# Cohere North vs Guru (slim)

> Cohere North scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.3 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Guru leads on reliability. Both do company knowledge search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Cohere North scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.3 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Guru leads on reliability. Both do company knowledge search.

- Cohere North: C 55.4, rank #320 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Guru: E 45.3, rank #407 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.min.md
- Cohere North, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 48; Security & auth, 77 against 52; Maintenance & community, 78 against 46; Transparency & trust, 73 against 61. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5.
- Guru, good for Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes. Ahead on Reliability, 48 against 37. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Cohere North | Guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 46 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere North | Guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Guru Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.json |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.getguru/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (2) |