# Guru vs Secoda

> Guru and Secoda score within a point of each other for company knowledge search, 45.1 and 44.5 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- Guru: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #870 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/guru.json
- Secoda: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #875 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md

## 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

| Category | Weight | Guru | Secoda | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 40 | Guru +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 59 | Secoda +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 44 | Guru +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 52 | 54 | Secoda +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 60 | Secoda +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 58 | Guru +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **45.1 · E** | **44.5 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Guru | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Guru Technologies, Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary 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.json | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.getguru/mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-25 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-19 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-secoda.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-secoda.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "guru", "b": "secoda"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare guru secoda`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/guru.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json

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