Teable
An open-source Airtable alternative built on Postgres, so the spreadsheet interface sits on a real database you can query directly.
Highlights
- PostgreSQL-native storage, so data lives in a real SQL database you can self-host
- Airtable-like grid, kanban, and other views
- AI chat and AI fields for data processing and extraction
- Natural-language automations and an app builder
- Scale to hundreds of thousands or millions of rows on paid tiers
- Real-time collaboration and many field types
- A REST API and open-source AGPL community edition
- Private and self-hosted deployment options
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About Teable
What it is
Teable is a no-code database and spreadsheet hybrid built on PostgreSQL. It gives the familiar Airtable-style grid, views and automations, but the data lives in a real Postgres database you can connect to with ordinary tools. It is open source and can be self-hosted.
Why it's different
The Postgres backend is the whole point and it resolves the usual trap with these tools. A team builds something genuinely important in Airtable, then discovers the data is only reachable through an API with rate limits, and that the thing they built cannot be joined to anything else the company owns. Here it is a database from the start — your analysts can query it, your application can read it, and outgrowing the grid does not mean a migration. The costs are the familiar open-source ones: fewer integrations than Airtable, a smaller template ecosystem, and self-hosting means you operate it.
How people use it
It suits teams who want a spreadsheet interface for non-technical colleagues over data that developers also need to reach — operational trackers, internal catalogues, lightweight CRMs. The approach that works is letting the people who own the process use the grid while the database serves everything else directly, which is the arrangement the Postgres backend makes possible and Airtable does not.
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