# Alation vs DataHub (slim)

> Alation and DataHub score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.3 (C) and 59.4 (C). DataHub leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do data catalogues. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Alation and DataHub score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.3 (C) and 59.4 (C). DataHub leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do data catalogues.

- Alation: C 60.3, rank #472 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.min.md
- DataHub: C 59.4, rank #497 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datahub.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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 76 against 64. Also No incidents deducted, where DataHub loses 5 points for them.
- DataHub, good for Teams already running DataHub who want agents to find tables, trace column lineage, read the SQL people run and see owners and glossary terms before touching data. Ahead on Reliability, 68 against 61; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 71; Payments & pricing, 10 against 0; Maintenance & community, 77 against 71. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.

| Category | Alation | DataHub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alation | DataHub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Acryl Data, Inc. (DataHub) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.datahub.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | stdio, HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 | Apache-2.0 (DataHub Core and mcp-server-datahub). DataHub Cloud, its managed MCP endpoint and Cloud-only tools such as find_sql_context are closed |
| Tools exposed | 16 | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2020-05-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-08-11 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 13k stars, 1.6M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |