Vertabelo API
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.
Frequently asked questions
Vertabelo scores A on the 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.
Vertabelo has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Vertabelo is a browser-based online database modeling tool that lets teams design, visualize, document, and collaborate on logical and physical data models for relational databases.
Vertical: misc / horizontal developer and DBA tooling. Not a fit for any of Supergood's named verticals. Greenfield schema design: drag-and-drop ERDs for new applications, with automatic generation of CREATE TABLE / FOREIGN KEY DDL for the chosen engine.
Mid-tier within the database-modeling/ERD niche. Vertabelo is consistently listed alongside ERwin, ER/Studio, SqlDBM, dbdiagram.io, DrawSQL, Lucidchart (ER), DbSchema, Navicat Data Modeler, and Toad Data Modeler in 'best ERD tool' roundups.
Data that flows through Vertabelo on behalf of customers is design-time metadata about databases, not the operational records inside those databases.
Founded 2011 in Warsaw, Poland. Acquired by Redgate Software in 2024 and rebranded Redgate Data Modeler while keeping vertabelo.com active.
API access is paywalled, only the Pro edition includes it; Standard customers must upgrade per-user-per-year to script anything. 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. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include ERwin Data Modeler (Quest), ER/Studio (IDERA), SqlDBM, dbdiagram.io (Holistics), DrawSQL, Lucidchart (ER templates). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.