# Baserow vs Grist (slim)

> Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grist leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grist leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do sheets records.

- Baserow: B 63.6, rank #306 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md
- Grist: D 50.1, rank #597 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grist.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 65 against 39; Schema & documentation, 77 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 57; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also No incidents deducted, where Grist loses 4 points for them.
- Grist, good for Teams that want a relational spreadsheet with Python formulas and per-document OAuth grants for an agent, or that need to self-host. Ahead on Security & auth, 62 against 54; Maintenance & community, 78 against 72.

| Category | Baserow | Grist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 39 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 63 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baserow | Grist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | Grist Labs Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://docs.getgrist.com/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | 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 | Apache-2.0 for the community edition in gristlabs/grist-core. The full edition, which adds the MCP server, the OAuth server and audit log streaming, is proprietary and needs an activation key after a 30-day trial. Docs are CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 34 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2019-04-01 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.1k stars | 12k stars, 341 npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk |