# Grist vs SeaTable (slim)

> SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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 Grist's 50.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records.

- Grist: D 50.1, rank #597 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grist.min.md
- SeaTable: B 66.3, rank #241 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.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.
- 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 Reliability, 69 against 39; Schema & documentation, 81 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57; Transparency & trust, 75 against 61. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Grist loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Grist | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 39 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 63 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grist | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Grist Labs Inc. | SeaTable GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://docs.getgrist.com/api` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| 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 | 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 | 34 | 21 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2019-04-01 | no date given |
| Popularity | 12k stars, 341 npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |