# Baserow vs Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) (slim)

> Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API)'s 58.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do…

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Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API)'s 58.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do sheets read.

- Baserow: B 63.6, rank #276 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md
- Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API): C 58.5, rank #399 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-excel-graph.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 Payments & pricing, 40 against 15; Maintenance & community, 72 against 53. Also Open source; No incidents deducted, where Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) loses 4 points for them.
- Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API), good for Agents working on .xlsx files that already live in a Microsoft 365 tenant, and for using Excel's calculation engine through function endpoints. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 77; Security & auth, 65 against 54; Transparency & trust, 75 against 65.

| Category | Baserow | Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 62 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 53 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baserow | Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | Microsoft |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0` |
| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Your plan |
| 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 | MIT (SDKs) |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2025-09-19 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | 6.1k stars | 835 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk |