{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "baserow", "name": "Baserow", "vendor": "Baserow B.V.", "vendorUrl": "https://baserow.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "Baserow is an open-source database of typed rows in tables, sold as a hosted cloud and as software to self-host. Agents reach it through a REST API with database tokens and a built-in MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserow.json", "repo": "https://github.com/baserow/baserow", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.baserow.io", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in user creates a database token in the workspace settings, choosing the tables it can reach and whether it may create, read, update or delete rows. Tokens don't expire and can be regenerated or deleted. They cover rows only, so changing tables or fields needs a JWT from `/api/user/token-auth/` with the account's email and password, which carries the user's full access. The MCP server has no token header or OAuth. Each endpoint is a URL holding a 32-character key that carries the creating user's access across one workspace, and deleting the endpoint revokes it. On Enterprise licences only workspace admins and builders can create database tokens.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free cloud plan with 3,000 rows and 2 GB of storage per workspace, so an agent can start without a contract. Premium is $10 a user a month billed yearly ($12 monthly) and Advanced $18 ($22 monthly), Enterprise through sales. API calls aren't priced, the MCP server is on every plan, and there's no separate sandbox. The self-hosted core is free with no row or request limits (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$10 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI description, the MCP docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 7, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6098, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://baserow.io/user-docs/database-api", "llmsTxt": "https://baserow.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.baserow.io/api/schema.json", "capabilities": [ "sheets.records", "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.tables", "sheets.formulas" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "mcp", "free-tier", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 306, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 40, "reliability": 65, "schema": 77, "security": 54, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Database tokens are limited to chosen tables and to create, read, update or delete, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI description with batch calls of 200 rows. The MCP server authenticates with a key in its URL, runs over SSE only and has no read-only mode. Cloud requests are capped at 10 at a time.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Database tokens are limited to one workspace, to chosen tables and to create, read, update or delete, and can be regenerated or deleted", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 description at api.baserow.io/api/schema.json with 424 operations and an enum of error codes on each response", "The MCP server exposes 7 tools with typed inputs, and its descriptions tell the caller to read the table schema before writing", "List rows takes `include`, `exclude`, `size`, `filters`, `search`, `order_by` and `view_id`, so responses can be sized", "The core, including the REST API and the MCP server, is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted with no row or request limits" ], "weaknesses": [ "The MCP endpoint's key sits in the URL path, and the docs say it grants full access to modify data in the workspace", "The MCP server speaks only the older SSE transport, with no OAuth, no read-only mode and no tool annotations", "Table and field changes over REST need a JWT obtained with the account's email and password, since database tokens cover rows only", "No SLA, security.txt, sub-processor list or published DPA text was found, and the privacy policy carries no date or retention periods", "No official client library was found, and Baserow isn't in the official MCP registry under its own namespace" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a database token with only the tables and operations needed. It can't change tables or fields, which need a JWT from `/api/user/token-auth/`", "Send `Authorization: Token YOUR_DATABASE_TOKEN`, and add `user_field_names=true` or rows come back keyed as `field_123`", "Use the `/batch/` endpoints for up to 200 rows a call, and keep to 10 requests in flight on Baserow Cloud", "Treat the MCP URL as a password. Keep it out of logs and version control, and delete the endpoint to revoke it", "Over MCP, call `get_table_schema` before `create_rows` or `update_rows`, and page `list_table_rows` with `page` and `size`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 40, "reliability": 65, "schema": 77, "security": 54, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \\\n-X GET \\\n-H \"Authorization: Token YOUR_DATABASE_TOKEN\" \\\n\"https://api.baserow.io/api/database/fields/table/TABLE_ID/\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "Baserow MCP": { "url": "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sheets.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/baserow" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Premium (cloud)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 10, "note": "billed yearly, $12 billed monthly, 50,000 rows per workspace" }, { "item": "Advanced (cloud)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 18, "note": "billed yearly, $22 billed monthly, 250,000 rows per workspace" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Baserow B.V.", "domain": "baserow.io", "domainRegistered": "2019-01-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://baserow.io/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://baserow.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.baserow.org", "changelog": "https://github.com/baserow/baserow/blob/develop/changelog.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The General Terms and Conditions name Baserow B.V., a Dutch private company with its registered office at Keurenplein 4, Amsterdam, trade register number 81129254. The page carries no date.", "The privacy policy is the only one found. It is written for visitors to baserow.io, mentions account registration, carries no date and names no retention periods. The terms incorporate a Data Processing Agreement by reference, and no public copy was found.", "The REST API and the MCP server answer at api.baserow.io, a baserow.io subdomain. The status page is on a separate domain, status.baserow.org, hosted by Better Stack.", "baserow.io/.well-known/security.txt and api.baserow.io/.well-known/security.txt return 404. SECURITY.md in the repository gives an email address for vulnerability reports.", "RDAP for baserow.io gives a registration date of 2019-01-19." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.json", "live": { "slug": "baserow", "probe": { "target": "https://api.baserow.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:05.351136961Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 75, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 91, "p95ms24h": 143, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.baserow.org", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:16.274385747Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/baserow/baserow/develop/changelog.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:01.724744684Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2a6db4300826" }, { "url": "https://baserow.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:31.424595879Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9e86e4bd4127" }, { "url": "https://baserow.io/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:33.545863734Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1d9e20c33e8e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:05.351136961Z" } }, "answer": "SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "seatable", "name": "SeaTable", "vendor": "SeaTable GmbH", "vendorUrl": "https://seatable.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "SeaTable is a database of typed rows in tables and bases, sold as a cloud service hosted in Germany and as server software. Agents reach it through a REST API with per-base tokens and an official MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/seatable.json", "repo": "https://github.com/seatable/seatable-mcp", "license": "Proprietary cloud service under the Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud. The MCP server is MIT. SeaTable Server Enterprise Edition is licensed under an EULA", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cloud.seatable.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@seatable/mcp-seatable" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "seatable-api" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "seatable-api" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in user creates an API token for one base, read-only or read-write, which never expires and can be deleted. Base calls need a Base-Token, a JWT valid for 3 days, obtained from the API token at `/api/v2.1/dtable/app-access-token/`. Account calls (bases, groups, webhooks, sharing) need an Account-Token obtained with the username and password, which never expires and carries the user's full access. The hosted MCP server takes the API token as a Bearer header, or runs an OAuth flow with PKCE and dynamic client registration in which the user enters the API token and the server issues a one-hour access token. The OAuth flow has no scopes.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free cloud plan for up to 25 users with 10,000 rows, 2 GB of files and 3,000 API calls a month for the team, with no card at signup, so an agent can start without a contract. Plus is €7 a user a month billed yearly (€9 monthly) with 10,000 API calls per user, and Enterprise €14 (€18 monthly) with 50,000. Dedicated is sold through sales from 100 users with unlimited calls. Prices are in euros before VAT and aren't converted here. The MCP server is free to use and there is no separate sandbox (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the OpenAPI files, the MCP server's README or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 21, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 103, "pypiWeekly": 1657, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.seatable.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://api.seatable.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/seatable/openapi/blob/v6.2/base_operations.yaml", "registryName": "io.github.seatable/seatable", "capabilities": [ "sheets.records", "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.tables", "sheets.formulas" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "mcp", "free-tier", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page", "python", "javascript", "php", "eu-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 241, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 69, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "API tokens are limited to one base and to read-only or read-write, and the official MCP server marks every tool as read-only or destructive. The Free plan allows 3,000 API calls a month in total, and base calls are capped at 200 a minute. The status page showed the base API degraded for 0.77 per cent of 30 days.", "bestFor": "Teams that want typed tables hosted in Germany or on their own server, with an agent reading and writing rows through a per-base token or the official MCP server.", "strengths": [ "API tokens are limited to one base, set to read-only or read-write, named per app and deletable, and the token list shows each token's last access time", "Official MCP server, MIT-licensed, hosted at `https://mcp.seatable.com/mcp` and listed in the official MCP registry as `io.github.seatable/seatable` at version 1.6.4", "All 21 hosted MCP tools carry readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint annotations, and the tool set leaves out table and column changes", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files with 404 operations, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and Markdown copies of the reference pages", "Sub-processor list, data processing agreement and security measures are public, and the security page places all user data in Frankfurt and Munich" ], "weaknesses": [ "Monthly API call quotas by plan, 3,000 for a whole Free team, 10,000 per user on Plus and 50,000 per user on Enterprise", "A 429 response has no body and no Retry-After header is documented, and the REST API has no idempotency keys", "Tokens can't be limited to a table, and the MCP tool `query_sql` accepts UPDATE and DELETE statements with no confirmation step", "The security page says SeaTable holds no certification, and its bug bounty, expected in 2025, is still described as under construction", "No SLA text is published. The pricing page names optional SLAs for Dedicated only, and the terms exclude liability for uninterrupted availability" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create an API token for the one base with read-only permission unless writes are needed, then exchange it at `/api/v2.1/dtable/app-access-token/` for a Base-Token", "Renew the Base-Token before it expires after 3 days, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to `/api-gateway/api/v2/dtables/{base_uuid}/`", "Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` on every base call. SeaTable Cloud allows 200 base calls a minute and answers 429 with no body", "Batch writes to save the monthly quota. One call appends or updates up to 1,000 rows over REST and 100 over MCP", "Over MCP, prefer `update_rows` and `delete_rows` to `query_sql`, which can run UPDATE and DELETE, and call `get_schema` before writing" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 69, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y @seatable/mcp-seatable", "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN\" \"https://cloud.seatable.io/api/v2.1/dtable/app-access-token/\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "seatable": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer your-api-token" }, "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.seatable.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sheets.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/seatable" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SeaTable GmbH", "domain": "seatable.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-03-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://seatable.com/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://seatable.com/data-privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.seatable.com", "changelog": "https://api.seatable.com/reference/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The imprint names SeaTable GmbH, 117er Ehrenhof 5, 55118 Mainz, Germany, District Court Mainz, commercial register number HRB 49723.", "The Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud are version 1.0.1, published on 14 April 2022. The German original is binding and the English page is a convenience translation.", "The privacy policy is version 1.3.0, published on 5 February 2026, and covers registration and the cloud service as well as the website. A data processing agreement (version 1.1.6, 16 October 2024) and a sub-processor list (version 1.1.5, 16 October 2025) are separate public pages.", "The MCP server answers at mcp.seatable.com and the API reference at api.seatable.com. The REST API answers at cloud.seatable.io, a second domain the vendor's site links for login. We didn't check the registration record of seatable.io.", "seatable.com/.well-known/security.txt and cloud.seatable.io/.well-known/security.txt return 404. The security page gives security@seatable.com for vulnerability reports.", "RDAP for seatable.com gives a registration date of 2010-03-12." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.json", "live": { "slug": "seatable", "probe": { "target": "https://cloud.seatable.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.042309916Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 375, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 375, "p95ms24h": 411, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.seatable.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:09.649561498Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.042309916Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Baserow B.V.", "b": "SeaTable GmbH", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.baserow.io", "b": "https://cloud.seatable.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary cloud service under the Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud. The MCP server is MIT. SeaTable Server Enterprise Edition is licensed under an EULA", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "7", "b": "21", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.seatable/seatable", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-09-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "6.1k stars", "b": "103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Baserow or SeaTable?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Baserow and SeaTable need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Baserow has a hosted endpoint at https://api.baserow.io and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.", "question": "Can an agent call Baserow and SeaTable without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Baserow is open source (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). No open-source release is listed for SeaTable.", "question": "Are Baserow and SeaTable open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "baserow", "watchFor": "The MCP endpoint's key sits in the URL path, and the docs say it grants full access to modify data in the workspace" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 54", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 65" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want typed tables hosted in Germany or on their own server, with an agent reading and writing rows through a per-base token or the official MCP server.", "slug": "seatable", "watchFor": "Monthly API call quotas by plan, 3,000 for a whole Free team, 10,000 per user on Plus and 50,000 per user on Enterprise" } ], "job": { "capability": "sheets.records", "name": "Sheets records" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-google-sheets-api.json", "title": "Baserow vs Google Sheets API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-google-sheets-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-microsoft-excel-graph.json", "title": "Baserow vs Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-microsoft-excel-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Google Sheets API vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-nocodb.json", "title": "Baserow vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-nocodb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-smartsheet.json", "title": "Baserow vs Smartsheet API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-smartsheet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-teable.json", "title": "Baserow vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-teable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grist-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Grist vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grist-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.json", "title": "NocoDB vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-smartsheet.json", "title": "SeaTable vs Smartsheet API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-smartsheet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-teable.json", "title": "SeaTable vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-teable" } ], "scores": [ { "baserow": 65, "by": 4, "edge": "seatable", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "seatable": 69, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baserow": 77, "by": 4, "edge": "seatable", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "seatable": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "baserow": 72, "by": 2, "edge": "seatable", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "seatable": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "baserow": 54, "by": 5, "edge": "seatable", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "seatable": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "baserow": 40, "by": 10, "edge": "baserow", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "seatable": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baserow": 72, "by": 4, "edge": "seatable", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "seatable": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "baserow": 65, "by": 10, "edge": "seatable", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "seatable": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do sheets records.", "verdicts": { "baserow": "Database tokens are limited to chosen tables and to create, read, update or delete, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI description with batch calls of 200 rows. The MCP server authenticates with a key in its URL, runs over SSE only and has no read-only mode. Cloud requests are capped at 10 at a time.", "seatable": "API tokens are limited to one base and to read-only or read-write, and the official MCP server marks every tool as read-only or destructive. The Free plan allows 3,000 API calls a month in total, and base calls are capped at 200 a minute. The status page showed the base API degraded for 0.77 per cent of 30 days." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.min.md" }, "markdown": "SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do sheets records.\n\n- Baserow: grade B, 63.6/100, rank #306 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserow.json\n- SeaTable: grade B, 66.3/100, rank #241 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/seatable.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Baserow (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The MCP endpoint's key sits in the URL path, and the docs say it grants full access to modify data in the workspace\n\n### SeaTable (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want typed tables hosted in Germany or on their own server, with an agent reading and writing rows through a per-base token or the official MCP server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 54\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Monthly API call quotas by plan, 3,000 for a whole Free team, 10,000 per user on Plus and 50,000 per user on Enterprise\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baserow | SeaTable | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 69 | SeaTable +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 81 | SeaTable +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 74 | SeaTable +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 59 | SeaTable +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Baserow +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 76 | SeaTable +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 75 | SeaTable +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.6 · B** | **66.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baserow | SeaTable |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | SeaTable GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 | Proprietary cloud service under the Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud. The MCP server is MIT. SeaTable Server Enterprise Edition is licensed under an EULA |\n| Tools exposed | 7 | 21 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-04 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 6.1k stars | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Baserow.** Database tokens are limited to chosen tables and to create, read, update or delete, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI description with batch calls of 200 rows. The MCP server authenticates with a key in its URL, runs over SSE only and has no read-only mode. Cloud requests are capped at 10 at a time.\n\n**SeaTable.** API tokens are limited to one base and to read-only or read-write, and the official MCP server marks every tool as read-only or destructive. The Free plan allows 3,000 API calls a month in total, and base calls are capped at 200 a minute. The status page showed the base API degraded for 0.77 per cent of 30 days.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Baserow\n\n1. Create a database token with only the tables and operations needed. It can't change tables or fields, which need a JWT from `/api/user/token-auth/`\n2. Send `Authorization: Token YOUR_DATABASE_TOKEN`, and add `user_field_names=true` or rows come back keyed as `field_123`\n3. Use the `/batch/` endpoints for up to 200 rows a call, and keep to 10 requests in flight on Baserow Cloud\n4. Treat the MCP URL as a password. Keep it out of logs and version control, and delete the endpoint to revoke it\n5. Over MCP, call `get_table_schema` before `create_rows` or `update_rows`, and page `list_table_rows` with `page` and `size`\n\n### SeaTable\n\n1. Create an API token for the one base with read-only permission unless writes are needed, then exchange it at `/api/v2.1/dtable/app-access-token/` for a Base-Token\n2. Renew the Base-Token before it expires after 3 days, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to `/api-gateway/api/v2/dtables/{base_uuid}/`\n3. Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` on every base call. SeaTable Cloud allows 200 base calls a minute and answers 429 with no body\n4. Batch writes to save the monthly quota. One call appends or updates up to 1,000 rows over REST and 100 over MCP\n5. Over MCP, prefer `update_rows` and `delete_rows` to `query_sql`, which can run UPDATE and DELETE, and call `get_schema` before writing\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Baserow or SeaTable?\n\nSeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Baserow's 63.6 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Baserow leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Baserow and SeaTable need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Baserow and SeaTable without installing anything?\n\nYes. Baserow has a hosted endpoint at https://api.baserow.io and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.\n\n### Are Baserow and SeaTable open source?\n\nBaserow is open source (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). No open-source release is listed for SeaTable.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"baserow\", \"b\": \"seatable\"}`. 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