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Airtable SLA credit guide

What Airtable pays when it misses its uptime commitment — its published credit formula, a multiple of a base Ontracko does not hold, the filing deadline and how to file; no dollar figure is computed for it.

What SLA credit does Airtable pay when it misses?

When Airtable (Service Level Agreement — Enterprise plans) misses its 99.9% monthly uptime commitment, a service credit is payable under Airtable's published SLA formula, claimable within 30 days of the end of the affected billing month. Airtable's credit is a multiple, not a percentage of your invoice, computed from ten (10) times the fees paid for the affected Services for the portion of the calendar month that constituted Downtime, with the month's fees allocated on a per-minute basis. That base is a quantity Ontracko does not hold, so this page quotes no dollar figure and shows no calculator, and there is no tier table to index a month's uptime on. File with the incident record below and ask Airtable to apply its formula to that base.

What is an SLA credit? · SLA glossary

Uptime commitment

99.9%

Filing window

30 days

counted from the end of the affected billing month

Services with SLA data

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Credit tiers by service

Airtable (Service Level Agreement — Enterprise plans)99.9% target · 30 days from month-end

No per-month credit band table is transcribed for Airtable (Service Level Agreement — Enterprise plans); what is known of its credit is below. A VERIFIED PAYER WHOSE CREDIT IS A MULTIPLIER, NOT A TIER TABLE. Source: Airtable's Service Level Agreement at airtable.com/company/sla, last updated March 26, 2024 (a static fetch of that page returns an empty JavaScript shell — read it in a rendering browser). THE COMMITMENT: "Airtable will provide Uptime equal to at least 99.9% of the total time in each calendar month, as measured by Airtable (the "Uptime Commitment")." ⚠️ IT IS MEASURED BY AIRTABLE, AND NOT AS WALL-CLOCK MINUTES: "We measure Uptime using server monitoring software, which monitors, among other things, server-side success and error rates, client-side success and error rates, and the overall volume of server requests (including both requests from Airtable's clients and public API requests)." Ontracko's incident timeline is an indicator that a qualifying event occurred; it is never the contractual figure, so ask Airtable to compute Uptime under its own definition and offer the timeline as corroboration. ⚠️ DEGRADED PERFORMANCE IS EXPRESSLY NOT DOWNTIME: Downtime means "the time, in minutes, that the applicable Services are not generally accessible and available", and the exclusions carve out "slowness or other performance issues with features of the Services" by name — alongside customer acts or omissions, customer or third-party equipment and software (other than third-party equipment within Airtable's direct control), customer-supplied integrations or API customizations, internet outages and computer or telecommunications failures, force majeure, scheduled maintenance disclosed with at least 24 hours' notice, hacking or virus attacks, and reasonable emergency maintenance. THE CREDIT IS TEN TIMES A PER-MINUTE SLICE OF THE FEES: the Service Credit is "equal to ten (10) times the fees paid from the applicable Customer to Airtable for the affected Services for the portion of the calendar month that constituted Downtime (calculated by dividing Downtime by the total number of minutes in the calendar month)", and "fees paid by the Customer shall be allocated on a per-minute basis over the calendar month for which they were paid". So the base is a per-minute slice of the affected Services' fees multiplied by the Downtime minutes and then by ten — not your whole monthly bill — and no cap is stated anywhere in the document. Ontracko therefore quotes no dollar amount for Airtable and no tier percentage: there is no tier table to index. ⚠️ THE DOCUMENT DESCRIBES ELIGIBILITY TWO DIFFERENT WAYS AND DOES NOT RECONCILE THEM, AND IT IS NOT OUR PLACE TO DECIDE WHICH WINS. Its opening sentence reads: "Airtable provides a 99.9% uptime commitment for active customers on our Enterprise and Enterprise Scale plans (and certain Business plan customers who have agreed to Airtable's Master Subscription Agreement)". Its credit sentence says only that "Enterprise plan Customers will be eligible for a service credit". Both sentences are in the same document. Read them both, and ask Airtable which governs your plan before assuming either. ⏰ THE WINDOW RUNS FROM THE END OF THE MONTH: "To request a Service Credit, Customers must send an email to Airtable at support@airtable.com within thirty (30) days of the end of the month in which the Uptime Commitment was not met. The Customer must include either its account ID or registered email address, and the previously reported dates and times when there was Downtime." ⚠️ "PREVIOUSLY REPORTED" IS AN EVIDENCE BAR AND IT IS THE MOST ACTIONABLE LINE HERE: the claim must cite downtime dates and times that were REPORTED TO AIRTABLE AT THE TIME. A customer who first learns of an outage from monitoring at month-end has no previously reported record to cite, so open a support report DURING the outage — not only when filing. THE CREDIT IS NOT CASH: Airtable "will issue a credit to the Customer's account within thirty (30) days", and "Service Credits are not refunds, cannot be exchanged into a cash amount, and may only be used against future billing charges". It is the sole and exclusive remedy.

Measured how? Airtable (Service Level Agreement — Enterprise plans) is measured as a request success rate — errors as a share of total requests, averaged over short intervals — not as wall-clock uptime. Availability for this service is the vendor’s Monthly Uptime Percentage under that definition, which only Airtable can compute from its request logs. A status-page outage is evidence that a qualifying event happened; it is not the contractual figure.

How to file a Airtable SLA credit claim

Portal: Airtable — email support@airtable.com ↗

  1. ⚠️ THE STEP THAT DECIDES THIS CLAIM HAPPENS DURING THE OUTAGE, NOT AT FILING. Airtable's SLA requires the credit request to include "the previously reported dates and times when there was Downtime" — downtime that was REPORTED TO AIRTABLE AT THE TIME. A customer who first learns of the outage from monitoring at month-end has no previously reported record to cite and has nothing to attach. So open a support report the moment an outage is visible, keep the ticket reference, and treat that report as the claim's foundation. Everything else on this list can be done later; this one cannot.
  2. ⏰ THIRTY DAYS FROM THE END OF THE MONTH, not from the incident: "Customers must send an email to Airtable at support@airtable.com within thirty (30) days of the end of the month in which the Uptime Commitment was not met." 📧 ONE ADDRESS — the SLA names support@airtable.com and no portal form. The email must carry either the account ID or the registered email address, plus those previously reported downtime dates and times.
  3. ⚠️ THE CREDIT IS A MULTIPLIER, NOT A TIER TABLE, SO THERE IS NO PERCENTAGE TO QUOTE. The Service Credit is "equal to ten (10) times the fees paid ... for the affected Services for the portion of the calendar month that constituted Downtime (calculated by dividing Downtime by the total number of minutes in the calendar month)", with fees "allocated on a per-minute basis over the calendar month for which they were paid". So: take the month's fees for the affected Services, divide by the minutes in the month, multiply by the Downtime minutes, multiply by ten. Ontracko holds one whole-month spend figure and not that per-minute slice, so it states no dollar amount — do the arithmetic from your own invoice, or ask Airtable to do it and confirm. No cap appears anywhere in the document.
  4. ⚠️ OUR MINUTES ARE NOT THE CONTRACTUAL METRIC. Uptime is "measured by Airtable" with "server monitoring software, which monitors, among other things, server-side success and error rates, client-side success and error rates, and the overall volume of server requests (including both requests from Airtable's clients and public API requests)". That is a blended success-rate measure, not wall-clock minutes. Ask Airtable to compute Uptime under its own definition for the month and offer the incident timeline as corroboration of the qualifying event.
  5. ⚠️ DEGRADED PERFORMANCE IS EXPRESSLY NOT DOWNTIME — the exclusions name "slowness or other performance issues with features of the Services". A slow month is not a claimable month here, however painful it was.
  6. ⚠️ CHECK ELIGIBILITY BEFORE PROMISING ANYTHING, BECAUSE THE DOCUMENT SAYS IT TWO DIFFERENT WAYS AND DOES NOT RECONCILE THEM. Its opening sentence: "Airtable provides a 99.9% uptime commitment for active customers on our Enterprise and Enterprise Scale plans (and certain Business plan customers who have agreed to Airtable's Master Subscription Agreement)". Its credit sentence: "then Enterprise plan Customers will be eligible for a service credit". Both are in the same SLA. Do not resolve the gap in either direction — put both sentences to Airtable and ask which governs this account.
  7. Strip the exclusions out of the timeline before totalling: customer acts or omissions; customer or third-party equipment and software (other than third-party equipment in Airtable's direct control); customer-supplied integrations or API customizations; slowness or other performance issues; internet outages and computer or telecommunications failures; force majeure; scheduled maintenance disclosed with at least 24 hours' notice; hacking or virus attacks; and reasonable emergency maintenance.
  8. ⚠️ IT IS NOT CASH: Airtable "will issue a credit to the Customer's account within thirty (30) days", and Service Credits "are not refunds, cannot be exchanged into a cash amount, and may only be used against future billing charges". It is the sole and exclusive remedy, so take it as billing credit and use it.
  9. SOURCE NOTE: the terms above are from airtable.com/company/sla, last updated March 26, 2024. A plain fetch of that page returns an empty JavaScript shell — open it in a browser if you need to re-check the wording.

Evidence you’ll need

  • •Account ID or the registered email address (the SLA requires one or the other)
  • •The PREVIOUSLY REPORTED dates and times when there was Downtime — reported to Airtable at the time, not first raised in the claim

Common exclusions

  • •Customer acts or omissions
  • •Customer or third-party equipment or software, other than third-party equipment within Airtable's direct control
  • •Customer-supplied integrations or API customizations
  • •Slowness or other performance issues with features of the Services — degraded performance is expressly NOT Downtime
  • •Internet outages, or computer or telecommunications failures
  • •Force majeure
  • •Scheduled maintenance disclosed with at least 24 hours' notice
  • •Hacking or virus attacks
  • •Reasonable emergency maintenance

Frequently asked

What is Airtable's SLA uptime commitment?

Airtable (Service Level Agreement — Enterprise plans) carries a 99.9% monthly uptime commitment.

Does Airtable pay an SLA service credit?

Yes. Airtable's credit is a multiple, not a percentage of your invoice, computed from ten (10) times the fees paid for the affected Services for the portion of the calendar month that constituted Downtime, with the month's fees allocated on a per-minute basis. That base is a quantity Ontracko does not hold, so this page states no dollar amount and shows no calculator. Ask Airtable to apply its published formula to that base and to show you the calculation.

What is the deadline to file a Airtable SLA credit claim?

Claims are generally due within 30 days of the end of the affected billing month (verify the exact clause in Airtable's SLA before filing).

Does Ontracko file Airtable SLA credit claims for me?

Ontracko monitors Airtable for free, detects SLA breaches automatically, and assembles the claim package: the incident evidence, the qualifying downtime minutes and the claim text. Airtable's credit is a multiple, not a percentage of your invoice, computed from ten (10) times the fees paid for the affected Services for the portion of the calendar month that constituted Downtime, with the month's fees allocated on a per-minute basis. That base is a quantity Ontracko does not hold, so Airtable applies its published formula to it. Ontracko quotes no dollar figure. You file it; Ontracko charges 8% only on credits that are actually recovered.

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