# Grist vs NocoDB (slim)

> NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records.

- Grist: D 50.1, rank #597 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grist.min.md
- NocoDB: BB 75.7, rank #37 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.min.md
- Grist, good for Teams that want a relational spreadsheet with Python formulas and per-document OAuth grants for an agent, or that need to self-host. 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 39; Schema & documentation, 85 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57; Security & auth, 71 against 62; Maintenance & community, 87 against 78; Transparency & trust, 76 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Grist loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Grist | NocoDB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 39 | 97 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 63 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grist | NocoDB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Grist Labs Inc. | NocoDB Inc |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://docs.getgrist.com/api` | `https://app.nocodb.com` |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the community edition in gristlabs/grist-core. The full edition, which adds the MCP server, the OAuth server and audit log streaming, is proprietary and needs an activation key after a 30-day trial. 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 | 34 | 199 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-10-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2019-04-01 | 2026-03-20 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars, 341 npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk | 65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk |