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Head to head · Docs and wikis · October 2026 research run

Guru vs OpenMetadata

OpenMetadata has a score of 66.9 (B) against Guru's 45.3 (E). Both do docs and wikis. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 43 points.

GuruGuru Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API E45.3/100#401 of 452 OpenMetadataCollate, Inc. · Model platform B66.9/100#154 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Guru for

  • transparency & trust (+6)

Pick OpenMetadata for

  • reliability (+36)
  • schema & documentation (+27)
  • agent ergonomics (+37)
  • security & auth (+13)
  • payments & pricing (+20)
  • maintenance & community (+43)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGuruOpenMetadataEdge
Reliability16%204884OpenMetadata +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25885OpenMetadata +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.24885OpenMetadata +37
Security & auth14%17.55265OpenMetadata +13
Payments & pricing10%12.5020OpenMetadata +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.84689OpenMetadata +43
Transparency & trust7%8.86155Guru +6
Negative events≤150-4
Total45.3 · E66.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactGuruOpenMetadata
KindHTTP APIModel platform
VendorGuru Technologies, Inc.Collate, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcpno (local only)
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.jsonApache-2.0 for the platform. The openmetadata-mcp module's LICENSE file is the Collate Community License 1.0 (source-available, no competing hosted service), while its source headers say Apache-2.0. Collate's hosted service is closed
Tools exposednone16
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.getguru/mcp-serverio.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Popularitynone15k stars, 41k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews2/5 (2)3/5 (2)

Verdicts

Guru

Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry. No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales.

OpenMetadata

MCP built into every instance at /mcp and on by default since 2.0, with nothing extra to install. The 16 default tools take about 50,000 characters of definitions, 12,285 of them for search_metadata alone.

Before you call either

Guru

  1. Ask the person for a Guru account. There's no trial or keyless route, and OAuth needs a pre-approved client
  2. Send Authorization: Bearer email:token to the MCP server when OAuth isn't available, and basic auth to https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/
  3. Use a collection token for read-only work. User tokens write with the user's full rights
  4. Follow the Link header to page REST search results. Each page holds at most 50 cards
  5. Confirm with a person before archiving or moving cards. Guru documents no confirmation step

OpenMetadata

  1. Set entityType for data-quality questions. testCase and testSuite are outside the default search scope
  2. Match a table's tests on originEntityFQN, not entityFQN. Column-level tests store the column's FQN there
  3. Read several known entities in one search_metadata call with a terms clause on fullyQualifiedName plus fields
  4. Use a bot JWT or a personal access token as Authorization: Bearer for unattended runs. OAuth needs a browser sign-in
  5. Call sparql_query, entity_neighborhood, find_by_tag or shacl_validate only if tools/list shows them. They appear only when the operator enabled RDF

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