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Updating ten thousand rows at once
Airtable's write endpoints accept 10 records per request and its read endpoints return 100, so a 10,000-row price change costs about 1,100 HTTP calls. In Postgres it is one statement.
The report your platform will not write
Airtable's list endpoint returns at most 100 records per page and has no aggregation parameter. Bubble's SQL connector caps every SELECT at 200 rows. A Supabase read replica costs $46.25 a month in Supabase's own billing example, about what one Airtable Business seat costs.
Two people editing the same row
Airtable's update endpoint has no precondition parameter, so the second writer silently wins and both get a 200. Postgres specifies the collision behaviour in chapter 13 of its manual, before you write a line of code.
Certificates on somebody else's schedule
Webflow connects up to 50 domains to one site but cannot publish different pages to different domains, and each extra site needs its own plan from $15/mo. Cloudflare for SaaS includes 100 custom hostnames and charges $0.10 after that. The difference is who holds the ACME account.
The record someone deleted last Tuesday
Airtable keeps record revision history for 2 weeks on Free and 3 years on Enterprise Scale, but it is view-only: no export, no API endpoint, and a restored snapshot arrives without it. On Postgres the change log is a table you wrote.
Where your customer data physically sits
Airtable lists European data residency only on Enterprise Scale, with no published price. Supabase pins a project to one of seventeen specific AWS regions at no cost. The difference is who gets to answer when a client's lawyer asks.
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