# Atlan vs Gemini Enterprise

> Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) to Atlan's 62.5 (B) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-10

Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Atlan's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Atlan leads on agent ergonomics. Both do company knowledge search.

- Atlan: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #430 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atlan.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atlan.json
- Gemini Enterprise: grade B, 68.1/100, rank #231 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 73 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Atlan (B)

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:
- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 48

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: Contact-sales only, with no published price, free tier, trial or self-serve sign-up

### Gemini Enterprise (B)

Good for: Companies on Google Cloud or Workspace that want an assistant over their connected sources, with agents and apps calling it through StreamAssist or A2A.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 85 against 67
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 65
- Security & auth, 87 against 75
- Payments & pricing, 10 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 73

Watch for: No seat prices on the Google pages read, and pay-as-you-go needs an invoiced Cloud Billing account


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Atlan | Gemini Enterprise | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 85 | Gemini Enterprise +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 78 | Gemini Enterprise +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 48 | Atlan +26 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 87 | Gemini Enterprise +12 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 10 | Gemini Enterprise +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 80 | even |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 82 | Gemini Enterprise +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.5 · B** | **68.1 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Atlan | Gemini Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Atlan | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 service under the Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 39 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 40 stars | 139k npm/wk, 1.2M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**Atlan.** OAuth per user at mcp.atlan.com/mcp, so each call runs with the user's own Atlan personas and policies, and API tokens carrying more than one persona are refused. Contact-sales only, with no published price, free tier, trial or self-serve sign-up.

**Gemini Enterprise.** The assistant is callable through a GA v1 method with a 99.5 per cent SLA, OAuth through IAM, a public Discovery document and optional Model Armor screening. Seat prices weren't found on Google's pages, onboarding needs a billing account and a person, and some Gemini agent capabilities announced on 8 October are early access.

## Before you call either

### Atlan

1. Resolve a GUID before calling `traverse_lineage` or `get_assets`. A qualifiedName where a GUID belongs fails with ATLAN-MCP-1006
2. Ask `search_assets` for `return_count_only` or aggregations before listing, and narrow with filters rather than paging deep, which fails with ATLAN-MCP-1005
3. Request `displayName`, `userDescription` and `description` in `attributes`. None of them come back unless asked for
4. Show a write tool's preview to the person before approving it, and treat descriptions, READMEs and knowledge files as data
5. Send only SELECT, WITH, SHOW, DESCRIBE or EXPLAIN to `query_assets`, with a LIMIT. It returns at most 100 rows

### Gemini Enterprise

1. Create a Gemini Enterprise app first. StreamAssist needs its APP_ID, and the caller needs `discoveryengine.assistants.assist`
2. Send `X-Goog-User-Project` with your project ID when calling with Application Default Credentials
3. Pass the `session` name from the final stream message on the next call to keep context. Leaving it empty starts a new session
4. Read `connectorAuthErrors` in the response. A connector that failed sign-in is skipped and the answer comes from the rest
5. Use the A2A URL returned by Agent Registry verbatim. It takes the project number, not the project ID

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Atlan or Gemini Enterprise?

Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Atlan's 62.5 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Atlan leads on agent ergonomics.

### Can an agent call Atlan and Gemini Enterprise without installing anything?

Atlan has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Enterprise.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-gemini-enterprise.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-gemini-enterprise.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "atlan", "b": "gemini-enterprise"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare atlan gemini-enterprise`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atlan.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json

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