Airtable's pricing page keeps things short: a free plan to start building, Team at $20 per user per month when billed annually for teams that need more capacity, Business at $45 per user per month when billed annually, and Enterprise Scale at custom pricing. The framing on the page is that teams, workflows and agents live in one space, with agents presented as part of the product rather than an upsell, and the platform's own examples are of structured records such as vendor request trackers and pipelines.
TL;DR
Airtable prices two steps above free, at $20 per user per month for Team and $45 per user per month for Business on annual billing, and positions itself as a database that teams, workflows and agents share. ClickUp prices a longer ladder: Free Forever, then Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly ($10 monthly), Business at $12 yearly ($19 monthly) and Enterprise at custom pricing, with AI sold separately as Brain AI at $9 per user per month or Everything AI at $28, and AI Super Credits at $0.001 each or $10 per 10,000. ClickUp is markedly cheaper per seat and puts AI on a separate line; Airtable charges more per seat and folds agents into the platform rather than selling them as an upgrade.
ClickUp's ladder is longer and cheaper per rung. Free Forever is $0; Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed yearly or $10 billed monthly; Business is $12 per user per month billed yearly or $19 billed monthly; Enterprise is quoted on request. Business includes 5K automations per month, and Enterprise raises that to 250K automations a month, adds audit logs, session management, enterprise API access, MSA and HIPAA availability, default personal views and custom branding. Unlimited fills in the basics such as 24/7 support, unlimited storage, unlimited Gantt charts and unlimited integrations.
ClickUp then sells AI as its own product. Brain AI is $9 per user per month; Everything AI is $28 per user per month and is the recommended tier for an agentic setup, including unlimited Brain Assistant and 5,000 AI Super Credits per user per month for Super Agents. Credits beyond that are priced at $0.001 each, or $10 per 10,000. Airtable's page does not split its agents out this way, which means the comparison depends on how much AI you actually intend to use: at $28 per user per month on Everything AI, ClickUp's total passes Airtable's Business tier, while on the $7 Unlimited rung it is a fraction of Airtable's entry price.
| Feature | Airtable | ClickUp |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free plan to start building | Free Forever at $0 with no credit card required |
| Entry paid plan | Team $20/user/month billed annually, for more capacity than Free | Unlimited $7/user/month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly |
| Middle plan | Business $45/user/month billed annually, adding customisation, data scale and admin features | Business $12/user/month billed yearly, or $19 billed monthly, including 5K automations per month |
| Top published plan | Enterprise Scale at custom pricing | Enterprise at custom pricing, including 250K automations per month, audit log, session management, enterprise API, MSA and HIPAA availability |
| AI pricing | Agents presented as part of the platform; no separate AI tier published on the pricing page | Brain AI $9/user/month; Everything AI $28/user/month with unlimited Brain Assistant and 5,000 AI Super Credits per user per month |
| AI overflow rate | Not published per credit on the pricing page | AI Super Credits at $0.001 each, or $10 per 10,000 credits |
| Automation allowance | Not itemised per plan on the pricing page | 5K automations per month on Business, 250K per month on Enterprise |
| Monthly versus yearly | Both published prices are annual-billing figures | Both shown: Unlimited $7 yearly or $10 monthly, Business $12 yearly or $19 monthly |
| Storage and support | Part of the plan features rather than a published line | Unlimited storage, unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited integrations and 24/7 support on Unlimited |
| Governance and compliance | Administrative features on Business; Enterprise Scale for larger organisations | Audit log, session management, enterprise API, MSA and HIPAA availability on Enterprise |
| Best fit | Teams whose work is structured records, linked tables and pipelines | Teams that want work management plus optional AI at a published per-user rate |
Pick Airtable if
Airtable is the better fit when what you are managing is structured records: vendor requests, inventories, pipelines and anything that benefits from typed fields and linked tables rather than assignable tasks. Its price ladder is short and legible, free then $20 per user per month for Team and $45 for Business on annual billing, and agents are described as part of the same space as teams and workflows rather than as an upgrade you buy later. That said, you pay for the shape: the entry paid tier is nearly three times ClickUp's $7 Unlimited, both published prices are annual-billing figures, and there is no published middle rung between Team and custom enterprise pricing when you outgrow the first paid tier.
Pick ClickUp if
ClickUp wins on published price per user and on how clearly it prices AI. Free Forever costs nothing, Unlimited is $7 per user per month on yearly billing with unlimited storage, integrations and 24/7 support, and Business is $12 with 5K automations a month. Both yearly and monthly rates are shown, so the discount for committing is visible rather than implied. AI is a separate product with its own numbers: Brain AI at $9 per user per month, Everything AI at $28 with unlimited Brain Assistant and 5,000 AI Super Credits per user per month, and credits at $0.001 each beyond the allowance. The trade-off is that the total climbs quickly once you opt into Everything AI, $40 per user per month on Business plus the plan, and that the governance features buyers often need for compliance are locked behind a quote.
Neither Airtable nor ClickUp publishes third-party review data we are willing to restate as fact, and we did not run either product ourselves. Every figure here is taken from the two vendors' own pricing pages as published when this comparison was written. If a plan price or AI credit rate has moved since, tell us and we will re-check it.
Per seat on published prices, yes. ClickUp Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed yearly against Airtable Team at $20 per user per month billed annually, and ClickUp Business is $12 against Airtable Business at $45. Add Everything AI at $28 per user per month, though, and a ClickUp Business user costs $40 before credit overflow, which is close to Airtable's Team price.
ClickUp sells it as a separate product: Brain AI at $9 per user per month and Everything AI at $28 per user per month, the latter with unlimited Brain Assistant and 5,000 AI Super Credits per user per month, with extra credits at $0.001 each or $10 per 10,000. Airtable presents agents as part of the platform rather than a separate tier, and its pricing page does not itemise an AI allowance per plan.
ClickUp does, and shows the difference: Unlimited is $7 per user per month yearly or $10 monthly, and Business is $12 yearly or $19 monthly. Airtable's two published paid prices, $20 and $45 per user per month, are both annual-billing figures.
Airtable describes Business as the tier with additional customisation, data scale, flexibility and administrative features for departments and enterprise organisations, above Team at $20 per user per month, which is aimed at teams needing more capacity than the free plan.
ClickUp publishes them for Enterprise: audit log, session management, enterprise API, MSA and HIPAA availability, plus custom branding and default personal views, all at custom pricing. Airtable puts administrative features on Business and offers Enterprise Scale at custom pricing for organisations needing its data-scale capabilities.
For most small teams that manage tasks, projects and docs, ClickUp's Unlimited at $7 per user per month is the cheaper starting point and includes unlimited storage, integrations and 24/7 support. Airtable's case is stronger when the work is fundamentally tabular, since its free plan and Team tier are built around structured records, linked tables and pipelines rather than task lists.
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