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Nightclerk vs ProBackup
ProBackup restores into your base and covers 21 apps; Nightclerk only reads Airtable and tells you each morning what changed. Prices, restore and alerts below, from ProBackup's pages and ours.
Last updated October 20, 2026
The short answer
Pick ProBackup if you need records put back into Airtable for you, a SOC 2 Type II report, SSO, or one tool that also backs up Asana, Notion, Jira and other apps. Pick Nightclerk if what you need most is an email each morning saying what changed and an alert when records vanish, with read-only access, at $10 a month for 10 bases. ProBackup starts at $31 a month ($25 billed yearly), and its deletion alerts are on Pro, at $47.
Side by side
| Nightclerk | ProBackup | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (1 base), Keeper $10/mo (10 bases), Vault $15/mo (50 bases) | Plus $31/mo ($25 yearly), Pro $47 ($38), Premium $86 ($69); priced by storage from 10 GB |
| Bases | 1, 10 or 50 by plan | No base limit stated; “Connected apps: Unlimited” |
| Free option | Free plan, a 14-day trial with no card, and a free one-time export | 7-day trial, no card; no free plan |
| How often | Weekly (Free), daily (Keeper), every 12 hours (Vault), plus Back up now | Every 24 hours |
| Where the copy lives | With Nightclerk, outside Airtable; download any day's copy | AWS, in one of 9 regions; Google Drive sync on Pro and Premium |
| History kept | 30 days (Free), 1 year (Keeper), 3 years (Vault) | 6 months (Plus), 2 years (Pro), unlimited (Premium) |
| Attachment files | 100 MB, 5 GB or 25 GB by plan; single files over 250 MB kept as names | Count toward the storage tier, 10 GB to 2,500 GB |
| Record comments | Not yet | Yes |
| Put records back into Airtable | No. An import-ready CSV of the deleted rows, with the old record ID in its own column | Yes, every plan: as new records, or by overwriting the fields you pick on existing records |
| Airtable access | Read-only; never writes to Airtable | Not stated (restore writes to your base) |
| Email saying what changed | Every morning, naming the records added, edited and deleted | Weekly status email (Pro and Premium) |
| Alert when many records vanish | Keeper and Vault, fixed thresholds | Pro and Premium, custom thresholds |
| Find old values | Search past values, including deleted records; every version of a record | Version comparison and deleted-items report (all plans); global search (Pro and up) |
| SOC 2 | Not yet | “SOC 2 Type II certified” (company-wide) |
| Other apps | Airtable only | 21 apps, including Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Notion and Jira |
| Automations, interfaces, views | Not copied (view names only) | Not copied: “automations, forms and views” |
Where ProBackup is the better choice
- You want restores done for you. ProBackup can recreate deleted records or overwrite selected fields on existing ones, with comments and files, on every plan. With Nightclerk you download a CSV of the old rows and import it yourself.
- Someone needs a SOC 2 report. ProBackup says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and offers a DPA. Its Premium plan adds SSO, audit reports and a virus scanner. We don't have SOC 2 yet.
- You keep comments in Airtable. ProBackup copies record comments; we don't yet.
- Airtable is one of several apps. ProBackup covers 21, so one vendor and one bill can cover Notion, Jira or HubSpot as well.
- You need data held in a particular region. ProBackup stores backups in one of 9 AWS regions, including the EU, UK, Canada and Australia; the nearest is preselected and support can change it. Our data is in AWS us-east-1.
- You want history kept with no end date. Premium keeps versions with no limit. Our longest is 3 years, on Vault.
Where Nightclerk is the better choice
- You want a daily list of what changed, not a weekly summary. Our receipt (email, and Slack if you like) names the records added, edited and deleted in each base after every backup. ProBackup's status email is weekly, on Pro and above.
- You want deletion alerts on a small budget. Our alerts are on Keeper at $10 a month: 10 or more records vanishing at once, one field emptied or overwritten across much of a table, or an import of 25+ records that grows a table by half. ProBackup's alerts start on Pro at $47.
- You don't want any tool able to write to your base. We ask only for read access and never write. That rules out one-click restore, and with a read-only token, nothing on our side can change your data.
- You only need Airtable, and only a few bases. Free covers 1 base weekly with no time limit, and Keeper covers 10 daily for $10.
Switching or running both
Nightclerk is read-only, so it can run next to ProBackup on the same bases without either one getting in the other's way. A common split is ProBackup for restores and the apps besides Airtable, Nightclerk for the daily receipt and the cheaper alerts. Two daily backups double the API calls a base uses, which only matters in a Free Airtable workspace (1,000 calls a month).
If you move from ProBackup to Nightclerk, keep your ProBackup history until ours covers as far back as you need, or export what you want to keep first; we can't import another tool's backups. To see what our copy of a base looks like before signing up, run the free one-time export or read how to back up Airtable.
Questions
Is there a cheaper alternative to ProBackup?
ProBackup's lowest plan is Plus at $31 a month, or $25 a month billed yearly, with 10 GB of storage and a 7-day trial. Nightclerk's Keeper plan is $10 a month for 10 bases backed up daily, and its Free plan backs up 1 base weekly. The trade-off is that Nightclerk never writes to Airtable, so it doesn't restore records for you the way ProBackup does.
Does ProBackup restore into Airtable?
Yes. ProBackup says every plan includes granular restore: it can create new records, or overwrite selected fields on existing records, and comments and files come back with a record.
Is ProBackup SOC 2 certified?
ProBackup says it is SOC 2 Type II certified. It states this for the company and doesn't say which plans it covers. Nightclerk doesn't have a SOC 2 report yet.
Does ProBackup alert you when records are deleted?
ProBackup's Pro and Premium plans include alerts for mass deletions and unusual activity, with custom thresholds; it doesn't publish a default. Plus doesn't include them. Nightclerk's paid plans alert when 10 or more records vanish at once, or 5 that are 5% of a table.
Can I use Nightclerk and ProBackup on the same bases?
Yes. Nightclerk only reads, with its own token, so it doesn't touch what ProBackup does. Each tool uses Airtable API calls, which matters on Free workspaces (1,000 calls a month) more than on Team (100,000).
Sources, checked October 20, 2026: ProBackup: pricing · ProBackup: Airtable backup · ProBackup: data security · ProBackup: proactive alerts · ProBackup: supported apps · Airtable: API call limits. Nightclerk is not affiliated with Airtable. Compare backup options.