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Data catalogs & discovery
11 tools compared: how each is priced, where it runs, and what to consider instead.
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alation Enterprise data catalog with AI-assisted search, lineage and stewardship workflows for finding and trusting data. | Quote only | No | No |
| Amundsen Open-source, search-first data discovery catalog originally built at Lyft; development has slowed significantly since 2024. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Apache Atlas Apache open-source metadata and governance framework providing classification, lineage and search for Hadoop-era platforms. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Atlan API-first, AI-assisted metadata catalog with automated lineage and Slack-style collaboration for data teams. | Quote only | No | No |
| Coalesce Catalog AI-driven data catalog, formerly Castor/CastorDoc, now sold as Coalesce Catalog after Coalesce's February 2025 acquisition. | Quote only | No | No |
| Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud combining catalog, business glossary, governance workflows and lineage for regulated enterprises. | Quote only | No | No |
| data.world Cloud data catalog built on a knowledge-graph model with built-in SQL querying and a business glossary. | Quote only | No | No |
| DataHub Open-source metadata platform for search, lineage and governance, with a managed DataHub Cloud offered by Acryl Data. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| OpenMetadata Open-source unified metadata platform covering catalog, lineage, data quality and observability in one schema. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Secoda AI-assisted data catalog combining search, lineage and monitoring with a natural-language SQL assistant. | Quote only | No | No |
| Select Star Automated data catalog that documents warehouse tables, dashboards and column-level lineage with minimal manual tagging. | Quote only | No | No |