🆚 Airtable vs. Slack

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Slack is twice as popular as Airtable.
🌎 Slack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Airtable is more popular in South Africa, Israel, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Airtable

Slack

Type

Online collaboration tool

Instant messaging app

About

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps and workflows on a database foundation with a spreadsheet-like interface.

It provides customizable tables with rich field types, multiple views such as grid, kanban, gallery and calendar, relational linking between tables, real-time collaboration and commenting, automation rules with triggers and actions, integrations with popular tools via built-in connectors or API, and pre-built templates to accelerate app creation for teams across functions.

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform for businesses, currently owned by Salesforce.

It provides real-time messaging with organized channels, searchable history, file sharing, workflow automation, and integrations with over 2,600 third-party apps.

It also includes informal live conversations called huddles, which start as audio chats within channels or direct messages and can include video and screen sharing.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

airtable.com #20,482

slack.com #1,026

Pricing

Free version ✔️1,000 records per base

Team$24/month

Business$54/month

EnterpriseCustom

Free version ✔️90 days of message history, 10 apps

Pro$8.75/month

Business+$18/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Slack instant messaging app is 2.1 times more popular than Airtable.

Total websites

Market share

Online Collaboration

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Slack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Airtable is more popular in South Africa, Israel, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Canada

Japan

Australia

Ireland

Switzerland

Spain

Awards

⭐ 9th most popular in France in the Online Collaboration category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Online Collaboration category.

🥉 Third most popular in Ireland in the Online Collaboration category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the Instant Messaging category.
⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Online Collaboration category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Online Collaboration category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Slack is more popular among sites focused on business, software and hardware, and Internet services, while Airtable is more commonly used on education and reference, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping sites.

Business

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Technical Information

Interactive Web Applications