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Airtable

Vannus records that this vendor routes across several model providers — not captured by one. Every finding below is quoted to the vendor’s own document, or marked not disclosed where the vendor publishes nothing.

Determination
Contracts with Formagrid Inc.
Vannus has not established whether a US parent controls this entity, so US reach is not established either way.
airtable.com · read 2026-09-16
read from terms of service

Flexible database and workspace with automation capabilities

database, organization, automation
What the vendor's own documentation says
Choose between models from Open AI, Anthropic, Meta, and others.
airtable.com ↗ Vendor-sourcedQuote re-checked 14 Sep 2026
Who controls it
US corporate controlNot disclosed — the vendor names no contracting entity in its own documents · clause re-checked 17 Sep 2026
Trains on your dataNo — on the vendor's default plan
On a paid or enterprise planDoes not train on your data — zero retention offered — same as the default plan

Applies to: Enterprise Scale and Business (zero retention). Free, Team, Pro, Plus get 30-day provider retention.

From the enterprise terms: “For workspaces on the Enterprise Scale or Business plan: Third-Party AI Providers will not (a) log Input or Output for human review, or (b) save or retain Input or Output.” airtable.com ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

This is a separate question from the grade above. The grade measures resilience — whether the tool endures and whether you could leave it. This describes who controls the vendor. A tool can score modestly on one and strongly on the other, and many do.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Signals on file
Origin
United States
Zero data retention
Yes — states it retains no prompt data

The vendor's published or catalog-recorded posture — the concrete facts this grade is built from. A full audit verifies each against the vendor's current documentation.

Who else handles your data

Airtable publishes a list of the other companies it uses to process customer data. It names 23 of them in 24 entries, because some appear more than once under different locations, each shown below with the location the vendor lists it under, in the vendor’s own words.

Amazon Web Services, Inc · USA, Germany*, Ireland*, Australia*Mailgun Technologies, Inc · USA, Germany*, Belgium*Twilio, Inc · USAAmazon Web Services, Inc · GlobalAnthropic, PBC · USACastle Global Inc.** · USAGoogle LLC · GlobalInternational Business Machines Corporation (IBM) · USAOpenAI, LLC · USAParallel Web Systems Inc.** · USAReducto, Inc.** · USAVercel Inc.** · USABright Data Ltd.** · USAForethought Technologies, Inc. · USAGong.io, Inc. · USA, GermanyMapbox, Inc.** · USAPartnerHero, Inc. · USA, Germany, Honduras, Romania, PhilippinesPylon Labs, Inc. · USASalesforce.com, Inc. · USASendSafely Inc. · USASierra Technologies, Inc. · USAWorkato Inc. · USAZight, Inc. (formerly CloudPlus, Inc.) · USAZoom Video Communications, Inc. · USA

Airtable marks some of those entries and qualifies them below the table. Its words, kept with the entries because the qualification is part of the answer:

* Only for customers using European or Australian Data Residency.

** Does not apply to Enterprise Scale customers with an applicable Airtable Health Information Exhibit or Business Associate Agreement.

Taken together those entries name at least Australia, Belgium, Germany, Global, Honduras, Ireland, Philippines, Romania, USA. That is what our place list could match in the vendor’s own words above, so treat it as a floor rather than the whole of it — the entries themselves are the record.

These are other companies, not Airtable. Where a sub-processor is listed as operating is a fact about that company. It is not a statement about where Airtable keeps your data, which Vannus publishes separately and only from a document in which the vendor says so.

The same document also lists 3 companies in Airtable’s own corporate group. Those are the vendor itself rather than onward processors, so they are not among the entries above and are not counted in them.

Read from airtable.com on 2026-09-15. Every entry above is a verbatim span of that page.

This is the vendor’s own disclosure, reproduced. Vannus has not audited what any of these companies do with your data, and a list can change without notice. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Compliance the vendor states
SOC2GDPR

Taken from the vendor’s own published material. Vannus does not hold these reports and has not reviewed their scope or dates — ask the vendor for the current report before relying on any of them.

How this grade is set

Vannus publishes a nine-dimension trust framework — data sovereignty, training privacy, compliance posture, operational resilience, exit portability, and more. The heaviest criterion asks whether the tool builds its own AI or resells someone else's model; where the vendor discloses it, the grade cites the vendor's own documentation. No paid placements — scoring is walled off from affiliate revenue. See the methodology →

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