Airtable and Bending Spoons
Worried about the Airtable acquisition?
No price change has been announced, and you do not have to leave. But your data should be safe, portable, and yours whatever the new owner decides. Here is where things stand and what to do first.
The facts
What happened, and why people are worried
Airtable, so far
Early August 2026
Deal agreed
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Airtable at about $1.285 billion in enterprise value, roughly $2.25 billion once Airtable's cash is counted.
Source: TechCrunch
4 September 2026
Purchase completed
Bending Spoons announces the completed all-cash purchase of 100% of the company.
Mid-October 2026
Team cut
Bending Spoons says it is cutting a large portion of the pre-acquisition team, which was roughly 800 people. The number affected has not been disclosed. Airtable says customers' plans, prices, and service offerings will not change.
Source: Bending Spoons product lead on X, Airtable, "Back to bases", Hoodline
As of 21 October 2026
Not announced
No pricing, plan-limit, or API change has been announced.
Source: Airtable, "Back to bases"
Why people are worried
Bending Spoons’ earlier deals, with links to the original reports. This is precedent, not a prediction. Where sources disagree on a date, we give only the year.
EvernoteNov 2022 to Jan 2023
Staff cutsPrice risesAbout 129 jobs cut in early 2023, then most US and Chile staff in July 2023. Users report the product becoming more expensive.
Source: Business Today, Follow the Money
WeTransferJuly 2024
Staff cutsPrice risesBending Spoons' CEO confirmed plans to cut about 75% of the staff, reported in September 2024. Press also reports higher prices.
Source: TechCrunch, Follow the Money
HarvestJuly 2025
Price changesPricing moved from flat per-seat fees to per-seat plus usage fees. Some customers reported renewal bills rising many times over.
VimeoNov 2025
Staff cutsA $1.38 billion deal. Most staff reportedly cut on 20 January 2026, including the whole video team.
Source: Engadget
AOLJan 2026
Staff cutsThe purchase closed on 2 January. 108 workers at its Reston office were laid off in two phases, announced in February.
Source: FFXnow
EventbriteDec 2025 to Mar 2026
Staff cutsA $500 million all-cash deal. Layoffs were reported after the March 2026 close.
Source: IQ Magazine
Airtable has had the staff cuts. Price rises have not happened here.
What to watch
The signals that would change the picture
Status as of 21 October 2026. These are your candidate triggers for moving.
Pricing or plan limits
Airtable says customers' plans and prices will not change.
Source: Airtable, "Back to bases"
API access or rate limits
If an app or automation depends on the API, this is the one that breaks things quietly.
Support and pace of fixes
The team was cut, though Airtable says its customer-facing team is unaffected.
Source: Airtable, "Back to bases"
Retired features
Airtable's October update lists additions, not removals.
Source: Airtable, "Back to bases"
Phase 0
Insurance first, decisions later
Six steps in three stages. They cost little and turn any future announcement into a calm decision.
Stage 1
Know what you have
Before anything else, write it down.
- 1
Take an inventory
List the bases that matter, their size, their owners, and anything outside Airtable that depends on them.
- 2
Map your dependencies
Write down the automations, scripts, interfaces, and integrations attached to each base.
Stage 2
Test what you could lose
Find the gaps while nothing is on fire.
- 3
Test your export
Export a key base to CSV and check what is missing. Relationships, formula logic, and lasting attachment links do not survive.
- 4
Score your complexity
Find out whether your base is a quick move or a serious project, before anyone asks you for a date.
Stage 3
Be ready
So a future announcement is a checklist, not a crisis.
- 5
Hold a copy you control
A faithful PostgreSQL copy, with linked records as foreign keys and formulas rebuilt as SQL, is real insurance. Keep using Airtable as normal.
- 6
Set your trigger
Agree in advance what would make you move: a price rise above a number you choose, a removed feature, an API change.
FAQ
Airtable acquisition FAQ
Short answers to what teams are asking right now.
Not as of the last update to this page, 21 October 2026. Airtable's published pricing, plan limits, and product availability have not changed because of the deal.
Yes. In mid-October 2026 it announced cuts to a large portion of Airtable's pre-acquisition team. Airtable had roughly 800 employees before the deal and the number cut has not been disclosed. Airtable says customers' plans, prices, and service offerings will not change.
Not necessarily. Prepare first by taking an inventory, testing your export, and setting a trigger for moving. Many teams will be fine staying.
No. You can keep working in Airtable and hold the PostgreSQL copy as a safety net, then move workflows onto it later only if you choose to.
It is worth having, but it is a snapshot of values. Relationships, formula logic, and lasting attachment links are lost, so it is not a copy of your system.
The complexity check is free, and the free trial lets you migrate a slice of one base with no credit card, so you can see the result before committing to anything.
Want a second opinion on your base?
A free 30-minute call with a migration engineer. We will look at your bases, tell you honestly how hard a move would be, and whether you need to move at all.