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Baserow — open source alternative

Self-hosted open source Airtable alternative with workspaces.

Strengths

  • Clean UI with fast filtering and views.
  • Plugins and formulas supported.
  • Good docker deploy story.

Weaknesses

  • Many premium features in "advanced" plugin.
  • Automations are still maturing.
  • Smaller formula library than Airtable.
License: MIT Self-host difficulty: 2/5 Hosted cloud option

Official site · Source on GitHub

Ad slot — OSS middle

Baserow is used as an alternative to

Airtable

Spreadsheet-database hybrid with rich field types and views.

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