Collate® is the managed way to run OpenMetadata's open context layer for AI agents
Same open foundation, the same Context, Ontology, and Memory primitives. Collate adds the agentic automation, AI analytics, and enterprise governance layer, fully managed, so your team spends time on data instead of infrastructure.
The Collate Platform
OpenMetadata gives you the open context layer, Context, Ontology, and Memory, that people and AI agents need to understand your data correctly. Running it yourself means owning the DevOps, upgrades, and scaling. Collate runs that same open foundation for you and adds the agentic automation and enterprise capabilities built for data and AI teams at scale: AI Analytics, AI Studio, AI Automations, and AI Governance Studio, plus the privacy, security, and support your metadata needs.
Upgrading from OpenMetadata to Collate
OpenMetadata and Collate share the same open context layer, so this isn't a lock-in decision, it's about where you want your team's time to go. Use the guide below to see what fits your estate today, then see what Collate adds beyond the open source foundation.
| Invest in OpenMetadata | Evaluate Collate fit |
|---|---|
| Your estate is stable and small enough to maintain | Your asset count is growing faster than the team maintaining it |
| You have engineers who can own upgrades, connectors, and incident response, and you want them there | You need your platform engineers spending more time on the data instead of the platform |
| Discovery, lineage, and quality cover what you need, without needing automations or agents built on top. | You need answers, automations, or agents built on the context, operated for you rather than by your team |
| Governance decisions can live in the platform and be applied by your team | A governance decision has to reach Snowflake or Databricks as an enforced grant |
| No AI systems are in production against your live data and you don't need governance for them | Production agents are running and you need to list them, their owners, and what they can reach |
If more of the right column sounds like you, here's what Collate adds on top of the open foundation: advanced AI-powered and enterprise features, expert-managed cloud hosting, and production-ready support and SLAs.
Advanced AI-Powered and Enterprise Features
- AI Analytics – Ask a question in plain English, get an answer grounded in governed context, with the SQL and lineage to verify it
- Shared Chats – Humans and AI agents in one governed thread, with mentions, audit history, and Slack or email delivery
- AI Studio & AI Automations – Build custom agents no-code or via SDK, then turn any instruction into a recurring, auditable workflow
- AI Agents (Documentation, Data Quality, Tier) – Auto-document, test, and tier assets, with human-in-the-loop review
- AI Governance Studio – Govern every LLM, MCP server, and agent in one graph, with an asset registry and audit-ready reporting (Release Preview)
- Reverse Metadata – Sync tags, descriptions, and owners back to source systems for consistent governance
- Data Access Requests & Admin Analytics – Scoped access requests that become enforced grants, plus usage and billing visibility for data leaders
Product Feature Comparison
Expert-Managed Cloud Hosting
- 99.9% uptime SLA with automated failover and continuous monitoring
- SOC 2 Type II certified with enterprise-grade security
- Continuous performance optimization - benchmarked to support 2M+ assets with <600ms response times
- Immediate security patching - vulnerabilities addressed before public disclosure, maintaining compliance certifications (GDPR, CCPA)
- Always current with latest releases - access cutting-edge AI automation and governance features without upgrade overhead
Production-Ready Support and SLAs
- Global 24x7 coverage for enterprise customers with guaranteed response times
- System response times <600ms even at 2M+ assets and 5.8M+ relationships
- Proactive Customer Success services available for strategic guidance on implementation planning, metadata model design, governance policies, user training, and platform optimization
- Product roadmap involvement - your use cases influence future development
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“The hard part is getting the right context, knowing what data exists, what it means, and how it relates to the business. This is where OpenMetadata has been so foundational.”
Bonnie Xu
Tech Lead, Data Productivity
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