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  "slug": "airtable-as-a-cms",
  "name": "Airtable as a CMS",
  "url": "https://airtable.com",
  "cat": "cms",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Spreadsheet database as a content API",
  "price": "Free: 5 editors, 1,000 records/base, 1GB attachments, 1,000 API calls/mo. Team $20/user/mo annual (50k records). Business $45/user/mo (125k records).",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Airtable is a relational spreadsheet with a REST API, often used as a lightweight CMS for structured collections such as staff directories, event listings or product roundups. The free plan gives 5 editors and 1,000 records per base; read-only viewers are free and unlimited on every plan.",
  "why": "Unbeatable for structured, tabular content a non-developer maintains daily. Views, filters and forms come free, and the grid is far faster to bulk-edit than any real CMS here.",
  "warn": "The free tier's <b>1,000 API calls per month</b> makes it viable only for build-time fetching. Long-form prose in a cell is miserable — rich text support is thin. Per-editor pricing scales badly for a large newsroom.",
  "install": "npm i airtable",
  "category": {
    "key": "cms",
    "name": "CMS & content infrastructure",
    "desc": "If you publish, this is the most consequential decision on the page.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.airtable.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T16:48:12.002+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}