# Glean vs Secoda (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (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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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.

- Glean: B 69.8, rank #167 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md
- Glean, 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.
- 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 | Glean | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 93 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 87 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Glean | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Glean Technologies, Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated |  | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 | 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 | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |