# Collibra vs DataHub

> Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to DataHub's 59.4 (C) for data catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against DataHub's 59.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. DataHub leads on payments & pricing. Both do data catalogues.

- Collibra: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #346 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json
- DataHub: grade C, 59.4/100, rank #549 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datahub.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datahub.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Collibra (B)

Good for: An organisation that already runs Collibra and wants an agent to look up assets, glossary terms, lineage and data quality, or to write assets and classifications under a governed role.

Ahead on:
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 64

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where DataHub loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No published price, trial or self-serve sign-up. The pricing address returns 404 and the site links a demo request and a product tour

### DataHub (C)

Good for: Teams already running DataHub who want agents to find tables, trace column lineage, read the SQL people run and see owners and glossary terms before touching data.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 10 against 0

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Open source

Watch for: The eight default tools carry about 26,000 characters of descriptions, and search and get_lineage each repeat the same 3,063-character filter grammar


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Collibra | DataHub | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 68 | DataHub +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 81 | Collibra +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 78 | DataHub +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 65 | Collibra +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 10 | DataHub +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 77 | DataHub +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 64 | Collibra +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **64.6 · B** | **59.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Collibra | DataHub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Collibra | Acryl Data, Inc. (DataHub) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.datahub.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | stdio, HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Master Collibra Agreement, with the Developer Terms for the REST APIs and CLI. The local MCP server (chip) is Apache-2.0, and the CLI binary ships under a Binary Code Licence Agreement | Apache-2.0 (DataHub Core and mcp-server-datahub). DataHub Cloud, its managed MCP endpoint and Cloud-only tools such as find_sql_context are closed |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2020-05-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-11 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 37 stars | 13k stars, 1.6M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Collibra.** Each REST API has an OpenAPI 3.0 definition, the developer portal publishes llms.txt and Markdown pages, and every MCP tool carries read-only and destructive annotations. Access needs a sales contract, since no price, trial or self-serve sign-up is published, and no general API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.

**DataHub.** Apache-2.0 platform and MCP server, run with `uvx mcp-server-datahub@latest` or the acryldata/mcp-server-datahub Docker image against DataHub Core or DataHub Cloud. The eight default tools carry about 26,000 characters of descriptions, and search and get_lineage each repeat the same 3,063-character filter grammar.

## Before you call either

### Collibra

1. Ask a Collibra administrator to register an OAuth application. Integration applications use client credentials, and MCP clients need a user application with a redirect URI
2. Reuse each access token for its 5 minutes. The token endpoint answers 429 once a client drains its pool of 100 tokens, refilled at 30 a minute
3. Page large reads with `cursor=` and `sortField=ID`. Cursor and offset parameters cannot be combined, and Search API `limit` plus `offset` cannot exceed 10,000
4. Keep Import API files to 10,000 assets or fewer and run at most 8 imports at once. Retry a job that fails on a concurrency error
5. Expect `discover_data_assets` and `discover_business_glossary` to consume Collibra Units and to need the `dgc.ai-copilot` permission. Use `search_asset_keyword` for free keyword search

### DataHub

1. Start keyword queries with `/q` and pass filters as one string, such as `entity_type = dataset AND platform = snowflake`
2. Call `search` with `num_results=0` first to get the tags, glossary terms, platforms and domains in use
3. Page with `offset`. `num_results` is capped at 50
4. Expect no write tools unless the operator set `TOOLS_IS_MUTATION_ENABLED=true`, and create tags and terms before `add_tags` or `add_terms` refers to them
5. Use https://mcp.datahub.com/mcp with OAuth only on DataHub Cloud v1.0.2 or later. DataHub Core needs the local server and a personal access token

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Collibra or DataHub?

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against DataHub's 59.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. DataHub leads on payments & pricing.

### Can an agent call Collibra and DataHub without installing anything?

Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. DataHub has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.datahub.com/mcp.

### Are Collibra and DataHub open source?

No open-source release is listed for Collibra. DataHub is open source (Apache-2.0 (DataHub Core and mcp-server-datahub). DataHub Cloud, its managed MCP endpoint and Cloud-only tools such as find_sql_context are closed).


## For agents

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