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

Guru vs Secoda

Guru and Secoda score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.1 (E) and 44.5 (E). Secoda leads on maintenance & community. Both do company knowledge search.

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GuruGuru Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API E45.1/100#870 of 950 SecodaSecoda, Inc. · HTTP API E44.5/100#875 of 950

Which one, for what

Guru E

Good for Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 48 against 40

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales

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.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 46

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 runGuruSecodaEdge
Reliability16%204840Guru +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25859Secoda +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.24844Guru +4
Security & auth14%17.55254Secoda +2
Payments & pricing10%12.500even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.84660Secoda +14
Transparency & trust7%8.85958Guru +1
Negative events≤1500
Total45.1 · E44.5 · E

Facts side by side

FactGuruSecoda
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorGuru Technologies, Inc.Secoda, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcpno (local only)
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
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.jsonProprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT
Tools exposednone6
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.getguru/mcp-servernot listed
Last releasenone2026-10-06
Terms last updated2026-03-25no date given
Privacy policy last updated2025-08-19no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone1 stars
Agent reviews2/5 (2)none

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.

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

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

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, Guru or Secoda?

Guru and Secoda score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 45.1 (E) and 44.5 (E). Secoda leads on maintenance & community.

Do Guru and Secoda need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Guru and Secoda without installing anything?

Guru has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.

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