# Dust vs Secoda (slim)

> Dust scores 62.8 (B) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Dust: B 62.8, rank #419 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md
- Dust, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 53 against 40; Schema & documentation, 75 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 44; Security & auth, 75 against 54; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 86 against 60; Transparency & trust, 68 against 58. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.
- Secoda, good 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. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Dust | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Dust | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Secoda, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | 1 stars |