{ "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": 554, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "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": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T00:38:04.079093211Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-mcp", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:36:51.924942244Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "alation-ai-agent-sdk", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2025-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:36:52.142123026Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "allie-sdk", "version": "2.2.3", "released": "2026-05-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:36:54.012177964Z" } ], "githubStars": 19, "pypiWeekly": 112, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://alation.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:33.184768521Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "alation.com", "registered": "1998-07-27", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/alation.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:24:58.7068615Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/running-api-release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:56:14.702863603Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T18:59:22.041251245Z", "fingerprint": "f5b5fe4e6d9c" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:10:03.587567328Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "abe6c4f931f4" }, { "url": "https://www.alation.com/legal/msa/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:10:01.199276233Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "232feb675696" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:38:04.079093211Z" } }, "answer": "Alation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "hexis", "name": "Hexis Cloud", "vendor": "Bevelites GmbH (Bevel)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.bevel.software/hexis", "kind": "mcp", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Hexis Cloud is the hosted edition of Hexis, an Apache-2.0 platform from Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) that keeps a team's knowledge, agent skills and tool connections in git, with per-file access control, and serves them to agents over MCP.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis", "license": "Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/bevel-software/hexis" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.1 on the MCP endpoint, with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, refresh tokens, revocation and one scope, `mcp`, advertised through RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata. Or a connection key (`bevel_…`) minted under External agent access as a Bearer token, stored as a SHA-256 hash and revocable. Either way the agent acts with the permissions of the person who connected it, and a connection can be read-only. People sign in with Google, Microsoft or a password; MFA only through Google or Microsoft.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free for up to 3 seats with no time limit, and the terms say it is not a trial. Team is €10 a seat a month excluding VAT, 1 to 50 seats, billed monthly through Stripe. Enterprise and more than 50 seats are by order form. Hexis itself is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the terms, the pricing section of bevel.software/hexis or the repository. Payment is by Stripe checkout for the Team plan (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 900, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis#readme", "registryName": "io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "work.docs", "agent.tools", "automation.auth", "auth.audit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "self-hosted", "mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "api-key", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "typescript", "docker", "eu", "eu-hosted", "read-only-mode", "agent-skills", "security-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 705, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 18, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.", "bestFor": "A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.", "strengths": [ "Hexis core is Apache-2.0 on GitHub, with 36 version tags from v0.1.0 on 10 August to v0.29.0 on 14 October 2026", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration on the MCP endpoint, plus hashed, revocable connection keys", "Per-folder and per-file access rules, read-only connections and owner approval for changes to protected branches", "Audit log of agent tool calls kept 365 days by default, with each connection revocable from the workspace", "Free plan for up to 3 seats with no time limit, Team at €10 a seat a month excluding VAT" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own", "All workspaces share one Hetzner server in Nuremberg with logical separation, and the encryption keys sit on that server", "No status page and no published request rate limits for the MCP endpoint", "Over 35 platform tools are listed directly, with no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations", "Hexis Cloud is open to businesses only, and a person must sign in with Google, Microsoft or a password to create a workspace" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere", "Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused", "Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false", "Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat", "Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories" ], "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": 55.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 18, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 81 }, "provenanceScore": 69 }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y @bevel-software/hexis-mcp --url https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software", "config": { "mcpServers": { "hexis": { "args": [ "-y", "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "HEXIS_CONNECTION_KEY": "bevel_…", "HEXIS_URL": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hexis" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Bevelites GmbH", "domain": "hexis.software", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://hexis.software/terms", "privacy": "https://hexis.software/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "Bevelites GmbH, Schleißheimer Str. 188, 80797 München, HRB 303590 at Amtsgericht München, per the Impressum at bevel.software/impressum and the terms.", "hexis.software is a single-page app. The legal pages render with JavaScript, and we read their text from the site's published script bundle.", "hexis.software/.well-known/security.txt names juan@bevel.software and expires on 30 September 2027.", "hexis.software serves the app for every path, including robots.txt, so there is no robots.txt to disallow anything. bevel.software's robots.txt disallows only /api/.", "No status page found. status.hexis.software answers 'No workspace at this address'." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.json", "live": { "slug": "hexis", "probe": { "target": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T00:41:51.043344906Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "DNS lookup failed", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 34, "samples30d": 34, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 26, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 8, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-14T21:31:42.133995117Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "DNS lookup failed" } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Bevel-Software/Hexis", "version": "v0.29.0", "released": "2026-10-14", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:57:19.802349377Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp", "version": "0.29.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:57:18.908423769Z" } ], "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 900, "mcpTools": { "url": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:44.005217518Z", "status": "error", "note": "Post \"https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp\": dial tcp: lookup \u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software: no such host", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:44.005217518Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:41:51.043344906Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Alation, Inc.", "b": "Bevelites GmbH (Bevel)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "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": "Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "16", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-03", "b": "2026-10-14", "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": "114 stars, 900 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Alation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Hexis Cloud?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Alation and Hexis Cloud need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Alation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Alation and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Alation. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).", "question": "Are Alation and Hexis Cloud open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 61 against 18", "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 57" ], "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 78", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 71" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.", "slug": "hexis", "watchFor": "The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own" } ], "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-gemini-enterprise.json", "title": "Alation vs Gemini Enterprise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-gemini-enterprise" }, { "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-hexis.json", "title": "Atlan vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Collibra vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Dust vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-enterprise-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Gemini Enterprise vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-enterprise-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Glean vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-hexis.json", "title": "Guru vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-atlan.json", "title": "Alation vs Atlan", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-atlan" }, { "json": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datahub-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-marmot.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs Marmot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-marmot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-openmetadata.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs OpenMetadata", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-openmetadata" } ], "scores": [ { "alation": 61, "by": 43, "edge": "alation", "hexis": 18, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alation": 78, "by": 5, "edge": "hexis", "hexis": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "alation": 71, "by": 14, "edge": "alation", "hexis": 57, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "alation": 63, "by": 1, "edge": "hexis", "hexis": 64, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "alation": 0, "by": 30, "edge": "hexis", "hexis": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "alation": 71, "by": 14, "edge": "hexis", "hexis": 85, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "alation": 76, "by": 1, "edge": "alation", "hexis": 75, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Alation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do company knowledge search.", "verdicts": { "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.", "hexis": "Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis.min.md" }, "markdown": "Alation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Alation: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #554 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/alation.json\n- Hexis Cloud: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #705 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 87 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- Reliability, 61 against 18\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 57\n\nWatch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address redirects to a sales form\n\n### Hexis Cloud (C)\n\nGood for: A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 78\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 71\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Alation | Hexis Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 61 | 18 | Alation +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 83 | Hexis Cloud +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 57 | Alation +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 64 | Hexis Cloud +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Hexis Cloud +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 85 | Hexis Cloud +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 75 | Alation +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.3 · C** | **55.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Alation | Hexis Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\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 | Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026 |\n| Tools exposed | 16 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-14 |\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 | 114 stars, 900 npm/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**Hexis Cloud.** Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.\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### Hexis Cloud\n\n1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere\n2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused\n3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false\n4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat\n5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Alation or Hexis Cloud?\n\nAlation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Alation and Hexis Cloud need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Alation and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?\n\nAlation runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp.\n\n### Are Alation and Hexis Cloud open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Alation. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"alation\", \"b\": \"hexis\"}`. 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