{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "nocodb", "name": "NocoDB", "vendor": "NocoDB Inc", "vendorUrl": "https://nocodb.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "NocoDB is a database of typed records in bases, tables and views, run on NocoDB Cloud or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API and a built-in MCP server, using scoped API tokens or OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nocodb.json", "repo": "https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.nocodb.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "nocodb-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in user creates a fine-grained API token in Account Settings, choosing permission categories, bases and an expiry, and sends it as `xc-token` or `Authorization: Bearer`. For MCP the user creates a connection with its own key, sent as `x-api-key`, or a web client uses OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration and the user picks bases and tools on the consent screen. No review step was found. A token or connection never exceeds its owner's role. Workspaces that enforce SSO accept only tokens created after an SSO sign-in.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 API calls a month, 1,000 records and 3 editor seats, no card required per the pricing page, so an agent can start without a contract. Plus is $12 a seat a month billed annually, Business $24 and Scale $45, with Plus and Business capped at 9 paid seats. Enterprise through sales. API calls aren't priced separately. The self-hosted Community Edition is free for internal use (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$12 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the REST API docs, the MCP docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 199, "popularity": { "githubStars": 65215, "npmWeekly": 6282, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://nocodb.com/docs/apis-and-mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://nocodb.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://nocodb.com/apis/v3/swagger-v3.json", "capabilities": [ "sheets.records", "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.tables", "sheets.formulas" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "mcp", "source-available", "free-tier", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "javascript", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 37, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 30, "reliability": 97, "schema": 85, "security": 71, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "API tokens and MCP connections are limited by permission category and by base, and an MCP connection registers only the tools it is allowed. The v3 REST API has a public OpenAPI file. Requests are capped at 5 a second per user, REST writes take 10 records a call, and the Free plan stops at 1,000 API calls a month.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Fine-grained API tokens carry eight permission categories at Read or Read and write, a list of bases, an expiry and an on-off switch", "An MCP connection lists only the tools its owner allowed, by section at Read, Read and write, or Read, write and delete", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file for the v3 REST API with 114 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "The MCP record tools in the source set `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint`, and `deleteRecords` is marked destructive", "status.nocodb.com lists no incident from July to October 2026 and shows 99.9907 per cent for the application over 90 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "5 requests a second per user on every plan, shared by all of that user's tokens, with a 30-second block after a 429", "REST create, update and upsert calls take 10 records each by default", "The Free plan allows 1,000 API calls a month and 1,000 records, and workspace audit logs start at the Scale plan", "The licence changed from AGPL-3.0 to the Sustainable Use License in January 2026, which is not OSI-approved", "No security.txt and no bug bounty were found, and the MCP server is not in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a fine-grained token limited to the bases and categories the task needs. Send it as `xc-token` or as a Bearer token", "Stay under 5 requests a second across all tokens of one user. After a 429, honour `Retry-After` or wait 30 seconds", "Send REST writes in batches of 10 records. The MCP record tools take up to 100, counted as one API call per 10 records", "Write date filters with a sub-operator, such as `(due_date,eq,exactDate,2026-06-01)`, and put no space after `~and` or `~or`", "Use `/records/upsert` with a merge key so a repeated write updates the record instead of adding a duplicate" ], "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": 75.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 30, "reliability": 97, "schema": 85, "security": 71, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "docker run -d \\\n --name noco \\\n -v \"$(pwd)\"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/ \\\n -p 8080:8080 \\\n nocodb/nocodb:latest", "http": "curl -H \"xc-token: nc_pat_...\" https://your-nocodb.com/api/v3/...", "config": { "mcpServers": { "NocoDB MCP": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://your-domain.com/mcp/\u003cncId\u003e", "--header", "x-api-key: \u003cncToken\u003e" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sheets.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nocodb" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Plus", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 12, "note": "billed annually, at most 9 paid seats ($108 a month), 100,000 API calls a month" }, { "item": "Business", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 24, "note": "billed annually, at most 9 paid seats ($216 a month), 1,000,000 API calls a month" }, { "item": "Scale", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 45, "note": "billed annually, 3 seats minimum, 5,000,000 API calls a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NocoDB Inc (doing business as NocoDB)", "domain": "nocodb.com", "domainRegistered": "2021-04-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://nocodb.com/docs/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://nocodb.com/docs/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.nocodb.com", "changelog": "https://nocodb.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 14 October 2025) and the privacy policy (last updated 5 August 2025) name NocoDB Inc, doing business as NocoDB, and cover the website, the hosted services and the APIs. No postal address was found in the parts we read.", "The REST API and the MCP server answer at app.nocodb.com, a nocodb.com subdomain. A self-hosted instance answers on the owner's own domain.", "nocodb.com/.well-known/security.txt, nocodb.com/security.txt and app.nocodb.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. SECURITY.md in the repository sends reports to security@nocodb.com.", "RDAP for nocodb.com gives a registration date of 2021-04-14.", "Organisations on an order form are governed by the Master Subscription Agreement (last updated 14 October 2025), which states SOC 2 Type II compliance with the report on request. The Service Level Agreement (last updated 6 October 2025) commits to 99.9 per cent monthly uptime for Enterprise plans." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.json", "live": { "slug": "nocodb", "probe": { "target": "https://app.nocodb.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:28.424178945Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 317, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 300, "p95ms24h": 368, "samples24h": 48, "samples30d": 48, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 48, "ok": 48 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.nocodb.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:50.166052501Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://nocodb.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:20.469505035Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://nocodb.com/docs/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:22.574237418Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0c382788e85c" }, { "url": "https://nocodb.com/docs/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:24.679133564Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "78a7b9c3e6ab" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:28.424178945Z" } }, "answer": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 5 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": "2026-10-08T21:53:33.362289281Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 96, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 371, "p95ms24h": 411, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.seatable.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:09.649561498Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:33.362289281Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NocoDB Inc", "b": "SeaTable GmbH", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.nocodb.com", "b": "https://cloud.seatable.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "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": "199", "b": "21", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.seatable/seatable", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-09-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-10-14", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-03-20", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "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": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk", "b": "103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, NocoDB or SeaTable?" }, { "answer": "NocoDB takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. SeaTable needs an API key.", "question": "Do NocoDB and SeaTable need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. NocoDB has a hosted endpoint at https://app.nocodb.com and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.", "question": "Can an agent call NocoDB and SeaTable without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 97 against 69", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 59", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 76" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "nocodb", "watchFor": "5 requests a second per user on every plan, shared by all of that user's tokens, with a 30-second block after a 429" }, { "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.records", "name": "Sheets records" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-nocodb.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-nocodb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-nocodb.json", "title": "Google Sheets API vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-nocodb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable.json", "title": "Google Sheets API vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-seatable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-excel-graph-vs-nocodb.json", "title": "Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-excel-graph-vs-nocodb" }, { "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-nocodb.json", "title": "Airtable vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-nocodb" }, { "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-nocodb.json", "title": "Baserow vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-nocodb" }, { "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-nocodb.json", "title": "Grist vs NocoDB", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grist-vs-nocodb" }, { "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-smartsheet.json", "title": "NocoDB vs Smartsheet API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-smartsheet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.json", "title": "NocoDB vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable" }, { "json": 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"name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "nocodb": 30, "seatable": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "nocodb": 87, "seatable": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "nocodb": 76, "seatable": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records.", "verdicts": { "nocodb": "API tokens and MCP connections are limited by permission category and by base, and an MCP connection registers only the tools it is allowed. The v3 REST API has a public OpenAPI file. Requests are capped at 5 a second per user, REST writes take 10 records a call, and the Free plan stops at 1,000 API calls a month.", "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/nocodb-vs-seatable", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.min.md" }, "markdown": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records.\n\n- NocoDB: grade BB, 75.7/100, rank #37 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nocodb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nocodb.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### NocoDB (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 97 against 69\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 59\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: 5 requests a second per user on every plan, shared by all of that user's tokens, with a 30-second block after a 429\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 | NocoDB | SeaTable | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 97 | 69 | NocoDB +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 81 | NocoDB +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 59 | NocoDB +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 76 | NocoDB +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 75 | NocoDB +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.7 · BB** | **66.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | NocoDB | SeaTable |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | NocoDB Inc | SeaTable GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.nocodb.com` | `https://cloud.seatable.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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 | 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 | 199 | 21 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.seatable/seatable` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-10-14 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-20 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | 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 | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**NocoDB.** API tokens and MCP connections are limited by permission category and by base, and an MCP connection registers only the tools it is allowed. The v3 REST API has a public OpenAPI file. Requests are capped at 5 a second per user, REST writes take 10 records a call, and the Free plan stops at 1,000 API calls a month.\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### NocoDB\n\n1. Create a fine-grained token limited to the bases and categories the task needs. Send it as `xc-token` or as a Bearer token\n2. Stay under 5 requests a second across all tokens of one user. After a 429, honour `Retry-After` or wait 30 seconds\n3. Send REST writes in batches of 10 records. The MCP record tools take up to 100, counted as one API call per 10 records\n4. Write date filters with a sub-operator, such as `(due_date,eq,exactDate,2026-06-01)`, and put no space after `~and` or `~or`\n5. Use `/records/upsert` with a merge key so a repeated write updates the record instead of adding a duplicate\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, NocoDB or SeaTable?\n\nNocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do NocoDB and SeaTable need an API key?\n\nNocoDB takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. SeaTable needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call NocoDB and SeaTable without installing anything?\n\nYes. NocoDB has a hosted endpoint at https://app.nocodb.com and SeaTable at https://cloud.seatable.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nocodb\", \"b\": \"seatable\"}`. 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