Airtable reverses its own automations cap two days after imposing it, tiering 75-200 by plan
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
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What changed
On Sep 30, Airtable replaced the flat 50-automations-per-base cap it had imposed on Sep 28 with a tiered schedule: 75 on Free, 100 on Team, 150 on Business, and 200 on Enterprise Scale. No other plan details changed.
Why it matters
For Business and Enterprise Scale customers, the tiered structure is a real improvement over the flat cap, but the whiplash matters too: three changes to the same limit in four days is the kind of instability that makes automation-dependent teams wary of building deeper on Airtable. Watch whether the company settles on this tiered schedule or keeps adjusting it as usage data comes in over the next few weeks.
In context
Airtable capped per-base automations at a flat 50 across every plan on Sep 28, having floated the same cap two days earlier on Sep 26. Now, on Sep 30, it's already replacing that flat number with a tiered schedule — 75 for Free, 100 for Team, 150 for Business, and 200 for Enterprise Scale — effectively conceding that one limit didn't fit its range of plans. It's the company's third change in four days and its ninth real pricing change since Airtable tracking began in January 2024, well above its usual roughly 114-day gap between moves. Limit increases like this show up in about 9% of pricing changes tracked across the index over the last six months, but reversing a cap this quickly is rare — most companies that raise a limit are responding to competitive pressure, not to a decision they made themselves the same week.