A NocoDB alternative, hosted in Europe
NocoDB: An Airtable-style no-code database that can also sit on an existing SQL database. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where NocoDB is ahead.
| Artavolo | NocoDB | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | $12: Plus, per seat a month billed yearly; Business $24. |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | 1,000 on Free, 50,000 on Plus, 300,000 on Business |
| Licence | Community edition free on your own server; paid plans by licence key | Sustainable Use License since 9 January 2026 (not open source; it limits offering it as a service) |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | United States; no EU region found |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | Yes, the Community edition |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | Each view as CSV, JSON or Excel; no file for a whole base |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See NocoDB’s own AI features |
| Where NocoDB is ahead | It can open tables of an existing SQL database in place. |
NocoDB’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: NocoDB pricing, NocoDB licence, Download data, Subprocessors. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from NocoDB tell us about
- Its licence changed from AGPL to a Sustainable Use License on 9 January 2026.
- The cloud runs in the United States.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From NocoDB in an afternoon
Export from NocoDB (CSV or Excel, one file per table), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every table and record
- Links, from the linked records' names
- Selects, dates, numbers