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Alation licenses its data catalog and data intelligence platform as a subscription under an online Master Cloud Software License and Services Agreement, counted per Named User at Creator, Explorer or Viewer level, with AI products such as Curation Automation, Data Quality, Data Products, Agent Studio, Critical Data Manager and AI Governance priced from a shared pool of Alation Consumption Units.

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Overview articleAlation licensingAlation licenses its data catalog and data intelligence platform as a subscription under an online Master Cloud Software License and Services Agreement, counted per Named User at Creator, Explorer or Viewer level, with AI products such as Curation Automation, Data Quality, Data Products, Agent Studio, Critical Data Manager and AI Governance priced from a shared pool of Alation Consumption Units.Cited · Edited 2026-10-08 · 19 references

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Alation Master Cloud Software License and Services Agreement and addendaCited · Edited 2026-10-08Alation user roles and licence typesCited · Edited 2026-10-08Alation Consumption Units and AI productsCited · Edited 2026-10-08Alation Cloud Service, Agent and connectorsCited · Edited 2026-10-08

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From the Alation catalog: how usage is counted, the rules that apply, the programs licences are bought through and the SKUs. Backed by 69 verbatim excerpts from 24 Alation documents.

Products

All 17 Products

Data Governance Tools 14

Agent Studio, AI Governance, Alation Agent, Alation Cloud Service, Alation Consumption Unit pool, Alation Custom DB connectors, Alation customer-managed software, Alation Data Intelligence Platform, and 6 more

Data Quality Tools 2

Alation Data Quality, Data Quality

Generative AI Software 1

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Product History

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  1. Alation acquired Numbers StationAnnounced 2025-05-20 · Closed 2025-05-20

    Alation, a data intelligence company, announced that it had acquired Numbers Station AI, a builder of AI agents for data workflows.

    Legacy productBecame
    Numbers Station AI agents for data workflowsMerged into Agentic workflows on the Alation metadata foundation
    Licensing impact
    • Alation said that combining Numbers Station's agents with Alation's metadata foundation would let customers build applications that reason over structured data with governance and compliance controls.[1]
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  2. Alation acquired Lyngo AnalyticsAnnounced 2021-10-14 · Closed 2021-10-14

    Alation, a data catalog company, announced the acquisition of Lyngo Analytics, a company whose software converts natural language questions into SQL.

    Legacy productBecame
    Lyngo Analytics natural language interfaceMerged into Natural language search and exploration in the Alation data catalog
    Licensing impact
    • Alation said it would integrate Lyngo Analytics' AI and machine-learning technology so that business users could ask questions in natural language, converted to SQL, within the data catalog.[1]
    • Lyngo Analytics' co-founders Jennifer Wu and Joachim Rahmfeld joined Alation.[1]
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