Airtable vs Trello
Both ladders below were read from the vendors’ own pricing pages, in this market, on the dates shown. Nothing is converted: what you see is what each page showed a reader here.
What each one is
Airtablesite ↗pricing ↗
A spreadsheet-database hybrid: structured records with views and automations, used to run processes a spreadsheet outgrows. Paid plans start at $20/mo (Team); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $45/mo (Business). We read the same $20/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
Trellosite ↗pricing ↗
A card-and-board task tool, known for being immediately understandable, used for light project tracking. Paid plans start at $6/mo (Standard); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $12.5/mo (Premium).
The two ladders
Airtablesite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-09-07 · USD
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Team | $20/mo |
| Business | $45/mo |
Trellosite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-09-06 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 'Free for up to 10 collaborators per Workspace'. Unlimited cards, unlimited activity log, iOS and Android apps, 2FA. |
| Standard | $6/mo ($5 ↓) | '$5 USD Per user/month if billed annually ($6 billed monthly)'. 1,000 Workspace command runs per month, single board guests, saved searches. |
| Premium | $12.5/mo ($10 ↓) | '$10 USD Per user/month if billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly)'. Workspace-level templates, collections, observers, simple data export. |
| Enterprise | $17.5/mo | '$17.50 USD Per user/month - billed annually ($210.00 annual price per user)'. No monthly-billing figure is published for this plan. |
Where they differ
- Cheapest way in: Trello at $6/mo, against Airtable at $20/mo. That is the entry price in this market on the dates shown, not a judgement about which suits you.
- Free plans: only Trello publishes one — a plan priced at zero, not a trial.
- How far each ladder goes: Airtable tops out at $45/mo, Trello at $12.5/mo. A deeper ladder is not a worse deal — it is a bill that keeps climbing if you keep growing.
- Airtable: We read the same $20/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
How to choose in this category
- Nearly everything here is per seat — multiply by the team before comparing.
- Free tiers cap different things: seats on some tools, features on others. Check which.
- Billed-monthly rates sit above the advertised annual-billed figures.