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Airtable portal cost calculator (2026)
A portal on top of your Airtable base can cost anywhere from a few dollars to thousands a year, depending on how the tool charges. Enter how many people will log in and see what each option actually costs.
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What a portal costs
| Tool | Plan | Annual cost |
|---|---|---|
| GlideAirtable sync needs the Business plan: Glide's cheaper Explorer and Maker tiers cannot connect to Airtable at all, and Maker's unlimited personal users go with them. Business includes 30 users then $5 each. It also meters "updates" at 5,000/mo included then 2 cents each, and Glide's own docs say external sources like Airtable consume updates while its native tables do not, so a write-heavy Airtable portal costs more on top. Glide invites volume discussions above its published rate without publishing the rates, so treat this as a ceiling rather than a quote. | Business | up to $12,588/yr |
| Airtable PortalsRead-only guests are free and use no seat; 100 editing guests need the 100-seat pack. Airtable discounts larger packs without publishing the rates, so this is an upper bound at the entry rate of about $8 per guest. The add-on is only sold on Team and above, so a Team plan sits under this. Branding and layout are limited. | Team + Portals add-on | up to $9,600/yr |
| SoftrPriced on Softr's client users (viewers and editors alike). Portal users on free email domains always count as client users. Free and Basic cap users hard with no add-on; Pro and Business charge per extra user above the allowance and are themselves capped, at 250 and 500 clients. | Pro | $2,988/yr |
| PoryFlat fee with unlimited portal members and a custom domain. Pro covers one portal; unlimited portals is the Enterprise plan at $549/mo month-to-month. | Pro | $1,188/yr |
| NolocoClient seats are not charged per head: 1,000 are included, then it is a sales quote. Team seats are 10 included then $6 each. Airtable is not available on Noloco's free plan, so Build is the entry point for an Airtable portal. Noloco publishes no annual rate, so this is its month-to-month price. | Build | $948/yr |
| miniExtensionsFlat fee with unlimited end users and unlimited builder seats. Basic covers one extension, which is one portal. A custom domain needs the Scale plan at $149/mo, so a branded portal costs considerably more than the entry price. | Basic | $228/yr |
| CollabPortalsFlat fee with unlimited viewers, editors, and builders. No per-seat charge, and a custom domain is included. | Flat | $120/yr |
Annual-billing prices as of August 2026. Each tool name links to its pricing page. We show the cheapest plan that fits the number of users entered; where a tool no longer publishes self-serve pricing at that scale we show "Custom quote", and where a vendor discounts at your volume without publishing the rate we show "up to" rather than a firm price. Monthly figures are the annual-billing rate spread over the year, not the higher month-to-month rate, except for Noloco, which publishes no annual rate at all.
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Pricing last updated August 2026. Each tool's figures come from its own pricing page, linked in the table above. Spotted a price that has changed? Let us know.
Why portal pricing varies so much
The tools that put a friendly front end on an Airtable base fall into two camps. Some charge per user or per seat, so the bill grows with every person you add. Others charge a flat fee no matter how many people log in. For a handful of users the difference barely shows. For a few hundred or a few thousand, it is the difference between a coffee a month and a serious line item.
Per-user tools like Glide, Noloco and Softr are excellent when you want a rich app and a smaller, known audience. Flat-fee tools make more sense when you have a large or unpredictable number of viewers, such as applicants, members, students or customers who each need to see only their own records.
What the calculator assumes
Prices are the annual-billing rates published by each tool as of August 2026, and every tool name links to the source so you can confirm them. The one exception is Noloco, which publishes no annual rate, so its figure is the month-to-month price. We always pick the cheapest plan that genuinely fits the number of users you enter, rather than a worst-case tier. Where a tool stops offering self-serve pricing at your scale, we say so instead of inventing a number. Read-only viewers and editing members are counted separately because some tools bill them differently.
Every row prices the portal layer on its own. Whichever option you pick you are still paying Airtable for the base and for your own team's seats, so folding those into one row and not the others would load a shared cost onto a single tool.
The Airtable row deserves a word of explanation, because it answers two different questions depending on what your users do. If they only need to look at data, you do not need the Portals add-on at all: read-only collaborators and shared view links are free and unlimited on every Airtable plan, including Free, which is why that row reads nothing. That is plain read-only sharing rather than a branded portal, and the difference is capability, not price: guests see the base broadly as it is, with no per-user row filtering and no branding of your own.
The moment one guest needs to edit, two costs arrive together. The Portals add-on starts at $120 a month for 15 editing guests, and the add-on is only sold on a Team plan or above, so from the Free plan you are also picking up Team seats at $20 a month each. That second part is the one place these rows are not quite like for like: every other tool here works on any Airtable plan, including Free.
Two figures come with a caveat rather than a flat number. Airtable sells Portals guest seats in packs of 15, 25, 50, 100 and 200 and discounts the larger packs without publishing the rates, so above the entry pack we show the highest price we can actually evidence and label it as an upper bound. And Noloco publishes no annual rate at all, so its figure is the month-to-month price rather than an annual-billing equivalent.
Stacker used to appear here and no longer does. Its portal product pages now redirect to the root of stacker.ai, which sells a credit-metered AI platform and publishes no per-user or per-portal price, so there is no figure to compare. Pory takes the slot: it is Airtable-native, portal-shaped and flat-fee.
Only pricing Airtable's own collaborator seats rather than a portal on top of them? The Airtable seat cost calculator does that, including which of Airtable's plans works out cheaper for your mix of editors, commenters and read-only users.
Frequently asked questions
How is the cost calculated?
Each tool is priced on its cheapest plan that genuinely fits the number of users you enter, using annual-billing rates as of August 2026, except Noloco, which publishes no annual rate at all, so its figure is month to month. Every tool name links to its own pricing page so you can check the numbers. Where a tool stops publishing self-serve pricing at your scale we show a custom quote rather than guess, and where it discounts at your volume without publishing the rate we show an upper bound.
Why do the totals diverge so much at scale?
Some tools charge per user or per seat, so the cost grows with every person who logs in. Others charge a flat fee no matter how many people use the portal. With a few users the difference is small; with hundreds or thousands it is large.
Why do viewers and editors cost different amounts?
On most tools they do not: per-user plans bill anyone who signs in the same. Airtable is the exception. Sharing a base read-only is free and unlimited on every Airtable plan including Free, and needs no add-on at all, though that is plain read-only sharing rather than a branded portal. Guest seats are only for people who edit, and they come from the Portals add-on, which starts at $120 a month for 15 editing guests and is only sold on a Team plan or above.
What if I just want to price Airtable's own seats?
Use the Airtable seat cost calculator instead. This page compares portal tools; that one prices Airtable collaborator seats for your own team and external users, and works out whether the Team or Business plan is cheaper for your mix of editors, commenters and read-only people.
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Built by CollabPortals, which connects Airtable to branded portals your clients and team can use without an Airtable seat. If you want to see how a flat-fee portal works, browse the use cases or compare CollabPortals against Airtable Portals.