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. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion.
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. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion.
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.