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What is the best open source alternatives of Airtable?

by alaminopu 2mo ago

tablet 2mo ago
Fibery is free for small team (but not an open source).
kotnik 2mo ago
I am using Baserow (https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/) happily.
- alaminopu 2mo ago
  Thanks for the suggestions
leejoramo 2mo ago
Look at Grist. You maybe justly concerned for it being an open source project that is backed by one small company that sells hosted plans. The difference is that Grist is a core part of the French Government’s open source web applications La Suite https://www.getgrist.com/ https://www.getgrist.com/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist
- meetingthrower 2mo ago
  Second Grist it is very cool we use a lot of it. You can run python as a column/ cell and it doesn't have a lot of the limitations of Airtable. Usage tiers are ridiculously large. Free api. I am almost hoping they charge more so they stay in business.
  - maffulli 2mo ago
    Thanks for the mention (I work at Grist)! We want to stay in business, indeed. How much shall we charge? :)
    - meetingthrower 2mo ago
      Honestly the "charge by data" is probably missing some things. We have quite a few users on the free tier. I found out my ops guys were optimizing the data to keep on the free tier because it would jump from zero to [something still reasonable] but would be a multiple of seats. They would pay you SOMETHING but the big jump to MORE seemed too much for them lol. They are on Grist by my recommendation after searching for tools. I just checked in on it after 6 months and they have built their entire manufacturing process management on it... Good stuff.
      - anaisconce 2mo ago
        Thanks for all this detail! Manufacturing ops is a pretty common use case in Grist. Do you know if they'd be willing to give us a case study or webinar? Or speak at our virtual GristCon in October? It's a community event where most speakers are Grist users, all on Discord stages. Very fun. I'd love to connect with them. If they're open, they can reach me at: success [at] getgrist [dot] com Disclosure: I'm CEO at Grist.
- anaisconce 2mo ago
  By the way, Grist has a very good Airtable migration tool. https://www.getgrist.com/airtable-alternative-self-hosted/ https://www.getgrist.com/airtable-alternative-self-hosted/ It brings over column types, references, attachments, and simple formulas intact. Even brings over choice/select colors!
dmblit 2mo ago
I've heard good things about https://teable.ai/ https://teable.ai/ for airtable-like flexibility. With more standardized CRM scenarios I'm going to try https://twenty.com/ https://twenty.com/ with the next opportunity
MauniVilla 2mo ago
Definitely try Baserow https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/
petilon 2mo ago
Not open source, but free for small teams: https://visualdb.com/ https://visualdb.com/
onel 2mo ago
As others said, baserow is a good one. Pretty easy to self-host with something like https://malmo.network/store/baserow https://malmo.network/store/baserow (founder here)

What is the best open source alternatives of Airtable?

tablet 2mo ago

Fibery is free for small team (but not an open source).

kotnik 2mo ago

I am using Baserow (https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/) happily.

alaminopu 2mo ago
Thanks for the suggestions

leejoramo 2mo ago

Look at Grist. You maybe justly concerned for it being an open source project that is backed by one small company that sells hosted plans. The difference is that Grist is a core part of the French Government’s open source web applications La Suite https://www.getgrist.com/ https://www.getgrist.com/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist

meetingthrower 2mo ago
Second Grist it is very cool we use a lot of it. You can run python as a column/ cell and it doesn't have a lot of the limitations of Airtable. Usage tiers are ridiculously large. Free api. I am almost hoping they charge more so they stay in business.
- maffulli 2mo ago
  Thanks for the mention (I work at Grist)! We want to stay in business, indeed. How much shall we charge? :)
  - meetingthrower 2mo ago
    Honestly the "charge by data" is probably missing some things. We have quite a few users on the free tier. I found out my ops guys were optimizing the data to keep on the free tier because it would jump from zero to [something still reasonable] but would be a multiple of seats. They would pay you SOMETHING but the big jump to MORE seemed too much for them lol. They are on Grist by my recommendation after searching for tools. I just checked in on it after 6 months and they have built their entire manufacturing process management on it... Good stuff.
    - anaisconce 2mo ago
      Thanks for all this detail! Manufacturing ops is a pretty common use case in Grist. Do you know if they'd be willing to give us a case study or webinar? Or speak at our virtual GristCon in October? It's a community event where most speakers are Grist users, all on Discord stages. Very fun. I'd love to connect with them. If they're open, they can reach me at: success [at] getgrist [dot] com Disclosure: I'm CEO at Grist.
anaisconce 2mo ago
By the way, Grist has a very good Airtable migration tool. https://www.getgrist.com/airtable-alternative-self-hosted/ https://www.getgrist.com/airtable-alternative-self-hosted/ It brings over column types, references, attachments, and simple formulas intact. Even brings over choice/select colors!

dmblit 2mo ago

I've heard good things about https://teable.ai/ https://teable.ai/ for airtable-like flexibility. With more standardized CRM scenarios I'm going to try https://twenty.com/ https://twenty.com/ with the next opportunity

MauniVilla 2mo ago

Definitely try Baserow https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/

petilon 2mo ago

Not open source, but free for small teams: https://visualdb.com/ https://visualdb.com/

onel 2mo ago

As others said, baserow is a good one. Pretty easy to self-host with something like https://malmo.network/store/baserow https://malmo.network/store/baserow (founder here)