Alation
Data governance and cataloging platform that combines lineage tracking, quality monitoring, and policy enforcement to support reliable AI applications
- Also known as
- alation
Available worldwide
What is Alation?
A unified metadata management platform that helps organizations catalog data assets, track lineage across multiple clouds, maintain data quality, and enforce compliance policies to enable trustworthy AI systems and self-service data discovery.
Alation pricing
We don't have Alation's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Alation does
The capabilities that matter for data catalog, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Column lineage
- -
- Automated lineage
- -
- Openlineage support
- -
- Business glossary
- -
- Data classification
- -
- Policy enforcement
- ✓
- Data quality
- ✓
- Active metadata
- ✓
- AI search
- ✓
- Open source
- -
- SOC2
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (13)
Independently observed- Snowflake•
- ServiceNow
- Jira
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Power BI
- Microsoft 365
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Databricks
- Azure
- BigID
- Immuta
Alation FAQ
Common questions about Alation, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Alation?
A metadata management system that combines data discovery, lineage tracking, quality assurance, and governance. Designed for both business users seeking intuitive search and data engineers requiring technical depth and comprehensive control. It is indexed under Data Catalog.
Source: https://www.alation.com/blog/alation-vs-microsoft-purview-architecture-pricing-ai/
What platforms does Alation support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Alation. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.alation.com/blog/alation-vs-microsoft-purview-architecture-pricing-ai/
Can Alation be self-hosted?
Yes. Alation can be deployed on-premise, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.alation.com/blog/alation-vs-microsoft-purview-architecture-pricing-ai/
What does Alation integrate with?
We have confirmed 12 integrations for Alation, including ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Microsoft 365, AWS and Google Cloud Platform, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.alation.com/blog/alation-vs-microsoft-purview-architecture-pricing-ai/
What security certifications does Alation have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Alation. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Alation not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Alation alternatives
Other data catalog we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- OpenMetadataCommunity-driven open-source platform for aggregating, governing, and discovering metadata across data ecosystems.low · 5%
- AtlanA metadata management platform that provides AI systems with business context, data lineage, and access policies for accurate, compliant data understandinglow · 7%
- SecodaAI-powered platform for data governance, discovery, and monitoringmedium · 56%
- DataHubA metadata platform for managing data context in AI and analytics systemslow · 24%
- MarquezAn OpenLineage-compatible metadata platform for collecting, storing, and visualizing data lineage and ecosystem informationlow · 33%
- Select StarMetadata platform that enables AI to understand data relationshipslow · 42%
Compare Alation
Side by side against other data catalog, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Alation, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 80 | 0.12 | 9.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 60 | 0.04 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.04 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Ai search, Data quality, Active metadata, Policy enforcement | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 120 | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-18 · 75% |
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