{ "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": 526, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 9, "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": "maintenance", "summary": "Service Under Maintenance", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T02:40:32.63833012Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-mcp", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T17:32:07.877991176Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-sdk", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T17:32:08.067578496Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "allie-sdk", "version": "2.2.3", "released": "2026-05-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T17:32:09.962437363Z" } ], "githubStars": 19, "pypiWeekly": 88, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://alation.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T15:41:26.738602087Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/running-api-release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T18:59:22.041251245Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T18:59:22.041251245Z", "fingerprint": "f5b5fe4e6d9c" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T19:12:09.421412612Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "abe6c4f931f4" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/msa/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T19:12:07.090428593Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "232feb675696" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T02:40:32.63833012Z" } }, "answer": "Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alation leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "gemini-enterprise", "name": "Gemini Enterprise", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Google Cloud's enterprise assistant, which searches and acts across a company's connected apps and data. Developers call the assistant through the StreamAssist method of the Discovery Engine API, and agents registered in it over A2A.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-cloud-discoveryengine" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google-cloud/discoveryengine" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Calls take an OAuth 2.0 bearer token in the `Authorization` header, from user credentials, a service account, service account impersonation or workforce identity federation. StreamAssist accepts the `cloud-platform`, `discoveryengine.assist.readwrite`, `discoveryengine.readwrite` or `discoveryengine.serving.readwrite` scope and needs the `discoveryengine.assistants.assist` permission on the assistant. Users get the Gemini Enterprise User role (`roles/discoveryengine.agentspaceUser`) on a project or on single apps, and need a licence. With Application Default Credentials, send `X-Goog-User-Project`. No API key flow is documented.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No seat prices on the Google pages read (product, editions, licences and quotas pages, checked 2026-10-10). Editions are Business, Standard, Plus, Frontline and Pay-as-you-go. The product page points to sales or a 30-day Plus trial without sales, through the Google Cloud Free Trial, which asks for a card. Pay-as-you-go and overages bill storage over quota at $5 per GiB a month and assistant queries at Agent Platform prices, and need an invoiced Cloud Billing account (https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/enterprise/docs/quotas).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the StreamAssist guide and reference, the A2A guide, the quotas and overages page or the product page (checked 2026-10-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 138716, "pypiWeekly": 1207443, "asOf": "2026-10-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/enterprise/docs/developer-guide", "openapi": "https://discoveryengine.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "enterprise", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "a2a", "sales-led", "card-required", "status-page", "sla", "soc2", "python", "typescript", "java", "go", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 231, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 10, "reliability": 85, "schema": 78, "security": 87, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The assistant is callable through a GA v1 method with a 99.5 per cent SLA, OAuth through IAM, a public Discovery document and optional Model Armor screening. Seat prices weren't found on Google's pages, onboarding needs a billing account and a person, and some Gemini agent capabilities announced on 8 October are early access.", "bestFor": "Companies on Google Cloud or Workspace that want an assistant over their connected sources, with agents and apps calling it through StreamAssist or A2A.", "strengths": [ "StreamAssist is a GA v1 method with a 99.5 per cent monthly uptime SLA and service credits", "OAuth 2.0 through IAM, with a narrow `discoveryengine.assist.readwrite` scope and per-app user roles", "A public Discovery document (revision 20261004, 278 methods) and client libraries in seven languages", "Model Armor can screen the assistant's prompts and responses on every edition at no extra cost", "Agents registered in Gemini Enterprise answer A2A `message:send` and `message:stream` through a Google endpoint" ], "weaknesses": [ "No seat prices on the Google pages read, and pay-as-you-go needs an invoiced Cloud Billing account", "The 30-day Plus trial goes through the Google Cloud Free Trial, which asks for a card or other payment method", "No retry, backoff or idempotency guidance for StreamAssist was found, and each call writes to a session", "Background tasks, desktop and mobile apps and third-party model choice are early access per the product page", "Assistant use is capped per licence, 160 queries a day on Standard and 200 on Plus, pooled per project" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a Gemini Enterprise app first. StreamAssist needs its APP_ID, and the caller needs `discoveryengine.assistants.assist`", "Send `X-Goog-User-Project` with your project ID when calling with Application Default Credentials", "Pass the `session` name from the final stream message on the next call to keep context. Leaving it empty starts a new session", "Read `connectorAuthErrors` in the response. A connector that failed sign-in is skipped and the answer comes from the rest", "Use the A2A URL returned by Agent Registry verbatim. It takes the project number, not the project ID" ], "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": 68.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 10, "reliability": 85, "schema": 78, "security": 87, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 99 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install google-cloud-discoveryengine # or: npm install @google-cloud/discoveryengine", "http": "curl -X POST -H \"Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \"https://ENDPOINT_LOCATION-discoveryengine.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/collections/default_collection/engines/APP_ID/assistants/default_assistant:streamAssist\" -d '{\"query\": {\"text\": \"QUERY_TEXT\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemini-enterprise" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "gemini-live", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-cloud-document-ai", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Storage and data indexing over quota (per GiB)", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The API is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. Docs are on docs.cloud.google.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/enterprise/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-10", "notes": [ "https://www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt shows Expires 2030-04-01 and points to the vulnerability reward programme (read 10 October 2026).", "The legal entity, terms, privacy notice and domain registration date (RDAP, 1997-09-15) are taken from the 9 October check of the Google Cloud Document AI listing, not re-read on 10 October.", "The Google Cloud status page lists Gemini Enterprise and 'Financial Research agent in Gemini Enterprise' as products (https://status.cloud.google.com/products.json)." ], "score": 99 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.json", "live": { "slug": "gemini-enterprise", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T01:36:36.02743616Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T01:36:36.02743616Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Alation, Inc.", "b": "Google", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "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 Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "16", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-03", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-09-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-09-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk", "b": "139k npm/wk, 1.2M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alation leads on agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Gemini Enterprise?" }, { "answer": "Alation takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Gemini Enterprise uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Alation and Gemini Enterprise need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Alation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Enterprise.", "question": "Can an agent call Alation and Gemini Enterprise without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 48" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "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, 85 against 61", "Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 63", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 71", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 76" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Companies on Google Cloud or Workspace that want an assistant over their connected sources, with agents and apps calling it through StreamAssist or A2A.", "slug": "gemini-enterprise", "watchFor": "No seat prices on the Google pages read, and pay-as-you-go needs an invoiced Cloud Billing account" } ], "job": { "capability": "knowledge.search", "name": "Company knowledge search" }, "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/atlan-vs-gemini-enterprise.json", "title": "Atlan vs Gemini Enterprise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-gemini-enterprise" }, { "json": 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Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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Seat prices weren't found on Google's pages, onboarding needs a billing account and a person, and some Gemini agent capabilities announced on 8 October are early access." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise.min.md" }, "markdown": "Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alation leads on agent ergonomics. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Alation: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #526 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alation.json\n- Gemini Enterprise: grade B, 68.1/100, rank #231 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 73 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\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address redirects to a sales form\n\n### Gemini Enterprise (B)\n\nGood for: Companies on Google Cloud or Workspace that want an assistant over their connected sources, with agents and apps calling it through StreamAssist or A2A.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 61\n- Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 63\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 71\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 76\n\nWatch for: No seat prices on the Google pages read, and pay-as-you-go needs an invoiced Cloud Billing account\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Alation | Gemini Enterprise | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 61 | 85 | Gemini Enterprise +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 78 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 48 | Alation +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 87 | Gemini Enterprise +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 10 | Gemini Enterprise +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 80 | Gemini Enterprise +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 82 | Gemini Enterprise +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.3 · C** | **68.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Alation | Gemini Enterprise |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\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 Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 16 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 139k npm/wk, 1.2M PyPI/wk |\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**Gemini Enterprise.** The assistant is callable through a GA v1 method with a 99.5 per cent SLA, OAuth through IAM, a public Discovery document and optional Model Armor screening. Seat prices weren't found on Google's pages, onboarding needs a billing account and a person, and some Gemini agent capabilities announced on 8 October are early access.\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### Gemini Enterprise\n\n1. Create a Gemini Enterprise app first. StreamAssist needs its APP_ID, and the caller needs `discoveryengine.assistants.assist`\n2. Send `X-Goog-User-Project` with your project ID when calling with Application Default Credentials\n3. Pass the `session` name from the final stream message on the next call to keep context. Leaving it empty starts a new session\n4. Read `connectorAuthErrors` in the response. A connector that failed sign-in is skipped and the answer comes from the rest\n5. Use the A2A URL returned by Agent Registry verbatim. It takes the project number, not the project ID\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Gemini Enterprise?\n\nGemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Alation leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Alation and Gemini Enterprise need an API key?\n\nAlation takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Gemini Enterprise uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Alation and Gemini Enterprise without installing anything?\n\nAlation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Enterprise.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"alation\", \"b\": \"gemini-enterprise\"}`. 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