# Collibra vs Hexis Cloud

> Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-14

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do company knowledge search.

- Collibra: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #369 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json
- Hexis Cloud: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #705 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 87 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 18
- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 57
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 75

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

### Hexis Cloud (C)

Good for: A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 76

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Collibra | Hexis Cloud | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 18 | Collibra +48 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 83 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 57 | Collibra +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 64 | Collibra +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Hexis Cloud +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 85 | Hexis Cloud +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 75 | Collibra +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.6 · B** | **55.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Collibra | Hexis Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Collibra | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026 |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 37 stars | 114 stars, 900 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.

**Hexis Cloud.** Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.

## 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

### Hexis Cloud

1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere
2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused
3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false
4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat
5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Collibra or Hexis Cloud?

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Collibra and Hexis Cloud need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call Collibra and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?

Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp.

### Are Collibra and Hexis Cloud open source?

No open-source release is listed for Collibra. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-hexis.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-hexis.min.md
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