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Head to head · Company knowledge search · October 2026 research run

Glean vs Secoda

Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.

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GleanGlean Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API B69.8/100#167 of 950 SecodaSecoda, Inc. · HTTP API E44.5/100#875 of 950

Which one, for what

Glean B

Good for Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 60 against 40
  • Schema & documentation, 93 against 59
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 44
  • Security & auth, 87 against 54
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 60
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 58

Watch for

No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request

Secoda E

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 in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch 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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGleanSecodaEdge
Reliability16%206040Glean +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29359Glean +34
Agent ergonomics13%16.28044Glean +36
Security & auth14%17.58754Glean +33
Payments & pricing10%12.500even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88560Glean +25
Transparency & trust7%8.88058Glean +22
Negative events≤1500
Total69.8 · B44.5 · E

Facts side by side

FactGleanSecoda
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorGlean Technologies, Inc.Secoda, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MITProprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT
Tools exposednone6
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-022026-10-06
Terms last updatedno date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-04-01no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk1 stars
Agent reviews3.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Glean

Three public OpenAPI specs (Client, Indexing, Platform) regenerated almost daily, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs. No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request.

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.

Before you call either

Glean

  1. Get the backend host from the Glean admin. APIs answer at https://<instance>-be.glean.com and MCP at that host under /mcp/<server-name>
  2. Ask for a user-scoped token with only the scopes the task needs. A global token can impersonate whoever X-Glean-ActAs names
  3. Keep chat under 0.5 calls a second and search under 5, and back off on 429
  4. Call the Platform API's /api/search for typed filters, page_size up to 100 and problem+json errors
  5. Send X-Glean-Exclude-Deprecated-After in tests to catch fields due for removal

Secoda

  1. 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
  2. Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429
  3. 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
  4. Send at most 100 entities to /api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/ in one request
  5. Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise
  6. 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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Glean or Secoda?

Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Glean and Secoda need an API key?

Glean takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Secoda needs an API key.

Can an agent call Glean and Secoda without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Glean. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.

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