# Airtable vs Teable (slim)

> Airtable scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on 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 Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on maintenance & community. Both do sheets records.

- Airtable: BB 70.9, rank #124 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtable.min.md
- Teable: C 61, rank #379 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.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 72; Security & auth, 78 against 62; Transparency & trust, 86 against 64. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them.
- Teable, good for Teams that want Airtable-style typed tables on PostgreSQL that they can also self-host, with an agent reading and writing records through tokens limited by scope and project, or through the vendor's CLI and skill. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 76 against 49. Also Open source.

| Category | Airtable | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 94 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 78 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 86 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtable | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Formagrid Inc (Airtable) | Teable AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtable.com` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Airtable's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The airtable.js client and the MCP CLI on GitHub are MIT | AGPL-3.0 with additional brand terms for the backend and web app, MIT for the packages directory. Enterprise functions and the `@teable/cli` package (ISC on npm) are built in a private repository |
| Tools exposed | 40 | none |
| MCP registry | `com.airtable/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-31 | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 569k npm/wk | 22k stars, 179 npm/wk |