# Cohere North vs Lens (Thought Industries) (slim)

> Cohere North scores 55.1 (C) to Lens's 43.3 (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 Lens (Thought Industries)'s 43.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lens (Thought Industries) leads on payments & pricing. Both do company knowledge search.

- Cohere North: C 55.1, rank #763 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Lens (Thought Industries): E 43.3, rank #1041 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thought-industries-lens.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 Reliability, 37 against 30; Schema & documentation, 85 against 56; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 37; Security & auth, 77 against 56; Maintenance & community, 78 against 36; Transparency & trust, 69 against 63.
- Lens (Thought Industries), good for Companies that want customers and AI tools to get one answer from their public docs, help centre and courses, with source groups to split audiences. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 0. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Cohere North | Lens (Thought Industries) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 56 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 37 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 36 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere North | Lens (Thought Industries) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Thought Industries, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.lens.thoughtindustries.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary hosted service. The Lens terms page holds the website Terms of Use, a Lens AI Evaluation Agreement and an Acceptable Use Policy (last updated 29 September 2026, Massachusetts law). Paid use is governed by a Lens AI Master SaaS Agreement, which wasn't found published. No open-source code or package was found |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-20 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 |  |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (4) |