{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "openmetadata", "name": "OpenMetadata", "vendor": "Collate, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://open-metadata.org", "kind": "platform", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Open-source data catalogue for discovery, lineage, data quality and governance, with connectors to external data systems.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openmetadata.json", "repo": "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "docker.getcollate.io/openmetadata/server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openmetadata-ingestion" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The MCP endpoint at https://\u003chost\u003e/mcp takes OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration through the instance's configured SSO (Google, Okta, Azure AD, Auth0, Cognito, custom OIDC, LDAP, SAML) or basic auth, with 1-hour access tokens and 7-day refresh tokens that rotate. It also takes a personal access token (per user, configurable expiry, not for bots) or a bot JWT as `Authorization: Bearer`. Every tool runs with the caller's roles and policies, and tokens have no scopes of their own. Registration is limited to 10 an hour and the token endpoint to 30 a minute per IP.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "OpenMetadata is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host, MCP included. Collate, the hosted version, has a Free plan with no card (5 users, 500 data assets, multi-tenant, email support, clusters reclaimed after 4 weeks without a login) that leaves MCP out. Premium (25 users, 5,000 assets, SSO) and Enterprise (50+ users, 10,000+ assets, audit logs, MCP) are contact sales, and so is the Collate AI add-on (checked 2026-10-03).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, Collate's pricing page or the MCP module source (checked 2026-10-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 16, "popularity": { "githubStars": 15100, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 40906, "asOf": "2026-10-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.open-metadata.org/how-to-guides/mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.open-metadata.org/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "data.lineage", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "source-available", "self-hosted", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "annotations", "llms-txt", "python", "java", "docker", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 281, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 20, "reliability": 84, "schema": 85, "security": 65, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-01-07 to 2026-05-14. Three advisories in 2026, all fixed and published. GHSA-5f29-2333-h9c7 (critical, 7 January, server-side template injection in FreeMarker email templates leading to code execution), CVE-2026-26010 (7.6, 11 February, bot JWTs exposed through /api/v1/ingestionPipelines to any read-only user, every version before 1.11.8) and CVE-2026-46481 (8.3, 14 May, TEST_CONNECTION returned the ingestion-bot JWT and a database password to non-admin users on 1.12.1, fixed in 1.12.4). Two exposed the bot tokens the docs suggest for unattended agents. Fixed, so decayed, -4 (https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories)" ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "MCP built into every instance at /mcp and on by default since 2.0, with nothing extra to install", "OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration through the instance's own SSO or basic auth, 1-hour access tokens and rotating 7-day refresh tokens, plus personal access tokens and bot JWTs", "Every tool carries readOnlyHint and destructiveHint, and descriptions say when to choose one tool over another and warn where an answer can be silently wrong", "Each MCP call is recorded in the instance's database with tool, user, success, latency, error category and client name", "2.0.3 on 29 September 2026, at least eight releases since 27 July, and integration tests passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "The 16 default tools take about 50,000 characters of definitions, 12,285 of them for search_metadata alone", "Three advisories in 2026, a critical template injection and two leaks of bot JWTs to low-privilege users", "An open report from 2 October 2026 says get_entity_details returns service connections (host, user, the stored password field) that the REST API masks, and we found no masking step in the MCP read path", "`openmetadata-mcp/LICENSE` is the `Collate Community License` 1.0, which bars competing hosted services, while the module's source headers and the README say Apache-2.0", "Write tools are always listed with no read-only switch, `queryFilter` takes raw OpenSearch DSL as a string, and the docs' openapi.json is a placeholder Plant Store spec" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `entityType` for data-quality questions. testCase and testSuite are outside the default search scope", "Match a table's tests on `originEntityFQN`, not `entityFQN`. Column-level tests store the column's FQN there", "Read several known entities in one `search_metadata` call with a `terms` clause on `fullyQualifiedName` plus `fields`", "Use a bot JWT or a personal access token as `Authorization: Bearer` for unattended runs. OAuth needs a browser sign-in", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 20, "reliability": 84, "schema": 85, "security": 65, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -sL -o docker-compose.yml https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/releases/download/2.0.2-release/docker-compose.yml\ndocker compose -f docker-compose.yml up --detach", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http openmetadata https://\u003cYOUR-OpenMetadata-SERVER\u003e/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "openmetadata": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer \u003cYOUR-OpenMetadata-PAT\u003e" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://\u003cYOUR-OpenMetadata-SERVER\u003e/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openmetadata" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Collate, Inc.", "domain": "open-metadata.org", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.getcollate.io/terms", "privacy": "https://www.getcollate.io/privacypolicy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "Collate, Inc. of 200 Middlefield Rd Suite 110, Menlo Park, California runs OpenMetadata and sells it hosted as Collate. The getcollate.io footer reads Copyright 2026 Collate.", "The privacy policy (24 August 2022) and terms (29 August 2022) are Collate's and cover the SaaS service. The terms say the service is hosted in the United States.", "There's no shared hosted MCP endpoint. Each instance serves /mcp on its own host, and the official MCP registry entry uses a host template.", "open-metadata.org/.well-known/security.txt and getcollate.io/.well-known/security.txt return 404. SECURITY.md routes reports through GitHub security advisories.", "status.getcollate.io doesn't resolve, and we found no status page linked from getcollate.io. The trust centre at trustcenter.getcollate.io refused our reader." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata.json", "live": { "slug": "openmetadata", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "open-metadata/OpenMetadata", "version": "2.0.5-release", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:10:59.032535803Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp", "version": "1.1.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openmetadata-ingestion", "version": "2.0.5.0", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:10:58.832490677Z" } ], "githubStars": 15428, "pypiWeekly": 37971, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://open-metadata.org/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:09.274021202Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.open-metadata.org/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:32.196026814Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "open-metadata.org", "registered": "2021-03-04", "source": "https://rdap.publicinterestregistry.org/rdap/domain/open-metadata.org", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:48.09767443Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.getcollate.io/privacypolicy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:23.87643635Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6457fe7f957a" }, { "url": "https://www.getcollate.io/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:26.230344111Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dee7018248ab" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:26.230344111Z" } }, "answer": "OpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "secoda", "name": "Secoda", "vendor": "Secoda, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.secoda.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Secoda is a hosted data catalogue with lineage, monitoring and governance, which Atlassian has acquired. Agents use a REST API with a workspace API key, and a local MCP server for search, lineage and SQL.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json", "repo": "https://github.com/secoda/secoda-mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a customer's Secoda workspace. A user generates an API key under workspace settings, API, and sends it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The key has the same access as the user who created it, so it follows that user's role (Viewer, Editor or Admin) and team membership. No scopes, expiry or OAuth flow were found in the reviewed documentation. The MCP server's README says an admin generates the token. The MCP server reads the same key from the `API_TOKEN` environment variable.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices are published. www.secoda.co/pricing names three plans, Core, Premium and Enterprise, with editor and admin seats listed as Custom, and every plan button links to a sales form. No trial or sign-up button was found on the site, so an agent cannot start without a contract. The plan table lists API access under Core, while the FAQ on the same page says the API is on Business and Enterprise plans. The API docs still say to sign up for free at app.secoda.co, which we did not confirm (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the pricing page or the MCP server source (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.secoda.co/api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.secoda.co/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "data.catalogue", "data.lineage", "knowledge.search", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "official", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "sales-led", "sla", "soc2", "bug-bounty", "self-hosted-option" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 875, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Every API reference page embeds an OpenAPI 3.0 definition (version 8.22.66), and the docs publish `llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of each page", "The Service Level Agreement commits to 99.9 per cent monthly availability, with a 5 per cent service credit for a day with 30 minutes or more of downtime", "An audit log filterable by user, date, type and resource, readable through `/api/v1/activity_log/audit_logs/`, with SIEM logging on the Enterprise plan", "25 subprocessors are listed with locations, and hosting is on AWS in us-east-1, eu-central-1 or ap-southeast-1", "Self-hosted releases are tagged regularly, five between 4 August and 6 October 2026, the latest v2026.3.1" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index", "The public changelog stops at 28 October 2025 and the self-hosted changelog at 29 October 2025, while self-hosted versions were tagged up to 6 October 2026", "An API key has the same access as the user who created it, with no scopes. No idempotency keys and no error body format are documented", "The MCP page lists eight tools, and the published server registers six, with one-line descriptions and no read-only or destructive annotations", "The Terms of Use (23 December 2021) forbid bots that crawl or scrape Secoda, and the subscription agreement forbids disclosing benchmark results. Both matter before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "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`", "Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429", "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", "Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request", "Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 0, "reliability": 40, "schema": 59, "security": 54, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.secoda.co/api/v1/resource/catalog' -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "secoda-mcp": { "args": [ "/path/to/secoda-mcp/server.py" ], "command": "python", "env": { "API_TOKEN": "your-api-token", "API_URL": "https://app.secoda.co/api/v1/" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/data.catalogue", "tool": "https://letme.dev/secoda" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Secoda, Inc.", "domain": "secoda.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Master Subscription Agreement names Secoda, Inc., an Ontario corporation at 109 Atlantic Ave., Toronto, ON M6K 1G1, Canada, and is governed by the laws of Ontario and Canada. It incorporates the Service Level Agreement and the Data Processing Agreement published beside it.", "Atlassian has acquired Secoda, per the post on www.secoda.co updated 4 December 2025. None of the legal documents we read mentions Atlassian.", "The Terms of Use page (last updated 23 December 2021) covers the site and says not to use bots to crawl or scrape Secoda. The Secoda AI Terms (17 July 2025) supplement the services agreement.", "The API answers on api.secoda.co, eapi.secoda.co and aapi.secoda.co.", "www.secoda.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security policy and bug bounty pages take reports by email.", "No status page is linked from the home page, the pricing page or the documentation index.", "The registration date of secoda.co was not established. The RDAP lookup we used has no service for .co domains." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.json", "live": { "slug": "secoda", "githubStars": 1, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:15.806583184Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb1750df5552" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "152634c5bb84" }, { "url": "https://docs.secoda.co/policies/master-subscription-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.29936577Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9530fcb310d5" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.328935317Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Collate, Inc.", "b": "Secoda, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "16", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2022-08-29", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2022-08-24", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "15k stars, 41k PyPI/wk", "b": "1 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, OpenMetadata or Secoda?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for OpenMetadata. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call OpenMetadata and Secoda without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "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). No open-source release is listed for Secoda.", "question": "Are OpenMetadata and Secoda open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 84 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 59", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 44", "Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 54", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 60" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "openmetadata", "watchFor": "The 16 default tools take about 50,000 characters of definitions, 12,285 of them for search_metadata alone" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 51" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "No incidents deducted, where OpenMetadata loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "secoda", "watchFor": "No price is published. 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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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmetadata-vs-secoda.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do data catalogues.\n\n- OpenMetadata: grade B, 66.6/100, rank #281 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openmetadata.json\n- Secoda: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #875 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/secoda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/secoda.json\n- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md\n- All 63 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### OpenMetadata (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 84 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 54\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The 16 default tools take about 50,000 characters of definitions, 12,285 of them for search_metadata alone\n\n### Secoda (E)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where OpenMetadata loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenMetadata | Secoda | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 84 | 40 | OpenMetadata +44 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 59 | OpenMetadata +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 44 | OpenMetadata +41 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 54 | OpenMetadata +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | OpenMetadata +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 60 | OpenMetadata +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 58 | Secoda +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.6 · B** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenMetadata | Secoda |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Collate, Inc. | Secoda, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under the Secoda Master Subscription Agreement. The local MCP server in secoda/secoda-mcp is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 16 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.open-metadata/openmetadata-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-08-29 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-08-24 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 15k stars, 41k PyPI/wk | 1 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### OpenMetadata\n\n1. Set `entityType` for data-quality questions. testCase and testSuite are outside the default search scope\n2. Match a table's tests on `originEntityFQN`, not `entityFQN`. Column-level tests store the column's FQN there\n3. Read several known entities in one `search_metadata` call with a `terms` clause on `fullyQualifiedName` plus `fields`\n4. Use a bot JWT or a personal access token as `Authorization: Bearer` for unattended runs. OAuth needs a browser sign-in\n5. 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\n\n### Secoda\n\n1. 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`\n2. Keep writes under 30 PUT, PATCH or POST calls a minute on entity endpoints, and back off on a 429\n3. 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\n4. Send at most 100 entities to `/api/v1/resource/all/bulk_update/` in one request\n5. Add a trailing slash when an endpoint does not behave as expected, as the docs advise\n6. 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\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, OpenMetadata or Secoda?\n\nOpenMetadata scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Secoda's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Secoda leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call OpenMetadata and Secoda without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for OpenMetadata. Secoda runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n### Are OpenMetadata and Secoda open source?\n\nOpenMetadata 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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