If you’re managing simple, team-level projects, monday.com might be enough. But as your business grows, so does the complexity of your workflow management—and that’s where monday.com falls short. Its board-by-board setup creates silos, sprawl (an overload of disconnected boards across your workspace), and surface-level dashboards that struggle to support deeper visualization or cross-team insights.

Airtable is built for scale and speed. With a relational database, powerful data sync, and support for up to 100M records via HyperDB, Airtable lets teams build custom apps on shared data—keeping workflows flexible, connected, and aligned. Its enterprise-grade platform supports portfolio-level dashboards, advanced visualization, and a unified workspace that scales with your business.

And with AI embedded directly into your workflows, Airtable helps you move even faster—automating repetitive tasks, sending real-time notifications to the right people at the right time, generating content, performing web research, and extracting insights across your documents. 

So the real question isn’t Airtable or monday.com—it’s whether you want a basic tool, or a project management platform that powers your entire business.

Yes—and it does a lot more. Airtable covers everything you use monday.com for, including project tracking, task management, kanban boards, calendar views, Gantt charts, and team collaboration. But it goes further with a flexible relational database, real-time data sync, and a unified workspace built for scalable work management.

Instead of disconnected boards, you get connected apps built on shared data—so your workflows stay aligned as your business grows. It's user-friendly for team members, powerful for admins, and built to grow with you. Use Airtable to streamline tasks, empower small teams to do more with less, and scale with confidence.

Platforms like Asana, Smartsheet, Trello, and Airtable are often compared to monday.com. But while Asana, Smartsheet, and Trello focus on task and project tracking, Airtable stands apart—offering a flexible database, powerful data sync, and the ability to build connected apps across teams and departments. It's built for businesses that need more than task lists—it's built to scale.

Yes, you can seamlessly integrate with tools you’re already using including Slack, Zapier, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets, and more. Because Airtable is a relational database at its core, you can sync entire data sets from critical enterprise systems, collaboration tools, and CRMs, like Salesforce, Jira, and Snowflake. monday.com can’t manage that kind of data complexity and scale.

For even more flexibility, developers can use the robust Airtable API to build custom integrations and automate workflows across your tech stack. Airtable is also available on web and mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

Airtable offers more value for long-term growth—without the hidden costs. While both tools offer a free plan, monday.com’s rigid structure, board sprawl, and lower record limits (100,000 items per board) create scaling challenges that lead to inefficiencies, siloed data, and costly workarounds.

Airtable is built to scale with your business. With support for up to 500,000 records per base (and 100 million with HyperDB), Airtable eliminates the need to “rip and replace” tools as your workflows become more complex. Teams can build custom apps on shared data, maintain a single source of truth, and evolve processes over time—without sacrificing usability or performance.

The result? Lower total cost of ownership. With Airtable, you get a system of record that grows with you, prevents tool sprawl, and reduces administrative overhead. You invest once—and scale confidently.

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