# Alation vs Secoda (slim)

> Alation scores 60.3 (C) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for data catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Alation scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), 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
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.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 40; Schema & documentation, 78 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 44; Security & auth, 63 against 54; Maintenance & community, 71 against 60; Transparency & trust, 76 against 58.
- Secoda, good for A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.

| Category | Alation | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alation | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| 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 Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 16 | 6 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 1 stars |