# Marmot vs Secoda (slim)

> Marmot scores 64.4 (B) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for data catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Marmot scores 64.4 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do data catalogues.

- Marmot: B 64.4, rank #350 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/marmot.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md
- Marmot, good for Teams that want agents to find which table or topic holds something, who owns it, what feeds it and what a business term means, from a catalogue they host. Ahead on Reliability, 62 against 40; Schema & documentation, 82 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 44; Security & auth, 61 against 54; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 88 against 60; Transparency & trust, 70 against 58. Also Open source.
- 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. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Marmot | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 84 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Marmot | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Marmot Data | Secoda, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | MIT (server, CLI, plugins and Helm chart). The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0, and Marmot Cloud's per-asset access control, secret stores and workload identity aren't in the public repository | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 9 | 6 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.marmotdata/marmot` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-23 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-07 | no date given |
| Popularity | 619 stars | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |