{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cohere-north", "name": "Cohere North", "vendor": "Cohere Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://cohere.com/north", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Cohere North is an enterprise AI agent and search platform from Cohere in Toronto. It indexes connected work apps into Compass for permission-aware search and chat, with a REST API per instance. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "license": "Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/cohere-ai/north-sdk-go" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Every call takes `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` at https://\u003cnorth-instance\u003e/api. A user can copy a developer token from the instance's /developer page, or an app registered by an admin runs the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE against `/api/oauth/authorize` and `/api/oauth/token`, choosing from 16 scopes (chat_v2_ext, agents_ext_v2, libraries_ext, files, responses_ext, admin_permissions and others) plus offline_access for refresh tokens. A revoke endpoint exists. Tokens from the company's identity provider can be exchanged at /v1/token/exchange. North exposes no OIDC discovery document. Deployments behind Identity-Aware Proxy may also need an IAP header.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Contact sales. cohere.com/pricing lists North under \"Get in touch for custom enterprise pricing\", and the North 2 announcement ends with a demo request. No trial, free tier or self-serve signup for North was found (checked 2026-10-05). Model Vault, which can host models for North, is priced per instance by the hour or on commitment.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the North developer guide, the North OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north-documentation", "llmsTxt": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/openapi/north.json", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.mcp-client", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "go", "sales-led", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 666, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 0, "reliability": 37, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-26. NVD published CVE-2025-61162 to CVE-2025-61165 against Cohere North 1.1.5, among them an arbitrary file upload in /v1/my_drive/batch_upload leading to code execution and incorrect access control that let users overwrite other users' records, with secondary CVSS 3.1 scores of 7.5 to 9.8 and NVD status Deferred (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61165). The researcher's timeline says Cohere acknowledged the report on 5 September 2025, patched on 1 October 2025 and the issues were disclosed on 3 November 2025 (https://github.com/bdadoa/Cohere---North-AI-1.1.5---Vulnerabilities). Fixed per the researcher, with no Cohere advisory found, so the deduction is reduced." ], "verdict": "North has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, OAuth with PKCE and 16 scopes, and structured errors that say which failures are safe to retry. Access is the main limitation. Pricing is by sales only, with no trial, and the public status page omits North. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026 and the latest dated release is 1 October.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the North API (128 operations) and for Compass search, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs", "OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, 16 scopes, refresh tokens and a revoke endpoint, or token exchange from the company's identity provider", "Errors carry a stable error_code, an is_retryable flag and retry_after_seconds, and 429 and 503 send Retry-After", "Destructive tool calls, including MCP tools marked destructiveHint, pause for user approval", "Runs Cohere-hosted, in a VPC, on premises or air-gapped, with dated platform releases several times a week" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation", "status.cohere.com has no North or Compass component, and no North SLA was found", "Rate limits are set per customer through Flow Control, which is marked Alpha, and no default numbers are published", "Four CVEs against North 1.1.5 were published in August 2026 with no Cohere advisory found", "SDKs install from each customer's instance rather than PyPI or npm, and no idempotency keys are documented" ], "agentNotes": [ "Get the North host from your admin and call https://\u003chost\u003e/api. Cohere-hosted examples use north.cohere.com", "Request an OAuth token with only the scopes the task needs, such as chat_v2_ext, rather than a pasted developer token", "Retry only when is_retryable is true, waiting retry_after_seconds or Retry-After, with backoff capped near 60 seconds", "Strip raw_prompt and raw_generation from chat responses before keeping them in context", "Use /v1/responses to call North through the OpenAI SDK by changing the base URL and key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 0, "reliability": 37, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "install": "python -m pip install \"https://$MY_NORTH/api/v1/sdk/python-latest.tar.gz\"", "http": "curl -sS \"https://$MY_NORTH/api/v1/chat\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello, North\"}],\"stream\":false,\"thinking\":{\"type\":\"disabled\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cohere-north" }, "sameCompany": [ "cohere-chat", "cohere-embed" ], "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.", "domain": "cohere.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cohere.com/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cohere.com", "changelog": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-05", "notes": [ "The API answers on each customer's own North host. The Cohere-hosted example in the quickstart is north.cohere.com, while private deployments use the customer's domain.", "status.cohere.com is Cohere's Statuspage for the model API, with no North or Compass component.", "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The trust centre links a responsible disclosure policy and bug bounty.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 1 May 2026 and points API and platform users to the subprocessor list at trustcenter.cohere.com/subprocessors.", "RDAP for cohere.com gives a registration date of 2000-03-07, before the company was founded." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.json", "live": { "slug": "cohere-north", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cohere.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:50.198437179Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "version": "0.3.0", "released": "2026-03-04", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:39.752071322Z" } ], "githubStars": 14, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:19.217268298Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:42.381407541Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:59.808498276Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:50.198437179Z" } }, "answer": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "collibra", "name": "Collibra", "vendor": "Collibra", "vendorUrl": "https://www.collibra.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Collibra is a hosted data governance platform with a catalogue, business glossary, lineage and data quality. Agents use REST and GraphQL APIs, a bulk Import API, a hosted MCP server on each cloud instance and an open-source local one.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json", "repo": "https://github.com/collibra/chip", "license": "Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Collibra environment. An administrator with the System administration permission registers an OAuth application under Settings. Integration applications use the client credentials flow at `/rest/oauth/v2/token` and act as an application-specific system user, and user applications use the authorisation code flow with PKCE for MCP clients. Tokens are valid for 5 minutes, and the settings page says Collibra assigns all scopes to the client. The APIs also accept HTTP Basic authentication with a Collibra username and password, and a JWT Bearer token issued by the customer's identity provider. The local MCP server accepts a username and password only. Permissions follow the user's Collibra roles.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.collibra.com/pricing returns 404, and the site links a demo request and a product tour. We found no trial or self-serve sign-up, so an agent cannot start without a contract. An Evaluation Agreement is published for evaluations arranged with Collibra. The MCP server is free to use, and AI functions such as the natural-language discovery tools consume Collibra Units, with 70,000 or 100,000 units included in each contract depending on the package (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the MCP server source or the legal documents (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 37, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.collibra.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.collibra.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "knowledge.search", "data.lineage" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "graphql", "sales-led", "status-page", "sla", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 346, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 0, "reliability": 66, "schema": 83, "security": 68, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 definitions for each REST API, printed on every reference page of developer.collibra.com and served by each instance at `/docs/index.html`", "The developer portal publishes `llms.txt`, a Markdown copy of every page and an MCP server for searching the documentation", "Every tool in the open-source MCP server declares `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint` and `idempotentHint`, and the 18 data quality tools stay unregistered until a flag is set", "OAuth 2.0 client credentials for integrations and an authorisation code flow with PKCE for MCP clients, with access tokens valid for 5 minutes", "A 99.5 per cent monthly uptime target with service credits of 1 to 15 per cent, and an 18-month deprecation period announced for retired REST properties" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour", "No general request rate limit or `Retry-After` guidance found. Only the OAuth token endpoint has numbers, a pool of 100 tokens refilled at 30 a minute", "The Developer Terms of 22 August 2023 forbid publishing benchmarks and calls not driven by bona fide end user requests, except reasonable testing", "No prompt-injection guidance found, although tools return descriptions and comments written by catalogue users", "The local MCP server signs in with a Collibra username and password only, and `security.txt` expired on 31 December 2025" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask a Collibra administrator to register an OAuth application. Integration applications use client credentials, and MCP clients need a user application with a redirect URI", "Reuse each access token for its 5 minutes. The token endpoint answers 429 once a client drains its pool of 100 tokens, refilled at 30 a minute", "Page large reads with `cursor=` and `sortField=ID`. Cursor and offset parameters cannot be combined, and Search API `limit` plus `offset` cannot exceed 10,000", "Keep Import API files to 10,000 assets or fewer and run at most 8 imports at once. Retry a job that fails on a concurrency error", "Expect `discover_data_assets` and `discover_business_glossary` to consume Collibra Units and to need the `dgc.ai-copilot` permission. Use `search_asset_keyword` for free keyword search" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 0, "reliability": 66, "schema": 83, "security": 68, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 89 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e' https://\u003cinstance\u003e.collibra.com/rest/2.0/communities", "config": { "mcpServers": { "collibra": { "command": "/path/to/chip-...", "type": "stdio" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/collibra" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Collibra Inc.", "domain": "collibra.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-06-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/master-collibra-agreement", "privacy": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.collibra.com", "changelog": "https://productresources.collibra.com/docs/collibra/latest/Content/ReleaseNotes/to_release-notes.htm", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Master Collibra Agreement (click-through version of 6 August 2026) is with Collibra Inc., 28 Liberty Street, Suite 4050, New York, NY 10005 for orders shipped to North America, and with Collibra UK Limited, Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London for all others. The second is governed by the law of England and Wales.", "The Developer Terms (22 August 2023) and the Privacy Policy (24 September 2026) name Collibra Belgium BV and its affiliates.", "Each legal page on www.collibra.com is a cover page that links a PDF on images.collibracloud.com. We read the PDFs.", "The Privacy Policy covers Collibra's websites and says it does not apply to personal information Collibra processes for customers. That is governed by the Data Processing Addendum of 1 October 2026 at https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-data-processing-addendum.", "www.collibra.com/.well-known/security.txt carries `Expires: 2025-12-31T00:00:00Z`. It names a security requests page and the bug bounty rules.", "RDAP gives collibra.com a registration date of 2007-06-30." ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.json", "live": { "slug": "collibra", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.collibra.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:22.042462941Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "collibra/chip", "version": "v0.0.47", "released": "2026-08-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:58.350732285Z" } ], "githubStars": 37, "pages": [ { "url": "https://productresources.collibra.com/docs/collibra/latest/Content/ReleaseNotes/to_release-notes.htm", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:00.442312281Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "306e62e3e48e" }, { "url": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/collibra-privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:10.565608247Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f8dfb358e1c5" }, { "url": "https://www.collibra.com/legal/documents/master-collibra-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:12.714609966Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "036a1ac5712a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:22.042462941Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere Inc.", "b": "Collibra", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "30", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2022-09-07", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "37 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Collibra?" }, { "answer": "Cohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Collibra takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cohere North and Collibra need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Cohere North and Collibra without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 68" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "cohere-north", "watchFor": "No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 37", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 69" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.", "slug": "collibra", "watchFor": "No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour" } ], "job": { "capability": "knowledge.search", "name": "Company knowledge search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-cohere-north.json", "title": "Alation vs Cohere North", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-cohere-north" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-cohere-north.json", "title": "Atlan vs Cohere North", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-cohere-north" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-glean.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-guru.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.json", "title": "Collibra vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-glean.json", "title": "Collibra vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-guru.json", "title": "Collibra vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Collibra vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Collibra vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.json", "title": "Alation vs Collibra", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-collibra.json", "title": "Atlan vs Collibra", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-collibra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-datahub.json", "title": "Collibra vs DataHub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-datahub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-marmot.json", "title": "Collibra vs Marmot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-marmot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-openmetadata.json", "title": "Collibra vs OpenMetadata", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-openmetadata" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Collibra vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 29, "cohere-north": 37, "collibra": 66, "edge": "collibra", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cohere-north": 85, "collibra": 83, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "cohere-north": 71, "collibra": 75, "edge": "collibra", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "cohere-north": 77, "collibra": 68, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "cohere-north": 0, "collibra": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cohere-north": 78, "collibra": 76, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "cohere-north": 69, "collibra": 82, "edge": "collibra", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do company knowledge search.", "verdicts": { "cohere-north": "North has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, OAuth with PKCE and 16 scopes, and structured errors that say which failures are safe to retry. Access is the main limitation. Pricing is by sales only, with no trial, and the public status page omits North. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026 and the latest dated release is 1 October.", "collibra": "Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.min.md" }, "markdown": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Cohere North: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #666 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json\n- Collibra: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #346 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cohere North (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 68\n\nWatch for: No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation\n\n### Collibra (B)\n\nGood for: An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 37\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 69\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere North | Collibra | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 66 | Collibra +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 83 | Cohere North +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 75 | Collibra +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 68 | Cohere North +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 76 | Cohere North +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 82 | Collibra +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere North | Collibra |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Collibra |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement |\n| Tools exposed | none | 30 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 37 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cohere North.** North has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, OAuth with PKCE and 16 scopes, and structured errors that say which failures are safe to retry. Access is the main limitation. Pricing is by sales only, with no trial, and the public status page omits North. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026 and the latest dated release is 1 October.\n\n**Collibra.** Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cohere North\n\n1. Get the North host from your admin and call https://\u003chost\u003e/api. Cohere-hosted examples use north.cohere.com\n2. Request an OAuth token with only the scopes the task needs, such as chat_v2_ext, rather than a pasted developer token\n3. Retry only when is_retryable is true, waiting retry_after_seconds or Retry-After, with backoff capped near 60 seconds\n4. Strip raw_prompt and raw_generation from chat responses before keeping them in context\n5. Use /v1/responses to call North through the OpenAI SDK by changing the base URL and key\n\n### Collibra\n\n1. Ask a Collibra administrator to register an OAuth application. Integration applications use client credentials, and MCP clients need a user application with a redirect URI\n2. Reuse each access token for its 5 minutes. The token endpoint answers 429 once a client drains its pool of 100 tokens, refilled at 30 a minute\n3. Page large reads with `cursor=` and `sortField=ID`. Cursor and offset parameters cannot be combined, and Search API `limit` plus `offset` cannot exceed 10,000\n4. Keep Import API files to 10,000 assets or fewer and run at most 8 imports at once. Retry a job that fails on a concurrency error\n5. Expect `discover_data_assets` and `discover_business_glossary` to consume Collibra Units and to need the `dgc.ai-copilot` permission. Use `search_asset_keyword` for free keyword search\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Collibra?\n\nCollibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Cohere North and Collibra need an API key?\n\nCohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Collibra takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cohere North and Collibra without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-north\", \"b\": \"collibra\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cohere-north collibra`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cohere North or Collibra\n\n- [Alation vs Cohere North](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-cohere-north.md)\n- [Atlan vs Cohere North](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-cohere-north.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Dust](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-glean.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Guru](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-guru.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Onyx](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-onyx.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Overclock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-overclock.md)\n- [Cohere North vs Secoda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.md)\n- [Collibra vs Dust](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.md)\n- [Collibra vs Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-glean.md)\n- [Collibra vs Guru](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-guru.md)\n- [Collibra vs Onyx](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-onyx.md)\n- [Collibra vs Overclock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.md)\n- [Alation vs Collibra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-collibra.md)\n- [Atlan vs Collibra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-collibra.md)\n- [Collibra vs DataHub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-datahub.md)\n- [Collibra vs Marmot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-marmot.md)\n- [Collibra vs OpenMetadata](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-openmetadata.md)\n- [Collibra vs Secoda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-10", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Cohere North vs Collibra", "url": "" } ], "description": "Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to Cohere North's 55.1 (C) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.", "facts": [ "Cohere North C 55.1", "Collibra B 64.6", "scores" ], "h1": "Cohere North vs Collibra", "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/compare-cohere-north-vs-collibra.png", "path": "/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra", "published": "2026-10-01", "section": "tools", "title": "Cohere North vs Collibra for AI agents in 2026: scores and prices", "toc": null, "updated": "2026-10-09", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra" }, "tokens": { "markdown": 2400, "slim": 730 }, "version": 1 }