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APITable pricing
APITable publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the spreadsheets tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, APITable pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
APITable plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self hosted open source | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where APITable stops being free
Self hosted open source, Free
- No licence fee
- No product record cap on self hosted deployments
- Docker and Kubernetes deployment
- Widget SDK included
- Hosted plans with record caps available separately
No paid tier on record
APITable lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full APITable feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- API first design
- Widget SDK
- Embeddable views
- Multiple view types
- Linked records and formulas
- Self hosting
- Real time collaboration
People bring APITable in for embedding an editable table view inside a product you are building, rather than sending users to another tool, an internal platform where tables are read and written mostly by code through the api and only occasionally by people, a self hosted replacement for a per seat spreadsheet database where seat count is the cost driver, building a custom dashboard widget that sits beside the data instead of in a separate reporting tool. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to APITable are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Spreadsheets
Too few spreadsheets tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APITable (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Google Sheets | Free | Free personally, bundled into paid Google Workspace for organisations | - | vs APITable |
| Numbers | Free | Free with Apple hardware, optional Apple Creator Studio subscription for AI features | - | vs APITable |
| Zoho Sheet | Free | Free standalone, bundled into paid Zoho Workplace for organisations | - | vs APITable |
| SeaTable | Free, then €7/month | Per user per month | - | vs APITable |
| Quadratic | Free, then $18/month | Per user per month | - | vs APITable |
| Sigma Computing | On request | quote | - | vs APITable |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the APITable badges page.
Before you pay for APITable
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
APITable runs on web, linux, and is published by APITable of Remote, Worldwide. The full record is on the APITable review, and the rest of the category is under best spreadsheets tools.
APITable pricing questions
- How much does APITable cost?
- APITable publishes a single tier, Self hosted open source, at Free.
- Does APITable have a free plan?
- Yes. The Self hosted open source tier costs nothing and covers no licence fee, no product record cap on self hosted deployments, docker and kubernetes deployment.
- Which spreadsheets tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 spreadsheets tools listed alongside APITable have a free tier: Google Sheets, Numbers, Zoho Sheet, SeaTable, Quadratic.
- What am I actually paying for with APITable?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for embedding an editable table view inside a product you are building, rather than sending users to another tool, an internal platform where tables are read and written mostly by code through the api and only occasionally by people, a self hosted replacement for a per seat spreadsheet database where seat count is the cost driver.
- Does APITable charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these APITable prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare APITable against before paying?
- The closest spreadsheets tools in this directory are Google Sheets, Numbers, Zoho Sheet, SeaTable. Each has a side-by-side comparison with APITable covering price, platforms and features.