# SeaTable vs Smartsheet API + MCP (slim)

> Smartsheet API + MCP scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SeaTable leads on payments & pricing. Both do sheets records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Smartsheet API + MCP scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against SeaTable's 66.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SeaTable leads on payments & pricing. Both do sheets records.

- SeaTable: B 66.3, rank #241 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seatable.min.md
- Smartsheet API + MCP: B 67.6, rank #205 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Smartsheet API + MCP, good for An agent working inside a company that already runs projects in Smartsheet on a Business plan or above, especially row-level reads and batched writes, workflows and dashboards. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 81; Security & auth, 66 against 59; Transparency & trust, 82 against 75.

| Category | SeaTable | Smartsheet API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SeaTable | Smartsheet API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SeaTable GmbH | Smartsheet Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.seatable.io` | `https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Smartsheet's User Agreement and Developer Agreement. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 21 | 83 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.seatable/seatable` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-04 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2021-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-05-20 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk | 82 stars, 47k npm/wk, 312k PyPI/wk |