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Nightclerk vs BaseStash
BaseStash backs up as often as hourly and can write a record back into Airtable. Nightclerk backs up at most twice a day, keeps a year or more on paid plans, and never writes.
Last updated October 20, 2026
The short answer
Pick BaseStash if you want one-click restore of a record (or, on Pro, a whole table) back into Airtable, backups every hour, real-time change capture, or copies pushed to your own S3 bucket. Pick Nightclerk if you want a longer history (1 to 3 years against 30 or 90 days), attachment files copied, a receipt saying what changed and alerts when records vanish, without granting write access. For 10 bases, BaseStash Pro is £24 a month and Nightclerk Keeper is $10.
Side by side
| Nightclerk | BaseStash | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (1 base), Keeper $10/mo (10 bases), Vault $15/mo (50 bases) | Starter £12/mo (3 bases), Pro £24/mo (10 bases); no yearly price listed |
| Free option | Free plan for 1 base; 14-day trial with 10 bases, no card | 14-day trial with up to 10 bases, no card |
| How often | Weekly, daily or every 12 hours by plan, plus Back up now | Daily, weekly or monthly (Starter); hourly and six-hourly (Pro) |
| Where the copy lives | With Nightclerk; download any day's copy | With BaseStash (host not named); Pro can push copies to your own S3 bucket |
| History kept | 30 days (Free), 1 year (Keeper), 3 years (Vault) | 30 days (trial, Starter), 90 days (Pro) |
| Attachment files | 100 MB, 5 GB or 25 GB by plan | “Attachment manifest”; whether files are copied is not stated |
| Record comments | Not yet | Yes (“comments capture” from Starter) |
| Put records back into Airtable | No; an import-ready CSV of the deleted rows | Single record (all plans); full table and point-in-time (Pro) |
| Airtable access | Read scopes only | Personal access token; write scope only for one-click restore |
| See what changed | A receipt after each backup naming records added, edited and deleted; every version of a record | Compare snapshots in the browser; real-time change capture by webhooks (Pro) |
| Alert when many records vanish | Keeper and Vault | Not stated |
| Search past values | Yes, including deleted records | Browse, search and export snapshots |
| SOC 2 | Not yet | Not stated |
Where BaseStash is the better choice
- You want to undo a mistake with one click. BaseStash puts a single record back into Airtable on every plan, and Pro restores a whole table or a point in time. We never write to Airtable, so you import our CSV yourself.
- You need backups every hour. BaseStash Pro runs hourly and six-hourly backups, and captures changes in real time through webhooks. Our most frequent schedule is every 12 hours, on Vault.
- You want copies in your own S3 bucket. BaseStash Pro pushes them there. We keep the copy and let you download it.
- You keep comments in Airtable. BaseStash captures record comments from Starter. We don't copy comments yet.
Where Nightclerk is the better choice
- Mistakes get noticed late. BaseStash keeps 30 or 90 days. We keep 1 year on Keeper and 3 years on Vault, and you can search all of it, including records deleted months ago.
- You want to be told, not to go and compare. BaseStash lets you compare snapshots when you think to look. We send a receipt after each backup naming what was added, edited and deleted, and alert when 10 or more records vanish at once.
- You need the attachment files, not a list of them. We copy the files: 5 GB on Keeper, 25 GB on Vault. Attachment links from Airtable's API expire 2 hours after they're fetched, so a list of links can't give you the files later.
- You'd rather not grant write access at all. BaseStash also works with a read-only token, but then its one-click restore isn't available. We only ever ask for read scopes.
Running both, and hourly backups on a Free workspace
Nightclerk only reads, so it can run alongside BaseStash on the same bases: BaseStash for hourly snapshots and quick restores, Nightclerk for the receipt, alerts and the long history. Hourly backups read the base 24 times a day, so on a Free Airtable workspace (1,000 API calls a month, shared by every tool) they can use up the allowance quickly. You can give a base a monthly API-call limit in Nightclerk, and a scheduled backup that would go over it is skipped instead.
If you move over, export anything you want to keep from BaseStash first; we can't import its snapshots, so our history starts from your first backup. For restoring by hand, see restoring Airtable from a CSV, or try the free one-time export to see what our copy looks like.
Questions
Does BaseStash need write access to Airtable?
Only for one-click restore. BaseStash's security page recommends a personal access token scoped to read access and the bases you back up, and says write scope is only needed if you want one-click restore. It stores the token encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Nightclerk asks only for read scopes and never writes to Airtable.
Does BaseStash restore into Airtable?
Yes. Every BaseStash plan restores a single record straight back into Airtable, and the Pro plan adds full-table and point-in-time restores.
How long does BaseStash keep snapshots?
30 days on the trial and Starter plans and 90 days on Pro. BaseStash says pausing or cancelling never deletes snapshots early. Nightclerk keeps 1 year on Keeper and 3 years on Vault.
Is there a cheaper alternative to BaseStash?
BaseStash Starter is £12 a month for up to 3 bases, and Pro is £24 a month for up to 10; no yearly price is listed. Nightclerk Keeper is $10 a month for 10 bases backed up daily, and the Free plan backs up 1 base weekly. Nightclerk doesn't restore into Airtable or back up hourly.
Does BaseStash back up attachment files?
BaseStash's pages mention an attachment manifest but don't say whether the files themselves are copied. Nightclerk copies attachment files up to 100 MB on Free, 5 GB on Keeper and 25 GB on Vault.
Sources, checked October 20, 2026: BaseStash: home · BaseStash: pricing · BaseStash: security · Airtable: attachment URLs · Airtable: API call limits. Nightclerk is not affiliated with Airtable. Compare backup options.