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Contact Book vs Airtable: when the spreadsheet stops scaling
An Airtable base is the most flexible CRM you can build in an afternoon. It's also the slowest one to live with past 500 rows.
At a glance
Airtable is the most flexible CRM you can build - because it's not a CRM, it's a database. The flexibility is its strength and its trap. Past 500 rows the UI gets sluggish, custom views proliferate, and what was a tidy template becomes a junk drawer. Contact Book is purpose-built and stays fast at scale; the trade-off is you can't add a totally custom field type whenever you want.
Contact Book vs Airtable: feature comparison
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Pick Contact Book when
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