{ "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:16.502721206Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 299, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 300, "p95ms24h": 340, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ] }, "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:16.502721206Z" } }, "answer": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "teable", "name": "Teable", "vendor": "Teable AI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://teable.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "spreadsheets", "summary": "Teable is an open-source table product on PostgreSQL with records, views, formulas and automations, sold as a hosted cloud and as software to self-host. Agents reach it through a REST API with scoped tokens or OAuth, and an official CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teable.json", "repo": "https://github.com/teableio/teable", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.teable.ai/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@teable/openapi" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@teable/cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve, with no app review found. A signed-in user creates a personal access token in settings, choosing an expiry that can't be changed later, the scopes, and the spaces and projects it can reach. The token is shown once. OAuth 2.0 apps are also created in settings and support the authorisation code grant with a client secret, PKCE for public clients and the device authorisation grant. Access tokens last 10 minutes and refresh tokens 30 days with rotation. Scopes take the form `resource|action`, such as `record|read` or `table|create`. Users and app owners can revoke access.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free cloud plan with 1,000 rows and 1 GB of attachments per space, so an agent can start without a contract. Pro is $13 and Business $20 a seat a month billed yearly, and the page shows $24 and $36 beside them, which we read as the monthly-billed prices. API calls aren't priced and the Web API is on every plan at 10 requests a second. There's no separate sandbox. The self-hosted community edition is free under AGPL-3.0 (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$13 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 21869, "npmWeekly": 179, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://help.teable.ai/en/api-doc/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://help.teable.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://help.teable.ai/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "sheets.read", "sheets.write", "sheets.records", "sheets.tables", "sheets.formulas" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "free-tier", "oauth", "pat", "openapi", "llms-txt", "cli", "agent-skill", "status-page", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 379, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 72, "schema": 75, "security": 62, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2 September 2026. Record lists moved to cursor pagination and stopped returning totals by default, and the changelog entry for that day tells API clients to request totals or use the count endpoint. No earlier notice was found (-3). https://help.teable.ai/en/changelog" ], "verdict": "Personal access tokens and OAuth tokens carry per-action scopes, and tokens can be limited to chosen spaces and projects. The public OpenAPI file covers 841 operations. Error responses beyond 200 and 201 are missing from that file, no idempotency keys were found, and the cloud allows 10 requests a second on every plan.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 with client secret, PKCE and device flows, 10-minute access tokens, rotating refresh tokens and scopes per action such as `record|read`", "Personal access tokens take an expiry, a set of scopes and a list of spaces and projects they can reach, and are shown once", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file at help.teable.ai/swagger.json with 712 paths and 841 operations, each description naming the token scopes it needs", "List records takes `projection`, `take`, `skip`, `cursor`, `filter`, `search`, `orderBy` and `viewId`, so responses can be sized", "The help centre serves every page as Markdown, with an llms.txt index and an llms-full.txt file" ], "weaknesses": [ "The OpenAPI file documents only 200 and 201 responses for nearly every operation, and the error page lists HTTP statuses without a table of error codes", "No idempotency key or upsert call was found for record writes, and Retry-After is documented only for the notifications endpoint", "Teable Cloud allows 10 API requests a second on every plan, Free to Business, with no higher tier published", "Audit logs are documented for self-hosted Business plans and above, and no SLA, DPA or sub-processor list was found", "`@teable/openapi`, the JavaScript client the docs use in examples, was last published on 15 September 2025" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://app.teable.ai/api`. A 403 with code `restricted_resource` usually means a missing scope or a project outside the token's list", "Page records with `take` of 100 at most. Personal keys created on Teable Cloud since 10 September 2026 are capped at 100 a request", "Ask for totals from `/api/table/{tableId}/aggregation/row-count`. Record lists stopped returning them by default on 2 September 2026", "Keep to 10 requests a second, back off on 429, and check before retrying a failed write because no idempotency key exists", "Pass `fieldKeyType=id` so renamed fields don't break writes, and leave `typecast` off unless values need converting" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 72, "schema": 75, "security": 62, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "install": "npx skills add https://github.com/teableio/agent-skills", "http": "curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer __token__' \\\n 'https://app.teable.ai/api/table/__tableId__/record'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sheets.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/teable" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro (cloud)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 13, "note": "billed yearly, 250,000 rows and 10 GB per space, 2,000 AI credits a seat" }, { "item": "Business (cloud)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 20, "note": "billed yearly, 1,000,000 rows and 100 GB per space, SSO and authority matrix" }, { "item": "Automation add-on, 10,000 runs", "unit": "month", "usd": 10, "note": "per space, billed yearly, $12 billed monthly, Pro plan or above" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Teable AI, Inc.", "domain": "teable.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-03-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://teable.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://teable.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.teable.ai", "changelog": "https://help.teable.ai/en/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service, last revised 2026-05-25, name Teable AI, Inc. with an address at 1111B S Governors Ave STE 48501, Dover, DE 19904. The repository's LICENSE names Teable, Inc.", "The terms define their subject as the website at teable.ai. They are the only terms found, and they cover accounts, user content, AI usage and termination, so they are recorded as the governing document. No separate service agreement, API terms or DPA was found.", "The privacy policy, last updated 1 October 2026, covers the websites, applications and related services, and has a section on self-hosted deployments.", "The API answers at app.teable.ai, a subdomain of the vendor's domain.", "teable.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. SECURITY.md in the repository asks for reports through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting.", "RDAP for teable.ai gives a registration date of 2025-03-25." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.json", "live": { "slug": "teable", "probe": { "target": "https://app.teable.ai/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.217434074Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 545, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 551, "p95ms24h": 1529, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.teable.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:15.867543558Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.217434074Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NocoDB Inc", "b": "Teable AI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.nocodb.com", "b": "https://app.teable.ai/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or 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": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "199", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-10-14", "b": "2026-05-25", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-03-20", "b": "2026-10-01", "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": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk", "b": "22k stars, 179 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, NocoDB or Teable?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do NocoDB and Teable need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. NocoDB has a hosted endpoint at https://app.nocodb.com and Teable at https://app.teable.ai/api.", "question": "Can an agent call NocoDB and Teable without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for NocoDB. Teable is open source (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).", "question": "Are NocoDB and Teable open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 97 against 72", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 75", "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 62", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 76", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 64" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them" ], "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": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "teable", "watchFor": "The OpenAPI file documents only 200 and 201 responses for nearly every operation, and the error page lists HTTP statuses without a table of error codes" } ], "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-teable.json", "title": "Coda (Superhuman Docs) vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coda-vs-teable" }, { "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-teable.json", "title": "Google Sheets API vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-sheets-api-vs-teable" }, { "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-teable.json", "title": "Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-excel-graph-vs-teable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartsheet-vs-teable.json", "title": "Smartsheet API + MCP vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartsheet-vs-teable" }, { "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-teable.json", "title": "Airtable vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtable-vs-teable" }, { "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-teable.json", "title": "Baserow vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserow-vs-teable" }, { "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-teable.json", "title": "Grist vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grist-vs-teable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-seatable.json", "title": "NocoDB vs SeaTable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-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/seatable-vs-teable.json", "title": "SeaTable vs Teable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-teable" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 25, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "nocodb": 97, "teable": 72, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "nocodb": 85, "teable": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "nocodb": 74, "teable": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "nocodb": 71, "teable": 62, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "nocodb": 30, "teable": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "nocodb": 87, "teable": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "nocodb", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "nocodb": 76, "teable": 64, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 6 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.", "teable": "Personal access tokens and OAuth tokens carry per-action scopes, and tokens can be limited to chosen spaces and projects. The public OpenAPI file covers 841 operations. Error responses beyond 200 and 201 are missing from that file, no idempotency keys were found, and the cloud allows 10 requests a second on every plan." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.min.md" }, "markdown": "NocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 6 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- Teable: grade C, 61/100, rank #379 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teable.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 72\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 75\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 62\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 76\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them\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### Teable (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The OpenAPI file documents only 200 and 201 responses for nearly every operation, and the error page lists HTTP statuses without a table of error codes\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | NocoDB | Teable | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 97 | 72 | NocoDB +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 75 | NocoDB +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 65 | NocoDB +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 62 | NocoDB +9 |\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 | 64 | NocoDB +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.7 · BB** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | NocoDB | Teable |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | NocoDB Inc | Teable AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.nocodb.com` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or 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 | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 199 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-10-14 | 2026-05-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2026-10-01 |\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 | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 65k stars, 6.3k npm/wk | 22k stars, 179 npm/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**Teable.** Personal access tokens and OAuth tokens carry per-action scopes, and tokens can be limited to chosen spaces and projects. The public OpenAPI file covers 841 operations. Error responses beyond 200 and 201 are missing from that file, no idempotency keys were found, and the cloud allows 10 requests a second on every plan.\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### Teable\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://app.teable.ai/api`. A 403 with code `restricted_resource` usually means a missing scope or a project outside the token's list\n2. Page records with `take` of 100 at most. Personal keys created on Teable Cloud since 10 September 2026 are capped at 100 a request\n3. Ask for totals from `/api/table/{tableId}/aggregation/row-count`. Record lists stopped returning them by default on 2 September 2026\n4. Keep to 10 requests a second, back off on 429, and check before retrying a failed write because no idempotency key exists\n5. Pass `fieldKeyType=id` so renamed fields don't break writes, and leave `typecast` off unless values need converting\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, NocoDB or Teable?\n\nNocoDB scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do NocoDB and Teable need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call NocoDB and Teable without installing anything?\n\nYes. NocoDB has a hosted endpoint at https://app.nocodb.com and Teable at https://app.teable.ai/api.\n\n### Are NocoDB and Teable open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for NocoDB. Teable is open source (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).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nocodb-vs-teable.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nocodb\", \"b\": \"teable\"}`. 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