Caspio: The Airtable Alternative

Caspio is a low-code platform for building full-featured database applications on Microsoft SQL Server, with unlimited users on every plan, without per-user fees. Airtable is an app-building and collaboration platform for organizing team workflows, projects, and data, charged per seat. Caspio is better suited for scalable business applications, regulated industries, internal workflows, and customer-facing portals, while Airtable fits lightweight collaboration, content calendars, and small-team project management.

Caspio charges by plan based on resources and capacity, with unlimited users: Team at $300 per month, Business at $600 per month, and Enterprise with custom pricing. Airtable charges per seat, billed annually: Free for up to 5 editors, Team at $20 per user per month, Business at $45 per user per month, and Enterprise Scale custom. At 25 editors, with annual billing, Airtable Business totals about $13,500 per year.

Both platforms are SOC 2 Type II-attested and support GDPR. Caspio’s compliance footprint is broader: HIPAA with signed BAAs, FERPA, PCI DSS, accessibility standards (WCAG, ADA, Section 508), and FIPS 140-2 through AWS GovCloud. Airtable supports HIPAA only on its top-tier Enterprise Scale plan and does not offer FERPA, private cloud, or government cloud deployment. SAML-based SSO is included on Caspio Business and Enterprise plans with both SAML-in and SAML-out support; Airtable provides SAML SSO on its Business plan and above.

Caspio is better suited for customer-facing applications. Its applications and components are fully embeddable via JavaScript or iframe on any website or portal, and every plan includes unlimited app users. Airtable supports read-only shared interface pages with external collaborators. Portals, which enable users to invite people outside their organization to collaborate on interfaces, are available as an add-on in all paid plans. Customer-facing deployments typically favor Caspio’s unlimited-user model.