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Enterprise admin scopes and service accounts need an Enterprise Scale plan.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 API calls a month per workspace and 1,000 records per base, so an agent can start without a contract. Team is $20 a seat a month billed annually ($24 monthly) with 100,000 calls a month, Business $45 billed annually, Enterprise Scale through sales. API calls aren't priced separately, and there's no separate sandbox. The MCP server is included on every plan (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$20 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Web API docs, the MCP docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 40, "popularity": { "githubStars": 2229, "npmWeekly": 568991, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction", "llmsTxt": "https://airtable.com/developers/llms.txt", "registryName": "com.airtable/mcp", "capabilities": [ "sheets.records", "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.tables", "sheets.formulas" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "closed-source", "free-tier", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "javascript", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.9, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 118, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 49, "payments": 30, "reliability": 94, "schema": 73, "security": 78, "transparency": 86 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Tokens are limited by scope and by base, and the official MCP server at mcp.airtable.com covers records, schema, interfaces and automations in 40 tools. The REST API allows 5 requests a second per base with a 30-second lockout after a 429, writes take 10 records a call, and the Free plan stops at 1,000 calls a month.", "bestFor": "Teams that already keep operational data in Airtable and want an agent to read, filter and update typed records or build bases through MCP.", "strengths": [ "Personal access tokens and OAuth grants are limited by scope and by base or workspace, and the legacy `api_key` URL parameter is refused", "Official hosted MCP server at https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp, open to every plan and listed in the MCP registry as com.airtable/mcp", "Markdown copy of every API reference page, indexed by llms.txt files under airtable.com/developers", "List records takes `fields`, `pageSize`, `maxRecords`, `view`, `sort` and `filterByFormula`, so responses can be sized", "Published deprecation guidelines aim for 12 months' notice on the Web API, and no deprecation was listed as upcoming on 8 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "5 requests a second per base, and a 429 blocks further requests for 30 seconds", "Create, update and delete calls take at most 10 records each", "Free plan allows 1,000 API calls a month per workspace and 1,000 records per base", "No OpenAPI description was found in the reviewed documentation", "The only official client library is airtable.js, last released as v0.12.2 on 16 August 2023" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a personal access token with only the scopes needed and add each base to it. A token with no base added sees nothing", "Stay under 5 requests a second per base. 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Smartsheet API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "smartsheet", "name": "Smartsheet API + MCP", "vendor": "Smartsheet Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smartsheet.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "Smartsheet is a hosted work management product built on sheets with typed columns, rows, formulas, reports and dashboards. Agents reach it through a REST API (187 operations) and a hosted MCP server, both limited to Business plans and above.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartsheet.json", "repo": "https://github.com/smartsheet/smartsheet-python-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under Smartsheet's User Agreement and Developer Agreement. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "smartsheet-python-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "smartsheet" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access needs a licensed user on a Business plan or higher. A user makes a raw API token in Personal Settings and sends it as a Bearer token. It has no scopes and carries all of that user's access. Apps acting for other users register in Developer Tools (Smartsheet approves the registration request) and use the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant with any of 17 scopes such as READ_SHEETS and WRITE_SHEETS. Access tokens last about 7 days and refresh. Scopes can't exceed the user's sharing level on a sheet. The MCP server takes OAuth from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini Enterprise Plus and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and a Bearer API token from other clients. A System Admin's token can act as any user through the `Assume-User` header.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API and MCP access start at the Business plan, $24 a member a month billed monthly or $19 billed yearly, with a minimum of three members. Pro ($12, or $9 yearly) has no API calls. Enterprise and Advanced Work Management are priced through sales. API calls carry no separate charge. A 30-day trial needs no card, but we couldn't confirm that a trial account can make API tokens. No developer sandbox was found in the reviewed documentation (https://www.smartsheet.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$19 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 83, "popularity": { "githubStars": 82, "npmWeekly": 47484, "pypiWeekly": 311787, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smartsheet.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.smartsheet.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.smartsheet.com/_bundle/api/smartsheet/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.records", "sheets.formulas", "automation.workflows" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "python", "typescript", "java", "csharp", "status-page", "soc2", "sla" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 190, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 88, "security": 66, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 187 operations, Markdown docs and llms.txt, and the hosted MCP server loads its 83 documented tools by toolset. API access needs a Business plan or higher, and the status page lists eight incidents marked major or critical between 15 July and 21 September 2026.", "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs projects in Smartsheet on a Business plan or above, especially row-level reads and batched writes, workflows and dashboards.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 187 operations, code samples on 180 of them, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "Hosted MCP server in three regions (US, EU, Australia) with toolsets, so a client loads tools by domain through `search_tools`", "OAuth 2.0 with 17 scopes, including READ_SHEETS for a read-only grant, and sheet sharing levels that scopes can't override", "Bulk row writes of up to 500 rows a call with optional partial success and per-row failure details", "Dated API changelog (latest 6 October 2026) with DEPRECATION and SUNSET entries and migration guides" ], "weaknesses": [ "API and MCP access need a Business plan or higher, from $19 a member a month billed yearly with a three-member minimum", "Eight status incidents marked major or critical between 15 July and 21 September 2026, four of them stopping sheets from loading in the US region", "A raw API token carries all of its user's access with no scopes, and it's the credential the docs give for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI", "No idempotency keys, and 429 responses carry no documented Retry-After header", "security.txt expired on 1 July 2026, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the MCP docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send writes to one sheet one at a time. Parallel updates with the same token return error 4004", "Batch row changes, up to 500 rows a call, and add `allowPartialSuccess=true` to get per-row failures instead of a failed batch", "On error 4003 (HTTP 429) wait at least 60 seconds before retrying. The limit is 300 requests a minute per token, 30 for attachments and cell history", "Through MCP, call `get_columns` before filtering or writing. Column names are case-sensitive and guesses fail validation", "Use the regional host that matches the account (api.smartsheet.com, .eu or .au). 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Revisions take effect 15 days after posting.", "www.smartsheet.com/.well-known/security.txt names security@smartsheet.com and the bug bounty page, with Expires 2026-07-01, three months before this check.", "The API answers at api.smartsheet.com and the MCP server at mcp.smartsheet.com, with regional hosts on smartsheet.eu and smartsheet.au.", "RDAP for smartsheet.com gives a registration date of 2001-04-15." ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.json", "live": { "slug": "smartsheet", "probe": { "target": "https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:58.685508125Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 407, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 410, "p95ms24h": 442, "samples24h": 42, "samples30d": 42, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 42, "ok": 42 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smartsheet.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:59.318094261Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "smartsheet/smartsheet-python-sdk", "version": "v4.4.0", "released": "2026-08-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:43.071236352Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "smartsheet", "version": "5.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:42.658666425Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "smartsheet-python-sdk", "version": "4.4.0", "released": "2026-08-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:42.474478981Z" } ], "githubStars": 82, "npmWeekly": 47484, "pypiWeekly": 311787, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://smartsheet.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-07-01T04:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:51.088332618Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.smartsheet.com/api/smartsheet/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:00.810328989Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "295f068fdad5" }, { "url": "https://www.smartsheet.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:35.945478338Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "15466e0b403d" }, { "url": "https://www.smartsheet.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:35.349940575Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b189b00ce573" }, { "url": "https://www.smartsheet.com/legal/developer-program-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:31.7907332Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ae127c8430bb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:58.685508125Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Formagrid Inc (Airtable)", "b": "Smartsheet Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.airtable.com", "b": "https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Airtable's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtable.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtable.json\n- Smartsheet API + MCP: grade B, 67.6/100, rank #190 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartsheet.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Airtable (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 94 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 78 against 66\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: 5 requests a second per base, and a 429 blocks further requests for 30 seconds\n\n### Smartsheet API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: An agent working inside a company that already runs projects in Smartsheet on a Business plan or above, especially row-level reads and batched writes, workflows and dashboards.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 73\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 68\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 49\n\nWatch for: API and MCP access need a Business plan or higher, from $19 a member a month billed yearly with a three-member minimum\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Airtable | Smartsheet API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 94 | 65 | Airtable +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 88 | Smartsheet API + MCP +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 74 | Smartsheet API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 78 | 66 | Airtable +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Airtable +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 80 | Smartsheet API + MCP +31 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 82 | Airtable +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.9 · BB** | **67.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Airtable | Smartsheet API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Formagrid Inc (Airtable) | Smartsheet Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtable.com` | `https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 service under Smartsheet's User Agreement and Developer Agreement. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 40 | 83 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.airtable/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-05-31 | 2021-07-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-15 | 2026-05-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 569k npm/wk | 82 stars, 47k npm/wk, 312k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Airtable.** Tokens are limited by scope and by base, and the official MCP server at mcp.airtable.com covers records, schema, interfaces and automations in 40 tools. The REST API allows 5 requests a second per base with a 30-second lockout after a 429, writes take 10 records a call, and the Free plan stops at 1,000 calls a month.\n\n**Smartsheet API + MCP.** The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 187 operations, Markdown docs and llms.txt, and the hosted MCP server loads its 83 documented tools by toolset. API access needs a Business plan or higher, and the status page lists eight incidents marked major or critical between 15 July and 21 September 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Airtable\n\n1. Create a personal access token with only the scopes needed and add each base to it. A token with no base added sees nothing\n2. Stay under 5 requests a second per base. After a 429, wait 30 seconds before the next call\n3. Send writes in batches of 10 records, and use `performUpsert` with `fieldsToMergeOn` so a repeated call updates instead of duplicating\n4. Use table and field IDs, not names, and set `returnFieldsByFieldId` so a rename doesn't break the call\n5. POST to `/listRecords` when a `filterByFormula` would push the URL past 16,000 characters\n\n### Smartsheet API + MCP\n\n1. Send writes to one sheet one at a time. Parallel updates with the same token return error 4004\n2. Batch row changes, up to 500 rows a call, and add `allowPartialSuccess=true` to get per-row failures instead of a failed batch\n3. On error 4003 (HTTP 429) wait at least 60 seconds before retrying. The limit is 300 requests a minute per token, 30 for attachments and cell history\n4. Through MCP, call `get_columns` before filtering or writing. Column names are case-sensitive and guesses fail validation\n5. Use the regional host that matches the account (api.smartsheet.com, .eu or .au). 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