{ "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": 598, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 9, "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-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": "2026-10-09T10:41:30.958006069Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "version": "0.3.0", "released": "2026-03-04", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:06:17.374240548Z" } ], "githubStars": 14, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:31.944177972Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:15.546453026Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:24.70483241Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:30.958006069Z" } }, "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "b": { "slug": "dust", "name": "Dust", "vendor": "Permutation Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://dust.tt", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Dust is a platform for building AI agents on a company's documents and connected tools, from Permutation Labs in Paris. Outside agents reach it through a REST API, a JavaScript SDK, a CLI and a remote MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json", "repo": "https://github.com/dust-tt/dust", "license": "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`", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/dust-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The REST API takes a workspace API key as a Bearer token, created by an admin in the workspace under Developers, API Keys. A key can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days. The remote MCP server takes OAuth only, with dynamic client registration or a client ID metadata document, and the token works as the signed-in user. The client-side MCP server (preview) needs an OAuth personal access token. Sign-in to create a workspace is in a browser.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free seat with 500 lifetime credits. Pro is €30 a seat a month (€24 billed yearly) with 8,000 credits, Max €150 (€120 yearly) with 40,000, and Enterprise is by quote, as dust.tt/home/pricing showed our reader in euros. API and other programmatic usage has no free credits and draws only on the workspace credit pool, bought as top-ups on Business or committed on Enterprise. No price per top-up credit was found (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1482, "npmWeekly": 17225, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.dust.tt", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.dust.tt/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dust-tt/dust/refs/heads/main/front-api/public/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "mit", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "cli", "eu-region", "status-page", "soc2", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 378, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "The platform's source is public under the MIT licence at github.com/dust-tt/dust, with commits on the day of the check", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 68 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Remote MCP server at `https://dust.tt/mcp` and `https://eu.dust.tt/mcp`, with OAuth, dynamic client registration and the signed-in user's own access", "API keys can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days", "SOC 2 Type II on the security page, a HackerOne disclosure programme, and US or EU hosting" ], "weaknesses": [ "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use", "Rate limits are published for document upserts and app runs only, and no Retry-After guidance was found in the docs", "The terms link redirects to a Notion site drawn by script, so the service terms, any SLA and the DPA went unread", "Audit logs are an Enterprise feature, and no security.txt is published (404)", "Two major incidents on status.dust.tt in the last 90 days, one of 2 hours 3 minutes on 16 July 2026 that covered the API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server", "Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server", "Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help", "Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`", "Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace" ], "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": 62.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @dust-tt/client", "config": { "mcpServers": { "dust": { "type": "http", "url": "https://dust.tt/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/dust" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Permutation Labs", "domain": "dust.tt", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://dust.tt/home/platform-privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.dust.tt", "changelog": "https://docs.dust.tt/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Platform Privacy Policy names Permutation Labs, 86 avenue de Wagram, 75017 Paris, France. It covers the platform where Dust is the data controller, not customer data Dust handles as a processor.", "No terms link is recorded. dust.tt/terms redirects (308) to a Notion site, dust-tt.notion.site, which is drawn by script and gave our reader no text, so we could not tell which document there governs the platform.", "The API and the MCP server answer on dust.tt and eu.dust.tt. OAuth for MCP is at signin.dust.tt.", "dust.tt/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to dust.tt/home/vulnerability, a HackerOne programme.", "No RDAP service answers for the .tt registry, so the domain's registration date is not recorded.", "dust.tt/robots.txt returns 404. docs.dust.tt/robots.txt carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.json", "live": { "slug": "dust", "probe": { "target": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:41.938062523Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 202, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 156, "p95ms24h": 202, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.dust.tt", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:35.388664013Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:41.938062523Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere Inc.", "b": "Permutation Labs", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "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": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2022-09-07", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Dust?" }, { "answer": "Cohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Dust takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cohere North and Dust need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Cohere North and Dust without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cohere North. Dust is open source (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`).", "question": "Are Cohere North and Dust open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 75" ], "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, 53 against 37", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 78" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "dust", "watchFor": "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use" } ], "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/alation-vs-dust.json", "title": "Alation vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust" }, { "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/atlan-vs-dust.json", "title": "Atlan vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-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/dust-vs-glean.json", "title": "Dust vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru.json", "title": "Dust vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Dust vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Dust vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 16, "cohere-north": 37, "dust": 53, "edge": "dust", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "cohere-north": 85, "dust": 75, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "cohere-north": 71, "dust": 67, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "cohere-north": 77, "dust": 75, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "cohere-north": 0, "dust": 20, "edge": "dust", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "cohere-north": 78, "dust": 86, "edge": "dust", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 1, "cohere-north": 69, "dust": 68, "edge": "cohere-north", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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.", "dust": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.min.md" }, "markdown": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema \u0026 documentation. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Cohere North: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #598 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json\n- Dust: grade B, 62.8/100, rank #378 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json\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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 75\n\nWatch for: No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation\n\n### Dust (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 53 against 37\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 78\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere North | Dust | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 53 | Dust +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 75 | Cohere North +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 67 | Cohere North +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 75 | Cohere North +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 20 | Dust +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 86 | Dust +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 68 | Cohere North +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **62.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere North | Dust |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Permutation Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://dust.tt/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\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 | 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` |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk |\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**Dust.** The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.\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### Dust\n\n1. Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server\n2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server\n3. Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help\n4. Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`\n5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Dust?\n\nDust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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