# Guru vs Secoda (slim)

> 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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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: E 45.1, rank #870 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md
- Guru, 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 A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 60 against 46. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Guru | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 46 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Guru | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Popularity | none | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |