{ "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": 711, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "categoryRank": 12, "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": "2026-10-15T00:38:15.769140677Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "version": "0.3.0", "released": "2026-03-04", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:45:39.114472093Z" } ], "githubStars": 14, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:43.1105569Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:13:49.294626264Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cohere.com", "registered": "2000-03-07", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cohere.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:24:36.495604295Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:05:38.44529246Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:38:15.769140677Z" } }, "answer": "Hexis Cloud and Cohere North score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.3 (C) and 55.1 (C). Cohere North leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "hexis", "name": "Hexis Cloud", "vendor": "Bevelites GmbH (Bevel)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.bevel.software/hexis", "kind": "mcp", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Hexis Cloud is the hosted edition of Hexis, an Apache-2.0 platform from Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) that keeps a team's knowledge, agent skills and tool connections in git, with per-file access control, and serves them to agents over MCP.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis", "license": "Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/bevel-software/hexis" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.1 on the MCP endpoint, with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, refresh tokens, revocation and one scope, `mcp`, advertised through RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata. Or a connection key (`bevel_…`) minted under External agent access as a Bearer token, stored as a SHA-256 hash and revocable. Either way the agent acts with the permissions of the person who connected it, and a connection can be read-only. People sign in with Google, Microsoft or a password; MFA only through Google or Microsoft.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free for up to 3 seats with no time limit, and the terms say it is not a trial. Team is €10 a seat a month excluding VAT, 1 to 50 seats, billed monthly through Stripe. Enterprise and more than 50 seats are by order form. Hexis itself is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the terms, the pricing section of bevel.software/hexis or the repository. Payment is by Stripe checkout for the Team plan (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 900, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis#readme", "registryName": "io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "work.docs", "agent.tools", "automation.auth", "auth.audit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "self-hosted", "mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "api-key", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "typescript", "docker", "eu", "eu-hosted", "read-only-mode", "agent-skills", "security-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 705, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 18, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.", "bestFor": "A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.", "strengths": [ "Hexis core is Apache-2.0 on GitHub, with 36 version tags from v0.1.0 on 10 August to v0.29.0 on 14 October 2026", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration on the MCP endpoint, plus hashed, revocable connection keys", "Per-folder and per-file access rules, read-only connections and owner approval for changes to protected branches", "Audit log of agent tool calls kept 365 days by default, with each connection revocable from the workspace", "Free plan for up to 3 seats with no time limit, Team at €10 a seat a month excluding VAT" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own", "All workspaces share one Hetzner server in Nuremberg with logical separation, and the encryption keys sit on that server", "No status page and no published request rate limits for the MCP endpoint", "Over 35 platform tools are listed directly, with no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations", "Hexis Cloud is open to businesses only, and a person must sign in with Google, Microsoft or a password to create a workspace" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere", "Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused", "Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false", "Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat", "Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 18, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 81 }, "provenanceScore": 69 }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y @bevel-software/hexis-mcp --url https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software", "config": { "mcpServers": { "hexis": { "args": [ "-y", "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "HEXIS_CONNECTION_KEY": "bevel_…", "HEXIS_URL": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hexis" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Bevelites GmbH", "domain": "hexis.software", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://hexis.software/terms", "privacy": "https://hexis.software/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "Bevelites GmbH, Schleißheimer Str. 188, 80797 München, HRB 303590 at Amtsgericht München, per the Impressum at bevel.software/impressum and the terms.", "hexis.software is a single-page app. The legal pages render with JavaScript, and we read their text from the site's published script bundle.", "hexis.software/.well-known/security.txt names juan@bevel.software and expires on 30 September 2027.", "hexis.software serves the app for every path, including robots.txt, so there is no robots.txt to disallow anything. bevel.software's robots.txt disallows only /api/.", "No status page found. status.hexis.software answers 'No workspace at this address'." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.json", "live": { "slug": "hexis", "probe": { "target": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T00:41:51.043344906Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "DNS lookup failed", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 34, "samples30d": 34, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 26, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 8, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-14T21:31:42.133995117Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "DNS lookup failed" } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Bevel-Software/Hexis", "version": "v0.29.0", "released": "2026-10-14", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:57:19.802349377Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bevel-software/hexis-mcp", "version": "0.29.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:57:18.908423769Z" } ], "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 900, "mcpTools": { "url": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:44.005217518Z", "status": "error", "note": "Post \"https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp\": dial tcp: lookup \u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software: no such host", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:44.005217518Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:41:51.043344906Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere Inc.", "b": "Bevelites GmbH (Bevel)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "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": "Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-14", "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": "114 stars, 900 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Hexis Cloud and Cohere North score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.3 (C) and 55.1 (C). Cohere North leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Hexis Cloud?" }, { "answer": "Cohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Hexis Cloud takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cohere North and Hexis Cloud need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Cohere North and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cohere North. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).", "question": "Are Cohere North and Hexis Cloud open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 37 against 18", "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 57", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 64" ], "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": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 69" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card", "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.", "slug": "hexis", "watchFor": "The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own" } ], "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-hexis.json", "title": "Alation vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-hexis" }, { "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-hexis.json", "title": "Atlan vs Hexis Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-hexis" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Collibra", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-collibra" }, { "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-gemini-enterprise.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Gemini Enterprise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-gemini-enterprise" }, { "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": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-openmetadata.json", "title": "Hexis Cloud vs OpenMetadata", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hexis-vs-openmetadata" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 19, "cohere-north": 37, "edge": "cohere-north", "hexis": 18, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cohere-north": 85, "edge": "cohere-north", "hexis": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "cohere-north": 71, "edge": "cohere-north", "hexis": 57, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "cohere-north": 77, "edge": "cohere-north", "hexis": 64, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "cohere-north": 0, "edge": "hexis", "hexis": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": 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Cohere North leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and 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.", "hexis": "Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.min.md" }, "markdown": "Hexis Cloud and Cohere North score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.3 (C) and 55.1 (C). Cohere North leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Cohere North: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #711 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json\n- Hexis Cloud: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #705 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 87 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- Reliability, 37 against 18\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 64\n\nWatch for: No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation\n\n### Hexis Cloud (C)\n\nGood for: A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 69\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere North | Hexis Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 18 | Cohere North +19 |\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 | 57 | Cohere North +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 64 | Cohere North +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Hexis Cloud +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 85 | Hexis Cloud +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 75 | Hexis Cloud +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **55.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere North | Hexis Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, stdio |\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 | Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-14 |\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 | 114 stars, 900 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**Hexis Cloud.** Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.\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### Hexis Cloud\n\n1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere\n2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused\n3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false\n4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat\n5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Hexis Cloud?\n\nHexis Cloud and Cohere North score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.3 (C) and 55.1 (C). Cohere North leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Cohere North and Hexis Cloud need an API key?\n\nCohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Hexis Cloud takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cohere North and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003cworkspace\u003e.hexis.software/api/mcp.\n\n### Are Cohere North and Hexis Cloud open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Cohere North. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-hexis.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-north\", \"b\": \"hexis\"}`. 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