{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "google-sheets-api", "name": "Google Sheets API", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "REST API from Google for reading and writing Google Sheets spreadsheets, covering cell values, ranges, formulas, formatting, tables and comments. Access is by OAuth 2.0, and a six-tool MCP server is in Developer Preview.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-sheets-api.json", "repo": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@googleapis/sheets" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-api-python-client" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0, set up by a person in a Google Cloud project with a consent screen. No partner or sales approval. drive.file is non-sensitive and covers only files the user opens with the app. spreadsheets and spreadsheets.readonly are sensitive and need extra verification for a public app, and drive and drive.readonly are restricted. Scopes apply to a whole spreadsheet file, not one sheet. Service accounts work, and their calls count as one user for quota. An API key reads only files shared with anyone who has the link. The MCP server also needs sheetsmcp.googleapis.com enabled, your own OAuth client and Developer Preview Programme membership.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Standard use of the Sheets API has no additional cost, and a free Google account can start without a card or contract. Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project and 60 each per user, with no daily limit. Google says exceeding the quota request limits is planned to incur charges to the Cloud billing account later in 2026, with no price published and 90 days' notice promised. There is no separate sandbox; a test spreadsheet in any account does that job (https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/api/limits; https://developers.google.com/workspace/tools-safety).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Sheets API docs, the limits page or the discovery document (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12262, "npmWeekly": 1859932, "pypiWeekly": 31750331, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/api/guides/concepts", "capabilities": [ "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.formulas", "sheets.tables" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "typescript", "python", "enterprise", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.3, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 33, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 80, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Batch updates apply atomically and count as one request, and the drive.file scope limits an app to files the user picks. Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project, reads are by range with no row filter or paging, and a person must complete OAuth consent first.", "bestFor": "Agents reading and writing cells, formulas and formatting in spreadsheets people already keep in Google Sheets.", "strengths": [ "spreadsheets.batchUpdate takes 74 request kinds, applies them atomically and counts as one request against quota", "Public discovery document for v4 (revision 20260930, 17 methods, 273 schemas) and Markdown copies of doc pages at .md.txt URLs", "drive.file is a non-sensitive scope that limits an app to the files a user opens with it, and spreadsheets.readonly exists for reading", "No Sheets incident on the Workspace status dashboard since 12 November 2025, read on 8 October 2026", "Standard use costs nothing, with no daily request cap inside the per-minute quotas" ], "weaknesses": [ "Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project and 60 each per user per project", "No row filter, query or paging on reads. An agent asks for A1 ranges and trims with a fields mask", "No idempotency key, so a values.append retried after the 180-second timeout can add the rows twice", "The MCP server is Developer Preview, and its update_spreadsheet tool carries destructiveHint false although it can delete sheets, rows and ranges", "Scopes apply to a whole spreadsheet file, not one sheet, and overage charges planned for later in 2026 have no published price" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask for drive.file where the user picks the files. spreadsheets and spreadsheets.readonly are sensitive scopes and need extra verification for a public app", "Send valueInputOption=USER_ENTERED to write formulas. With RAW the string =1+2 is stored as text", "Put related changes in one spreadsheets.batchUpdate. It counts as one write request and none of it applies if any request is invalid", "Pass ranges and a fields mask on spreadsheets.get and leave includeGridData off for large files", "Back off exponentially on 429 and 503, and keep to one request a second per spreadsheet. After a timeout on values.append, read the range before retrying" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 80, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @googleapis/sheets", "http": "curl \"https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/$SPREADSHEET_ID/values/Sheet1!A1:D10\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "sheets": { "url": "https://sheetsmcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sheets.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-sheets-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "gmail-api" ], "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://developers.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/", "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Google APIs Terms of Service (last modified 9 November 2021) name Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View.", "RDAP for google.com gives a registration date of 1997-09-15.", "www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires on 1 April 2030 and names g.co/vulnz, security@google.com and the vulnerability reward programme.", "Google publishes a discovery document for the API, not an OpenAPI spec.", "The MCP server is part of the Workspace Developer Preview Programme and can change.", "The Google privacy policy read on 8 October 2026 is the version effective 1 October 2026." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api.json", "live": { "slug": "google-sheets-api", "probe": { "target": "https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.430213573Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 165, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 185, "p95ms24h": 673, "samples24h": 64, "samples30d": 64, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 64, "ok": 64 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client", "version": "agentidentity-v3.2.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:25.225453746Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@googleapis/sheets", "version": "18.1.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:21.513613578Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-api-python-client", "version": "2.201.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:25.103740958Z" } ], "githubStars": 12263, "npmWeekly": 1859932, "pypiWeekly": 31750331, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:39.75078566Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:57.991043636Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e2880ec22d35" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:11.430213573Z" } }, "answer": "Google Sheets API scores 76.3 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "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": "Google", "b": "SeaTable GmbH", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4", "b": "https://cloud.seatable.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "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": "6", "b": "21", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.seatable/seatable", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2021-11-09", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "12k stars, 1.9M npm/wk, 31.8M PyPI/wk", "b": "103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Sheets API scores 76.3 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Google Sheets API or SeaTable?" }, { "answer": "Google Sheets API uses an OAuth sign-in. SeaTable needs an API key.", "question": "Do Google Sheets API and SeaTable need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Google Sheets API has a hosted endpoint at https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4 and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.", "question": "Can an agent call Google Sheets API and SeaTable without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 69", "Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 59", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 75" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Agents reading and writing cells, formulas and formatting in spreadsheets people already keep in Google Sheets.", "slug": "google-sheets-api", "watchFor": "Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project and 60 each per user per project" }, { "aheadOn": null, "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.read", "name": "Sheets read" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-google-sheets-api.json", "title": "Airtable vs Google Sheets API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-google-sheets-api" }, { "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/coda-vs-google-sheets-api.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs Google Sheets API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-google-sheets-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs SeaTable", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-teable.json", "title": "Google Sheets API vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-teable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-excel-graph-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-excel-graph-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Airtable vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Baserow vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-seatable" }, { "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": [ { "by": 21, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 90, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "seatable": 69, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "seatable": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "google-sheets-api": 74, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "seatable": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 80, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "seatable": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 35, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "seatable": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 85, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "seatable": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "google-sheets-api", "google-sheets-api": 80, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "seatable": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Google Sheets API scores 76.3 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets read.", "verdicts": { "google-sheets-api": "Batch updates apply atomically and count as one request, and the drive.file scope limits an app to files the user picks. Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project, reads are by range with no row filter or paging, and a person must complete OAuth consent first.", "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/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Sheets API scores 76.3 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets read.\n\n- Google Sheets API: grade BB, 76.3/100, rank #33 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-sheets-api.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### Google Sheets API (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents reading and writing cells, formulas and formatting in spreadsheets people already keep in Google Sheets.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 69\n- Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 59\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project and 60 each per user per project\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\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 | Google Sheets API | SeaTable | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 69 | Google Sheets API +21 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 81 | Google Sheets API +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 59 | Google Sheets API +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Google Sheets API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 76 | Google Sheets API +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 75 | Google Sheets API +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.3 · BB** | **66.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Sheets API | SeaTable |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | SeaTable GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 | 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 | 6 | 21 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2021-11-09 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | 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 | 12k stars, 1.9M npm/wk, 31.8M PyPI/wk | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Sheets API.** Batch updates apply atomically and count as one request, and the drive.file scope limits an app to files the user picks. Quotas are 300 reads and 300 writes a minute per project, reads are by range with no row filter or paging, and a person must complete OAuth consent first.\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### Google Sheets API\n\n1. Ask for drive.file where the user picks the files. spreadsheets and spreadsheets.readonly are sensitive scopes and need extra verification for a public app\n2. Send valueInputOption=USER_ENTERED to write formulas. With RAW the string =1+2 is stored as text\n3. Put related changes in one spreadsheets.batchUpdate. It counts as one write request and none of it applies if any request is invalid\n4. Pass ranges and a fields mask on spreadsheets.get and leave includeGridData off for large files\n5. Back off exponentially on 429 and 503, and keep to one request a second per spreadsheet. After a timeout on values.append, read the range before retrying\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, Google Sheets API or SeaTable?\n\nGoogle Sheets API scores 76.3 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Google Sheets API and SeaTable need an API key?\n\nGoogle Sheets API uses an OAuth sign-in. SeaTable needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Google Sheets API and SeaTable without installing anything?\n\nYes. Google Sheets API has a hosted endpoint at https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4 and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-sheets-api\", \"b\": \"seatable\"}`. 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