# Alation vs Hexis Cloud (slim)

> Alation scores 60.3 (C) to Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do company knowledge search.

- Alation: C 60.3, rank #554 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.min.md
- Hexis Cloud: C 55.3, rank #705 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.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 Reliability, 61 against 18; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 57.
- Hexis Cloud, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 78; Payments & pricing, 30 against 0; Maintenance & community, 85 against 71. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Alation | Hexis Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 18 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alation | Hexis Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026 |
| Tools exposed | 16 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` |
| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-14 |
| 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 | 114 stars, 900 npm/wk |