<story><title>Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative</title><url>https://baserow.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.&lt;p&gt;Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.&lt;p&gt;If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that&amp;#x27;s $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can&amp;#x27;t justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the &amp;quot;Enterprise Plan&amp;quot; would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.&lt;p&gt;Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>There’s a few factors at play;&lt;p&gt;1) There’s customers who will pay 15k for the exact same users&amp;#x2F;features as you’re willing to pay &amp;lt;3k for. If they offered a cheap package then those customers wouldn’t pay for the expensive package.&lt;p&gt;2) Sub enterprise customers are a pain, they’re often as expensive as enterprise customers (acquisition, support, etc) but with significantly less revenue and higher churn. When a company decides where to focus it’s going to go where the money is.</text></comment>
<story><title>Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative</title><url>https://baserow.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.&lt;p&gt;Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.&lt;p&gt;If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that&amp;#x27;s $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can&amp;#x27;t justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the &amp;quot;Enterprise Plan&amp;quot; would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.&lt;p&gt;Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>&amp;gt; Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?&lt;p&gt;Just like GitLab.  If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices.  $240 &amp;#x2F; year for idle users that barely participate?  No thanks.&lt;p&gt;And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate.&lt;p&gt;Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with.</text></comment>