Open-source alternatives to Airtable

4 alternatives, ranked by a published maintenance score computed from live GitHub signals (fetched 2026-09-04). We flag unmaintained projects on both sides — including Airtable itself when the data says so.

About Airtable: Proprietary SaaS; per-seat pricing and record limits are the usual reasons people look elsewhere. It is closed-source, so the same public maintenance signals do not exist for it — we score only the alternatives below.

The alternatives

NocoDB

90 /100 actively maintained

Turns any database into an Airtable-style smart spreadsheet; self-hostable.

64,825 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release 2026.08.2 (2026-09-03) · 706 open issues/PRs · custom license · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 90/100 was computed
Last committoday40/40
Latest releaseyesterday25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars15/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total90/100

Teable

90 /100 actively maintained

Airtable-style interface on a real Postgres database.

21,751 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release release.2026-09-04T10-30-33Z.2931 (2026-09-04) · 128 open issues/PRs · custom license · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 90/100 was computed
Last committoday40/40
Latest releasetoday25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars15/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total90/100

Grist

87 /100 actively maintained

Spreadsheet-database hybrid with Python formulas; self-hostable.

11,708 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release v1.7.18 (2026-08-28) · 713 open issues/PRs · Apache-2.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 87/100 was computed
Last committoday40/40
Latest release7 days ago25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars12/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total87/100

APITable

39 /100 stagnant

API-oriented Airtable alternative; development has slowed noticeably.

15,584 stars · last commit 2025-10-30 · latest release v1.13.0-beta.1 (2025-05-07) · 308 open issues/PRs · AGPL-3.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 39/100 was computed
Last commit10 months ago12/40
Latest release16 months ago5/25
Community sizeGitHub stars12/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total39/100

Baserow

No-code database and Airtable alternative.

Not scored: developed on GitLab, so we can't score it from GitHub signals.