Compared
The Airtable backup tools, side by side.
| AirtableBackup | ProBackup | On2Air Backups | Backup247 | Airtable's own snapshots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price basis | $19/base/month, flat | Storage GB + retention tier, from $25/mo | Bases, records, attachments, restores; daily from $49.99 | Connectors + 15 GB cap, from $29 (or $19) | Included |
| Backup frequency | Every change, live; full backup nightly | Daily | Monthly to hourly by tier | Daily or hourly by tier | About daily, not controllable |
| Restore depth | One change, record, field, table at a moment, or whole base; undoable | Table as a duplicate; records; computed fields skipped | Tables as new tables; no single record; 1–10 restores/month | Record, table or base, in place | Whole base as a new base |
| Automations | Yes, with script source | Listed since Oct 2026; depth unverified | No | Not listed | Yes, in the restored copy |
| Who changed what | Every change, with the person, automation, form or integration that made it | Daily versions to compare; no author | No; each run rewrites the files | Visual diff between snapshots; no author | No; revision history stays in the live base, by plan |
| Restore tested automatically | Nightly, opt-in: 25 records into a test base, read back | Not documented | No | Not documented | No |
| Where the copy lives | The operator's AWS (US), versioned, deny-delete | ProBackup's AWS, 9 regions | Your own Google Drive, Dropbox, Box or OneDrive | EU (Frankfurt) or your own bucket | Inside Airtable, in the same account |
Competitor facts observed on the vendors' own pages on 2026-10-06. Vendors change prices and features; check their pages before deciding.
One by one
Each comparison, with its sources and where they are stronger
AirtableBackup vs ProBackup
ProBackup is a multi-app backup service covering twenty-plus SaaS tools, Airtable among them. It takes one backup a day and prices on how much storage your backups use.
Where ProBackup is stronger: It backs up twenty-plus apps under one subscription; AirtableBackup backs up Airtable only.
AirtableBackup vs On2Air Backups
On2Air Backups writes CSV and attachment copies of your bases into your own Google Drive, Dropbox, Box or OneDrive on a schedule. It holds no data itself; the files in your drive are the backup.
Where On2Air is stronger: The backup files land in your own Google Drive, Dropbox, Box or OneDrive, so you hold them without the vendor in the loop. AirtableBackup keeps your backup in its own storage; you can export any table as CSV at any time, but the files are not written to your drive.
AirtableBackup vs Backup247
Backup247 is a multi-connector backup service with an Airtable connector that takes hourly or daily snapshots and restores in place. It prices by the number of connectors with a storage cap on every paid tier.
Where Backup247 is stronger: Data is stored in the EU (Frankfurt) by default, or in a bucket you bring (S3 or R2). AirtableBackup stores in the United States (AWS us-west-1) only.
AirtableBackup vs Airtable's own snapshots
Airtable takes snapshots of every base on every plan and lets you restore one as a new, separate base. They are the baseline every backup product is measured against, and the only copy that includes everything in the base. They are also the only copy that lives inside Airtable.
Where snapshots are stronger: Free, on every plan, with nothing to set up.
How to choose
Seven things to check before picking any of them
- 01
The meter
Storage, attachment counts and restore quotas are the lines that grow after you sign. Ask what a 22 GB base with 45,000 attachments costs, and whether the answer is on the pricing page.
- 02
The cadence
Daily means a day of work is the unit of loss. Hourly is better. Per change is the only cadence that answers "what did this look like at 14:05?"
- 03
The smallest restore
One record? One field across many records, keeping the edits made since? Or a table copied beside the original for you to reconcile?
- 04
Computed fields on restore
Formula, lookup, rollup and count fields are where most restores silently degrade to text. Ask what comes back as what.
- 05
Who changed what
Whether the history names the person, the automation or the integration, or only shows two dated copies to compare.
- 06
Whether the restore is ever tested
By them, automatically, on your data. Most say nothing, which is an answer.
- 07
What is not in it
Views and interface layouts are outside every third-party backup, because Airtable's API does not expose them. A vendor that says so plainly is telling you the truth about the rest.
The guide to backing up Airtable goes through every method, not only the services, and ends with how to test a restore.
Questions
Asked when choosing
- It depends on what you need to get back. If the files landing in your own Google Drive is the point, On2Air Backups does that and nothing else here does. If one subscription has to cover twenty SaaS apps, ProBackup covers the most. If EU storage is a requirement, Backup247 stores in Frankfurt. If the question after a mistake is "who changed what, and put back just that", AirtableBackup is the only one of the five that keeps a change history with the author's name and restores one cell, one record or one field across many records, with the restore undoable and tested nightly.
- Snapshots are the only copy of your views and interface layouts and should stay on no matter what else you do. They restore a whole base as a new base, inside the same account, and do not say who changed what. Every third-party tool exists for the smaller restore and the copy outside Airtable; none of them replaces the snapshot.
- AirtableBackup saves each automation's configuration and the source of its script actions nightly and versions them on change; Airtable's API creates automations only as drafts and refuses script actions, so the restore is the definition and the script text, not an in-place rewrite. ProBackup's help article began listing automations in October 2026 without documenting what is captured. On2Air states that it cannot. Backup247 does not list them. A snapshot restore brings automations back inside the new base.
- From each vendor's own pricing, help and comparison pages on 2026-10-06, with the source for every fact linked on that vendor's comparison page. Where a fact could not be verified, the page says so. Vendors change prices and features; check their pages before deciding.