Leave Airtable without leaving your data

Teams running their operations on Airtable — orders, projects, clients, inventory — who want the relational model they already like, without the seat math, the add-on line items, or a migration weekend.

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The switching math

RowFold is $29/month per editor, with unlimited free read-only viewers — the whole price list in one sentence. Put your own numbers beside it; we don't quote other tools' prices here, because plans change and your invoice is the honest source.

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Every RowFold number above comes from the live price list — there are no tiers, record limits or per-feature unlocks to model. The 30-day trial is the full product, no card.

WHAT IT FIXES

The four things that actually go wrong

Airtable announced its acquisition by Bending Spoons on August 4, 2026, and an ownership change is exactly when teams audit what they depend on. You don't need a prediction about what happens next to want your operational data somewhere you can move it from — and to know, concretely, what a move would cost you.

The import is built to make the audit cheap: connect your Airtable account read-only, pick a base, and see it land as real tables — linked records rebuilt as relations, attachments copied to RowFold's own storage before Airtable's temporary URLs expire, select options, dates with their times. You find out what a switch looks like by doing it on a Tuesday, not by scheduling a project.

The bill you compare against isn't the per-seat sticker. AI arrives as a separate credits line, portals as another, and growing past your plan's record ceiling as an upgrade conversation — so what you actually pay takes a spreadsheet to reconstruct, and every person who can edit anything is a seat.

RowFold's whole price list is one sentence: a flat price per editor with unlimited free read-only viewers, and a metered AI allowance included per editor. The calculator on this page takes the numbers off your own invoice — we don't quote Airtable's prices here, because plans change and your bill is the honest source — and puts them beside the one number RowFold will ever charge you.

The move itself is the real blocker. A team mid-quarter cannot stop entering orders while somebody rebuilds the base, and an export-CSV-reimport weekend loses exactly the things that made Airtable useful: the links between tables and the files on the records.

There is no weekend. The import runs in the background against Airtable's API — not a CSV export — so links and files survive, and afterwards you can keep the base mirrored on a schedule: new and changed Airtable records flow into RowFold hourly or daily while your team moves at its own pace. The day you cancel is the day the mirror has nothing left to tell you.

Half the people in the base never edit anything — they look up a phone number, check a status, read a dashboard. Paying a seat for each of them is what quietly doubles the bill, and culling them from the workspace just moves the lookup back into email.

Read-only viewers are free and unlimited, permanently — not a promotional tier. The people who edit pay; everyone who only needs to see the answer costs nothing. For most teams that one structural difference is bigger than any per-seat price gap, which is why the calculator asks about editors and viewers separately.

QUESTIONS

Before you start

What exactly carries over from my Airtable base?

Tables, fields and records come across with their types mapped — text, numbers, currency, percent, ratings, checkboxes, selects with their options, and dates including their times. Linked-record fields are rebuilt as real RowFold relations by matching Airtable's own record ids, so 'this order belongs to that customer' survives the move exactly. Attachments are downloaded and stored in RowFold's own storage during the import, which matters because the file links in an Airtable export expire within hours. Formula, rollup and lookup columns import as the values they last computed, clearly marked — rebuilding the computation is a few minutes in RowFold's own formula and rollup editors, and the import report lists every column that needs it.

Can I keep using Airtable while my team moves over?

Yes — that is the point of the sync. After the first import you can put the base on an hourly or daily mirror: new records appear in RowFold, changed records update, and the source wins on the columns the import mapped. Columns you add on the RowFold side are never touched, records you post through an approval are sealed against it, and deletions never propagate — a machine is not allowed to remove your data here. Your team migrates one workflow at a time while the numbers stay current in both places, and you turn the mirror off when nobody has opened Airtable in a month.

How long does a real base take to import?

A few thousand records land in a couple of minutes. Larger bases run in the background — the import commits as it goes and shows live progress, so a base with tens of thousands of records and a few gigabytes of attachments finishes on its own while you do something else, and a network hiccup partway costs a retry rather than the whole run. Airtable's API is rate-limited per base, and the import paces itself under that limit deliberately: a slightly slower import that arrives complete beats a fast one that got throttled into silence half-way through.

What happens to my Airtable automations?

Automations don't port — no migration tool can honestly claim otherwise, because they are scripts against Airtable's own model. The practical path is the one that works: move the data first, run both tools through one overlap period, and rebuild the handful of automations that matter in RowFold's own editor, which covers the common shapes — when a record is created or changes, on a schedule, when a webhook arrives, then update records, send email, post to a webhook. Most teams discover they rebuilt five of their forty automations and never missed the rest; the overlap period is what makes that discovery safe.

What does RowFold cost compared to what I pay now?

RowFold is one number: a flat monthly price per editor, with unlimited free read-only viewers, no record tiers, no plan ladder, and a metered AI allowance included with every editor seat. There is nothing else on the invoice. We deliberately don't print Airtable's prices on this page — they change, and your own bill is the honest source — so the calculator above takes your seat count and per-seat price from your invoice and shows the two side by side, including the case where a small all-editor team would genuinely pay less where they are. Whether the number is smaller matters less than being able to compute it in your head.

Is there a record limit I'll hit later?

There are no per-plan record tiers to upgrade through — a table holds your data, not a quota. One honest cap exists on the importer itself: a single import run brings across up to a hundred thousand records per table and says so plainly in the import report if a table was larger, rather than trailing off silently. Day-to-day use — filtering, sorting, grouping, rollups across linked tables — is engineered against hundreds of thousands of records, and the pricing page and trial make no distinction by volume. If your base is big enough to test that claim, the thirty-day trial is the honest way to test it.

Describe yours and watch it build

There is no template to wait for. Type a sentence about what you run and RowFold assembles the tables, links, views and dashboard around it — then you change whatever does not fit.

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