# Alation vs Collibra (slim)

> Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to Alation's 60.3 (C) for data catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Alation: C 60.3, rank #521 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.min.md
- Collibra: B 64.6, rank #346 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md
- Alation, good 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.
- Collibra, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 61; Schema & documentation, 83 against 78; Security & auth, 68 against 63; Maintenance & community, 76 against 71; Transparency & trust, 82 against 76.

| Category | Alation | Collibra |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alation | Collibra |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Collibra |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 16 | 30 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-04 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 37 stars |