large team wants a fixed price.

Grist

Grist, published by Grist Labs in New York, stands out for its formulas: they are written in Python, according to its documentation. Its core, grist-core, is licensed under Apache 2.0 and can be self-hosted for free.

Grist’s cloud runs on AWS in the United States, according to its data security page. A choice of region is only available on a dedicated server. The Pro plan costs $8 per user on annual billing. For self-hosting, Grist offers a free activation key to organisations with under $1 million in annual revenue.

The right choice if your calculations are complex and you write Python, or you want to self-host a tool licensed under Apache 2.0.

Teable

Teable, published by Teable AI, Inc. in the United States, is a no-code database that puts its AI features front and centre. Its Community edition is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence and can be self-hosted. The Pro plan costs $13 per seat per month on annual billing, with 250,000 rows per space.

Its billing rule is favourable: according to its pricing page, only Editor roles and above count as seats. Viewers and commenters are free. The same page states that its servers are in Oregon, in the United States, with no European option stated.

The right choice if you want to self-host an AGPL tool, or if free viewers matter more to you than European hosting.

Notion

Notion is primarily a document workspace that includes databases. The Plus plan costs €9.50 per member per month on its pricing page. Guests are free, but limited to the pages shared with them. European data residency, in Frankfurt, is reserved for the Enterprise plan, according to its help centre.

The right choice if your needs are mostly documentation and a team wiki, with a few simple tables.

What about staying on Airtable?

Airtable remains a solid choice if your team already relies on its automations, extensions and Interface Designer. Its rule on read-only access is favourable: it isn’t billed on Team and Business. It’s less suited if you want a European vendor, or European hosting without moving to the Enterprise Scale plan.

Self-host or choose managed European hosting?

Self-hosting gives you control of the server, the code and the updates, but makes you responsible for backups, security and patches. Managed European hosting leaves those tasks to the vendor. The choice depends on what you want to control: where the data lives, the applicable law, or the machine itself.

Baserow, NocoDB, Grist, Teable and SeaTable Server can be installed on your own infrastructure. That’s the right choice if your internal policy requires hosting on your own machines, if you want to read the code, or if you have a system administrator available.

This control has a cost that pricing pages don’t show: a server, tested backups, updates and monitoring. Without in-house IT staff, this work often falls to the person who set up the tool.

Many teams self-host for a single reason: to keep their data in Europe, under European law. Yet a European vendor that hosts in the EU also meets that requirement. Baserow and SeaTable offer this. Rangee offers it on every plan, with nothing to install, but its code isn't open and it can't be installed on your own servers.

One last point: the GDPR doesn’t require self-hosting. It requires a processor that provides sufficient guarantees, a data processing agreement and safeguards for transfers. Check that the vendor publishes its DPA and its sub-processor list. Rangee publishes both; NocoDB, for example, publishes its list.

Which tool should you choose for your situation?

Start from your main constraint. If it’s the bill and you have many viewers, look at the tools that don’t charge for them. If it’s control of the server, look at those that can be self-hosted. If it’s the applicable law, favour European vendors. The table below maps these situations.

For a club, charity or small organisation starting from a spreadsheet, the rule is the same: start by counting who edits and who views. Our selection of free inventory software applies this method to a concrete case. If your starting file tracks stock, our guide to inventory management in Excel shows how to structure it before importing.

How do you prepare to switch tools?

Switching tools takes three steps: list what you actually use, test on a copy of your data, then switch once the test is approved. Import formats vary from one tool to another; Rangee imports Excel, CSV and Google Sheets. Allow time for links between tables and for automations.

List your tables, views, formulas and automations. Count editors, commenters and viewers, then redo the calculation with your own figures. Next, import a copy of your bases into the two tools on your shortlist.

During the trial, check that links between tables are preserved, that formulas give the same results and that role permissions fit your organisation. A week of real use on a copy beats a month of comparison on paper.

If your constraints are EU hosting, a tight budget and many viewers, test Rangee with your own files: the Free plan doesn’t expire. Create a free account. The volumes for each plan are set out on the pricing page.