Appdor vs Airtable
Bending Spoons announced an agreement to acquire Airtable on 4 August 2026 and completed the acquisition on 4 September 2026. Nobody outside the company knows what that does to Airtable's pricing, and this page does not speculate.
| Appdor | Airtable | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per editor / month | Free (1 editor) · Pro €10 · Business €22 — billed annually (€12 / €28 billed monthly) | Team $20 · Business $45 — US list price, billed annually (July 2026) |
| Seat rules | Per editor, no minimum, no blocks. Viewers free on every plan. | Per editor, no minimum |
| Free plan | Yes — 1 editor, 2,500 records per base; every view, chart and dashboard included | Yes — 5 editors, 1,000 records per base |
| Views and charts | All 12 view types and 25 chart types on every plan | Gantt, timeline and personal views from the Team plan |
| Self-hosting | Yes — one container, Postgres included. A thirty-day Business trial, then read-only until a licence is installed; reads and exports never lock. | No self-hosted edition listed on its pricing page |
| AI | Bring your own provider key on every plan; usage recorded, not metered | AI credits included per seat each month; more sold as top-ups |
Moving a Airtable base into Appdor
Settings → Import → Import from Airtable. A personal access token you make in Airtable; Appdor lists your bases, previews the migration and applies it. Not OAuth — there is no "sign in with Airtable".
Appdor reads 7 formula dialects, Airtable's among them, and recompiles the expression rather than freezing its last computed value. A function with no counterpart is reported, not guessed at.
Every import ends in a fidelity report that names what was translated, what was approximated and what did not come across. A saved view that lost its filter is raised as blocked, not buried as a note — you read the list before anyone works in the new base.
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Or we do it with you
One base, one call, up to two hours: we run the import together, translate the formulas, reconnect the links and hand over the fidelity report. Free — no fee, no minimum plan; it is how we would rather you meet the product.
What Appdor is not
It holds no compliance certification. The Airtable connection is a personal access token, not a sign-in button. The hosted service at appdor.com runs in AWS us-east-1, in the USA; if your data has to stay in a particular jurisdiction, that is an argument for self-hosting, not for our cloud. Self-hosting moves risk rather than deleting it: you own backups, upgrades and uptime, and the hosted plan exists for teams that would rather not. If Airtable is working for you, this page is not an argument to leave it — it is what the alternative looks like when you want to know.
Read more
- Appdor vs Airtable: the same job, a different bill and a different address
- Your Airtable formulas are the migration. Everything else is a CSV.
- Where does this row live?
Sources
- airtable.com/pricing — prices, seat rules, free plan, views and AI credits, as published in July 2026
- airtable.com/pricing — no self-hosted edition listed (checked 4 October 2026)
- airtable.com/newsroom/airtable-joins-bending-spoons — completion of the acquisition, 4 September 2026
- bendingspoons.com/documents/financials/2026/bsp-20260804x6k.pdf — announcement of the agreement, 4 August 2026
- Appdor's own prices and plan limits: the pricing section of appdor.com, in euros.