# Grist vs Teable (slim)

> Teable scores 61 (C) 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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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Teable scores 61 (C) 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
- Teable: C 61, rank #379 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.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.
- Teable, 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 39; Schema & documentation, 75 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 57.

| Category | Grist | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 39 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 63 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grist | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Grist Labs Inc. | Teable AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://docs.getgrist.com/api` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| 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 | 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 | 34 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2019-04-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars, 341 npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk | 22k stars, 179 npm/wk |