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Automate 5X more work at the same cost with Airtable AI

calendar_today May 14, 2025 person Caitlin Bishop domain airtable

What you can do with Airtable AI for $40

Automate 5X more work at the same cost with Airtable AI<p>Running AI at scale is much more cost effective than you might think. Here are a few examples of AI outputs that each cost about $40 total, depending on the model you choose. </p><ul><li>Analyze 1,000 competitor web pages to analyze their pricing strategies, messaging techniques, and market positioning.</li><li>Transform 8,000 product feedback submissions into prioritized feature requests with impact scores and complexity estimates.</li><li>Generate 10,000 localized social media captions tailored to your brand voice and campaign messaging for higher engagement rates.</li></ul><h3 id="understanding-credit-usage">Understanding credit usage</h3><p>You can now preview how many credits each AI action will use.</p><p>You can use this preview to understand how many credits you’ll need to run a workflow at scale, with these simple 3 steps: </p><ol><li>Actions: Create a prototype app with sample data and inspect the credit preview for each AI action. </li><li>Volume: Estimate the total volume of records that need to be processed in your workflow over a certain time period. </li><li>Total: Multiply them together to estimate credits needed. </li></ol><p>For example, let’s estimate total credits needed for a customer data enrichment workflow. </p><ol><li>Actions: </li></ol><ul><li>AI Field 1: Summarize latest earnings call transcript (12 Credits)</li><li>AI Field 2: Search the web and summarize recent company news (12 Credits)</li><li>AI Field 3: Taking step 1 and 2 as input, generate discussion topics for upcoming meeting (1 Credit)</li></ul><p>= 25 Credits / Customer Enrichment</p><ol start="2"><li>Volume:</li></ol><p>Number of customers to enrich per month: 1000</p><ol start="3"><li>Total: </li></ol><p>Total estimated credits / month: 25,000</p><p>Approx total cost / month: $40</p><p>Cost per enrichment: $0.04</p><p>With the new credit consumption rates, you can scale up your AI workflows with marginal cost impact. </p><h3 id="what%E2%80%99s-new-in-airtable-ai">What’s new in Airtable AI? </h3><p>In case you missed it, we also introduced Airtable Assistant this month. </p><ul><li>Your personal app builder – Simply ask Assistant to build, modify, or add to any of your apps in Airtable.</li><li>AI business answers – Ask any business question and get answers based on data in your Airtable apps.</li></ul><p>Plus, Airtable AI now supports two new ways to bring structured data into your apps to power even more impactful workflows: </p><ul><li>AI web search Put thousands of web researchers to work across every row in your Airtable base.</li><li>AI document analysis – Turn unstructured documents into data and workflows, at scale.</li></ul><p>Get fully up to speed with what’s possible with Airtable AI by watching our latest livestream on-demand: </p><p>Watch now</p>

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