{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "dust", "name": "Dust", "vendor": "Permutation Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://dust.tt", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Dust is a platform for building AI agents on a company's documents and connected tools, from Permutation Labs in Paris. Outside agents reach it through a REST API, a JavaScript SDK, a CLI and a remote MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json", "repo": "https://github.com/dust-tt/dust", "license": "MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/dust-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The REST API takes a workspace API key as a Bearer token, created by an admin in the workspace under Developers, API Keys. A key can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days. The remote MCP server takes OAuth only, with dynamic client registration or a client ID metadata document, and the token works as the signed-in user. The client-side MCP server (preview) needs an OAuth personal access token. Sign-in to create a workspace is in a browser.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free seat with 500 lifetime credits. Pro is €30 a seat a month (€24 billed yearly) with 8,000 credits, Max €150 (€120 yearly) with 40,000, and Enterprise is by quote, as dust.tt/home/pricing showed our reader in euros. API and other programmatic usage has no free credits and draws only on the workspace credit pool, bought as top-ups on Business or committed on Enterprise. No price per top-up credit was found (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1482, "npmWeekly": 17225, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.dust.tt", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.dust.tt/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dust-tt/dust/refs/heads/main/front-api/public/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "mit", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "cli", "eu-region", "status-page", "soc2", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 419, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.", "bestFor": "A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.", "strengths": [ "The platform's source is public under the MIT licence at github.com/dust-tt/dust, with commits on the day of the check", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 68 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Remote MCP server at `https://dust.tt/mcp` and `https://eu.dust.tt/mcp`, with OAuth, dynamic client registration and the signed-in user's own access", "API keys can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days", "SOC 2 Type II on the security page, a HackerOne disclosure programme, and US or EU hosting" ], "weaknesses": [ "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use", "Rate limits are published for document upserts and app runs only, and no Retry-After guidance was found in the docs", "The terms link redirects to a Notion site drawn by script, so the service terms, any SLA and the DPA went unread", "Audit logs are an Enterprise feature, and no security.txt is published (404)", "Two major incidents on status.dust.tt in the last 90 days, one of 2 hours 3 minutes on 16 July 2026 that covered the API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server", "Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server", "Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help", "Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`", "Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @dust-tt/client", "config": { "mcpServers": { "dust": { "type": "http", "url": "https://dust.tt/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/dust" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Permutation Labs", "domain": "dust.tt", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://dust.tt/home/platform-privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.dust.tt", "changelog": "https://docs.dust.tt/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Platform Privacy Policy names Permutation Labs, 86 avenue de Wagram, 75017 Paris, France. It covers the platform where Dust is the data controller, not customer data Dust handles as a processor.", "No terms link is recorded. dust.tt/terms redirects (308) to a Notion site, dust-tt.notion.site, which is drawn by script and gave our reader no text, so we could not tell which document there governs the platform.", "The API and the MCP server answer on dust.tt and eu.dust.tt. OAuth for MCP is at signin.dust.tt.", "dust.tt/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to dust.tt/home/vulnerability, a HackerOne programme.", "No RDAP service answers for the .tt registry, so the domain's registration date is not recorded.", "dust.tt/robots.txt returns 404. docs.dust.tt/robots.txt carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.json", "live": { "slug": "dust", "probe": { "target": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:50.379474084Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 244, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 158, "p95ms24h": 315, "samples24h": 186, "samples30d": 186, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.dust.tt", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T01:33:37.986216757Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "dust-tt/dust", "version": "dsbx-v0.1.67", "released": "2026-10-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:50:56.001470119Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/client", "version": "1.2.9", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:50:53.756993475Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/dust-cli", "version": "0.4.6", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:50:54.712857633Z" } ], "githubStars": 1482, "npmWeekly": 12989, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://dust.tt/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:14.622408169Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.dust.tt/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:49.349497912Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.dust.tt/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:15.545270397Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2cb7e752ee10" }, { "url": "https://dust.tt/home/platform-privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:57.721348217Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1317b1676811" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:50.379474084Z" } }, "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "secoda", "name": "Secoda", "vendor": "Secoda, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.secoda.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Secoda is a hosted data catalogue with lineage, monitoring and governance, which Atlassian has acquired. Agents use a REST API with a workspace API key, and a local MCP server for search, lineage and SQL.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json", "repo": "https://github.com/secoda/secoda-mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Secoda workspace. A user generates an API key under workspace settings, API, and sends it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The key has the same access as the user who created it, so it follows that user's role (Viewer, Editor or Admin) and team membership. No scopes, expiry or OAuth flow were found in the reviewed documentation. The MCP server's README says an admin generates the token. The MCP server reads the same key from the `API_TOKEN` environment variable.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.secoda.co/pricing names three plans, Core, Premium and Enterprise, with editor and admin seats listed as Custom, and every plan button links to a sales form. No trial or sign-up button was found on the site, so an agent cannot start without a contract. The plan table lists API access under Core, while the FAQ on the same page says the API is on Business and Enterprise plans. The API docs still say to sign up for free at app.secoda.co, which we did not confirm (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the pricing page or the MCP server source (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.secoda.co/api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.secoda.co/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "data.lineage", "knowledge.search", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "sales-led", "sla", "soc2", "bug-bounty", "self-hosted-option" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 875, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API reference embeds OpenAPI 3.0 definitions on every page, with `llms.txt` and Markdown copies, and the subscription agreement carries a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue.", "bestFor": "A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Every API reference page embeds an OpenAPI 3.0 definition (version 8.22.66), and the docs publish `llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of each page", "The Service Level Agreement commits to 99.9 per cent monthly availability, with a 5 per cent service credit for a day with 30 minutes or more of downtime", "An audit log filterable by user, date, type and resource, readable through `/api/v1/activity_log/audit_logs/`, with SIEM logging on the Enterprise plan", "25 subprocessors are listed with locations, and hosting is on AWS in us-east-1, eu-central-1 or ap-southeast-1", "Self-hosted releases are tagged regularly, five between 4 August and 6 October 2026, the latest v2026.3.1" ], "weaknesses": [ "No price is published. The three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) link to a sales form, and no trial or sign-up button was found on the site", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index", "The public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 and the self-hosted changelog at 29 October 2025, while self-hosted versions were tagged up to 6 October 2026", "An API key has the same access as the user who created it, with no scopes. No idempotency keys and no error body format are documented", "The MCP page lists eight tools, and the published server registers six, with one-line descriptions and no read-only or destructive annotations", "The Terms of Use (23 December 2021) forbid bots that crawl or scrape Secoda, and the subscription agreement forbids disclosing benchmark results. Both matter before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pick the base URL by workspace region. `app.secoda.co` uses `api.secoda.co`, `eu.secoda.co` uses `eapi.secoda.co` and `apac.secoda.co` uses `aapi.secoda.co`", "Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429", "List with `/api/v1/resource/catalog` and a URL-encoded JSON `filter`. The per-type list endpoints for tables are marked deprecated, and results stop at 10,000 resources", "Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request", "Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise", "Treat an API key as the creating user. `run_sql` in the MCP server works only when an admin has enabled Run SQL and the user has query access to the integration" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.secoda.co/api/v1/resource/catalog' -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "secoda-mcp": { "args": [ "/path/to/secoda-mcp/server.py" ], "command": "python", "env": { "API_TOKEN": "your-api-token", "API_URL": "https://app.secoda.co/api/v1/" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/secoda" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Secoda, Inc.", "domain": "secoda.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Master Subscription Agreement names Secoda, Inc., an Ontario corporation at 109 Atlantic Ave., Toronto, ON M6K 1G1, Canada, and is governed by the laws of Ontario and Canada. It incorporates the Service Level Agreement and the Data Processing Agreement published beside it.", "Atlassian has acquired Secoda, per the post on www.secoda.co updated 4 December 2025. None of the legal documents we read mentions Atlassian.", "The Terms of Use page (last updated 23 December 2021) covers the site and says not to use bots to crawl or scrape Secoda. The Secoda AI Terms (17 July 2025) supplement the services agreement.", "The API answers on api.secoda.co, eapi.secoda.co and aapi.secoda.co.", "www.secoda.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security policy and bug bounty pages take reports by email.", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index.", "The registration date of secoda.co was not established. The RDAP lookup we used has no service for .co domains." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.json", "live": { "slug": "secoda", "githubStars": 1, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:15.806583184Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb1750df5552" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "152634c5bb84" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.29936577Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9530fcb310d5" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Permutation Labs", "b": "Secoda, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli", "b": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk", "b": "1 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Secoda?" }, { "answer": "Dust takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Secoda needs an API key.", "question": "Do Dust and Secoda need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Dust and Secoda without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Dust is open source (MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`). No open-source release is listed for Secoda.", "question": "Are Dust and Secoda open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 53 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 59", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 44", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 54", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 60", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 58" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.", "slug": "dust", "watchFor": "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.", "slug": "secoda", "watchFor": "No price is published. The three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) link to a sales form, and no trial or sign-up button was found on the site" } ], "job": { "capability": "knowledge.search", "name": "Company knowledge search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust.json", "title": "Alation vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-dust.json", "title": "Atlan vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust.json", "title": "Collibra vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-glean.json", "title": "Dust vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru.json", "title": "Dust vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Dust vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Dust vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Glean vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Guru vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/onyx-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Onyx vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/onyx-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/overclock-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Overclock vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/overclock-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Alation vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Atlan vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Collibra vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/collibra-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datahub-vs-secoda.json", "title": "DataHub vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datahub-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/marmot-vs-secoda.json", "title": "Marmot vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/marmot-vs-secoda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda.json", "title": "OpenMetadata vs Secoda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 13, "dust": 53, "edge": "dust", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "secoda": 40, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "dust": 75, "edge": "dust", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "secoda": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 23, "dust": 67, "edge": "dust", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "secoda": 44, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 21, "dust": 75, "edge": "dust", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "secoda": 54, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "dust": 20, "edge": "dust", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "secoda": 0, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "dust": 86, "edge": "dust", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "secoda": 60, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 10, "dust": 68, "edge": "dust", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "secoda": 58, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do company knowledge search.", "verdicts": { "dust": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.", "secoda": "The REST API reference embeds OpenAPI 3.0 definitions on every page, with `llms.txt` and Markdown copies, and the subscription agreement carries a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-secoda", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-secoda.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-secoda.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-secoda.min.md" }, "markdown": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Dust: grade B, 62.8/100, rank #419 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json\n- Secoda: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #875 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Dust (B)\n\nGood for: A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 53 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 54\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use\n\n### Secoda (E)\n\nGood for: A data team already on Secoda that wants an agent to read and edit catalogue metadata, lineage, documents and glossary terms, or to search the catalogue and run SQL through the local MCP server.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No price is published. The three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) link to a sales form, and no trial or sign-up button was found on the site\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Dust | Secoda | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 40 | Dust +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 59 | Dust +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 44 | Dust +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 54 | Dust +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | Dust +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 60 | Dust +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 58 | Dust +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.8 · B** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Dust | Secoda |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Secoda, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | 1 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Dust.** The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.\n\n**Secoda.** The REST API reference embeds OpenAPI 3.0 definitions on every page, with `llms.txt` and Markdown copies, and the subscription agreement carries a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. No price, trial or sign-up is published, no status page was found, and the public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 although self-hosted releases continue.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Dust\n\n1. Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server\n2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server\n3. Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help\n4. Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`\n5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace\n\n### Secoda\n\n1. Pick the base URL by workspace region. `app.secoda.co` uses `api.secoda.co`, `eu.secoda.co` uses `eapi.secoda.co` and `apac.secoda.co` uses `aapi.secoda.co`\n2. Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429\n3. List with `/api/v1/resource/catalog` and a URL-encoded JSON `filter`. The per-type list endpoints for tables are marked deprecated, and results stop at 10,000 resources\n4. Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request\n5. Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise\n6. Treat an API key as the creating user. `run_sql` in the MCP server works only when an admin has enabled Run SQL and the user has query access to the integration\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Secoda?\n\nDust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Dust and Secoda need an API key?\n\nDust takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Secoda needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Dust and Secoda without installing anything?\n\nDust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n### Are Dust and Secoda open source?\n\nDust is open source (MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`). 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