# Collibra vs Dust (slim)

> 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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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: B 64.6, rank #346 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md
- Dust: B 62.8, rank #419 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md
- Collibra, 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 Runs on your own machine.
- Dust, 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 A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.

| Category | Collibra | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Collibra | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Collibra | Permutation Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://dust.tt/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 |
| 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 |