# Cordango vs Airtable: for teams that outgrew their bases

> An honest comparison of Cordango and Airtable. Flexible bases against real internal apps with roles, audit trails and EU hosting on one shared core.

Source: https://www.cordango.com/vs/airtable/
Language: en

# Cordango vs Airtable

Airtable is a brilliant way for a team to structure its lists, and it gives anyone the freedom to start. Companies outgrow it the day permissions get serious and base number twelve appears, each with its own copy of the customer list. Cordango keeps that freedom and turns those bases into real apps that share one set of company records.

## The short version.

Where Airtable wins 

For one team organising flexible data, Airtable is hard to beat.

-   FAST From idea to structured table in minutes
-   VIEW Grids, kanbans, calendars and interfaces on the same records
-   TPL A huge template gallery for team workflows
-   EASY Nobody needs training to add a row

Where Cordango wins 

Cordango is what base twelve wishes it was: a real app, governed and connected.

-   RBAC Real roles and permissions, not base-level share links
-   CORE One company data model instead of a silo per team
-   LOG An audit trail over every change in every app
-   EU EU hosting for everyone, not an enterprise-tier add-on

## Side by side.

|     | Cordango | Airtable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fine-grained roles & permissions | ✓   | ~   |
| One shared data model across apps | ✓   | ✗   |
| Audit trail on every change | ✓   | ~   |
| Build an app by describing it | ✓   | ~   |
| Company directory & SSO built in | ✓   | ~   |
| EU data residency by default | ✓   | ~   |
| Flexible ad-hoc lists for one team | ~   | ✓   |
| Shared company context by default | ✓   | ✗   |
| Governance built into every app | ✓   | ~   |
| Company-owned rather than personal | ✓   | ~   |
| Every user shapes their own interface | ✓   | ~   |
| One platform price instead of per-tool subscriptions | ✓   | ~   |

✓ built in  ·  ~ partial or top-tier only  ·  ✗ not how it works  
If half your company’s data lives in share links, that’s the tell.

## Which one should you pick?

### Pick Airtable if

-   01 One team needs to structure flexible data, fast
-   02 The stakes are light and the data stays in that team
-   03 You’re still exploring what the process even is

### Pick Cordango if

-   01 The whole company depends on what’s in those bases
-   02 Permissions, audit and GDPR stopped being optional
-   03 You want customers, people and invoices in one data model, not twelve

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