Baserow review

Baserow is an open-source, Airtable-style relational database: grid, gallery, kanban, calendar and form views over structured records, with automations and a REST/webhook API. The product comes in two very different forms. The hosted cloud version prices per user, from free up to roughly $22 a user a month, with row and storage caps at every tier. The self-hosted Community edition is free and open-source with no row or storage ceiling at all, running on whatever server you give it. Review coverage is thin: Capterra rates it 4.6 out of 5 from 69 reviews, and G2 shows only a single review, too small a sample to treat as settled.

What Baserow is for

Baserow’s structure mirrors Airtable’s closely enough that migrating a simple base over is a realistic project, not a rebuild: the same grid, gallery, kanban, calendar and form view types, a similar record model, and its own automation and API layer. Baserow and Make.com are official technology partners with a native two-way integration, a direct on-ramp for anyone already automating work through Make. Beyond the core product, Baserow runs a Partner Program for hosting and implementation partners, agencies and consultants doing service work, plus an Ambassador community-recognition track and a certification program called Baserow Academy. None of those is a paid referral commission program.

Cloud vs. self-hosted: where the real value sits

Most of what makes Baserow worth comparing to Airtable isn’t the cloud pricing table, it’s the option to skip the cloud entirely. The Free cloud plan caps at 3,000 rows per workspace and 2 GB of storage, with CSV-only export and no kanban or calendar views until a paid tier, a real limitation for anyone used to Airtable’s broader free-tier view types even though the row cap itself is higher (3,000 vs. 1,000). Premium cloud pricing runs about $10 to $12 a user a month depending on billing cycle, the cheapest paid cloud entry point of any tool in this guide.

The self-hosted Community edition changes the math entirely. It’s free, open-source, and has no row or storage ceiling beyond what your own server can handle; paid self-hosted licenses only unlock advanced features like SSO and audit logs, not more rows. That’s a genuinely different proposition from every per-seat or per-record cloud tool in this guide, including Airtable, whose 2026 acquisition by Bending Spoons is exactly the kind of vendor-dependency risk self-hosting removes. The tradeoff is real too: running your own Baserow server means setup, updates and uptime become your team’s job, not a vendor’s.

What users say in reviews

Review volume is the honest caveat on Baserow’s entire rating. Capterra’s 4.6 out of 5 from 69 reviews is a usable, if modest, sample. G2 shows only 1 review total, nowhere near enough to call that platform’s 4.5 out of 5 score a reliable signal, and no independent complaint-theme pattern could be pulled from either platform at this volume. That’s a meaningfully smaller sample than every other tool in this guide, including Knack’s 115 G2 and 99 Capterra reviews, so weigh Baserow’s product fit and self-hosting story more heavily than its star rating when deciding.

Who should skip it

Baserow’s cloud Free plan is a weak fit for a team that needs kanban or calendar views without paying, since those wait behind Premium. A team that wants a bigger, better-reviewed ecosystem and is comfortable with per-seat pricing is better served by Airtable; one that wants a client-facing portal rather than a raw database should look at Softr. Baserow earns its place for a specific buyer: a technical team that wants to own its data outright, or one that wants the cheapest possible cloud entry point and can live with a thin review base. See the full four-way comparison in Best No-Code App Builders and Databases.