# Baserow vs NocoDB (slim)

> NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments & pricing. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments & pricing. Both do sheets records.

- Baserow: B 63.6, rank #350 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md
- NocoDB: BB 75.7, rank #41 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.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 30. Also Open source.
- NocoDB, good for Teams that want Airtable-style typed records with the option to self-host, and an agent that reads, filters and writes records or builds schema through MCP with a narrow allowlist. Ahead on Reliability, 97 against 65; Schema & documentation, 85 against 77; Security & auth, 71 against 54; Maintenance & community, 87 against 72; Transparency & trust, 76 against 65. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Baserow | NocoDB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 97 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baserow | NocoDB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | NocoDB Inc |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://app.nocodb.com` |
| 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 | Sustainable Use License 1.0 since January 2026 (source-available, not OSI-approved; AGPL-3.0 before). NocoDB Cloud is a proprietary service under NocoDB's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 199 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-10-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-20 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.1k stars | 65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk |