Is Kintone or Whalesync better?

Neither clearly leads. Kintone starts at $24/month and Whalesync at $40/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Kintone or Whalesync?

Kintone starts at $24/month and Whalesync at $40/month.

Does Kintone or Whalesync run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

What is Kintone best used for?

Kintone is most often used for low-code business application development, workflow automation, team collaboration and project management. Of those, low-code business application development and workflow automation are not what Whalesync is typically brought in for.

What can Kintone do that Whalesync cannot?

Whalesync covers Two-way sync, Live updates, Field mapping, Unlimited mappings.

No-Code · head to head

Kintone vs Whalesync

Kintone

No-Code

Customizable workplace platform by Cybozu for no-code data, task and team management

From: $24/month
Rated: -

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Whalesync

No-Code

Two-way real-time sync between no-code databases and SaaS tools

From: $40/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Kintone minimum order of 5 users required ($120/month floor); Whalesync pricing counts records held in sync rather than changes made, so a large but rarely edited catalogue costs the same as a highly active one and the economics punish exactly the datasets that need the least work.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Kintone and Whalesync actually diverge.

Attributes where Kintone and Whalesync differ
Attribute	Kintone	Whalesync
Starting price	$24/month	$40/month
Pricing model	subscription	Per month by records in sync

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (No-Code).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Kintone

Nothing recorded that Whalesync does not also cover.

Only in Whalesync

Two-way sync
Live updates
Field mapping
Unlimited mappings
Backfill
Monitoring
Database connectors
Relational field support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Kintone

Low-code business application developmentnot Whalesync
Workflow automationnot Whalesync
Team collaboration and project managementnot Whalesync

Whalesync

A team that plans work in Notion but reports from Airtable and needs one edit to appear in both without anyone copying it acrossnot Kintone
A marketing site built in Webflow whose content is authored and managed in Airtable, kept in step continuously rather than republished on a schedulenot Kintone
A startup keeping a Postgres application database and an internal Airtable operations view aligned without building a sync servicenot Kintone
An agency keeping a client CRM and a project tracker consistent so account managers and delivery staff work from the same recordsnot Kintone

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Kintone

Minimum order of 5 users required ($120/month floor)
API calls limited to 10,000 per day

Whalesync

Pricing counts records held in sync rather than changes made, so a large but rarely edited catalogue costs the same as a highly active one and the economics punish exactly the datasets that need the least work.
The gap between the 1,000 record starter tier and the million record higher tiers is very wide with no published intermediate price, so a business at ten thousand records cannot tell what it will pay without contacting the vendor.
Bidirectional sync has conflict semantics, and when two people edit the same field in two tools within a sync interval one edit is lost, which is silent and only discovered when someone notices their change reverted.
It is a small company holding a live connection in the middle of operational data, so continuity risk is real and any team relying on it should keep an export routine and know how it would rebuild the mapping.
It syncs records between tools but does not transform or model data, so anything requiring aggregation, deduplication or business logic between the two ends still needs a separate tool or a warehouse.

Pricing, plan by plan

Kintone

$24/month

Standard$24/month
- Minimum 5 users ($120/month minimum)
- 900 apps
- 300 spaces

Whalesync

$40/month

Starter$40/month
- 1,000 records in sync
- Live two-way sync
- Unlimited mappings and row changes
Plus$undefined/month
- Up to 1,000,000 records in sync
- Live two-way sync
- Unlimited mappings and row changes
Pro$undefined/month
- Up to 1,000,000 records in sync
- Priority support
- Advanced field handling

Which should you pick?

Choose Kintone if

Nothing in the data separates Kintone from Whalesync on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Kintone review

Choose Whalesync if

You need two-way sync.
You also want live updates.

Whalesync review

Questions people ask

Is Kintone or Whalesync better?: Neither clearly leads. Kintone starts at $24/month and Whalesync at $40/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Kintone or Whalesync?: Kintone starts at $24/month and Whalesync at $40/month.
Does Kintone or Whalesync run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Kintone best used for?: Kintone is most often used for low-code business application development, workflow automation, team collaboration and project management. Of those, low-code business application development and workflow automation are not what Whalesync is typically brought in for.
What can Kintone do that Whalesync cannot?: Whalesync covers Two-way sync, Live updates, Field mapping, Unlimited mappings.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Kintone: How much does Kintone cost per user?

Kintone costs $24/user/month with a minimum of 5 users required, totaling $120/month minimum. All features are included in the single tier.

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Whalesync: How is this different from Zapier?

Zapier triggers one-way actions. Whalesync maintains a persistent mapping between two copies of a record so edits flow both ways without loops or duplicates, which two zaps cannot achieve reliably.

Kintone: Are there different pricing tiers for Kintone?

No, Kintone offers one unified pricing model at $24/user/month with all features included. No tiered plans at different price points.

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Whalesync: What counts as a record in sync?

A record becomes counted the first time it syncs, and records are not double counted across the two applications, so a thousand paired rows count once rather than twice.

Kintone: Does Kintone offer pricing for nonprofits?

Yes, special pricing is available for 501(c)3 nonprofits, educational institutions, and government organizations. Contact Kintone for details.

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Whalesync: Is there a free plan?

No, only a seven day trial. Paid plans start around 40 US dollars a month for a thousand records.

Kintone: What are Kintone's storage and API limits?

Each user gets 5GB storage. Accounts include 10,000 API calls per day, 900 apps, 300 spaces, and up to 50,000 records per app.

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Whalesync: What happens on a sync conflict?

One side wins and the other edit is discarded. Teams that expect simultaneous editing of the same fields in two tools should establish an owning system per field rather than relying on the sync to arbitrate.

Kintone vs Whalesync

Kintone

Whalesync

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Kintone

Only in Whalesync

What people use each for

Kintone

Whalesync

Where each one falls short

Kintone

Whalesync

Pricing, plan by plan

Kintone

Whalesync

Which should you pick?

Choose Kintone if

Choose Whalesync if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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