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How to decide between Airtable, Coda, Notion, and Sheets if you need a database
How to decide between Airtable, Coda, Notion, and Sheets if you need a database
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Use this page to understand what tool is the best one depending of your use case.

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Airtable


Good use cases


✅ CSM (Content Management System)
✅ Large Databases (20K+ rows)
✅ Submission forms

Challenging use cases


🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—limited integrations, no writing surface, no embeds
🚫 Editing and collaboration for larger teams
🚫 Writing surface for write-ups, PRDs, strategy docs, and more.
🚫 Powerful formulas and calculations

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Notion

Good use cases


✅ Simple tables
✅ Small Databases
✅ Writing surface and simple tables

Challenging use cases


🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—limited integrations, issues at scale
🚫 Editing and collaboration for larger teams
🚫 Powerful formulas and calculations
🚫 Data visualization

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Coda

Good use cases


✅ Single source of truth—bring docs, tables, apps, and your team into one place
✅ Powerful formulas in tables or in text
✅ Integration & management for other platforms
✅ Collaboration for big teams

Challenging use cases


🚫 Financial modeling
🚫 CMS for websites
🚫 Database with 100K+ rows


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Google Sheets

Good use cases


✅ Flexible surface with individual cells
✅ Free platform
✅ Easy to share and collaborate

Challenging use cases


🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—constantly linking out to docs, apps, etc.
🚫 Writing surface
🚫 Data dashboards
🚫 Relational databases



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