Airtable AI vs Chat2DB vs Formula Bot vs Numerous.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Airtable AI
No-code database with Cobuilder, Omni and Hyperagent AI
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Numerous.ai
Call GPT or Claude from a spreadsheet cell with =AI()
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 | 6.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free workspace tier available; AI features require the paid add-on | Community edition — full SQL client, visual editor, 16 DB connections, no built-in AI | — | — |
| Paid from | Team $20/user/month + AI add-on $6/seat/month | Pro: $20/month (or $180/year); Enterprise: custom pricing | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 500,000+ organizations | Over 1 million users (self-reported, as of 2025) | — | — |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 | — | — |
| Maker | Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas | CodePhiliaX (independent; originally incubated under Alibaba open-source) | — | — |
| Verdict | Airtable's AI stack is one of the few where the marketing and the reality mostly line up. Cobuilder genuinely turns a plain-English description into a working base with tables, fields and relationships in under an hour,... |
Chat2DB earns its GitHub crown through breadth: 30+ database engines, 10+ LLM backends including Qwen and DeepSeek, and a functional free Community edition under Apache 2.0. Pro runs $39.80/month ($19.80/month billed ann... |
Formula Bot earns its keep for the person who knows what they want a spreadsheet to do but not how to write the formula. Type the request in English and it hands back a VLOOKUP, nested IF, or regex, and it'll explain for... |
Numerous.ai does one thing and does it cleanly: it turns an LLM into a spreadsheet function. Write =AI("classify this review as positive, negative or neutral", A2), drag it down, and it runs across thousands of rows with... |
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