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

Hexis Cloud vs OpenMetadata

OpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do docs and wikis.

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Hexis CloudBevelites GmbH (Bevel) · MCP server C55.3/100#705 of 1084 OpenMetadataCollate, Inc. · Platform B66.6/100#299 of 1084

Which one, for what

Hexis Cloud C

Best for A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 51

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Runs on your own machine
  • No incidents deducted, where OpenMetadata loses 4 points for them

Watch for

The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own

OpenMetadata B

Best for Teams running OpenMetadata who want agents to search the catalogue, read lineage and data-quality results, find root causes and create tests or lineage under the user's own permissions.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 84 against 18
  • Agent ergonomics, 85 against 57

Watch for

The 16 default tools take about 50,000 characters of definitions, 12,285 of them for search_metadata alone

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHexis CloudOpenMetadataEdge
Reliability16%201884OpenMetadata +66
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28385OpenMetadata +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.25785OpenMetadata +28
Security & auth14%17.56465OpenMetadata +1
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Hexis Cloud +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88589OpenMetadata +4
Transparency & trust7%8.87551Hexis Cloud +24
Negative events≤150-4
TotalC 55.3/100B 66.6/100

Facts side by side

FactHexis CloudOpenMetadata
KindMCP serverPlatform
VendorBevelites GmbH (Bevel)Collate, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcpno (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026Apache-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
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registryio.github.Bevel-Software/hexisio.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp
Last release2026-10-142026-09-29
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2022-08-29
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2022-08-24
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readyes
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity114 stars, 900 npm/wk15k stars, 41k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (2)

Verdicts

Hexis Cloud

Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.

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

Hexis Cloud

  1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere
  2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused
  3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false
  4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat
  5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hexis Cloud or OpenMetadata?

OpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

Can an agent call Hexis Cloud and OpenMetadata without installing anything?

Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for OpenMetadata.

Are Hexis Cloud and OpenMetadata open source?

Yes. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026). OpenMetadata is open source (Apache-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).

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