# Hexis Cloud vs Secoda

> Hexis Cloud scores 55.3 (C) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hexis Cloud scores 55.3 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on reliability. Both do company knowledge search.

- Hexis Cloud: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #705 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hexis.json
- Secoda: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #946 of 1084. 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
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## Which one, for what

### Hexis Cloud (C)

Good 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:
- Schema & documentation, 83 against 59
- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 44
- Security & auth, 64 against 54
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 60
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 58

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

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

### 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:
- Reliability, 40 against 18

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 | Hexis Cloud | Secoda | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 18 | 40 | Secoda +22 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 59 | Hexis Cloud +24 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 44 | Hexis Cloud +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 54 | Hexis Cloud +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 0 | Hexis Cloud +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 60 | Hexis Cloud +25 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 58 | Hexis Cloud +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **44.5 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hexis Cloud | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) | Secoda, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | 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 | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 114 stars, 900 npm/wk | 1 stars |

## 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.

**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

### 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

### 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, Hexis Cloud or Secoda?

Hexis Cloud scores 55.3 (C) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on reliability.

### Do Hexis Cloud and Secoda need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call Hexis Cloud and Secoda without installing anything?

Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.

### Are Hexis Cloud and Secoda open source?

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). No open-source release is listed for Secoda.


## For agents

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