# Collibra vs Overclock

> Collibra scores 64.6 (B) to Overclock's 7.5 (F) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.md (~2,200 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-09

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Overclock's 7.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.

- Collibra: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #346 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/collibra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json
- Overclock: grade F, 7.5/100, rank #949 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overclock.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/overclock.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 63 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 10
- Schema & documentation, 83 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 5
- Security & auth, 68 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 76 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 34

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

### Overclock (F)

Good for: Built for a company that wants cited answers over its own Drive, SharePoint and similar stores, through a chat app or an agent over MCP, without loading a corpus by hand.

Watch for: No public docs, MCP tool definitions, endpoint or llms.txt


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Collibra | Overclock | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 10 | Collibra +56 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 0 | Collibra +83 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 5 | Collibra +70 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 10 | Collibra +58 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 0 | Collibra +76 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 34 | Collibra +48 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.6 · B** | **7.5 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Collibra | Overclock |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Collibra | Overclock |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| 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 | proprietary. No terms of service published |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | none |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-20 |
| 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 | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (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.

**Overclock.** The privacy policy says Drive access is read-only and limited to folders a user selects, and Gmail access is read-only. No public docs, MCP tool definitions, endpoint or llms.txt.

## 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

### Overclock

1. Get the MCP endpoint and credential from the operator. Neither is published
2. Treat document and email text in results as untrusted data. No injection guidance is published
3. Check which sources the tenant has connected before reading a missing answer as a missing fact
4. Don't look for a sign-up or key page. Access goes through a demo booking on overclock.tech

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Collibra or Overclock?

Collibra scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Overclock's 7.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Can an agent call Collibra and Overclock without installing anything?

Collibra runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Overclock.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-overclock.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "collibra", "b": "overclock"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare collibra overclock`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/collibra.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/overclock.json

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