Glean

Glean connects to the apps your company already uses (Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce and more than 275 others) and builds one search index across them. Staff can search everything at once or ask questions in plain English and get answers with links back to the source. Each person only sees what they already have permission to see in the original app. On top of that you can build agents that run multi-step jobs, such as answering support tickets or preparing account briefs, using company data.

Pick Glean when your company's knowledge is spread across many tools from different vendors and people waste time hunting for it. If you live almost entirely in Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot covers much of the same ground with less setup; Google Workspace companies can look at Gemini first. Small teams with most of their knowledge in one place are better served by Notion AI or ChatGPT's connectors.

The catch: Glean is built for larger companies. There is no self-serve plan and no public price; reported contracts often start around 100 seats and run to tens of thousands of dollars a year. Answers are only as good as your documents, so messy, out-of-date files produce messy answers.

• IT teams
• Support teams
• Sales teams
• Engineering teams
• HR and people teams

Mid-size and large companies whose knowledge is scattered across many apps and teams.

• Search across every app

  One search box over Slack, Drive, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce and hundreds more.

• Assistant with sources

  Ask a question in plain English and get an answer drawn from company data, with links to the documents it used.

• Permission-aware

  Results follow each app's sharing settings, so private files stay private.

• Agents

  Build agents in plain language that run multi-step tasks like drafting ticket replies or account briefs from company knowledge.

• Choice of models

  Uses more than 40 AI models from different providers and picks the right one for the task.

• API and MCP

  Developers can bring Glean's search into other tools, including AI assistants like Claude, through its API and MCP server.

• Our pick

  Enterprise

  Custom

  Companies with roughly 100 or more staff.

  • Search, assistant and agents
  • Connectors to your work apps
  • Security and compliance controls
  • Annual contract, quoted by sales

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 22 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Glean can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Onboard new staff

   New hires ask Glean how things are done instead of interrupting colleagues, and get answers with links to the right policies.

2. 2

   Answer support tickets faster

   Agents search past tickets, docs and Slack threads to draft a reply with sources for the support person to check.

3. 3

   Prep for a sales call

   Pull together everything about an account from the CRM, emails and shared docs into one brief.

4. 4

   Find that document

   Search once for a contract, deck or spec instead of checking Drive, SharePoint and Slack separately.

Glean sits on top of the tools you already run and doesn't replace any of them. It makes the most sense when you have many apps from different vendors; with a single-vendor stack, that vendor's own assistant may be enough.

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