Airtable Importer alternative: what to use now that it's closed
Updated September 2026.
If you landed here, you probably opened Google Sheets™, went to Extensions, and found that Airtable Importer — the free add-on from Railsware that a lot of teams used to pull Airtable® data into Sheets — is marked [CLOSED] on the Marketplace. Railsware folded it into Coupler.io, its paid data-integration product. The other free listing, "AirTable 2 Google Sheet Sync", has not been updated in a long time and its recent reviews are people saying it no longer launches.
So you are looking for a replacement, and you have probably already noticed the annoying part: the free thing you were using was replaced by things that are not cheap. Below is what each option actually costs for the job Airtable Importer used to do.
First, decide how often you need it
This one question decides your bill. Every vendor sells a cheap tier that refreshes once a day and reserves hourly refresh for a much more expensive tier. If a daily refresh genuinely covers you, your options are inexpensive. If you need hourly — and most people mirroring a live base do — the price jumps by an order of magnitude with the big vendors.
Option 1: Coupler.io
The official successor to Airtable Importer, and a capable product with hundreds of sources. The free plan is limited to 100 rows per run and manual refreshes. Scheduled daily sync starts on Starter at $32/month with a 5,000-row cap per run. Hourly refresh is on the Pro plan at $259/month.
If you are running a real data stack with many sources, that is reasonable money. If all you wanted was one Airtable table in one sheet, it is a lot.
Option 2: Coefficient
Strong if you already use it for Salesforce or HubSpot and want Airtable alongside them. Free plan is manual only; Starter is $49/month for daily refresh with a 5,000-row import limit; hourly refresh is on Pro at $99 per user per month.
Option 3: Write it yourself in Apps Script
Free, and entirely reasonable if you write JavaScript. You create an Airtable personal access token, fetch the REST API, page through records, flatten the field types, write with setValues() and add a time-driven trigger. Budget an afternoon to build it and an ongoing trickle of maintenance for pagination, rate limits, new columns, expiring attachment URLs and triggers that silently stop. The full guide walks through this option in more detail.
Option 4: Basepull
Basepull is our add-on, and it exists precisely because of the gap above. It does one thing: mirror an Airtable table or view into a Sheets tab on a schedule — manual, hourly, every six hours or daily. It runs as Apps Script inside your own Google account and calls the Airtable API directly, so records go straight from Airtable into your spreadsheet and never pass through our servers.
The free plan gives you one manually-refreshed sync of up to 1,000 rows, which is enough to check it works on your real data. Pro is a flat $19/month — unlimited syncs, unlimited spreadsheets, hourly schedule included, up to 200,000 rows per sync.
| Airtable Importer (old) | Coupler.io | Coefficient | Basepull | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Closed | Active | Active | Active |
| Free tier | Everything | 100 rows, manual | Manual only | 1,000 rows, manual |
| Daily refresh from | — | $32/mo | $49/mo | $19/mo |
| Hourly refresh from | — | $259/mo | $99/user/mo | $19/mo |
| Row limit on that plan | — | Unlimited (Pro) | Unlimited (Pro) | 200,000/sync |
| Data path | Direct | Via vendor servers | Via vendor servers | Direct |
| Views & hidden fields | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Competitor prices taken from their public pricing pages in September 2026 and rounded to the monthly rate. Vendors change pricing; check before you buy.
Migrating from Airtable Importer
- Write down what you had. For each old import, note the base, table, view and the tab name it wrote to. Do this before you remove the old add-on.
- Connect Airtable. Click Connect Airtable in the Basepull sidebar and approve read-only access (
data.records:read,schema.bases:read) for the bases you sync. Nothing to copy or paste, and you can revoke it from Airtable at any time. - Recreate each import as a sync pointing at the same tab name. Basepull replaces the tab's contents on every run, so any formulas, pivot tables or Looker Studio reports that reference that tab keep working untouched.
- Run each one once manually and compare the row count against Airtable before you trust it.
- Then set the schedule and remove the old add-on.
Common questions
Will my old imports keep working? No. A closed listing stops being installable and eventually stops running; plan the move rather than waiting for the day it breaks.
Is there still a free option? For manual refreshes, yes — CSV export costs nothing, and Basepull's free plan gives you one manual sync of up to 1,000 rows. For scheduled refreshes, free options have effectively disappeared; the honest answer is that somebody has to run the schedule and that costs something.
Do I have to give a tool access to my whole Airtable account? You should not have to. Basepull uses Airtable's official OAuth flow: you choose which bases to grant, the access is read-only, and you can revoke it from your Airtable account at any time.