# Atlan vs Cohere North (slim)

> Atlan scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema & documentation. Both do company knowledge search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Atlan scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema & documentation. Both do company knowledge search.

- Atlan: B 62.7, rank #216 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atlan.min.md
- Cohere North: C 55.4, rank #320 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Atlan, good for A company already on Atlan that wants agents to find governed tables, owners, lineage, glossary terms and data quality rules, and to run read-only SQL, under the same permissions people have. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 37. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.
- Cohere North, good for Regulated companies that want an agent and search platform over their own documents, mail and tickets, run privately or air-gapped and called through a REST or OpenAI-compatible API. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 65.

| Category | Atlan | Cohere North |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 37 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 77 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Atlan | Cohere North |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Atlan | Cohere Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Licence | proprietary (hosted service under the Atlan SaaS agreement). The agent-toolkit repository of plugins, skills and the deprecated local MCP server is MIT, and the Python, Java and Go SDKs are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 39 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-01 |
| Popularity | 40 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |