COMPARISONS
One page per pair. The short answer first, then a table of both tools side by side, and the full cost of self-hosting where that is an option — licence, server, and hours.
How the platform charges, what a task really is, and what changes if you move off it.
EXPLAINER
Triggers, actions, filters, and paths: how the pieces connect, with a real example.
EXPLAINER
What counts as a task, what happens at your limit, and why annual billing saves 33%.
EXPLAINER
100 tasks a month is not the binding limit. One trigger and one action is.
HEAD TO HEAD
Tasks vs credits, app catalog size, and where each platform actually wins.
THREE-WAY
Make changes the pricing unit. n8n changes who owns the infrastructure.
The spreadsheet-database layer most automations read from and write to.
HEAD TO HEAD
MIT with paid feature gates against fair-code with everything free — the January 2026 licence split decides it.
DEEP DIVE
No row or user caps — the limits are licence gates and your hardware. Server sizing with numbers.
EXPLAINER
There is no self-hosted Airtable. What a move to Baserow or NocoDB keeps and what it loses.
HEAD TO HEAD
Closed and cloud-only against MIT-licensed and free to self-host.
HEAD TO HEAD
10,000 free rows per base against Airtable's 1,000, and German data centres.
Watching whether any of it is still running.