Skip to main content
Question

Is there a limit on how many read only portal guests I can have for free?

  • May 4, 2026
  • 9 replies
  • 97 views

raj_mats

We have ~2000 applicants per applications cycle. I’d like to add them all as read only portal guests filtered to only see their own record that has their login email associated with it. 

Is there any limit on how many applicants I can do this for?

9 replies

ScottWorld
Forum|alt.badge.img+35
  • Genius
  • May 4, 2026

2,000 is fine. I think the limit is 10,000.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant 


anmolgupta
Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Inspiring
  • May 5, 2026

There isn’t any limit mentioned anywhere for read only users. Not sure if there is any technical limit internally.


ScottWorld
Forum|alt.badge.img+35
  • Genius
  • May 5, 2026

Airtable has told me that the portal user limit is 10,000 users.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant


anmolgupta
Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Inspiring
  • May 5, 2026

@ScottWorld Are the read only portal users free or they are charged as per the portal add on pricing?


ScottWorld
Forum|alt.badge.img+35
  • Genius
  • May 5, 2026

Read-only portal users are free, but Airtable won’t let anybody signup for the portal feature unless they pay for a minimum of 15 paid portal users. So even if 100% of your portal users are free users, you still have to pay for 15 users.

Personally, after working with Airtable’s portals for a while now, I can’t really recommend them too highly. Too expensive, and way too limited in features & functionality when compared to fantastic portals like Softr or Zite or MiniExtensions or Glide.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant


Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Inspiring
  • May 6, 2026

JetAdmin appears to be a stalled product. No updates since 2023. Take your chances.


ScottWorld
Forum|alt.badge.img+35
  • Genius
  • May 6, 2026

JetAdmin appears to be a stalled product. No updates since 2023. Take your chances.

 

JetAdmin is in active development:

https://www.jetadmin.io/changelog

However, I would caution anybody against using JetAdmin. They are a very unethical company with zero customer support, and they are not even based in the USA so they do not need to follow USA laws.


Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Inspiring
  • May 9, 2026

I guess you’re right.

 

But they do have two change logs:

https://jetadmin.canny.io/changelog

This one ends in Feb 2024.


ScottWorld
Forum|alt.badge.img+35
  • Genius
  • May 9, 2026

Very strange. I’m no longer a customer of theirs because they are a very unethical company.