# Collibra vs Dust

> Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to Dust's 62.8 (B) for company knowledge search. 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 Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do company knowledge search.

- 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
- Dust: grade B, 62.8/100, rank #419 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.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:
- Reliability, 66 against 53
- Schema & documentation, 83 against 75
- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 68

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

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

### Dust (B)

Good for: A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 75 against 68
- Payments & pricing, 20 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 86 against 76

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

Watch for: Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Collibra | Dust | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 53 | Collibra +13 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 75 | Collibra +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 67 | Collibra +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 75 | Dust +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 20 | Dust +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 86 | Dust +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 68 | Collibra +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.6 · B** | **62.8 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Collibra | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Collibra | Permutation Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://dust.tt/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | 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 | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 37 stars | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk |

## 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.

**Dust.** The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.

## 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

### Dust

1. Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server
2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server
3. Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help
4. Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`
5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace

## Questions

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

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Collibra and Dust need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

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

Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp.

### Are Collibra and Dust open source?

No open-source release is listed for Collibra. Dust is open source (MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "collibra", "b": "dust"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare collibra dust`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json

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