# Alation vs Atlan

| Attribute | Alation | Atlan |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 41.9 (30% (low)) | 54.9 (3% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A metadata management and governance platform for organizing and understanding data across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Enables organizations to enforce compliance, track data lineage, and prepare data infrastructure for AI systems. | Atlan centralizes metadata from enterprise data systems into a unified knowledge graph, uses AI to automatically generate business documentation and context, and delivers this information to analytics platforms and AI agents. It helps organizations establish governed data products and accelerate data-driven decision-making across teams. |
| integrations.count | 120 | 80 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Microsoft 365"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"BigID"},{"name":"Immuta"}]` | `[{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Redshift"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Airflow"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Looker"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"AWS Athena"},{"name":"AWS EMR"},{"name":"AWS MSK"},{"name":"AWS QuickSight"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio"},{"name":"Monte Carlo"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.alation.com/blog/alation-vs-microsoft-purview-architecture-pricing-ai/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T21:38:44.697Z","billingPeriods":["year"]}` | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Data Catalog)

| Capability | Alation | Atlan |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Column lineage | - | - |
| Automated lineage | - | - |
| Openlineage support | - | - |
| Business glossary | - | - |
| Data classification | - | - |
| Policy enforcement | - | - |
| Data quality | - | - |
| Active metadata | - | - |
| AI search | - | - |
| Open source | - | - |
| SOC2 | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:38:03.924Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*