# Baserow vs SeaTable (slim)

> 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 & pricing. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing. Both do sheets records.

- Baserow: B 63.6, rank #306 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserow.min.md
- SeaTable: B 66.3, rank #241 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.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.
- SeaTable, good 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. Ahead on Security & auth, 59 against 54; Transparency & trust, 75 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Baserow | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baserow | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | SeaTable GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, stdio |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-04 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.1k stars | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |