Teable

Reviewed Teable's site and pricing on 2026-10-26, after teable.io redirected me to teable.ai and a landing page that no longer says what most directories still claim. No account was created — this is desk research with the receipts in staging.

The pitch has moved. Teable began life as the open-source Airtable alternative; the 2026 site sells "The AI Spreadsheet for Business" — a grid where you drop receipts, contracts, or resumes and AI fields extract the columns: vendor, total, signing dates, candidate skills. Automations run on top (25,000–100,000 runs monthly on paid tiers), and an app builder turns any table into an internal tool, with a template marketplace showing real install counts — 10,864 for a task tracker, 4,969 for a client CRM. The Airtable comparison pages still exist, and on list prices Teable wins the paper fight: Pro runs $13/seat billed yearly against the familiar $20-plus per-seat incumbents, with 250,000 rows per space.

The Catch

Two gaps matter before you buy. First, proof: Teable has exactly one G2 review (October 2026) and no Trustpilot profile on either domain — the homepage's "Trusted by teams at" row is curated marketing, not review volume. You'd be adopting a solid-looking product with essentially no independent track record, which is a bet, not a benchmark. Second, the meter: credits (2,000 per seat on Pro, 3,000 on Business) power the AI features, and the page never defines what a credit buys — the credits FAQ wouldn't expand during capture. An AI-extraction workflow on a few thousand PDFs could exhaust a plan's credits in an afternoon, and the overage math is invisible until you're inside. Self-hosters get the third gap: the word is all over the nav, but no self-hosted price appears on the pricing page. Who wastes money here: teams that estimate AI usage from the row count rather than the credits, and OSS buyers who assume the old open-source story maps one-to-one onto the current cloud plans. Test the credit burn on the Free tier with your real files first.

What it actually costs

Where it fits

If your bottleneck is unstructured documents becoming structured data, Teable is purpose-built and cheap to trial. If you want a proven Airtable replacement with a review army behind it, the incumbents still own that comfort; if the goal shifts from structured data to full internal apps, Jet Admin generates those on the same databases. Teable's grid is familiar; its review file is not. Price the credits, not the seats.