Sold by: Alation Inc.
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Data Intelligence Platform for data search & discovery, data & AI governance, data products, data stewardship, analytics, cloud migrations, and modernization.
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Overview
At Alation, we are passionate about helping enterprises realize value from their data & AI initiatives. The Alation Data Intelligence Platform centralizes metadata from disparate sources, delivering a unified and automated platform for organizations to discover, describe, govern, and manage their data assets, including data, BI reports, and AI models so that individuals can easily find, understand, trust, and use them to accelerate the delivery and business value realization of data initiatives while scalably fostering and strengthening a data culture.
The Alation Data Intelligence Platform supports organizations with self-service analytics, data & AI governance, data product marketplaces, cloud migrations, and data modernization.
Alation is proven and trusted by nearly 600 organizations across industries - from the worlds largest banks to retailers and government agencies - to provide search, governance, and analytics across tens of millions of data assets.
Thanks to our open and extensible architecture, powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, intuitive and seamless user experience, collaboration capabilities, and rigorous security and performance standards, Alation not only delivers on business outcomes but also builds lasting partnerships focused on client success.
Alation gives customers a choice. Manage the Alation Data Intelligence Platform on your own, anywhere. Or have it done for you, in the cloud. Alation Cloud Service is available on AWS.
For custom pricing, EULA, or a private contract, please contact Marketplace@alation.com .
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 |
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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, sold in units. You buy under a contract commitment rather than paying by the hour. Pricing scales with the number of units you subscribe to, with a defined starting point. The catalog acts as the system of record for your data assets, covering search, lineage, quality, and curation. To size the right number of units for your needs, work with the vendor.
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The pricing table sells the catalog in units but does not define what a single unit maps to. Sizing depends on your data estate and user needs. Work with the vendor to determine how many units match your deployment before you commit.
You buy under a contract commitment rather than paying by the hour. The subscription is priced by the number of units you reserve, so charges do not vary with runtime or activity. This suits continuous, ongoing use rather than short-term or variable workloads.
The catalog acts as one system of record for data assets across the enterprise. It covers search ranked by trust and usage, column-level lineage, automatic quality scoring, and curation. It reads across warehouses, storage, and semantic layers through open connectors, so your data stays where it lives.
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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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Metadata Centralization
Centralizes metadata from disparate sources into a unified platform for discovering, describing, governing, and managing data assets including data, BI reports, and AI models.
Behavioral Analysis Engine
Incorporates a Behavioral Analysis Engine to provide advanced analytics and insights across data assets.
Data Lineage and Tracking
Enables documentation of insights and tracking of data lineage across teams for transparency and compliance purposes.
Self-Service Analytics
Supports self-service analytics capabilities allowing users to independently discover and analyze data assets.
AI Governance Framework
Provides an AI governance framework that ensures data quality, transparency, and compliance for AI initiatives.
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.