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Airplane
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Editorial pick✓ Verified working
Airplane
Internal tools and workflows as code.
Try Airplane✓ Free trial available
Best for
Best for engineering teams who want internal tools written and reviewed like real code.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $10/mo
- Setup time
- 1 day
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/25/2026
What we love
- ✓Engineers love the code-first approach
- ✓Versioned, testable, code-reviewed
- ✓Faster than dragging Retool components
Where it falls short
- −Requires engineering time to build
- −Less appealing to non-devs
- −Pricing scales with tasks
Pricing
2 tiers
Free
$0
per month
- ✓3 users
- ✓100 task runs
Team
$10
per user / month
- ✓Unlimited tasks
- ✓SSO add-on
Overview
Airplane lets engineers build internal admin tools, ops dashboards, and scheduled jobs by writing TypeScript/Python instead of dragging UI components. 'Retool but code-first.'
Key features
- ●Tasks as code (TS/Python)
- ●Auto-generated UI
- ●Scheduled jobs
- ●SSO + audit
- ●Git-based deploy
Best use cases
Internal admin panel
Replace one-off SQL scripts with a versioned tool your support team can run with one click.
Scheduled ETL or reports
Replace cron jobs that nobody owns with versioned, observable scheduled tasks.
Integrations
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