Dataedo

Overview

Dataedo is the catalogue in this category that publishes its prices, which on its own makes it easier to evaluate than most of its competitors. Essentials is $18,000 a year and the Data Lineage tier $24,000, both with a three-editor minimum and unlimited viewers and integrations.

That licensing shape matters more than the headline number. Editors are the people maintaining documentation, and there are always few of them; viewers are everyone who reads it, and there are always many. Charging only for editors means a catalogue can be rolled out to a whole organisation without the cost following the audience — the opposite of the per-seat model that makes wide adoption expensive.

It positions itself as lightweight, and the product is built around documenting and sharing knowledge about data rather than automatically discovering everything. The catalogue covers a business glossary, domains, data products, reference data management and a report catalogue, with AI-assisted documentation to reduce the writing burden that a documentation-first tool inevitably creates.

Data quality is built in through profiling and customisable rules rather than being a separate product, and lineage is visualised from source to destination, though it is gated behind the higher tier.

The honest comparison against DataHub, OpenMetadata, Atlan or Alation is scope. Dataedo is aimed at organisations that want a documented, governed catalogue that people actually read, rather than a platform that automates metadata across a large estate. The word it uses about itself — lightweight — is a fair description rather than modesty.

Key features and capabilities

The same headings are used for every data catalogues & discovery entry, so two tools can be read side by side.

Metadata ingestion

• Metadata catalogued from connected sources, with unlimited integrations on every tier
• Documentation-first, so human annotation sits alongside harvested metadata
• AI-assisted automatic documentation to reduce the manual writing burden

Search and discovery

• Centralised repository giving an organised view of the data estate
• Data discovery, domains and a report catalogue
• Reference data management alongside the technical catalogue

Lineage

• Source-to-destination lineage, visualised as a map of data movement
• Enterprise-wide visibility rather than per-system views
• Gated to the higher tier; the entry tier does not include it

Glossary, classification and policy

• Business glossary for shared definitions
• Built-in data profiling and customisable data quality rules
• Quality monitored as part of the catalogue rather than as a separate product

Ownership and collaboration

• Annotation of data assets by both technical and business users
• Community features so viewers participate rather than only read
• Unlimited viewers and community users on every tier

Integrations and APIs

• Unlimited integrations included at every tier rather than metered
• Report catalogue extends coverage to BI content as well as data

How it runs

• Editor-based licensing with a three-editor minimum
• Standard support on the entry tier, premium on the lineage tier
• Prices published in several currencies, including USD, EUR and GBP

Pricing

SubscriptionEssentials $18,000 a year

Published openly, which is rare here. Essentials is $18,000 a year for the catalogue, documentation and quality features; the Data Lineage tier is $24,000 and adds lineage plus premium support. Both have a three-editor minimum with unlimited viewers, community users and integrations, so cost follows the number of people maintaining the catalogue rather than the number reading it.

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Demos and videos

• Dataedo features Product demo · dataedo.com (the vendor)

About Dataedo

Dataedo builds a data catalogue, documentation, lineage and quality platform, describing itself as a lightweight data governance platform. It is unusual in this category for publishing list prices openly, in several currencies, with tiers separated by whether lineage is included. Licensing is per editor with a three-editor minimum, while viewers, community users and integrations are unlimited on every tier. Public review counts on its lineage pages cite more than a thousand customers.

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