# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- 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
- 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

## 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

| Category | Weight | SeaTable | Teable | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 72 | Teable +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 75 | SeaTable +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 65 | SeaTable +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 62 | Teable +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 76 | even |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 64 | SeaTable +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **66.3 · B** | **61 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | SeaTable | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | SeaTable GmbH | Teable AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.seatable.io` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | 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 |
| Tools exposed | 21 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.seatable/seatable` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-04 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 103 npm/wk, 1.7k PyPI/wk | 22k 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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-teable.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seatable-vs-teable.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "seatable", "b": "teable"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare seatable teable`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/seatable.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teable.json

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