# Atlan vs Dust (slim)

> Dust and Atlan score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.8 (B) and 62.5 (B). Atlan leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do company knowledge search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Dust and Atlan score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.8 (B) and 62.5 (B). Atlan leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do company knowledge search.

- Atlan: B 62.5, rank #385 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atlan.min.md
- Dust: B 62.8, rank #378 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.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 53; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 67; Transparency & trust, 73 against 68.
- Dust, good for A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 75 against 65; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 86 against 80. Also Open source.

| Category | Atlan | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Atlan | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Atlan | Permutation Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp` | `https://dust.tt/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` |
| Tools exposed | 39 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Popularity | 40 stars | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |