# Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) vs SeaTable (slim)

> SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API)'s 58.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) leads on security & auth. Both do sheets read. Category scores, facts, verdicts…

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SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API)'s 58.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) leads on security & auth. Both do sheets read.

- Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API): C 58.5, rank #450 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-excel-graph.min.md
- SeaTable: B 66.3, rank #241 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.min.md
- Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API), good for Agents working on .xlsx files that already live in a Microsoft 365 tenant, and for using Excel's calculation engine through function endpoints. Ahead on Security & auth, 65 against 59.
- 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 62; Payments & pricing, 30 against 15; Maintenance & community, 76 against 53. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 53 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) | SeaTable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Microsoft | SeaTable GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | 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 | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |
| Last release | 2025-09-19 | 2026-09-04 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-10-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 835 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |