# Spreadsheets connected to FREE databases (airtable is not free)

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [February 16, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/spreadsheets-connected-to-free-databases-airtable-is-not-free/69132 "2019-02-16T09:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/spreadsheets-connected-to-free-databases-airtable-is-not-free/69132/3 "2019-02-16T09:54:32Z")

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Hi @lff, welcome to the community.

Airtable has a “free forever” tier. When you signed up you may have opted into one of the paid plans inadvertently:

> **[Airtable Pricing | Compare Plans, Features & Costs](https://airtable.com/pricing)**
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> Learn about Airtable's flexible pricing options, from free to enterprise. Browse special plans for nonprofit and education organizations!

Also, if you want offline access to your data, or don’t require and of the computing power that Airtable offers, then the [LocalDB](https://docs.thunkable.com/thunkable-cross-platform/create/components/data/local-db) is a good choice too.

We’ve been publishing more and more tutorials about a this component recently:

[http://community.thunkable.com/t/search-filter-localdb/68902?u=domhnall](http://community.thunkable.com/t/search-filter-localdb/68902)

[http://community.thunkable.com/t/performing-a-vlookup-in-localdb/66057?u=domhnall](http://community.thunkable.com/t/performing-a-vlookup-in-localdb/66057)

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