# Cohere North vs Secoda (slim)

> Cohere North scores 55.1 (C) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Cohere North: C 55.1, rank #666 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.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 59; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 44; Security & auth, 77 against 54; Maintenance & community, 78 against 60; Transparency & trust, 69 against 58.
- Secoda, good 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. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Cohere North | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere North | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |