# Collibra vs Glean (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (B) to Collibra's 64.6 (B) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Collibra's 64.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Collibra leads on reliability. Both do company knowledge search.

- Collibra: B 64.6, rank #346 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md
- Glean: B 69.8, rank #167 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.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 60. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Glean, good for Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 93 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 75; Security & auth, 87 against 68; Maintenance & community, 85 against 76.

| Category | Collibra | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 87 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Collibra | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Collibra | Glean Technologies, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-01 |
| 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 | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |