# Smartsheet API + MCP vs Teable (slim)

> Smartsheet API + MCP scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do sheets read. 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 Teable's 61 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Teable leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do sheets read.

- Smartsheet API + MCP: B 67.6, rank #205 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartsheet.min.md
- Teable: C 61, rank #379 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teable.min.md
- 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 75; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65; Transparency & trust, 82 against 64. Also No incidents deducted, where Teable loses 3 points for them.
- Teable, 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. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 65; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Open source.

| Category | Smartsheet API + MCP | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Smartsheet API + MCP | Teable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Smartsheet Inc. | Teable AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0` | `https://app.teable.ai/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Smartsheet's User Agreement and Developer Agreement. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | 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 | 83 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Terms last updated | 2021-07-01 | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-20 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 82 stars, 47k npm/wk, 312k PyPI/wk | 22k stars, 179 npm/wk |