Teable

What it is

Teable describes itself as an AI Database Agent, and its home page calls it an "AI Spreadsheet for Business". In practice it is a relational database with a familiar grid on top, plus automations, AI actions and an app builder that all work on the same records. It is aimed at small businesses and enterprises alike: founders and small teams who want one place for leads, customers and reporting, operations teams who run approvals and handoffs from live records, and people leaving Excel or Airtable who want their data to keep working.

The company's About page says Teable operates from a global headquarters in the United States under Teable AI, Inc., and that it is backed by ZhenFund and Baidu Ventures. The site's structured data gives 2023 as the founding date. The product also runs on a second domain, teable.io, which carries the same product and the same customer quotes.

What you build and how

The database. The starting point is a table grid. You can bring data in from Airtable, CSV and Excel files, according to the templates FAQ, so an existing base or spreadsheet becomes live records without retyping. The "Excel to app" page works the same way: upload an Excel file and its rows and columns become live records, and a web app can be built from them afterward. The solutions page describes the underlying idea as connected business data, with records, relationships, files, owners, status and history kept in one live workspace.

The pricing page spells out the building blocks. Views include grid, form, kanban, gallery and calendar. Field types run from single line and long text, number, single and multiple select, date, attachment, checkbox and rating to user, auto number, created and last modified time, formula, link to record, rollup, lookup and a button that triggers an automation from a record. Rows carry comments with replies, @mentions and notifications, plus a change history showing who changed what and when. A Trash restores deleted spaces, projects and tables, CSV and Excel import can create new tables or add rows, and CSV export works on a table or view.

Describing the system instead of clicking it together. The solutions page says Teable AI can "build and operate tables, records, workflows, automations, and apps through natural language". A product article on the company's blog adds that Teable AI can work with records, files, schema, views, SQL, scripts, automations, apps and integrations. The pricing page names the pieces: an AI field that turns record data into summaries, tags, scores, translations or extracted values; AI chat, where an assistant called Cuppy in the right sidebar analyzes the current table, view, selected records or files in plain language; the app builder; and an IM Bot, a chat-native Teable agent for Slack and Telegram with full create, read, update and delete access to the data.

Apps, forms and dashboards. The app builder turns Teable data into apps, dashboards, portals and custom interfaces. The products page lists ready-made starting points on the same engine. There is an AI proposal generator that turns briefs, files and client data into an editable proposal you can share by link and follow up on. There is a vendor portal for supplier documents, order replies and delivery tracking. There is a dashboard builder that pulls web data and connected apps into dashboards, with scheduled data collection. The product list in the site footer also names an online form builder, an AI web scraper, an AI email parser, a workflow generator, AI project management and a Find Influencer tool. The no-code app builder entry puts it plainly: "Build a custom business app without coding. Start with a prompt or your data, then add forms, permissions, dashboards, and automations in Teable."

Directory sites. One entry on the products page is a directory website builder, described as a way to "turn lists and web research into a searchable site", with customizable listings, filters and review workflows. For anyone building a niche directory, a members list or a supplier catalog, the list lives in the database and the public site is built from it.

Automation. The solutions page says workflow automations run approvals, updates, handoffs, follow-ups and external actions from live records. Automations can send email through Teable's built-in email service or through your own SMTP provider, which does not consume the built-in quota.

Templates. The template gallery covers topics as different as a Find Influencer shortlist, a Simple Client CRM with quoting, a Batch Product Designer and a CTMS system for studies, sites and clinical trial milestones. Every template is free to copy into your workspace. You can rename fields, add tables, build views, create automations or design an app on top, and you can ask Teable AI to adapt a template to your business in plain language. Many templates already include a published app or dashboard.

Solutions by use case. The solutions page groups the same machinery into startups (leads, customers, hiring, marketing and founder reporting), Excel to AI operations, AI marketing (campaign data, content, outreach, approvals and reporting) and AI project management (AI updates, early risk detection, approvals and portfolio reporting).

Permissions, API and deployment. Shared links can be password restricted. On Business, an authority matrix sets role-based access per table, field and record and per action (view, edit, delete, comment, copy), and SSO with company domain verification is included. A Web API reads and manages Teable data from scripts and internal tools, with the same per-second API rate limit on every plan. For self-hosting, the pricing FAQ says the Community Edition is "free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license" and runs on your own infrastructure with unlimited rows and storage, but without automation and AI features. A paid self-hosted license adds a commercial license and features such as AI, SSO and auditing, with an admin panel and audit logs on self-hosted Business.

Plans and limits

The pricing page shows 3 cloud plans, billed per seat per month, with a yearly toggle that says "Save 44%". Seats count collaborators with Editor role or higher; the FAQ says commenters and read-only viewers are free, and charges are prorated when you add editors mid-period.

• Free costs $0 per seat per month: 200 one-time bonus AI credits, 100 automation runs a month, 1,000 rows per space, 1GB of attachments, AI chat, AI field, the app builder and the IM Bot.
• Pro costs $13 per seat per month billed yearly ($24 per seat per month on monthly billing): 2,000 credits per seat, 25,000 automation runs, 250,000 rows per space, 10GB of attachments and all field types.
• Business costs $20 per seat per month billed yearly ($36 per seat per month on monthly billing): 3,000 credits per seat, 100,000 automation runs, 1,000,000 rows per space, 100GB of attachments, a custom app domain, GitHub sync for app code, the authority matrix, domain verification and SSO.

Max rows per table is unlimited on all three; the cap applies to total records across a space. The built-in email service sends 100, 1,000 or 5,000 emails a month by plan. Run history is kept 2 weeks on Free and 1 year on paid plans, and row change history 2 weeks, 1 year and 3 years. Extra automation capacity is an add-on: 10,000 automation runs for $10 per space per month on yearly billing, or $12 monthly, on Pro or above. Credits are the unit for AI features; the FAQ says US$1 of model API usage equals 100 credits for AI used inside built apps, paid credits reset each billing period without rolling over, and self-hosted editions do not consume them. Payments run through Stripe.

The templates FAQ states: "Every template in this gallery is free to copy into your workspace and use", and that Teable's free plan is enough to get started with most templates. It also says: "Teable supports importing from Airtable as well as CSV and Excel files."

Customer quotes on the site come from named people. One, from an AI consultant and engineer at Adway, reads: "Teable 3.0 feels like a grown-up spreadsheet. It keeps the familiar grid and adds automations, AI actions, and internal app building in one platform." A user posting as Rekt Line writes: "I've been building apps non stop. CRM. Check. Landing page. Check." Another, on the pricing page, says that in just a few minutes Teable "became a native AI-powered business system (projects, CRM, and marketing) instead of scattered tasks."

Who it suits and who it does not

Teable fits a founder or small team that wants a spreadsheet-like database as the center of the business and wants apps, forms and automations attached to it rather than bought as separate tools. An operations team replacing a patchwork of sheets with approvals, vendor portals and reporting will recognize the model. Someone moving off Airtable or Excel gets a direct import path, and the free plan gives enough room to test a template before paying. Teams with data-control requirements have a self-hosted route, from the open-source Community Edition to a paid license.

It also suits builders who like to describe the system in words. The AI-first approach is the main reason to pick it over a plain grid tool, and the template gallery gives that AI a head start.

The caveats are about scale and fit. The free plan caps a space at 1,000 rows, and Pro stops at 250,000, so a data-heavy project moves to a paid plan quickly, and seat-based pricing grows with the number of editors. A custom domain for published apps and SSO sit on Business, and the free Community Edition leaves out automation and AI. The product list is broad, so a team that only needs one narrow job, such as forms or a single dashboard, may find a focused tool simpler.