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Airtable vs Jira comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 11, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.4
Airtable enhances efficiency and productivity with automation, offering significant ROI and valuable corporate use despite minor issues.
Sentiment score
7.1
Organizations report enhanced efficiency and quick ROI from Jira, despite some dissatisfaction with recent changes and plugin support.
I can automate the process so it automatically populates data into the Airtable base and performs any necessary calculations.
Business automation Expert at INSTRUTECH LIMITED
I use it to monitor my performance as a freelancer, checking if I'm doing work and delivering on time.
Automation Specialist at ZapWorx
Overall, it is a good thing, and really helpful for the corporate world, product teams, support teams, and the overall operation team.
Senior Product Consultant II at Vimeo
A return on investment has been seen with Jira, as a lot of time has been saved in arranging tasks, converting software features into epics, tasks, and milestones, making it easy to track progress and plan future roadmaps.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It's always hard to measure ROI precisely, but overall, the development time usually pays off within a year through efficiency gains.
CEO at 2Help
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Airtable's customer service is polite and efficient, especially for enterprise clients, despite some users desiring faster responses.
Sentiment score
6.7
Jira's customer service relies on documentation and forums, with varied satisfaction in email and technical support responsiveness.
We are prepared to go inside their account and impersonate the user's account to identify the root cause of their issues.
Senior Product Consultant II at Vimeo
Jira's customer support is one of the best I have ever dealt with because they respond quickly.
CEO at 2Help
I did not face any issues with stability or upgrades.
Senior Director, Head of Information Systems Division at Israel Innovation Authority
Whenever there are issues, the internal Jira enterprise team is contacted directly.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.6
Airtable suits small to medium projects, offering flexible user management, but may face limitations with larger datasets.
Sentiment score
7.2
Jira scales well from small teams to thousands, offering customization and integration with other tools, despite potential cost increases.
We have multiple departments, and based on my knowledge of how many clients we have on that particular table, I could say it is more than seventeen thousand clients in the whole database.
Senior Product Consultant II at Vimeo
Scalability for Jira is great, and it handles growth easily from 100 to thousands.
CEO at 2Help
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Airtable is reliable with occasional downtime and bugs; users praise its support and report general satisfaction with performance.
Sentiment score
7.6
Jira is largely stable, experiencing occasional performance issues, with users valuing recent reliability improvements despite costly enhancements.
There was one instance of a glitch due to AWS having issues with some regions where the app was hosted, but aside from that, Airtable is very stable and reliable.
Automation Specialist at Upwork
In my experience, Jira is stable, with around 99% uptime.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Airtable users desire faster syncing, enhanced automation, improved interfaces, better documentation, advanced CRM features, and revised pricing.
Jira users face customization challenges, inadequate search and integration, performance issues, and seek improved interface, reporting, and training.
I really want to see a scenario where collaborators working on a project could easily chat, asking questions and discussing changes immediately on the project.
Automation Specialist at ZapWorx
If they show step-by-step guides for automations, this will help them attract more clients who are willing to learn and use their system.
Business automation Expert at INSTRUTECH LIMITED
The CRM features in Airtable aren't as advanced as those in Monday.com, which allows for email campaigns.
Automation Specialist at Upwork
Focus more on improving API integration and automation tools, not just the design.
CEO at 2Help
One feature that could improve Jira is the integration of AI capabilities, such as organizing Jira tasks autonomously with minimum human intervention and executing aggregations and clustering of these tasks.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
To improve Jira, maybe some AI features could be added.
Senior Director, Head of Information Systems Division at Israel Innovation Authority
 

Setup Cost

Airtable offers scalable pricing from $10/user monthly, with free limited plans; enterprise requires consultation for custom features.
Jira's pricing can be costly for larger teams due to user count and plugin dependencies, prompting alternatives exploration.
Even if only five people from your team use a financial plugin, you still pay for all 100 seats.
CEO at 2Help
 

Valuable Features

Airtable offers user-friendly design, automation, and customization, enabling effortless data management and integration without extensive technical knowledge.
Jira is user-friendly with powerful integrations, customizable workflows, Agile support, and robust reporting for enhanced collaboration and productivity.
Everybody has a particular base for different purposes, so you add information to those bases, and anybody can access it at any point in time anywhere in the world.
Business automation Expert at INSTRUTECH LIMITED
I can integrate Airtable with other platforms; aside from the native integration where I can send notifications to Slack teams and messages to Gmail, I can also connect with Make.com to share data.
Automation Specialist at ZapWorx
We have connected our Slack channel to Airtable; any updates or changes made to Airtable will always reflect in the Slack channel.
Senior Product Consultant II at Vimeo
You can build your own workflows and make it work exactly the way your team needs and integrate it with almost every third-party software.
CEO at 2Help
The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Airtable
Ranking in Project Management Software
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No-Code Development Platforms (9th), Product Management Software (1st), AI Data Analysis (11th), AI Sales & Marketing (2nd)
Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
277
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Airtable is 1.0%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 4.1%, down from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Jira4.1%
Airtable1.0%
Other94.9%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Favour Emosivbe - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Specialist at ZapWorx
Has required stronger collaboration features while still supporting complex project workflows
The best features in Airtable include the flexibility and the fact that I could create relational databases. Before I started using Airtable, I was using Excel which didn't offer these capabilities. The ability to create relationships between tables and see through what's working in other departments is great for me. I can do scripting and work on large data sets on Airtable. It makes it easy for me, as working on those data sets on Excel tends to slow me down, but on Airtable, it's much faster. I can integrate Airtable with other platforms; aside from the native integration where I can send notifications to Slack teams and messages to Gmail, I can also connect with Make.com to share data. The interface on Airtable is exceptional. Working for my clients, when a client didn't want access given to all teams, we structured that on the interface and the different teams got different access to different tables. Airtable's rich field types help in organizing complex data for my team. The advanced field types work exceptionally with features such as linking records together. I can link records from other tables and see what's happening, use the lookup field, the roll-up field, and the count field to see what's occurring in other departments and generate insights. Unlike other CRMs, data cannot enter if it's not properly structured. If I want to input an email and it's not valid, it won't allow it because it expects the data to be structured appropriately.
Akhil Viswam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Agile workflows have streamlined sprint planning and tracking for faster feature delivery
Jira has a very good interface and it is very easy to manage sprints, tasks, and epics. The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones. The hierarchy feature in Jira helps the team significantly compared to other tools that have been used, such as Trello, which is mainly useful only for a waterfall model. For modern Agile practices, Jira is the most adapted tool in the industry. Another valuable feature is that Jira APIs have been used for data science projects to analyze tasks and get insights. This has also been very helpful in the project.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Educational Organization
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business105
Midsize Enterprise56
Large Enterprise150
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Airtable?
I am not sure about the pricing because I believe budget discussions are handled by a different marketing team. We have a separate team that manages all those matters; we just handle the clients' d...
What needs improvement with Airtable?
One area of Airtable that I think could be improved is the automation aspect, which is vast but limited compared to tools such as GoHighLevel, where multiple triggers can be utilized. In Airtable, ...
What is your primary use case for Airtable?
My usual use case for Airtable is for CRM management, such as lead management, and also real estate project management. I also use it for project management related to events, project management, i...
Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?
Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below data may be relevant to you for identifying your needs and deciding on the approp...
Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
Jira itself is fairly priced for the features it provides, but pricing is a bit higher than some alternatives, mostly because many plugins and add-ons are paid and licensed per user. So even if onl...
 

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