Baserow vs Rows

Baserow is an open-source no-code database and one of the most complete Airtable alternatives. It is developed by a company based in the Netherlands and offered both as a hosted cloud service with EU data storage and as a self-hosted application you can run with Docker on your own servers. The core of the product is MIT licensed.

Data lives in tables with typed fields, links between tables, lookups, formulas and rollups, and can be viewed as a grid, gallery, form, kanban or calendar. On top of the database Baserow adds an application builder for simple internal tools and portals, automations, an AI field that generates or classifies content from a prompt, row comments, and a REST API with webhooks. The free self-hosted edition has no artificial row limits; paid Premium and Advanced tiers, priced per user, unlock extra views, AI, admin controls, audit logs, SSO and role management.

Baserow suits teams that like the Airtable model but need data ownership, GDPR-friendly hosting or predictable costs at large row counts. It falls short on ecosystem: Airtable has far more integrations, templates and a more mature Interfaces layer, and its community is larger. NocoDB is the closest rival, source-available rather than open source since 2026, and sits on top of an existing SQL database, while Grist is stronger for spreadsheet-style formulas. For many European organizations Baserow is the easiest open-source option to adopt.

Rows was a spreadsheet platform from Portugal, originally launched as DashDash, that combined familiar spreadsheet formulas with built-in data integrations, an AI analyst and publishing. In February 2026 Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, agreed to acquire Rows; the team moved on to strengthen Coda, and the Rows product was wound down, with rows.com fully shutting down on May 31, 2026.

While it ran, integrations pulled data from Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Facebook and Google Ads, databases and APIs into tables that refreshed automatically. The AI analyst summarized data, built pivot tables and charts, wrote formulas and answered questions in plain language, and any spreadsheet could be published as an interactive web page or embedded dashboard. It was sold as a freemium product with paid Plus and Pro plans.

Former users need a new home for the KPI dashboards, marketing reports and investor updates that relied on live data. Coda, now in the same company as the former Rows team, is the closest successor for teams that want docs and tables with integrations; Equals focuses on SQL and startup finance; Google Sheets with connector add-ons is the cheap default; and Airtable suits operational databases. Do not start new work in Rows, since the product is no longer available.