# Collibra vs Onyx (slim)

> Onyx and Collibra score within a point of each other for company knowledge search, 65 and 64.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Onyx and Collibra score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 65 (B) and 64.6 (B). Collibra leads on transparency & trust. Both do company knowledge search.

- Collibra: B 64.6, rank #346 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.min.md
- Onyx: B 65, rank #332 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onyx.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 Transparency & trust, 82 against 63. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Onyx loses 4 points for them.
- Onyx, good for Teams that want one permission-aware index over Slack, Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub and the rest, self-hosted or air-gapped, with agents searching it through MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 83; Payments & pricing, 30 against 0. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Collibra | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Collibra | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Collibra | DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://cloud.onyx.app/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable 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 (Community Edition, including the MCP server, the API server, the CLI and the connectors). Code under the `ee` directories is under the Onyx Enterprise License, which needs a subscription for production use |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-02 |
| Popularity | 37 stars | 32k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |