# Baserow vs Teable

> Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do sheets records.

- 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
- Teable: grade C, 61/100, rank #379 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teable.json

## Which one, for what

### Baserow (B)

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:
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them

Watch 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

### Teable (C)

Good for: Teams that want Airtable-style typed tables on PostgreSQL that they can also self-host, with an agent reading and writing records through tokens limited by scope and project, or through the vendor's CLI and skill.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 72 against 65
- Security & auth, 62 against 54

Watch for: The OpenAPI file documents only 200 and 201 responses for nearly every operation, and the error page lists HTTP statuses without a table of error codes


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Baserow | Teable | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 72 | Teable +7 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 75 | Baserow +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 65 | Baserow +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 62 | Teable +8 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Baserow +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 76 | Teable +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 64 | Baserow +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **63.6 · B** | **61 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Baserow | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Baserow B.V. | Teable AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baserow.io` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | AGPL-3.0 with additional brand terms for the backend and web app, MIT for the packages directory. Enterprise functions and the `@teable/cli` package (ISC on npm) are built in a private repository |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| 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 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.1k stars | 22k stars, 179 npm/wk |

## 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.

**Teable.** Personal access tokens and OAuth tokens carry per-action scopes, and tokens can be limited to chosen spaces and projects. The public OpenAPI file covers 841 operations. Error responses beyond 200 and 201 are missing from that file, no idempotency keys were found, and the cloud allows 10 requests a second on every plan.

## Before you call either

### Baserow

1. 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/`
2. Send `Authorization: Token YOUR_DATABASE_TOKEN`, and add `user_field_names=true` or rows come back keyed as `field_123`
3. Use the `/batch/` endpoints for up to 200 rows a call, and keep to 10 requests in flight on Baserow Cloud
4. Treat the MCP URL as a password. Keep it out of logs and version control, and delete the endpoint to revoke it
5. Over MCP, call `get_table_schema` before `create_rows` or `update_rows`, and page `list_table_rows` with `page` and `size`

### Teable

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>` to `https://app.teable.ai/api`. A 403 with code `restricted_resource` usually means a missing scope or a project outside the token's list
2. Page records with `take` of 100 at most. Personal keys created on Teable Cloud since 10 September 2026 are capped at 100 a request
3. Ask for totals from `/api/table/{tableId}/aggregation/row-count`. Record lists stopped returning them by default on 2 September 2026
4. Keep to 10 requests a second, back off on 429, and check before retrying a failed write because no idempotency key exists
5. Pass `fieldKeyType=id` so renamed fields don't break writes, and leave `typecast` off unless values need converting

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Baserow or Teable?

Baserow scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on reliability and security & auth.

### Do Baserow and Teable need an API key?

Baserow needs an API key. Teable takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Baserow and Teable without installing anything?

Yes. Baserow has a hosted endpoint at https://api.baserow.io and Teable at https://app.teable.ai/api.

### Are Baserow and Teable open source?

Yes. 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). Teable is open source (AGPL-3.0 with additional brand terms for the backend and web app, MIT for the packages directory. Enterprise functions and the `@teable/cli` package (ISC on npm) are built in a private repository).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-teable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-teable.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "baserow", "b": "teable"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare baserow teable`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserow.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teable.json

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