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4.5
Market Presence: Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps/General Productivity, Enterprise AI Search

Overview

Product Information on Glean

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Glean?

Glean is a software designed to enable efficient workplace search and information discovery by integrating with various business applications. The software leverages artificial intelligence to process and organize data from sources such as email, documents, and knowledge bases, supporting users in finding relevant information quickly. Features include unified search across connected tools, contextual results, access controls, and workflow support for knowledge management. Glean addresses the challenge organizations face in locating and retrieving distributed data, promoting productivity by simplifying access to necessary resources while maintaining security and compliance.

Glean Pricing

Glean software uses a user-based subscription pricing model, offering plans that vary based on the number of users and required features, with enterprise options available for organizations seeking additional customization or administrative capabilities.

Overall experience with Glean

Customer Service & Support Associate
1B - 3B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Quick and Accurate Search Functions Streamline Information Access For Teams”

5.0
Nov 6, 2025
My overall experience with Glean has been extremely positive, it’s an excellent tool for search management across multiple internal platforms, Glean helps me save a lot of time by providing quick and accurate results from tools like slack, confluence, google drive, and jira, it has really improved productivity and collaboration in our team by making information easily accessible in one place.
VP, IT
500M - 1B USD, Travel and Hospitality
CRITICAL

“Tricky Setup and Unexpected Data Disclosure Highlight Challenges With Search Platform”

3.0
Sep 17, 2025
Frequent indexing issues, poor quality of search results (on internal data repositories), rather invasive. Tricky setup.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th October 2024

Glean is the Work AI platform that connects, secures, and understands your company's knowledge to bring you the answers you need. With a foundation in powerful enterprise search, Glean enables you to find information, generate content, and automate work with AI. It allows users to quickly produce personalized answers and build custom generative AI apps, agents, and assistants that streamline tasks—all on one centralized platform. Functioning like an expert who has been with your company since its inception, Glean has processed every document, conversation, and employee's expertise. This virtual expert is available 24/7 to enhance your work performance beyond mere productivity boosts. Glean fosters deep satisfaction as you make tangible progress at work. Whether providing quick access to answers or connecting you with knowledgeable colleagues, Glean expands your potential to do extraordinary work.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2019
Head office location
Palo Alto, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://www.glean.com/

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Glean Likes & Dislikes

Like

I love the powerful and accurate search capability it can search the same things in seconds that will take me manually more than an hour sometimes, also easy integration setup with existing tools with minimal effort and also its very user friendly if we see the interface that the user will use.

Like

Sometimes it digs up forgotten documents.

Like

Glean has very strong relevance and ranking capabilities across the different sources of truth that we allow it to have access to. Glean can understand what I'm asking and also has the full picture of how it is relevant. This is its strongest asset, and is a game-changer when trying to spin-up a tool or assistant. Its strength also lies in its ability to be tuned and customized without requiring the platform team to step-in; this is a big time saver and another step towards improved efficiency.

Dislike

Sometimes newly added date takes time to appear in search results and the authentication time for the clean sometimes takes a little longer but it's very minimal and does not affect user productivity.Also, pricing may be slightly higher for small teams or startups

Dislike

Here we go.. - need to be careful when connecting it to internal data sources (confluence, SharePoint, etc.), as you might end up in situations where hidden data is suddenly indexed and publicly accessible. E.g.,HR paperwork, contracts, etc. Glean does its best to maintain permissions, but even after being careful we were bitten by a couple of unexpected disclosures. - negotiation. It really felt like they were doing us a favor by entertaining our inquiries, arranging a demo, etc. If it were only up to me I would have dropped them there and then. - Quality of search results on internal data repositories. It's useful in 20% of the cases, at the point where I just don't bother anymore. - Quite expensive

Dislike

Like most new products, the learning curve was a bit steep. The depth of the UI was overwhelming at first, which caused some downtime of trial and error, but the onboarding sessions provided by their AI outcomes manager were superb in answering many of my questions. Since it is such a powerful tool, some of the ways that it works is difficult to understand, and without a thorough understand of its decision-making, I was, at times, left confounded about what was actually happening.

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Glean Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(318 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
53%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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  • Customer Service & Support Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Quick and Accurate Search Functions Streamline Information Access For Teams

    5.0
    Nov 5, 2025
    My overall experience with Glean has been extremely positive, it’s an excellent tool for search management across multiple internal platforms, Glean helps me save a lot of time by providing quick and accurate results from tools like slack, confluence, google drive, and jira, it has really improved productivity and collaboration in our team by making information easily accessible in one place.
  • DATA ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    High-Impact Enterprise Search and AI Assistant That Quickly Becomes Core to Daily Work

    5.0
    Feb 9, 2026
    Glean has become a core part of how I work with knowledge across the organization. I am a data and AI-focussed user, thus I rely on it daily to pull together content from many different places to provide background info and context to speed up analysis, documentation, and decision making. It pulls the relevant results and understands my queries which allows for improved efficiencies dramatically. I don't need to spend time pulling documents and sources of truth for the AI to understand.
  • MARKETING MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Glean App - One search engine that gives you solution

    5.0
    Oct 16, 2025
    A tool that integrates with other apps in the org and helps find the resource with just a quick prompt. It has made life easy by searching internal docs/emails. It not only works on searching internal organisational documents but also has the option to open the search and get results from global sources. Great thing about the search is that every result has a reference link from which you can validate and refer to the source of the given information. This gives you confidence in the information being listed on Glean.
  • ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    AI-Powered System Enhances Knowledge Discovery but Lacks Public Pricing Transparency

    4.0
    Dec 16, 2025
    It's amazing, a strong unified enterprise search across business tools like Jira, Slack, Confluence, Drive and many more. It makes it so easy at the enterprise level, making it internally knowledgeable, easily discoverable and reducing time spent.
  • Senior Marketing Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Outcome-driven onboarding, ICP focus, and built-in quality gates turn a powerful-but-complex product into faster, measurable value.

    4.0
    Oct 1, 2025
    My overall experience has been positive: the product is powerful and flexible, and when onboarding was tied to clear success metrics we achieved measurable value quickly. The main friction is the learning curve for advanced features and reporting customization, which can feel unintuitive without guidance. I’d recommend it for teams willing to invest in guided setup and align processes to outcomes.
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