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      "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": 55.4,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 320,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 460,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 71,
          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 37,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 77,
          "transparency": 73
        },
        "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": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 71,
          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 37,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 77,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "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": 90
      },
      "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": "2026-10-06T01:47:09.331987267Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:47:09.331987267Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "glean",
      "name": "Glean",
      "vendor": "Glean Technologies, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.glean.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "company-knowledge",
      "summary": "Enterprise search and AI assistant from Glean Technologies in San Francisco.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/glean.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/gleanwork/open-api",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "glean-api-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@gleanwork/api-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/gleanwork/api-client-go"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Every API takes a Bearer token at https://\u003cinstance\u003e-be.glean.com. The Client API and the MCP server accept OAuth access tokens from Glean's own authorisation server, which supports dynamic client registration, or from the company's identity provider with `X-Glean-Auth-Type: OAUTH`. Glean-issued tokens carry any of 19 scopes (SEARCH, CHAT, DOCUMENTS, MCP, TOOLS and others), can expire, and can't change scope after creation. A user-scoped token works with its owner's access. A global token, which only a Super Admin can create, can impersonate whichever user is named in `X-Glean-ActAs`. The Indexing API takes only Glean-issued tokens.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "No public prices. glean.com/pricing lands on the home page, whose buttons ask for a demo, and we found no trial, free tier or self-serve signup. The Platform API's error list includes `spend_limit_exceeded` (403), so some usage is metered against a limit, with no published unit price (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "Paid",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 57955,
        "pypiWeekly": 25682,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.glean.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.glean.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gleanwork/open-api/main/final_specs/client_rest.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "knowledge.search",
        "memory.graph",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "enterprise",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "go",
        "java",
        "sales-led",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-02",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 69.8,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 105,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 460,
        "categoryRank": 1,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 80,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 93,
          "security": 87,
          "transparency": 80
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Three public OpenAPI specs (Client, Indexing, Platform) regenerated almost daily, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs. No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request.",
        "bestFor": "Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied.",
        "strengths": [
          "Three public OpenAPI specs (Client, Indexing, Platform) regenerated almost daily, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs",
          "OAuth with dynamic client registration, or Glean-issued tokens with 19 scopes, user-scoped or global, and optional expiry",
          "Source-system permissions enforced on every search, chat and document read through the MCP server",
          "MCP activity logs filterable by server, tool, user and date, and admin audit logs for MCP settings",
          "Six-month deprecation policy with fixed removal dates and an `X-Glean-Deprecated` response header"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request",
          "Eight incidents on status.glean.com between 10 July and 3 September 2026, seven marked major, most on Chat and the Assistant",
          "No idempotency keys, and no documented confirmation step for MCP tools that write",
          "A global token can act as any user named in `X-Glean-ActAs`",
          "The privacy statement covers only the website, and product data handling sits in a DPA and order forms"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Get the backend host from the Glean admin. APIs answer at https://\u003cinstance\u003e-be.glean.com and MCP at that host under /mcp/\u003cserver-name\u003e",
          "Ask for a user-scoped token with only the scopes the task needs. A global token can impersonate whoever `X-Glean-ActAs` names",
          "Keep chat under 0.5 calls a second and search under 5, and back off on 429",
          "Call the Platform API's `/api/search` for typed filters, `page_size` up to 100 and problem+json errors",
          "Send `X-Glean-Exclude-Deprecated-After` in tests to catch fields due for removal"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 69.8
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 80,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 93,
          "security": 87,
          "transparency": 70
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install glean-api-client",
        "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add gleanwork/claude-plugins\n/plugin install glean@glean-plugins"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/glean"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Glean Technologies, Inc.",
        "domain": "glean.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1998-11-22",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6127a84dfe068e153ef20572/66e479a764b6346acabb92b2_Glean%20Technologies,%20Inc.%20Terms%20of%20Service%20Sep%203%202024%20(Online)%20(1).pdf",
        "privacy": "https://www.glean.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.glean.com",
        "changelog": "https://developers.glean.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy statement (effective 1 April 2026) names Glean Technologies, Inc., 634 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, and says it doesn't apply to use of Glean's products.",
          "Each customer's APIs answer at https://\u003cinstance\u003e-be.glean.com, a glean.com subdomain, and the MCP server at the same backend under /mcp/\u003cserver-name\u003e.",
          "www.glean.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page sends reports to the public Bugcrowd programme.",
          "The online terms of service we read are version v3Sep2024 and incorporate a Customer SLA at glean.com/legal/sla, which refused our reader. The DPA of 6 March 2026 is published as a PDF on assets.glean.com, which also refused our reader.",
          "RDAP for glean.com gives a registration date of 1998-11-22 and Squarespace Domains II LLC as registrar."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "glean",
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.glean.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T01:26:00.977743568Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@gleanwork/api-client",
            "version": "0.20.16",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-05T16:53:34.108239209Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "glean-api-client",
            "version": "0.17.16",
            "released": "2026-10-03",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-05T16:53:33.921971364Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 6,
        "npmWeekly": 55353,
        "pypiWeekly": 26480,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://glean.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:16:30.402162571Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://developers.glean.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:19:03.135906397Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "glean.com",
          "registered": "1998-11-22",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/glean.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:57.704851401Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://developers.glean.com/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:55:06.052132426Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "25a50be170ab"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.glean.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:02:48.207830244Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:02:48.207830244Z",
            "fingerprint": "6f6e90624041"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:26:00.977743568Z"
      }
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Cohere Inc.",
        "b": "Glean Technologies, Inc.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "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 Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
        "b": "2026-10-02",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "2.5/5 (2)",
        "b": "3.5/5 (2)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Glean?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Cohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Glean takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.",
        "question": "Do Cohere North and Glean need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. No hosted endpoint is listed for Glean.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Cohere North and Glean without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "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, 60 against 37",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 85",
          "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 71",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 77",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 73"
        ],
        "also": [
          "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"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied.",
        "slug": "glean",
        "watchFor": "No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request"
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "knowledge.search",
      "name": "Company knowledge search"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "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"
      },
      {
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Access starts with a sales conversation\n\n### Glean (B)\n\nGood for: Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 37\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 85\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 71\n- Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 77\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 73\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere North | Glean | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 60 | Glean +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 93 | Glean +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 80 | Glean +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 87 | Glean +10 |\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 | 85 | Glean +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 80 | Glean +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.4 · C** | **69.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere North | Glean |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Glean Technologies, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\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 Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Popularity | none | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\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**Glean.** Three public OpenAPI specs (Client, Indexing, Platform) regenerated almost daily, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs. No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request.\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### Glean\n\n1. Get the backend host from the Glean admin. APIs answer at https://\u003cinstance\u003e-be.glean.com and MCP at that host under /mcp/\u003cserver-name\u003e\n2. Ask for a user-scoped token with only the scopes the task needs. A global token can impersonate whoever `X-Glean-ActAs` names\n3. Keep chat under 0.5 calls a second and search under 5, and back off on 429\n4. Call the Platform API's `/api/search` for typed filters, `page_size` up to 100 and problem+json errors\n5. Send `X-Glean-Exclude-Deprecated-After` in tests to catch fields due for removal\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Glean?\n\nGlean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Cohere North and Glean need an API key?\n\nCohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Glean takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cohere North and Glean without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. No hosted endpoint is listed for Glean.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-glean.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-glean.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-north\", \"b\": \"glean\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cohere-north glean`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/glean.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cohere North or Glean\n\n- [Atlan vs Cohere North](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-cohere-north.md)\n- [Atlan vs Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-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- [Glean vs Guru](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-guru.md)\n- [Glean vs Onyx](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-onyx.md)\n- [Glean vs Overclock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-overclock.md)\n",
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