5 categories · RankedAtlan
Atlan is a data governance and metadata platform for teams that manage and collaborate on their organization's data · atlan.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market, contested with OpenMetadata. Ranked 4 of 118 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Secoda is first at 19%.
Ranked first, contested: OpenMetadata has 16%. 8 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Collibra is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Consider OpenMetadata (if you have engineering capacity) or Atlan (a modern, lighter alternative often praised for better UX and AI features) to start.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · first choice
“If you are multi-cloud / Snowflake / Databricks / modern SaaS data and want fast adoption with AI context and a business-friendly catalog: Atlan.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Modern / Active Metadata Platforms (Strongest fit for ~500 employees): *Examples:* Atlan, Select Star, Secoda, CastorDoc, DataHub (Cloud/Acryl Data).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Atlan: Strong on active metadata, AI-driven insights, and collaboration. Great for building data culture; scales well for mid-market.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“What to Avoid ... Enterprise tools like Collibra, Alation, or Atlan — Excellent products, but typically cost $50K–$200K+ annually.”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid expensive enterprise tools like Collibra ($100k+/year), Alation, and Atlan at this stage”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Good if your primary pain point is data lineage, but may lack deep AI policy enforcement.”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · warning
“far more practical than paid tools like Alation, Collibra, or Atlan”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Atlan, over the 178 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | 28 | View → | |
| 140 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 101 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 2 | View → | |
| 63 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 1 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Atlan →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Atlan's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise AI
- Integrations
- 80
- Customers named
- General Motors, Workday, Nasdaq, Mastercard, Virgin Media O2, CME Group, HubSpot, FOX
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 157 of the 178 answers that named Atlan and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
354 of the 461 domain citations in answers naming Atlan came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 400 | 5 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Comparison | 280 | 8 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 177 | 19 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Conference or event | 115 | 6 | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Case study | 73 | 1 | 2026-07-14 | ||
| Template or tool | 27 | 1 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| News or press | 18 | 0 | 2026-01-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 15 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 10 | 0 | 2026-03-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2025-11-24 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Fabric database agent vs data agent comparison
- 2026-09-29Fabric iq vs work iq vs foundry iq comparison
- 2026-09-28Rag pipeline vs context layer tco comparison
- 2026-09-28Context engineering vs semantic layer comparison
Events in person
- June 3, 2026Context Layer in Practice: How Workday Builds Trustworthy AI Agents | AtlanVertical Village Theater 2 (Basecamp, South Hall B), San Francisco, US · spoke
- June 2, 2026Context Layer? Semantic Layer? Ontology? Knowledge Graph? A Spicy Debate | AtlanVertical Village Theater 2 (Basecamp, South Hall B), San Francisco, US · spoke
- June 2, 2026The Enterprise Context Layer: Atlan's Thesis, Workday's Proof in ProductionRoom 210 (Moscone South, Level 2), San Francisco, US · spoke
- June 2, 2026Courtside at the Chase CenterChase Center, San Francisco · hosted
- June 2, 2026Context in Motionplace not stated · attended
- June 1, 2026 to June 4, 2026Atlan at Snowflake Summit 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco, US · exhibited
- June 1, 2026WTF is the Enterprise Context Layer — Demystified and Demo'd | AtlanRoom 210 (Moscone South, Level 2), San Francisco, US · spoke
- June 1, 2026AI After Dark — Hosted by Slalomplace not stated · attended
- May 11, 2026 to May 13, 2026Gartner EMEA Data & Analytics SummitExCel London, London · sponsored
- March 10, 2026Atlan's Community Par-TeeTopgolf Orlando · hosted
- March 9, 2026 to March 11, 2026Gartner Data & Analytics SummitGaylord Palms Resort, Orlando, United States · sponsored
- March 9, 2026Unplugged: A Private Dinner for Data, Technology & AI LeadersSalt and the Cellar · hosted
As the event pages on atlan.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page atlan.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.