# Airtable vs SeaTable (slim)

> Airtable scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SeaTable leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Airtable scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SeaTable leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records.

- Airtable: BB 70.9, rank #124 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtable.min.md
- SeaTable: B 66.3, rank #241 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.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 69; Security & auth, 78 against 59; Transparency & trust, 86 against 75. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- SeaTable, good for Teams that want typed tables hosted in Germany or on their own server, with an agent reading and writing rows through a per-base token or the official MCP server. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 73; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 68; Maintenance & community, 76 against 49. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Airtable | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 94 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 78 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 86 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtable | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Formagrid Inc (Airtable) | SeaTable GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtable.com` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| 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 | Proprietary cloud service under the Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud. The MCP server is MIT. SeaTable Server Enterprise Edition is licensed under an EULA |
| Tools exposed | 40 | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.airtable/mcp` | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |
| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-04 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-31 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-15 | no date given |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 569k npm/wk | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |