Airtable vs. C3 AI Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airtable
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Airtable is a web-based application builder that combines spreadsheet usability with relational database architecture. The platform enables users to construct custom operational applications, configure automated workflows, and design tailored interfaces without traditional software development.
$24
per month per user
C3 AI Platform
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
C3 AI Platform is a platform for designing and deploying enterprise-scale machine learning applications. With a set of low-code development tools and native integrations to a wide array of data sources, C3 AI Suite aims to help enterprises turn raw data into forecasts, insights, and actions.N/A
Pricing
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Editions & Modules
Team
$24
per month per user
Business
$54
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Considered Both Products
Airtable
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Airtable is the best for structuring, automating and interacting with data, but only for internal use. For public-facing needs, other apps are required for their support of custom domains and styling.
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Airtable is far more sophisticated than Sheets or Excel in terms of its functions. The interface is also much easier on the eyes. People are less familiar with it and there is a bit of a learning curve, but overall, Airtable empowers us to do more and to better understand our …
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Airtable is more presentable and fluid both in terms of project management and scheduling :)
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I think it's way more robust than google sheets.
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Airtable is the most user-friendly and adaptive. It's UX/UI is the most aesthetically pleasing (which matters a lot if its what you're staring at every day), and the customizability of having different views and perspectives of the same record is extremely helpful.

It's also a …
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It is not comparable because we use it as a bridge those tools and our platform. So, in our use case, Airtable works more as a connector between the different tools we use and as a complement to eliminate repeated tasks trough automation. We are also exploring the possibility …
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AirTable does a great job at Project Management. You can easily create tasks and set up reminders, including automated reminder emails, when deadlines draw near. You can group the tasks and can also group tasks in a variety of ways (not started, pending, completed or …
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Airtable was a really good fit for this specific use case as it provided a huge number of collaboration features in an intuitive and pleasant-to-use interface. The free tier worked initially with our work, and the upgrade pathway was fair and made sense for us.
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There's a saying that spreadsheets were never meant to be databases, and Airtable provides the missing piece for nontechnical users who need to hear that saying. It's more performant and provides more custom view options, for example, than Excel or Google Sheets.

Retool …
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Airtable is as powerful, if not more than these competitors. It has a simple interface like Asana or Trello but has robust data functions and tracking of Jira or ShotGrid (now called Flow). While I haven't found it as profoundly integrated as Jira, Airtable feels much more …
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While a very capable tool, Smartsheet ultimately didn't provide the ease of use we required for our scenario. Monday was a great tool that felt very similar to Airtable, except its mobile app actually lead to some mismatched information and difficult use in time-sensitive …
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Most comparable to Monday.com. Great, easy-to-use tool.
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I have tried Trello, Monday.com, Meister Task, and even Google Sheets. They are all great and solid applications. Some even have really nice user interfaces. However, none of them have met my primary need of being able to view my current projects and associated deadlines at a …
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Airtable is:
  • More customizable.
  • Simpler to use than Excel or Sheets—you don't need to write formulas
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Airtable is a great collaboration tool, Its kanban boards facilitate me to add a texture to my projects. There is so much to talk
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Airtable is so far the best project management tool I've used so far—it is way more visually appealing to the eye and offers the most customizations.
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Airtable exceeds all competitors I’ve seen. The feature set is full and only growing. The UI is intuitive for non-tech employees. Any competitors that match Airtable are really operating in a different space. Airtable is the industry leader in this category. Period.
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Asana is a great piece of software but it ultimately had too many features and offerings. Our main focus was having a 'smartsheet' that easily allowed for collaboration at a very affordable price. Airtable was the best fit for what we were looking for at the time. If we ever …
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We have tried to use smart-sheet before but it is nowhere as good as Airtable. The user interface with Airtable is much better and it also has much more functionality.
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The only similar thing that I have used is Google Sheets, and Airtable is much better than this as it provides way more abilities and creation of automation.
C3 AI Platform
Chose C3 AI Platform
C3 AI Platform offers much faster deployment through pre-built, industry-specific apps, and comfortably beats the others when it comes to time to deployment and scalability. Palantir on the other hand requires heavy custom engineering. C3 AI Platform does lack the open-source …
Features
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Airtable
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
C3 AI Platform
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Ratings
Task Management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access5.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Airtable
-
Ratings
C3 AI Platform
8.2
Ratings
2% below category average
Visual Modeling00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Platform Security00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform User Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reusability00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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8.0
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9.5
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Usability
8.0
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7.0
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
9.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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In-Person Training
8.0
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Online Training
9.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
10.0
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Ease of integration
8.0
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Product Scalability
9.0
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
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User Testimonials
AirtableC3 AI Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Airtable is well suited for cross-functional teams who all have an interest in data site - it's democratizing who owns data. Especially if there will be a need to add input on a cell-level basis view comment functionality with the expectation of @mentioned parties respond. Airtable is less suited for teams who need to run functions, jobs, and macros across a data set; they're best suited for Excel.
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For consultants like me, who are not interested in generic LLM's with very deployment costs and payback times, industry specific applications are essential. We are time-bound to deliver value to our clients whether it is improved productivity or revenue uplift, and for this particular reason C3 AI Platform is a particularly good choice.
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Pros
  • I can create tables, create and customize fields
  • Airtable has capabilities commonly found in spreadsheet applications, but also has some of the features found in databases.
  • The ability to filter fields. I set up a filter on the status field, so when a project is marked, complete, on hold, or canceled, that record is hidden from my current projects table view. If it is marked complete, the record is moved to the completed projects table view. In this way I can easily access a record of past projects
  • Being able to duplicate tables and create alternate views
  • Collapse and expand records. When I collapse the rows, I can easily scan current projects, next steps, project status, and due dates. When I expand the row, or field, I can see more detailed information about that field or record very easily. I can also expand or open the entire record. This is is helpful, when I am entering a lot of information to multiple fields in that record.
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Cons
  • Airtable does not integrate with collaboration services with which it is possible to review live changes within each spreadsheet (in the case of keeping them closed).
  • Does not automate analysis traffic.
  • It does not include any section where it is possible to communicate with the other editors.
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Likelihood to Renew
We love Airtable for how we use it and we know there are probably tons of other ways we can implement it for other departments. We just haven't gotten there yet (due to bandwith) Customer Support is also super helpful and overall ease of use is fantastic
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Usability
Airtable is a simple and intuitive tool. However, when you first set it up, you need someone who is curious and able to design a system that works for your organisation's use case. This takes some time, but it can be intuitive once it's set up.
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I’d give it 7.5/10. Its model-driven architecture is powerful for scaling enterprise AI, at pace but it definitely needs some heavy-lifting. The platform can be hard to grasp initially and the steep learning curve, makes change management very important. The framework can be a bit rigid for industry agnostic developers used to flexible, open-source tools. It is excellent for data orchestration but is not as lean as some of the low-code competitors.
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Reliability and Availability
I have rarely experience downtime, compared to other tools, and given how much time we spend on the tool. Even if there were to be, their updates on it are very timely, and our support team are able to provide any questions regarding
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Performance
I never had any issues with load time, even with the integrations that we use today (google sheets) However, I'm curious if adding additional layers of integrations would slow down performance. We do carry quite a bit of data in Airtable, but, again, no impact on overall performance
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Support Rating
Airtable has great support. They have a variety of support features to answer any questions. They have great self teaching instructions for templates and product tours. They also have support for teams and project management. They also have a fantastic customer help line. They are able and willing to answer customer questions and never have customers waiting long
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In-Person Training
This training was done in-house, but the Airtable team provided resources and how to guides to ensure that we covered all components of the system
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Online Training
Recorded trainings were provided by the Airtable team. Great as an evergreen resources to new team members and for anyone that wants to refresh their Airtable knowledge
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Implementation Rating
Training all users was an important part of the implementation, which did take considerable time and effort. At first glance without training, the content calendar can be overwhelming because of the amount of data. The features within Airtable seem to be endless but our team was able to identify the most important to be successful.
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Alternatives Considered
Airtable is the most user-friendly and adaptive. It's UX/UI is the most aesthetically pleasing (which matters a lot if its what you're staring at every day), and the customizability of having different views and perspectives of the same record is extremely helpful. It's also a great cloud-based storage place for marketing materials, as it goes beyond simple storage - you can group together, make notes, connect, and comment on assets.
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C3 AI Platform offers much faster deployment through pre-built, industry-specific apps, and comfortably beats the others when it comes to time to deployment and scalability. Palantir on the other hand requires heavy custom engineering. C3 AI Platform does lack the open-source flexibility of Databricks and the cloud native scale of Vertex. I would prefer C3 AI Platform for turnkey enterprise solutions, but for other use cases it can be a bit more complex vs the other three due to its "back-box" environment.
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Scalability
There are TONS of opportunity to scale, but I think it's a matter if you have the time and resources to do so because the initial setup can be fairly time consuming and prioritized dedication
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Return on Investment
  • It gives us a real-time experience of working.
  • Through this platform, I always have the idea bout which of my team member is working on which particular part of the project, I can easily track their progress, and also I can easily correct them where it is required by adding sticky notes, by sending the attachments and URLs.
  • Quality services.
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