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Head to head · Sheets records · October 2026 research run

SeaTable vs Teable

SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do sheets records.

SeaTableSeaTable GmbH · HTTP API B66.3/100#241 of 722 TeableTeable AI, Inc. · HTTP API C61/100#379 of 722

Which one, for what

SeaTable B

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

  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 75
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 64

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them

Watch 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

Teable C

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.

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch 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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSeaTableTeableEdge
Reliability16%206972Teable +3
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28175SeaTable +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.27465SeaTable +9
Security & auth14%17.55962Teable +3
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87676even
Transparency & trust7%8.87564SeaTable +11
Negative events≤150-3
Total66.3 · B61 · C

Facts side by side

FactSeaTableTeable
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorSeaTable GmbHTeable AI, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://cloud.seatable.iohttps://app.teable.ai/api
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary cloud service under the Terms of Service for SeaTable Cloud. The MCP server is MIT. SeaTable Server Enterprise Edition is licensed under an EULAAGPL-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 exposed21none
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.seatable/seatablenot listed
Last release2026-09-042026-10-06
Terms last updatedno date given2026-05-25
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-10-01
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk22k stars, 179 npm/wk

Verdicts

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.

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.

Before you call either

SeaTable

  1. 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
  2. Renew the Base-Token before it expires after 3 days, and send it as Authorization: Bearer to /api-gateway/api/v2/dtables/{base_uuid}/
  3. 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
  4. Batch writes to save the monthly quota. One call appends or updates up to 1,000 rows over REST and 100 over MCP
  5. Over MCP, prefer update_rows and delete_rows to query_sql, which can run UPDATE and DELETE, and call get_schema before writing

Teable

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer <token> 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
  2. Page records with take of 100 at most. Personal keys created on Teable Cloud since 10 September 2026 are capped at 100 a request
  3. Ask for totals from /api/table/{tableId}/aggregation/row-count. Record lists stopped returning them by default on 2 September 2026
  4. Keep to 10 requests a second, back off on 429, and check before retrying a failed write because no idempotency key exists
  5. Pass fieldKeyType=id so renamed fields don't break writes, and leave typecast off unless values need converting

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, SeaTable or Teable?

SeaTable scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.

Do SeaTable and Teable need an API key?

SeaTable needs an API key. Teable takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call SeaTable and Teable without installing anything?

Yes. SeaTable has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.seatable.io and Teable at https://app.teable.ai/api.

Are SeaTable and Teable open source?

No open-source release is listed for SeaTable. 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).

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