Baserow review: pricing, limits and alternatives in 2026

Rangee is a no-code database, and so a Baserow competitor. To stay useful, we only cite facts checked on 3 November 2026 on Baserow's official pages, and we say when Baserow fits better than we do.

Baserow is a no-code database: tables you link together, views, forms and an API. It is often described as the open-source, European alternative to Airtable. Both claims are true, with nuances this page spells out.

You will find what Baserow costs by team size, what its free plan does, what changes when you host it yourself, what an Airtable import brings over, and when another tool fits better. For the full picture, see our comparison of European Airtable alternatives.

What is Baserow?

Baserow is published by Baserow B.V., a Dutch company headquartered in Amsterdam, according to its terms and conditions. Its FAQ says almost all of the code is MIT-licensed. The tool comes as a cloud service run by the publisher, and as a version you install on your own servers.

The database is the heart of the product: tables, typed fields, links between tables, and grid, form, gallery, kanban, calendar and timeline views. Around it, Baserow has added an application builder, to publish pages on top of your data, and an API.

Version 2.0, announced on 18 November 2025 in its release notes, widened the scope. It brings an automations builder, described as "currently in beta", and Kuma, an AI assistant that creates databases, views and fields. Two-factor authentication and workspace-wide search come with it. When self-hosting, you choose the AI provider and model.

How much does Baserow cost?

As of 3 November 2026, according to its pricing page, Baserow Cloud costs $10 per user per month on Premium and $18 on Advanced, billed annually. Monthly, it is $12 and $22. The Free plan costs nothing, and Enterprise is quoted on request.

Who pays: the rule that changes the bill

The billing rule matters more than the seat price. According to the subscriptions page, on cloud Premium "all workspace collaborators are classified as billable": viewers included. On Advanced, only the Editor, Builder and Admin roles pay; Commenter and Viewer roles are free.

Two official pages contradict each other on Premium. The plans page states billing "per active user (non-viewers)", so viewers excluded. We noted the contradiction on 1 November, then again on 3 November 2026. Before choosing Premium for a team that mostly reads, ask Baserow for the rule in writing.

One more rule to know: in the cloud, all active contributors in a workspace must be on the same plan. You cannot move three people to Advanced and leave the others on Free.

For a team where most people only read, Advanced can therefore cost less than Premium, despite a seat price nearly twice as high. Our no-code database pricing survey runs the numbers for 10, 25 and 50 people, with Airtable, SeaTable, NocoDB, Grist and Notion.

What does Baserow's free plan include?

The cloud Free plan includes 3,000 rows and 2 GB of storage per workspace, with grid, form and gallery views. Kanban, calendar and timeline views require Premium, as do the AI features. According to the plans page, export is limited to CSV and row comments are not included.

It is a good plan to try the tool, or for a small solo tracker. For a real team file, 3,000 rows go fast: a year of orders for a small shop, or an inventory with its stock movements. And a team that thinks in kanban boards will need Premium from day one.

Should you self-host Baserow?

Self-hosted, Baserow's Free plan has no row or storage limit: that is its main strength. The other limits remain, according to the plans page: CSV-only export, no comments, Baserow logo visible. Premium and Advanced are then sold per seat, with a licence key.

Installation takes a single Docker command, according to the documentation. The rest is yours to handle: the server, the domain name, the certificate, the backups and the upgrades. The documentation recommends a backup before every upgrade, and describes a special procedure for installations older than version 1.24.

Self-hosting makes sense in three cases: an internal policy that requires your own servers, a large number of rows with no budget, or a need to read and change the code. If your only reason is to keep data in Europe under European law, Baserow's cloud already covers that, with no server to maintain. Our article on data sovereignty gives ten questions to judge it.

What does the Airtable import bring over?

Baserow imports a whole Airtable base from its public share link. According to its import documentation, the import brings over tables, records, files and grid views with their filters, sorts and grouping. A table called "Airtable import report" lists what did not come across.

The import works well for data. It takes work for a base that calculates: every formula, lookup and rollup has to be rebuilt. Currency amounts become numbers, with the symbol as a prefix or suffix. Count that work in before migrating a 20-table base.

Our verdict on Baserow

Baserow is a serious tool, and one of the three European publishers in our comparison, with SeaTable and Rangee. Its strengths are real: MIT-licensed code, free self-hosting with no row limit, a publisher under Dutch law, and a one-click Airtable import. Its weaknesses are mostly about rules and transparency.

What we like

• MIT-licensed code: you can install, read and change it without asking anyone.
• Free self-hosting with no row cap: rare in this category.
• The Advanced plan, which keeps viewers and commenters free.
• The Airtable import, quick for bases made mostly of data.

What holds us back

• The Premium billing rule, which differs from one page to another.
• The cloud Free plan, limited to three views and 3,000 rows.
• Server location: the FAQ names Germany in one answer and Amsterdam in another.
• The privacy policy, which names neither hosting nor AI providers, only categories. For a European tool that highlights the GDPR, a published sub-processor list would be the logical next step.
• The obligation to put a whole workspace on the same plan.

None of these is a deal-breaker. They can all be settled with one e-mail to the publisher before you sign: ask for the Premium billing rule, the exact hosting country and the sub-processor list.

What are the alternatives to Baserow?

The right choice depends on what makes you hesitate: the price of viewers, self-hosting, the publisher's country or the views included. The table uses the facts from our comparison of Airtable alternatives, checked on 1 November 2026 on official pages.

To choose a stock database or a first team tool, our comparison of free inventory software applies the same method to a concrete case.

And Rangee?

Rangee answers some of the reservations above, not all of them. The Pro plan costs €5 per editor per month, and viewers and commenters are free on every plan. All eight views, timeline and Gantt included, come with every plan. Rangee is published by a company under French law, with data hosted in the EU.

Smart import turns an Excel file into a database and an interface suited to its use, and the aggregation field calculates totals and averages across tables. To start from a spreadsheet, see our guide to the Excel dashboard.

Our limits, next to Baserow, are clear. Rangee is not open source and cannot be self-hosted. Its Free plan is tighter: 1 base, 1,000 records and 2 editors, with unlimited readers. If you must install the tool on your own servers or read its code, Baserow is the better choice of the two.

If you want to compare on your own data, join the Rangee beta: the Free plan never expires, and readers never pay.