# Onyx vs Secoda (slim)

> Onyx scores 65 (B) to Secoda's 44.5 (E) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Onyx scores 65 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do company knowledge search.

- Onyx: B 65, rank #332 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onyx.min.md
- Secoda: E 44.5, rank #875 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md
- Onyx, good for Teams that want one permission-aware index over Slack, Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub and the rest, self-hosted or air-gapped, with agents searching it through MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 40; Schema & documentation, 88 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 44; Security & auth, 71 against 54; Payments & pricing, 30 against 0; Maintenance & community, 77 against 60; Transparency & trust, 63 against 58. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; 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; No incidents deducted, where Onyx loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Onyx | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Onyx | Secoda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer) | Secoda, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.onyx.app/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | MIT (Community Edition, including the MCP server, the API server, the CLI and the connectors). Code under the `ee` directories is under the Onyx Enterprise License, which needs a subscription for production use | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 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 | 32k stars | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |