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Airtable's sale to Bending Spoons: what it means for your data
What happened, what Airtable has said will and won't change, and the few things worth doing with your bases now.
Last updated October 20, 2026
The short answer
Bending Spoons, a Nasdaq-listed software company based in Italy, now owns Airtable. The deal was announced on August 4, 2026 and completed on September 4, 2026. Airtable says that “for customers, nothing changes regarding your plan, price, or service offering,” and nothing it has published says your bases will move. Nothing needs doing urgently, but it's a sensible moment to check who owns each workspace and to keep a copy of the bases you depend on outside Airtable.
What happened, and when
| Date | What |
|---|---|
| August 4, 2026 | Definitive agreement announced: all cash, enterprise value $1.285 billion (about $2.25 billion equity value including Airtable's net cash). Bending Spoons' first acquisition since listing on Nasdaq on July 1, 2026. |
| September 4, 2026 | Airtable's newsroom: Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) “has completed the previously announced acquisition of Airtable.” |
| October 12, 2026 | “Back to bases: What's next at Airtable”, by Alessandro Savarese, Airtable's new product lead, sets out team changes and the roadmap. |
In the completion announcement, Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari says the company will be “investing heavily in Airtable's product, customer support, and go-to-market capabilities.” It doesn't mention pricing.
What Airtable says is changing
- The team. “We're parting ways with a large portion of the pre-acquisition team,” with separation packages. The post says the customer-facing organization wasn't affected, and Bending Spoons engineers, product managers and designers have joined the teams.
- Release pace. A Core team will ship the most-requested improvements every month. A team Airtable calls the Speedy Squad shipped more than 30 in the three weeks before the post, including higher automation limits and a “delete record” automation action.
- In the coming weeks: an upgraded Omni assistant, Airtable Canvas, a more capable MCP server, and bring-your-own agents and keys.
- In the coming months: agent permissions for Enterprise accounts and an audit log covering agents and people. Also listed, with no date: more detailed activity logs in bases, a clearer view of credentials and integrations, bring-your-own encryption keys and AI models, faster-loading bases, wider EU data residency, and higher limits on records, fields and syncs. No numbers or plans are given for any of these. (For where audit logs and data residency stand today, see Airtable security and compliance.)
What Airtable says isn't changing
Plans, prices and the service: “For customers, nothing changes regarding your plan, price, or service offering.” Separately, Airtable's pricing page tells customers on legacy Enterprise agreements there are “no changes” until their renewal. Both are statements about now. Neither is a promise about future pricing, and Airtable hasn't published one either way.
On Bending Spoons' history: Reworked, reporting the deal, noted that its earlier US acquisitions, including Evernote, Meetup and Vimeo, were followed by significant workforce reductions. The same article doesn't discuss prices. That record is about staff, not customer data, and it doesn't tell you what will happen to Airtable.
What to do now
None of this is urgent. These are the checks worth doing whenever a tool your business runs on changes hands.
- Make sure every workspace has at least two owners. Open the workspace, click Share, find someone under People with access and set their permission to Owner. Airtable itself recommends multiple owners, and its support team can't recover accounts. See making sure a workspace never loses its owner.
- Keep a copy outside Airtable. Snapshots and the trash live inside your Airtable account. A copy you hold yourself, with every table, the structure and the attachment files, is useful whatever happens. The free one-time export does that in one zip (up to 50,000 records and 250 MB of files, no account); for a copy every day, see how to back up Airtable.
- Review API tokens and integrations. Personal access tokens are listed at airtable.com/create/tokens. By default they don't expire, so delete any you no longer use with … > Delete token, and check that the rest have only the scopes and bases they need. Do the same for third-party tools connected through “Sign in with Airtable”.
- Write down your plan as it stands. Plan name, price per seat, billing cycle and renewal date, plus the limits you rely on: records per base, attachment space, API calls and how long history is kept. Airtable plans renew automatically, so a note of today's terms is how you'd notice a change at renewal. The limits by plan page lists the current numbers.
- Follow the official sources. Airtable has announced each step so far on its newsroom; incidents go on status.airtable.com, which you can subscribe to by email, SMS or Slack.
If you're thinking about leaving
There's no deadline and no reason to rush. If you decide to move, the order matters: export the data and attachment files first, write down the structure, then rebuild automations and interfaces by hand, since no export includes them. The leaving Airtable checklist walks through it, and what happens to your data when you downgrade or leave covers what Airtable keeps afterwards.
Questions
Who owns Airtable now?
Bending Spoons S.p.A., the Italian software company listed on Nasdaq as BSP. It announced the deal on August 4, 2026 and Airtable announced on September 4, 2026 that the acquisition was complete.
How much did Bending Spoons pay for Airtable?
The deal was all cash, at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion, which Bending Spoons said implies an equity value of about $2.25 billion once Airtable's net cash is added. Those figures are from Bending Spoons' August 4, 2026 announcement, filed with the SEC.
Will Airtable raise prices after the acquisition?
Airtable's October 12, 2026 post says that for customers nothing changes regarding plan, price or service offering. It hasn't published anything about future pricing, so note your current plan, price and renewal date and check them at each renewal.
Is my Airtable data safe after the acquisition?
A change of owner doesn't move or delete your bases by itself, and nothing Airtable has published says existing bases will be moved. It is still a good moment to make sure each workspace has two owners and that the bases you depend on also exist as a copy outside Airtable.
Is Airtable shutting down?
Nothing Airtable has published says so. Its October 2026 post describes monthly releases and new features planned for the coming weeks and months, alongside a large reduction in the pre-acquisition team.
Sources, checked October 20, 2026: Airtable: Airtable is now part of Bending Spoons · Airtable: Back to bases (Oct 12, 2026) · Bending Spoons: agreement to acquire Airtable (SEC, Aug 4, 2026) · Bending Spoons: acquisition completed (SEC, Sep 4, 2026) · Airtable: pricing · Airtable: personal access tokens · Airtable: transferring ownership · Willkie: Bending Spoons acquisition of Airtable · Reworked: Bending Spoons acquires Airtable · Airtable status. Nightclerk is not affiliated with Airtable. Compare backup options.