{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cohere-north", "name": "Cohere North", "vendor": "Cohere Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://cohere.com/north", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Cohere North is an enterprise AI agent and search platform from Cohere in Toronto. It indexes connected work apps into Compass for permission-aware search and chat, with a REST API per instance. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "license": "Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/cohere-ai/north-sdk-go" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Every call takes `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` at https://\u003cnorth-instance\u003e/api. A user can copy a developer token from the instance's /developer page, or an app registered by an admin runs the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE against `/api/oauth/authorize` and `/api/oauth/token`, choosing from 16 scopes (chat_v2_ext, agents_ext_v2, libraries_ext, files, responses_ext, admin_permissions and others) plus offline_access for refresh tokens. A revoke endpoint exists. Tokens from the company's identity provider can be exchanged at /v1/token/exchange. North exposes no OIDC discovery document. Deployments behind Identity-Aware Proxy may also need an IAP header.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Contact sales. cohere.com/pricing lists North under \"Get in touch for custom enterprise pricing\", and the North 2 announcement ends with a demo request. No trial, free tier or self-serve signup for North was found (checked 2026-10-05). Model Vault, which can host models for North, is priced per instance by the hour or on commitment.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the North developer guide, the North OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north-documentation", "llmsTxt": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/openapi/north.json", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.mcp-client", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "go", "sales-led", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 666, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 0, "reliability": 37, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-26. NVD published CVE-2025-61162 to CVE-2025-61165 against Cohere North 1.1.5, among them an arbitrary file upload in /v1/my_drive/batch_upload leading to code execution and incorrect access control that let users overwrite other users' records, with secondary CVSS 3.1 scores of 7.5 to 9.8 and NVD status Deferred (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61165). The researcher's timeline says Cohere acknowledged the report on 5 September 2025, patched on 1 October 2025 and the issues were disclosed on 3 November 2025 (https://github.com/bdadoa/Cohere---North-AI-1.1.5---Vulnerabilities). Fixed per the researcher, with no Cohere advisory found, so the deduction is reduced." ], "verdict": "North has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, OAuth with PKCE and 16 scopes, and structured errors that say which failures are safe to retry. Access is the main limitation. Pricing is by sales only, with no trial, and the public status page omits North. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026 and the latest dated release is 1 October.", "bestFor": "Regulated companies that want an agent and search platform over their own documents, mail and tickets, run privately or air-gapped and called through a REST or OpenAI-compatible API.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the North API (128 operations) and for Compass search, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs", "OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, 16 scopes, refresh tokens and a revoke endpoint, or token exchange from the company's identity provider", "Errors carry a stable error_code, an is_retryable flag and retry_after_seconds, and 429 and 503 send Retry-After", "Destructive tool calls, including MCP tools marked destructiveHint, pause for user approval", "Runs Cohere-hosted, in a VPC, on premises or air-gapped, with dated platform releases several times a week" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation", "status.cohere.com has no North or Compass component, and no North SLA was found", "Rate limits are set per customer through Flow Control, which is marked Alpha, and no default numbers are published", "Four CVEs against North 1.1.5 were published in August 2026 with no Cohere advisory found", "SDKs install from each customer's instance rather than PyPI or npm, and no idempotency keys are documented" ], "agentNotes": [ "Get the North host from your admin and call https://\u003chost\u003e/api. Cohere-hosted examples use north.cohere.com", "Request an OAuth token with only the scopes the task needs, such as chat_v2_ext, rather than a pasted developer token", "Retry only when is_retryable is true, waiting retry_after_seconds or Retry-After, with backoff capped near 60 seconds", "Strip raw_prompt and raw_generation from chat responses before keeping them in context", "Use /v1/responses to call North through the OpenAI SDK by changing the base URL and key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 0, "reliability": 37, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "install": "python -m pip install \"https://$MY_NORTH/api/v1/sdk/python-latest.tar.gz\"", "http": "curl -sS \"https://$MY_NORTH/api/v1/chat\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello, North\"}],\"stream\":false,\"thinking\":{\"type\":\"disabled\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cohere-north" }, "sameCompany": [ "cohere-chat", "cohere-embed" ], "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.", "domain": "cohere.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cohere.com/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cohere.com", "changelog": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-05", "notes": [ "The API answers on each customer's own North host. The Cohere-hosted example in the quickstart is north.cohere.com, while private deployments use the customer's domain.", "status.cohere.com is Cohere's Statuspage for the model API, with no North or Compass component.", "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The trust centre links a responsible disclosure policy and bug bounty.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 1 May 2026 and points API and platform users to the subprocessor list at trustcenter.cohere.com/subprocessors.", "RDAP for cohere.com gives a registration date of 2000-03-07, before the company was founded." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.json", "live": { "slug": "cohere-north", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cohere.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:50:06.950073318Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/north-mcp-python-sdk", "version": "0.3.0", "released": "2026-03-04", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:39.752071322Z" } ], "githubStars": 14, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:19.217268298Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/reference/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:42.381407541Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://private.docs.cohere.com/north/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:59.808498276Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:50:06.950073318Z" } }, "answer": "Cohere North scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "secoda", "name": "Secoda", "vendor": "Secoda, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.secoda.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Secoda is a hosted data catalogue with lineage, monitoring and governance, which Atlassian has acquired. Agents use a REST API with a workspace API key, and a local MCP server for search, lineage and SQL.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json", "repo": "https://github.com/secoda/secoda-mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Secoda workspace. A user generates an API key under workspace settings, API, and sends it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The key has the same access as the user who created it, so it follows that user's role (Viewer, Editor or Admin) and team membership. No scopes, expiry or OAuth flow were found in the reviewed documentation. The MCP server's README says an admin generates the token. The MCP server reads the same key from the `API_TOKEN` environment variable.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.secoda.co/pricing names three plans, Core, Premium and Enterprise, with editor and admin seats listed as Custom, and every plan button links to a sales form. No trial or sign-up button was found on the site, so an agent cannot start without a contract. The plan table lists API access under Core, while the FAQ on the same page says the API is on Business and Enterprise plans. The API docs still say to sign up for free at app.secoda.co, which we did not confirm (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the pricing page or the MCP server source (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.secoda.co/api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.secoda.co/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "data.lineage", "knowledge.search", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "sales-led", "sla", "soc2", "bug-bounty", "self-hosted-option" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 875, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API reference embeds OpenAPI 3.0 definitions on every page, with `llms.txt` and Markdown copies, and the subscription agreement carries a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue.", "bestFor": "A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Every API reference page embeds an OpenAPI 3.0 definition (version 8.22.66), and the docs publish `llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of each page", "The Service Level Agreement commits to 99.9 per cent monthly availability, with a 5 per cent service credit for a day with 30 minutes or more of downtime", "An audit log filterable by user, date, type and resource, readable through `/api/v1/activity_log/audit_logs/`, with SIEM logging on the Enterprise plan", "25 subprocessors are listed with locations, and hosting is on AWS in us-east-1, eu-central-1 or ap-southeast-1", "Self-hosted releases are tagged regularly, five between 4 August and 6 October 2026, the latest v2026.3.1" ], "weaknesses": [ "No price is published. The three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) link to a sales form, and no trial or sign-up button was found on the site", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index", "The public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 and the self-hosted changelog at 29 October 2025, while self-hosted versions were tagged up to 6 October 2026", "An API key has the same access as the user who created it, with no scopes. No idempotency keys and no error body format are documented", "The MCP page lists eight tools, and the published server registers six, with one-line descriptions and no read-only or destructive annotations", "The Terms of Use (23 December 2021) forbid bots that crawl or scrape Secoda, and the subscription agreement forbids disclosing benchmark results. Both matter before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pick the base URL by workspace region. `app.secoda.co` uses `api.secoda.co`, `eu.secoda.co` uses `eapi.secoda.co` and `apac.secoda.co` uses `aapi.secoda.co`", "Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429", "List with `/api/v1/resource/catalog` and a URL-encoded JSON `filter`. The per-type list endpoints for tables are marked deprecated, and results stop at 10,000 resources", "Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request", "Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise", "Treat an API key as the creating user. `run_sql` in the MCP server works only when an admin has enabled Run SQL and the user has query access to the integration" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.secoda.co/api/v1/resource/catalog' -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "secoda-mcp": { "args": [ "/path/to/secoda-mcp/server.py" ], "command": "python", "env": { "API_TOKEN": "your-api-token", "API_URL": "https://app.secoda.co/api/v1/" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/secoda" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Secoda, Inc.", "domain": "secoda.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Master Subscription Agreement names Secoda, Inc., an Ontario corporation at 109 Atlantic Ave., Toronto, ON M6K 1G1, Canada, and is governed by the laws of Ontario and Canada. It incorporates the Service Level Agreement and the Data Processing Agreement published beside it.", "Atlassian has acquired Secoda, per the post on www.secoda.co updated 4 December 2025. None of the legal documents we read mentions Atlassian.", "The Terms of Use page (last updated 23 December 2021) covers the site and says not to use bots to crawl or scrape Secoda. The Secoda AI Terms (17 July 2025) supplement the services agreement.", "The API answers on api.secoda.co, eapi.secoda.co and aapi.secoda.co.", "www.secoda.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security policy and bug bounty pages take reports by email.", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index.", "The registration date of secoda.co was not established. The RDAP lookup we used has no service for .co domains." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.json", "live": { "slug": "secoda", "githubStars": 1, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:15.806583184Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb1750df5552" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "152634c5bb84" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.29936577Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9530fcb310d5" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere Inc.", "b": "Secoda, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2022-09-07", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Cohere North scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Secoda?" }, { "answer": "Cohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Secoda needs an API key.", "question": "Do Cohere North and Secoda need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Cohere North and Secoda without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 59", "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 44", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 54", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 60", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 58" ], "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": null, "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.", "slug": "secoda", "watchFor": "No price is published. 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No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cohere North scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Cohere North: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #666 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-north.json\n- Secoda: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #875 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cohere North (C)\n\nGood for: Regulated companies that want an agent and search platform over their own documents, mail and tickets, run privately or air-gapped and called through a REST or OpenAI-compatible API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 54\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 58\n\nWatch for: No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a sales conversation\n\n### Secoda (E)\n\nGood for: A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No price is published. The three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) link to a sales form, and no trial or sign-up button was found on the site\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere North | Secoda | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 40 | Secoda +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 59 | Cohere North +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 44 | Cohere North +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 54 | Cohere North +23 |\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 | 60 | Cohere North +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 58 | Cohere North +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere North | Secoda |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 1 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cohere North.** North has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, OAuth with PKCE and 16 scopes, and structured errors that say which failures are safe to retry. Access is the main limitation. Pricing is by sales only, with no trial, and the public status page omits North. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026 and the latest dated release is 1 October.\n\n**Secoda.** The REST API reference embeds OpenAPI 3.0 definitions on every page, with `llms.txt` and Markdown copies, and the subscription agreement carries a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue.\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### Secoda\n\n1. Pick the base URL by workspace region. `app.secoda.co` uses `api.secoda.co`, `eu.secoda.co` uses `eapi.secoda.co` and `apac.secoda.co` uses `aapi.secoda.co`\n2. Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429\n3. List with `/api/v1/resource/catalog` and a URL-encoded JSON `filter`. The per-type list endpoints for tables are marked deprecated, and results stop at 10,000 resources\n4. Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request\n5. Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise\n6. Treat an API key as the creating user. `run_sql` in the MCP server works only when an admin has enabled Run SQL and the user has query access to the integration\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere North or Secoda?\n\nCohere North scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Cohere North and Secoda need an API key?\n\nCohere North uses an OAuth sign-in. Secoda needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cohere North and Secoda without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cohere North. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-north\", \"b\": \"secoda\"}`. 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