17.6
DataHub is a context platform that brings technical metadata, business knowledge, and documentation together for enterprise data and AI agents.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
Best Metadata Management Software in 2026
Metadata management software helps you find and make sense of information describing data assets. Compare metadata discovery, lineage analysis, business glossaries, and listed connectors, then look at API availability and deployment options to see how each may fit your environment. Free-plan availability and paid-from pricing provide further points of comparison. Alation Data Intelligence Platform, DataHub, and…
27.5
Dawiso is an enterprise data governance platform that organizes metadata into trusted, AI-ready data products and a shared governed representation…
AndroidiOSWeb
37.2
Apache Atlas is open-source server software for managing and governing metadata about data assets.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
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Aristotle Metadata Registry
Aristotle Metadata Registry is a cloud-based system for organizing and governing business knowledge about data.
WebAPISelf-hosted6.9 - 5
MetaKarta
MetaKarta is an enterprise metadata management platform built around a shared repository for data lineage, cataloging, governance and semantic definitions.
WebAPIExtensionLinux6.5From $50 a year - 6
Alex Solutions
Alex Solutions is an enterprise data operations platform that brings together data governance, metadata management, lineage, and AI readiness for…
WebAPISelf-hosted6.3 - 7
OpenMetadata
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 8
Progress Semaphore
Progress Semaphore provides a semantic layer for generative AI, intended to make outcomes more relevant, explainable, and trustworthy.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1 - 9
Aurelius Atlas
Aurelius Atlas is an open-source data governance platform that helps business users find, understand and manage information about organizational data.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 10
Collibra
Collibra is a data platform that connects the people who produce data with those who use it, bringing structured and unstructured sources into a…
WebAPIExtensionSelf-hosted5.6 - 11
Atlan Lakehouse
Atlan Context Lakehouse is a knowledge architecture for storing, managing, and serving the context AI agents need to work at enterprise scale.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.5 - 12
IBM Knowledge Catalog
Free planWeb5.5Free plan - 13
SemanticWorx Affirma
SemanticWorx Affirma is an enterprise semantic and metadata management solution for harmonizing data architecture.
WebSelf-hosted5.4 - 14
Alation Data Intelligence Platform
Alation Data Intelligence Platform brings data context, rules, policies, definitions, and relationships into a shared reference for people, agents,…
WebAPISelf-hosted5.3 - 154.6