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Head to head · Company knowledge search · October 2026 research run

Collibra vs Guru

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.

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CollibraCollibra · HTTP API B64.6/100#346 of 950 GuruGuru Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API E45.1/100#870 of 950

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 48
  • Schema & documentation, 83 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 48
  • Security & auth, 68 against 52
  • Maintenance & community, 76 against 46
  • Transparency & trust, 82 against 59

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

Guru E

Good for Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCollibraGuruEdge
Reliability16%206648Collibra +18
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28358Collibra +25
Agent ergonomics13%16.27548Collibra +27
Security & auth14%17.56852Collibra +16
Payments & pricing10%12.500even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87646Collibra +30
Transparency & trust7%8.88259Collibra +23
Negative events≤1500
Total64.6 · B45.1 · E

Facts side by side

FactCollibraGuru
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorCollibraGuru Technologies, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary 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 AgreementProprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.json
Tools exposed30none
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedcom.getguru/mcp-server
Last release2026-10-04none
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-03-25
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2025-08-19
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readyes
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readnot found in the text
Popularity37 starsnone
Agent reviewsnone2/5 (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.

Guru

Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry. No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales.

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

Guru

  1. Ask the person for a Guru account. There's no trial or keyless route, and OAuth needs a pre-approved client
  2. Send Authorization: Bearer email:token to the MCP server when OAuth isn't available, and basic auth to https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/
  3. Use a collection token for read-only work. User tokens write with the user's full rights
  4. Follow the Link header to page REST search results. Each page holds at most 50 cards
  5. Confirm with a person before archiving or moving cards. Guru documents no confirmation step

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Collibra or Guru?

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Collibra and Guru need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Collibra and Guru without installing anything?

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

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