# Airtable vs Baserow (slim)

> Airtable scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Airtable scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records.

- Airtable: BB 70.9, rank #118 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtable.min.md
- Baserow: B 63.6, rank #276 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md
- Airtable, good for Teams that already keep operational data in Airtable and want an agent to read, filter and update typed records or build bases through MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 94 against 65; Security & auth, 78 against 54; Transparency & trust, 86 against 65. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Baserow, good for Teams that want Airtable-style typed tables they can also self-host, with row-level reads and writes by an agent through table-scoped tokens or a small MCP tool set. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 72 against 49. Also Open source.

| Category | Airtable | Baserow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 94 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 78 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 86 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtable | Baserow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Formagrid Inc (Airtable) | Baserow B.V. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtable.com` | `https://api.baserow.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Airtable's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The airtable.js client and the MCP CLI on GitHub are MIT | MIT for the core, including the REST API and the MCP server. Code under premium/ and enterprise/ is source-available under Baserow's own licences and needs a paid subscription in production. Docs are CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Tools exposed | 40 | 7 |
| MCP registry | `com.airtable/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-31 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-15 | no date given |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 569k npm/wk | 6.1k stars |