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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Airtable

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAirtable 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 seat

    Node.js

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ANode.js is an open source, asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.

    $0

    Quickbase

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AQuickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.

    $700

    per month

    Pricing
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $24
    per month per user
    Business
    $54
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Enterprise
    Full Customizable
    per month/billed annually
    Business
    Starting at $2,200
    per month
    Team
    Started at $700
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsQuickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.
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    Community Pulse
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Considered Multiple Products
    Airtable
    Chose Airtable
    Airtable beats these programs hands down!!! The two programs mentioned do not have the user-friendly interfaces available with Airtable. The learning curve is steeper with other programs. The graphics in Airtable are much crisper and relevant.
    Incentivized
    Chose Airtable
    The other three had much going for them but only Airtable met our primary need for data management and price.
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    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    Quickbase
    Chose Quickbase
    When we started the process, we looked at Airtable. I think there's a couple of no-code platforms that we looked at, and I don't honestly remember. I had a consultant do a lot of that work for us and this was the one that was recommended.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Quickbase is more customizable in terms of the UI and is an overall easier experience than Airtable
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We switched to Airtable and there are a few drawbacks that I immediately noticed with the new application. Airtable offers far less robust report-building options. Quickbase feels like the table-building aspect of Airtable but on steroids. Airtable is much faster to edit table …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Airtable was not nearly customizable at all. Anything that I wanted to do was easily found and it was very easy to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Out of the box softwares come with out of the box assumptions that are difficult to mold your workflow to so companies generally adapt part of their workflow to how the software works and then when that fails revert to doing it outside of any system. Quickbase does the opposite …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Quickbase offered more flexibility, integrations, and performance better than any of the solutions we used or evaluated. While every solution has its merits, when you step back and look at the ROI and time to implement, Quickbase was a good fit for our organization. When you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Capsio, Zforms, etc. Much much cheaper, but limited and basic. Poor and confusing layout. QuickBase has spent much time on the UI and it shows.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
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    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Airtable and Node.js and Quickbase
    Feature
    Airtable
    7.8
    235 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Node.js
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    Quickbase
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    Task Management8.9199 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management8.0193 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.489 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.4165 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.0143 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration7.9218 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.3108 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.580 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management7.5170 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.2115 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.9191 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.893 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.2102 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.1127 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Microsoft Project Server
    Score5.1 out of 10
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    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (239 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.5
    (521 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (36 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AirtableNode.jsQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Airtable
    Airtable is an ideal platform for small and growing businesses to keep track of just about EVERYTHING they need to keep things running smoothly. It's a great way to keep tasks organized, and keep everyone on the same page with progress on all things. Our company finds the kanban particularly useful, as products go through a lifecycle from ideation to retirement, it's good to keep a database of what is in production, what's working, and what we've tried before. I can see the platform being challenging with much larger businesses, but for the small to medium businesses I've used the platform with, it is ideal.
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    Open Source
    1. Node.js is useful for building one page, fast, light-weight, scalable applications. 2. It is not suitable for building computationally extensive applications, it may lead to bad performance.
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    Quickbase
    I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
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    Pros
    Airtable
    • 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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    Open Source
    • Robust
    • Fast
    • Modern
    • Easy to learn
    • Allows using JS or TypeScript everywhere
    • Supported and maintained actively by the open source community
    • Pleasurable to work with
    • Reliable
    • Simple to learn
    • Simple to setup
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    Quickbase
    • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
    • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
    • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
    • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
    • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
    • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
    • Nice playground to test new ideas
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    Cons
    Airtable
    • When records are deleted, there could be more options for what happens to associated records in other tables.
    • Multi-select fields should be sortable.
    • The per-user pricing model can be cumbersome when you need to share bases with third parties but can't use a publicly accessible URL.
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    Open Source
    • It reduce performance while dealing with heavy computational task.
    • Node.js invites a lot of change in code, due to an unstable api.
    • Lack of library support.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
    • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Airtable
    We will 10/10 renew the use of Airtable because it has brought great value to our team. Not only is Airtable affordable, but it's also user-friendly and helps our team be efficient. We no longer need to rely on Excel spreadsheets being passed from person to person via email. Furthermore, we aren't dealing with corrupt Excel spreadsheets and the need to salvage data when a file is accidentally altered.
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Airtable
    IMO the usability of this product is its greatest asset. The UI is clean and the menus are intuitive to the point where I'd feel confident having a non-spreadsheety colleague take on building an Airtable for the first time with next to no training. I can't say that about every table-like software product that I've used such as Notion.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Airtable
    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
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
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    Performance
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
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    Support Rating
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    Node.js is easy and good to use, their support team is also good they always tend to help you, and solve your problem, even we know that Node is free to use and opensource but then also we get support from them but for getting much better results we need to purchase standard or enterprises support provided by them.
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    Quickbase
    If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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    In-Person Training
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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    Online Training
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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    Implementation Rating
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    There is a smooth and seamless performance for multiple requests as the feedback received from users. and uses one platform to maintain UI and backend.
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    Quickbase
    Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Airtable
    I did not help purchase the product, but Airtable's per user pricing structure is inconvenient when some users only need occasional or read-only use.
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Airtable
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
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    Professional Services
    Airtable
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
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    Return on Investment
    Airtable
    • 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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    Open Source
    • It helps our business to expand our standard offer with new solutions based on Node.js such as conversation bots.
    • It brings avarege 2-3 new clients projects per year, that we couldn't do without it.
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    Quickbase
    • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
    • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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