Teams look for a Glean alternative when they want to see a price before talking to sales, when they need search that runs inside their own cloud or on premises, or when they find a broad assistant and agent suite larger than the job. The options range from small per-seat tools to platforms sold by quote.
Short answer: Where a category has smaller vendors worth recommending, they occupy the first three places and the big brands come below them. For Glean users, the top three picks from our enterprise search software ranking are Dashworks, Onyx and Atolio. Pick Dashworks if you want per-seat prices and a trial without a card. All 10 alternatives below are ranked products from Best Enterprise Search Software in 2026, and each says where it differs from Glean.
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Pricing: Quoted per organisation; plans and limits are not listed
Established in: United States
Built for: Large organisations wanting search and agents across many connected apps
Not for: Small teams wanting to test a plan without a sales process
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Why buyers look past Glean
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A demo request is the only route in
The Glean pricing page we read lists no plans, prices, limits or trial. Both calls to action read "Get a demo". A team that needs a figure for a budget meeting cannot build one from the site and has to go through a sales conversation first.
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Hosting is not described on the home page
Glean's home page lists certifications such as SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA and GDPR, and says users only see what they are allowed to see. It makes no statement about deployment, hosting or data region, so a buyer with residency or air-gap requirements has to ask.
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The scope grows beyond search
The page presents connectors to 275+ work apps, an assistant, agents and a log of every query, answer and action. That is a platform decision. If you want a search box over a handful of sources, some alternatives below are narrower and say more about how they are priced.
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What each one does differently
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Dashworks
Not stated by the vendor · Published
Three published tiers set it apart from quote-only suites: Team with no seat minimum, Business from ten seats and a quoted Enterprise, with a 14-day trial that needs no card. Answers carry citations and custom bots handle onboarding questions. A banner says Dashworks is joining HubSpot, and the news page we read says nothing about existing customers afterwards.
Switch from Glean if you want per-seat prices and a trial without a card.
Source permissions are enforced when a query runs, and the product can be deployed in your cloud, on bare metal or fully air-gapped. A public GitHub repository exists. The Business plan has a published per-user price on annual billing and a trial button, while Enterprise is quoted. A banner says Onyx is joining Zoom, with no word on whether the deal has closed.
Switch from Glean if you want to run search in your own environment, even air-gapped.
One permission-aware index feeds search, copilots and agents, with results scoped to the person asking. It deploys inside your AWS, Azure or GCP account, or on-prem on Red Hat OpenShift, and can be run air-gapped. Cost stays unknown: the pricing address gave a 404 and a demo booking is the only route to a figure.
Switch from Glean if the index must sit in your own cloud account.
Annual prices are listed for a single self-managed server, a three-server cluster and three fully managed tiers that add a chatbot and then agents, so a first-year budget needs no call. Managed tiers stop at 10,000 documents or URLs and 100,000 searches a month. Over 300 connectors are counted on the home page without being named.
Switch from Glean if you want a first-year price from a public list.
Pricing follows indexed documents, not users, and an entry price for small organisations sits on the page; larger tiers go through sales and the xM tier begins above ten million objects. It runs as SaaS, on-premises or cloud native. The menu gives headquarters in both Chicago and Linz, and over 500 sources are claimed but not named.
Switch from Glean if your cost should track document volume instead of headcount.
Squirro AG is based in Zurich and builds an enterprise AI platform around knowledge graphs, GraphRAG and guardrails, with an agent catalog covering HR, finance, legal and sales. Demos are offered without sign-up. Prices are not published and only Microsoft Teams is named as a platform, so expect a project, not a quick rollout.
Switch from Glean if you want a Swiss vendor and graph-based retrieval with guardrails.
Here content is curated inside the product instead of being indexed where it sits. Guru flags conflicting versions, merges duplicates and marks stale SharePoint pages, and every answer carries citations. That brings upkeep work. Prices come through sales, with a reduced-cost programme for nonprofits, and no trial or hosting model appeared on the pages read.
Switch from Glean if your problem is stale and duplicated company knowledge.
Starting prices are published per deployment type, from a SaaS plan up to an on-premises plan, and a 30-day trial includes all features. It is a retrieval and agent platform for developers, not a finished workplace search box. The entry price is high for a small team and the Small, Medium and Large tiers show no figures.
Switch from Glean if your engineers will build the search experience themselves.
Enterprise search, advanced RAG, a no-code assistant builder and an MCP server come in one product with over 200 connectors. The home page now says Sinequa is part of the Argonos Operational AI Platform, described as a ChapsVision group brand. The pricing address gave a 404 and no hosting model or connector list is shown.
Switch from Glean if you want an MCP server and a no-code assistant builder.
Search is one named function beside a reasoning engine, Tool Studio and an agent marketplace of 1000+ agents, so it acts in business apps as well as finding things. The home page says ServiceNow acquired it and that it runs on the ServiceNow AI Platform. The price page returned a 404 when we tried it.
Switch from Glean if you want employees to get actions done, not just answers.
You want a public price list before you talk to anyone
SearchBlox: Annual prices are listed for a self-managed server, a cluster and three managed tiers, which cap at 10,000 documents or URLs.
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You need the index inside your own cloud account
Atolio: It deploys in your AWS, Azure or GCP account or on-prem, and can run air-gapped; price comes only via a demo.
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You want per-seat plans and a trial with no card
Dashworks: Team has no seat minimum, Business starts at ten seats, and the 14-day trial needs no card; note the HubSpot banner.
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You would rather pay by document volume than by headcount
Mindbreeze: Pricing follows indexed documents and an entry price for small organisations is on the page.
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You want a Swiss vendor
Squirro: Squirro AG is based in Zurich; prices are quoted and demos need no sign-up.
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When Glean is still the right choice
Glean stays a sound pick when you have a large estate of work apps, a procurement process that expects a vendor sale, and governance needs that include query and action logs. The home page cites 275+ connectors and a long list of certifications. If a quote fits the budget and security review, a move may not add much.
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What moving off Glean involves
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Rebuild access rules in the new index
Glean says users only see what they are allowed to see, so permissions were inherited from source apps. Check how the new tool reads those rules, and test with an account that has narrow access before opening it to staff.
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Plan for connector gaps
Count the apps your teams search today and compare them with the connectors the new vendor names. Several pages we read give a total without listing sources, so ask for the list in writing.
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Keep the old tool running for a month
Run both side by side for a while, comparing results on the twenty questions your staff ask most, before ending the Glean contract.
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Questions about replacing Glean
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How much does Glean cost?
The pricing page we read shows no plans, prices or trial, only a Get a demo button. A figure has to come from Glean's sales team.
How many apps does Glean connect to?
The home page says 275+ work apps and data sources, and shows logos for Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub and Salesforce.
Which alternatives publish a price?
SearchBlox lists annual prices per deployment, Dashworks and Onyx publish per-user plans, and Vectara lists annual starting prices by deployment type. Mindbreeze shows an entry price by document count.
Can I run enterprise search in my own cloud?
Atolio deploys in your AWS, Azure or GCP account or on-prem, and Onyx runs in your cloud, on bare metal or air-gapped. Mindbreeze offers SaaS, on-premises or cloud native.
Which alternatives have ownership changes?
Dashworks says it is joining HubSpot, Onyx says it is joining Zoom, Moveworks says ServiceNow acquired it, and Sinequa says it is part of Argonos.
Does Glean log what users ask?
Its home page says to track every query, answer and action, under the heading Full observability.
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Sources
Checked 9 November 2026
Glean home page: 275+ connectors, permissions claim, certifications, query logging, no hosting statement.
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