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Vertabelo

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Online database modeling / data architecture (developer tooling) · vertabelo.com

Vertabelo has a public document-oriented REST API on the Pro edition: fetch models as XML or generated SQL DDL, pull migration scripts, and manage sharing, authenticated by a per-user token over HTTP Basic. Standard edition customers get no API access, and there are no webhooks.

Last verified: October 2026Software & Data ToolsNO MCP
API GRADE
A
VERIFIED OCT 2026

SCORECARD

ExistenceGOODDocument-oriented REST API: GET and POST against a model's document URL in XML, SQL, or JSON.
AccessGOODPro edition only; a token is enabled per user from the dashboard with no approval process. Standard plans get nothing.
CoverageGOODModel listings, XML and DDL export, migration scripts, sharing management, and model import; pull-only, no webhooks.
AuthGOODPer-user API token sent over HTTP Basic; generated and enabled from the user profile.
Docs & DXPOORDocs are scattered across old blog posts and a GitHub repo with no OpenAPI spec; no webhooks and weakly maintained client libraries.
StabilityGOOD
MCPNONENo official or community MCP server for Vertabelo was found in registries, on GitHub, or in Vertabelo's documentation. VERIFIED 2026-08
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Vertabelo scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Vertabelo has a public document-oriented REST API on the Pro edition: fetch models as XML or generated SQL DDL, pull migration scripts, and manage sharing, authenticated by a per-user token over HTTP Basic. Standard edition customers get no API access, and there are no webhooks.

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API access is paywalled, only the Pro edition includes it; Standard customers must upgrade per-user-per-year to script anything red-gate.com ↗
Documentation is sparse and scattered across an old blog post, a follow-up post, and a GitHub clients repo rather than a single OpenAPI/Swagger spec red-gate.com ↗
Authentication uses HTTP Basic with a token, workable but dated vs. OAuth2 / JWT used by modern dev tools red-gate.com ↗
No webhooks, clients cannot subscribe to model-change events for CI/CD pipelines and must poll github.com ↗
GitHub client libraries are low-activity (small repos, infrequent commits), community maintenance signal is weak github.com ↗
Document-by-URL model is elegant but unusual; it requires copying URLs from the editor rather than discovering resources via list endpoints, which complicates programmatic crawling red-gate.com ↗
Rate limits are not publicly documented, making capacity planning for batch operations (e.g., exporting hundreds of models nightly) difficult vertabelo.com ↗
No GraphQL, no streaming, no async/job pattern for long-running operations red-gate.com ↗
Acquisition by Redgate has caused inconsistent doc URLs, many vertabelo.com/blog/* API posts now 301-redirect to red-gate.com, and a few canonical pages 404 outright red-gate.com ↗
Users have reported losing changes after an 'Oops we've got a problem. Something went wrong...' generic error in the editor support.vertabelo.com ↗
Export-as-image button has been reported as not working reliably support.vertabelo.com ↗
SQL code generation for PostgreSQL is criticized for lacking some of the database's more advanced features (e.g., partitioning, advanced index types, exclusion constraints) sourceforge.net ↗
Pricing has historically been seen as expensive compared to free/light tools (dbdiagram, DrawSQL, MySQL Workbench) for small teams g2.com ↗
Per-plan caps on number of models and tables-per-model (e.g., 20 models / 100 tables in Standard) frustrate larger schemas red-gate.com ↗
Post-Redgate-acquisition rebranding to 'Redgate Data Modeler' has caused brand confusion and broken historical links (vertabelo.com/pricing now 301-redirects to red-gate.com) red-gate.com ↗
Reverse engineering requires running a separate XML/SQL export script against the source DB, rather than direct JDBC/connection-string import (vs. ERwin, DbSchema, Navicat) vertabelo.com ↗
No native Git integration, integration with version control is do-it-yourself via the XML export vertabelo.com ↗
Real-time collaboration occasionally produces merge conflicts on simultaneous edits to the same entity g2.com ↗