{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "alation", "name": "Alation", "vendor": "Alation, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.alation.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Alation is a hosted data catalogue for tables, queries, BI reports, lineage and data quality. Agents reach it through REST APIs, a natural-language Aggregated Context API, a Python agent SDK and an MCP server on each cloud instance.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alation.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Alation/alation-ai-agent-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under Alation's Master Cloud Software Licence and Services Agreement. The AI Agent SDK, the MCP server package, the Allie SDK and the Data Quality SDK are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-mcp" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "allie-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Alation instance. On Alation Cloud Service a Server Admin registers an OAuth client application, which creates a system user with one Alation role, and the client exchanges its ID and secret for a JWT sent as a Bearer token. An authorisation code flow with refresh tokens covers user sign-in, and the remote MCP server needs a client that accepts a `client_id` and `client_secret`, since dynamic client registration is not supported. Any signed-in user can also create an API key pair, a refresh token (60 days by default) and an access token (24 hours) sent in a `TOKEN` header. Permissions follow the user's role, as listed in the APIs by Roles table.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.alation.com/pricing redirects to a form for a sales call, and we found no trial or self-serve sign-up. Each cloud tenant gets a one-time allowance of 2,000 Aggregated Context API calls, with 429 responses from 2,400 calls until a paid tier is bought through the account manager (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the agent SDK source or the legal pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 16, "popularity": { "githubStars": 19, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 2087, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.alation.com/", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "knowledge.search", "data.lineage", "db.sql" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "python", "sales-led", "status-page", "sla", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 521, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 0, "reliability": 61, "schema": 78, "security": 63, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, and OAuth clients are bound to an Alation role with revocable tokens and rotatable secrets. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published. The agent SDK and local MCP server have stayed at a release candidate since 14 January 2026.", "bestFor": "A company already on Alation Cloud Service that wants agents to find governed tables, columns, queries, BI reports and lineage, and to run read-only SQL against data products, under an Alation role.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 definitions for each API, shown on every reference page and served by each instance under `/openapi/`", "OAuth 2.0 client credentials tied to a system user with one Alation role, with token revocation, secret rotation and offline JWT verification", "The AI API answers 429 with `Retry-After` and three `Ai-RateLimit` headers, and the REST 429 body states the seconds to wait", "The local MCP server enables 8 of its 16 tools by default, with allow and deny lists, and the remote server lists only tools the user may call", "A 99.5 per cent monthly uptime target with service credits of 1 to 5 per cent in the published MSA" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address redirects to a sales form", "Four incidents between 10 August and 10 September 2026, two of them regional outages longer than an hour", "`alation-ai-agent-sdk` and `alation-ai-agent-mcp` were last published on 14 January 2026 as 1.0.0rc3, and a plain `pip install` still resolves to 0.12.0", "No guidance on prompt injection, although tools return catalogue descriptions, documents and query text written by users", "No `security.txt` and no bug bounty, and security advisories sit behind a Community login" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask a Server Admin to register an OAuth client application with the lowest role that fits. Only admins can create one, and the secret is shown once", "Pin `alation-ai-agent-mcp==1.0.0rc3`. An unpinned install resolves to 0.12.0, which predates the catalogue search agent", "Call `catalog_context_search_agent` for catalogue questions. `alation_context` is deprecated and its description tells models not to call it directly", "Watch `X-Entitlement-Usage` on Aggregated Context API responses. The 2,000 free calls never reset, and a quota 429 is not retryable", "Page with `limit` and `skip` and follow `X-Next-Page`. The BI Source API uses `offset`, and one call returns at most 1,000 objects" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 0, "reliability": 61, "schema": 78, "security": 63, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "uv pip install alation-ai-agent-mcp==1.0.0rc3", "config": { "mcpServers": { "alation": { "args": [ "--from", "alation-ai-agent-mcp", "start-alation-mcp-server" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "ALATION_AUTH_METHOD": "service_account", "ALATION_BASE_URL": "https://your-alation-instance.com", "ALATION_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id", "ALATION_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/alation" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Alation, Inc.", "domain": "alation.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-07-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.alation.com/legal/msa/", "privacy": "https://www.alation.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.alationcloud.com", "changelog": "https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/running-api-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The MSA (version 10 April 2026) and the privacy policy (version 23 September 2026) name Alation, Inc., 3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 300, Redwood City, CA 94065. The MSA is governed by Delaware law, or by the law of England and Wales for customers in the UK, EEA and Switzerland.", "Cloud instances and the status page are on alationcloud.com, a second domain of the vendor's. The agent SDK's guides give `your-instance.alationcloud.com` as the instance host.", "www.alation.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page sends reports to security@alation.com.", "The privacy policy covers Alation websites and other Alation services. Customer personal data in the product is governed by the Data Privacy Addendum of 10 April 2026 at https://www.alation.com/legal/online-dpa/.", "RDAP gives alation.com a registration date of 1998-07-27. We did not establish when Alation acquired the domain." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.json", "live": { "slug": "alation", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.alationcloud.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:38.840675618Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-mcp", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:38:12.025102423Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-sdk", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:38:12.235177671Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "allie-sdk", "version": "2.2.3", "released": "2026-05-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:38:14.123625706Z" } ], "githubStars": 19, "pypiWeekly": 90, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://alation.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:27.561153696Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/running-api-release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:35:00.451792968Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6c7f90768649" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:54.520964271Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "abe6c4f931f4" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/msa/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:47:52.07770983Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "232feb675696" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:38.840675618Z" } }, "answer": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "collibra", "name": "Collibra", "vendor": "Collibra", "vendorUrl": "https://www.collibra.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Collibra is a hosted data governance platform with a catalogue, business glossary, lineage and data quality. Agents use REST and GraphQL APIs, a bulk Import API, a hosted MCP server on each cloud instance and an open-source local one.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json", "repo": "https://github.com/collibra/chip", "license": "Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Collibra environment. An administrator with the System administration permission registers an OAuth application under Settings. Integration applications use the client credentials flow at `/rest/oauth/v2/token` and act as an application-specific system user, and user applications use the authorisation code flow with PKCE for MCP clients. Tokens are valid for 5 minutes, and the settings page says Collibra assigns all scopes to the client. The APIs also accept HTTP Basic authentication with a Collibra username and password, and a JWT Bearer token issued by the customer's identity provider. The local MCP server accepts a username and password only. Permissions follow the user's Collibra roles.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.collibra.com/pricing returns 404, and the site links a demo request and a product tour. We found no trial or self-serve sign-up, so an agent cannot start without a contract. An Evaluation Agreement is published for evaluations arranged with Collibra. The MCP server is free to use, and AI functions such as the natural-language discovery tools consume Collibra Units, with 70,000 or 100,000 units included in each contract depending on the package (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the MCP server source or the legal documents (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 37, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.collibra.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.collibra.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "knowledge.search", "data.lineage" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "graphql", "sales-led", "status-page", "sla", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 346, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 0, "reliability": 66, "schema": 83, "security": 68, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 definitions for each REST API, printed on every reference page of developer.collibra.com and served by each instance at `/docs/index.html`", "The developer portal publishes `llms.txt`, a Markdown copy of every page and an MCP server for searching the documentation", "Every tool in the open-source MCP server declares `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint` and `idempotentHint`, and the 18 data quality tools stay unregistered until a flag is set", "OAuth 2.0 client credentials for integrations and an authorisation code flow with PKCE for MCP clients, with access tokens valid for 5 minutes", "A 99.5 per cent monthly uptime target with service credits of 1 to 15 per cent, and an 18-month deprecation period announced for retired REST properties" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour", "No general request rate limit or `Retry-After` guidance found. Only the OAuth token endpoint has numbers, a pool of 100 tokens refilled at 30 a minute", "The Developer Terms of 22 August 2023 forbid publishing benchmarks and calls not driven by bona fide end user requests, except reasonable testing", "No prompt-injection guidance found, although tools return descriptions and comments written by catalogue users", "The local MCP server signs in with a Collibra username and password only, and `security.txt` expired on 31 December 2025" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask a Collibra administrator to register an OAuth application. Integration applications use client credentials, and MCP clients need a user application with a redirect URI", "Reuse each access token for its 5 minutes. The token endpoint answers 429 once a client drains its pool of 100 tokens, refilled at 30 a minute", "Page large reads with `cursor=` and `sortField=ID`. Cursor and offset parameters cannot be combined, and Search API `limit` plus `offset` cannot exceed 10,000", "Keep Import API files to 10,000 assets or fewer and run at most 8 imports at once. Retry a job that fails on a concurrency error", "Expect `discover_data_assets` and `discover_business_glossary` to consume Collibra Units and to need the `dgc.ai-copilot` permission. Use `search_asset_keyword` for free keyword search" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 0, "reliability": 66, "schema": 83, "security": 68, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 89 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e' https://\u003cinstance\u003e.collibra.com/rest/2.0/communities", "config": { "mcpServers": { "collibra": { "command": "/path/to/chip-...", "type": "stdio" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/collibra" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Collibra Inc.", "domain": "collibra.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-06-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/master-collibra-agreement", "privacy": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.collibra.com", "changelog": "https://productresources.collibra.com/docs/collibra/latest/Content/ReleaseNotes/to_release-notes.htm", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Master Collibra Agreement (click-through version of 6 August 2026) is with Collibra Inc., 28 Liberty Street, Suite 4050, New York, NY 10005 for orders shipped to North America, and with Collibra UK Limited, Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London for all others. The second is governed by the law of England and Wales.", "The Developer Terms (22 August 2023) and the Privacy Policy (24 September 2026) name Collibra Belgium BV and its affiliates.", "Each legal page on www.collibra.com is a cover page that links a PDF on images.collibracloud.com. We read the PDFs.", "The Privacy Policy covers Collibra's websites and says it does not apply to personal information Collibra processes for customers. That is governed by the Data Processing Addendum of 1 October 2026 at https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-data-processing-addendum.", "www.collibra.com/.well-known/security.txt carries `Expires: 2025-12-31T00:00:00Z`. It names a security requests page and the bug bounty rules.", "RDAP gives collibra.com a registration date of 2007-06-30." ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.json", "live": { "slug": "collibra", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.collibra.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:22.042462941Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "collibra/chip", "version": "v0.0.47", "released": "2026-08-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:58.350732285Z" } ], "githubStars": 37, "pages": [ { "url": "https://productresources.collibra.com/docs/collibra/latest/Content/ReleaseNotes/to_release-notes.htm", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:00.442312281Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "306e62e3e48e" }, { "url": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:10.565608247Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f8dfb358e1c5" }, { "url": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/master-collibra-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:12.714609966Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "036a1ac5712a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:22.042462941Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Alation, Inc.", "b": "Collibra", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Alation's Master Cloud Software Licence and Services Agreement. The AI Agent SDK, the MCP server package, the Allie SDK and the Data Quality SDK are Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "16", "b": "30", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-03", "b": "2026-10-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk", "b": "37 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Collibra?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Alation and Collibra need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Alation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Alation and Collibra without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A company already on Alation Cloud Service that wants agents to find governed tables, columns, queries, BI reports and lineage, and to run read-only SQL against data products, under an Alation role.", "slug": "alation", "watchFor": "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address redirects to a sales form" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 61", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 78", "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 63", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 71", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 76" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.", "slug": "collibra", "watchFor": "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour" } ], "job": { "capability": "data.catalogue", "name": "Data catalogues" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-cohere-north.json", "title": "Alation vs Cohere North", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-cohere-north" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust.json", "title": "Alation vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-glean.json", "title": "Alation vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-guru.json", "title": "Alation vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Alation vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Alation vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Collibra", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.json", "title": "Collibra vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-glean.json", "title": "Collibra vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-guru.json", "title": "Collibra vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Collibra vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Collibra vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-atlan.json", "title": "Alation vs Atlan", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-atlan" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-datahub.json", "title": "Alation vs DataHub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-datahub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-marmot.json", "title": "Alation vs Marmot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-marmot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-openmetadata.json", "title": "Alation vs OpenMetadata", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Collibra vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda" } ], "scores": [ { "alation": 61, "by": 5, "collibra": 66, "edge": "collibra", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alation": 78, "by": 5, "collibra": 83, "edge": "collibra", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "alation": 71, "by": 4, "collibra": 75, "edge": "collibra", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "alation": 63, "by": 5, "collibra": 68, "edge": "collibra", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "alation": 0, "by": 0, "collibra": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alation": 71, "by": 5, "collibra": 76, "edge": "collibra", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "alation": 76, "by": 6, "collibra": 82, "edge": "collibra", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.min.md" }, "markdown": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do data catalogues.\n\n- Alation: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #521 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alation.json\n- Collibra: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #346 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Alation (C)\n\nGood for: A company already on Alation Cloud Service that wants agents to find governed tables, columns, queries, BI reports and lineage, and to run read-only SQL against data products, under an Alation role.\n\nWatch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address redirects to a sales form\n\n### Collibra (B)\n\nGood for: An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 61\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 78\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 63\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 71\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 76\n\nWatch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Alation | Collibra | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 61 | 66 | Collibra +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 83 | Collibra +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 75 | Collibra +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 68 | Collibra +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 76 | Collibra +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 82 | Collibra +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.3 · C** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Alation | Collibra |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Collibra |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Alation's Master Cloud Software Licence and Services Agreement. The AI Agent SDK, the MCP server package, the Allie SDK and the Data Quality SDK are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement |\n| Tools exposed | 16 | 30 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-04 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 37 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Alation.** Each API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, and OAuth clients are bound to an Alation role with revocable tokens and rotatable secrets. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published. The agent SDK and local MCP server have stayed at a release candidate since 14 January 2026.\n\n**Collibra.** Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Alation\n\n1. Ask a Server Admin to register an OAuth client application with the lowest role that fits. Only admins can create one, and the secret is shown once\n2. Pin `alation-ai-agent-mcp==1.0.0rc3`. An unpinned install resolves to 0.12.0, which predates the catalogue search agent\n3. Call `catalog_context_search_agent` for catalogue questions. `alation_context` is deprecated and its description tells models not to call it directly\n4. Watch `X-Entitlement-Usage` on Aggregated Context API responses. The 2,000 free calls never reset, and a quota 429 is not retryable\n5. Page with `limit` and `skip` and follow `X-Next-Page`. The BI Source API uses `offset`, and one call returns at most 1,000 objects\n\n### Collibra\n\n1. Ask a Collibra administrator to register an OAuth application. Integration applications use client credentials, and MCP clients need a user application with a redirect URI\n2. Reuse each access token for its 5 minutes. The token endpoint answers 429 once a client drains its pool of 100 tokens, refilled at 30 a minute\n3. Page large reads with `cursor=` and `sortField=ID`. Cursor and offset parameters cannot be combined, and Search API `limit` plus `offset` cannot exceed 10,000\n4. Keep Import API files to 10,000 assets or fewer and run at most 8 imports at once. Retry a job that fails on a concurrency error\n5. Expect `discover_data_assets` and `discover_business_glossary` to consume Collibra Units and to need the `dgc.ai-copilot` permission. Use `search_asset_keyword` for free keyword search\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Collibra?\n\nCollibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Alation and Collibra need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Alation and Collibra without installing anything?\n\nAlation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"alation\", \"b\": \"collibra\"}`. 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