Sold by: Alation Inc.
Deployed on AWS
Alation delivers an agentic knowledge layer that enables enterprises to achieve business outcomes and grow their most critical asset, knowledge.
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Overview
Alation is the creator of AIOS™, the open, governed, self-improving intelligence operating system for enterprises that cannot afford to get AI wrong. Having pioneered the data catalog market, we help organizations establish trust in the agents, data, and context that power AI-driven decisions, so they can navigate regulatory complexity, maintain data fidelity, accelerate operational outcomes, and turn AI ambition into trusted business impact. Alation partners with the world's leading organizations to leverage better data to solve their most critical challenges.
With more than $340M in funding and a valuation over $1.7 billion, Alation serves more than 500 customers, including hundreds of the Fortune 1000.
Highlights
- Data Culture. Data-driven decision making. Alation is built for every user to be able to find, understand, trust, and use data.
- AI Governance. Trusted AI starts with trusted data. Alation's AI governance framework ensures data quality, transparency, and compliance. Document insights, track lineage, and collaborate across teams for ethical, compliant AI.
- Data Modernization. Make your cloud transition seamless. With Alation, craft a winning data modernization plan that breaks down legacy silos. Prioritize what matters and migrate with confidence, while safeguarding quality and governance.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Alation Data Catalog | Subscription to Alation Data Catalog starting at | $60,000.00 |
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This listing offers one pricing dimension: a subscription to the Alation Data Catalog, billed in units under a contract term. You commit upfront for the term, and the unit count sets your subscription size. There are no separate tiers or add-on dimensions to combine here. The catalog connects to many data sources without moving your data, serving as one record of what data exists, what it means, who owns it, and whether it can be trusted. To size the number of units and confirm contract length for your needs, contact the vendor.
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The marketplace listing bills the catalog in units, but it does not define what a single unit maps to. Your unit count sets the size of your subscription. To confirm how units are counted and sized for your data estate, contact the vendor.
This is a contract subscription. You commit upfront for the term, and the unit count you select sets your subscription size. Charges are not metered by hourly use or data volume. The catalog connects to sources without moving data, so cost ties to your committed units, not query activity.
The listing bills on your committed unit count, not on the number of connected sources. The catalog connects to many sources without moving data, and that connection breadth is a product capability. To learn whether added sources affect your unit sizing, contact the vendor.
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Email support provided. Guaranteed 24-hour response time for tickets filed. Email: support@alation.com Phone: +1.650.779.4440
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In Master Data Management, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services
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Data Catalog and Discovery
Enables users to find, understand, and trust data through centralized data cataloging and discovery capabilities.
AI Governance Framework
Provides data quality validation, transparency tracking, and compliance monitoring to ensure ethical and compliant AI operations.
Data Lineage Tracking
Documents and tracks data lineage across systems to maintain data fidelity and enable impact analysis.
Data Modernization Planning
Supports cloud transition and legacy system migration through structured planning that maintains data governance and quality standards.
Collaborative Data Management
Facilitates cross-team collaboration for data documentation, insights sharing, and governance enforcement across the organization.
AI Governance Framework
Active metadata-based governance with rules, processes and responsibilities to ensure ethical AI practices, mitigate risk, adhere to legal requirements, and protect privacy
Automated Data Lineage
End-to-end lineage tracking providing transparency into data transformation and flow across systems, including both summary-level business lineage and detailed technical lineage
Unified Data Catalog
Multi-cloud and hybrid environment data discovery with business context including data origin, ownership, usage patterns, and access to reports, AI models and data products
Data Quality Automation
Automated monitoring and rule management system for enterprise-wide data quality management replacing manual processes
Privacy and Compliance Workflow
Centralized automation of privacy workflows to operationalize privacy requirements and address global regulatory compliance
Entity Resolution
Patent-pending Flexible Entity Resolution Networks (FERN) with LLM-powered pre-trained ML models enabling rule-free matching with high accuracy across industries
Master Data Management
Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities with cloud-native, microservices-based architecture supporting real-time bidirectional data exchange with operational systems at scale
Data Quality Monitoring
ML-powered automation for continuous inspection and detection of data anomalies with immediate flagging of unusual patterns for data stewards
Natural Language Interface
Reltio Intelligent Assistant (RIA) with generative AI and natural language technology enabling chat-based search interface for complex technical concepts
Industry-Specific Configuration
Predefined industry-specific data models, matching rules, cleansing configurations, survivorship rules, and prebuilt connectors for life sciences, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and B2B/B2C consumer data
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Customer reviews
Karen B.
Aligned Our Teams with Clear Term, Table, and Column Definitions
Reviewed on Sep 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to document term, table, and column meanings and our users leveraging that to speak the same language across the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to have our other systems integrate with Alation to access its context.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us use the same language across the organization.
Andrew L.
Data Catalog Leader with Outstanding Support and Rapid AI Innovation
Reviewed on Sep 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Data Catalog leader. Very helpful support team. Constantly launching new products, particularly in AI space in 2026.
What do you dislike about the product?
Rather expensive product. The ACU credits for AI product usage is a bit difficult to quantify expected usage of, and can quickly add up in costs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Knowledge center of all Enterprise Data assets. A good place to understand and learn what data is available
Lauren B.
Easy, Company-Wide Data Reference Hub with Awesome Integrations and Faster Curation
Reviewed on Sep 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how it creates one place for reference for our Data Governance team, but also the whole company. I think it’s a super easy to use and understand tool and has been successful teaching others at the company how to use and navigate to answer their questions/reference their data. The integration features are awesome, specifically for me with Claude. I’ve been able to use the AI features to make curation so much faster and cut back a lot of time to work on other things.
What do you dislike about the product?
The least helpful so far me is using Alations AI. Personally I haven’t used it much, but once I dig into it more, I believe it will be more helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation is helping our company better organize our data, glossary terms, and related information. It keeps everyone on the same page with a shared understanding, which ultimately makes people’s day-to-day work and jobs easier.
Michael T.
A Useful Data Catalog for Managing and Gaining Insights
Reviewed on Sep 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
As a data catalog I find it to be very useful to manage and gain insights into my data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pace at which new products are rolled out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CDE insight and physical data lineage insight.
Rajesh J.
Helpful for Data Discovery with Strong Metadata Management
Reviewed on Jan 20, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It's helpful in data discovery, have feature to manage meta data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Don't find anything as such. Overall it is very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data governance and meta data management.