# Glean Alternatives (2026): 6 Compared

> Source: https://theagentsindex.com/glean/alternatives (curated, quality-gated, re-verified)

Glean is an enterprise "Work AI" platform: permission-aware search across 100+ connected workplace systems (Slack, Confluence, Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, Notion and more), grounded in a single Knowledge Graph that respects each user's existing access permissions, with an AI assistant and no-code agent builder layered on top. Founded in 2019 by Arvind Jain (a former Google distinguished engineer and Rubrik co-founder), it is one of the best-funded independent platforms in this index: over $765M raised across six rounds, a $7.2B valuation as of June 2025, and $100M in annual recurring revenue by February 2025. Its foundation is genuinely different from the tools around it: search and permission-aware indexing come first, agent-building second, unlike Moveworks' ticket-resolution focus, n8n and Dify's workflow-canvas approach, or Sierra's single-purpose customer-facing agents. It also ships Model Context Protocol support in both directions today, a capability Moveworks' own blog still describes as only "planned." The tradeoffs are disclosed in Glean's own listing: there is no public price list anywhere, and independent buyer-data aggregation (Vendr, 174 tracked purchases) puts the median annual deal at $98,890, ranging from $29,880 to $208,897, with typical enterprise minimums around 100-250 seats; G2 reviewers describe it as expensive relative to competitors and report a support fee near 10% of contract value as effectively mandatory on top; and its chat can still hallucinate like any LLM-backed assistant, with reviewers also flagging an unintuitive UI and a separate login even when a user is already signed into a connected app. Glean's own listing names exactly who should look elsewhere: buyers who want transparent, self-serve pricing instead of a six-figure sales-gated deal; anyone who wants a single-purpose customer-facing support agent rather than a company-wide knowledge-and-agent layer, naming Sierra, Decagon and Intercom Fin directly; or anyone who wants a pure workflow-automation canvas instead, naming n8n and Dify directly. Stay with Glean if your agent strategy starts with finding and reasoning over everything your company already knows, spread across a hundred disconnected systems; move if you want IT/HR ticket deflection specifically, a cheaper self-hosted way to automate one workflow, a single-purpose customer-facing resolution agent, or agents that already live inside a Salesforce-native stack. The six tools below are independently researched, Published listings on this site, not a scraped or AI-generated list: each carries current pricing we verified, sourced pros and cons, and an honest best-for and not-for call.

| # | Name | What it is | Why it's here | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Moveworks](https://theagentsindex.com/moveworks.md) | Employee-facing AI assistant for IT, HR and finance across 100+ enterprise systems, a ServiceNow product since December 2025, used by 5.5 million employees at companies like Siemens, Toyota and Unilever. | Glean's own verdict names Moveworks directly as the answer when IT/HR ticket deflection specifically is the job, and Glean's own pros field calls it "this category's closest comparator." Moveworks matches Glean's permission-aware, 100+-system reach but is built around resolving employee IT, HR and finance requests rather than general knowledge search, and it now sits inside ServiceNow's own ITSM stack after a $2.85B acquisition that closed December 2025. The tradeoff: MCP support is still "in development" per Moveworks' own blog (Glean ships it in both directions today), G2 reviewers report a real implementation burden -- a roughly 2-month average rollout and continued vendor involvement even for small post-launch changes -- and independent buyer analyses already expect pricing to shift toward bundled ServiceNow SKUs now that it is no longer an independent company. | Custom | Yes |
| 2 | [n8n](https://theagentsindex.com/n8n.md) | Source-available workflow automation with native AI-agent nodes and 500+ integrations. Self-hostable free, or on n8n Cloud from €20/month. | The first of two alternatives Glean's own not_for line names for readers who want "a pure workflow-automation canvas" instead of a company-wide knowledge layer. n8n is self-hostable for free under a fair-code license, with 400+ integrations on a visual builder and transparent published pricing from €20/month -- a real, checkable alternative to Glean's undisclosed, sales-gated six-figure deals. The tradeoff: the fair-code license is source-available rather than OSI open-source, so check its terms before commercial resale, and complex agent logic can get unwieldy on a visual canvas in a way it would not inside Glean's Knowledge Graph. | Free | Yes |
| 3 | [Dify](https://theagentsindex.com/dify.md) | Open-source, visual platform for building production LLM apps and agents, self-host it or run it in the cloud. | The second workflow-canvas alternative Glean's own not_for line names. Dify is open-source and self-hostable with a genuinely all-in-one scope -- workflow, RAG, agents, model management and observability in one tool -- and ships real enterprise proof: A.P. Møller-Maersk cut AI-app development from four months to two weeks per app using it. Cloud pricing starts at $590/year, a fraction of Glean's roughly $98,890 median deal. The tradeoff: its license is Apache-2.0-derived with extra conditions on multi-tenant and branding use, self-hosting means owning your own upgrades and scaling, and deeply bespoke agent logic can still be easier to build in a code-first framework than on Dify's broad, general-purpose canvas. | Free | Yes |
| 4 | [Sierra](https://theagentsindex.com/sierra.md) | Bret Taylor’s enterprise agent platform, branded AI agents that resolve customer issues end to end, priced on outcomes. | The first of two alternatives Glean's own not_for line names for readers who want "a single-purpose customer-facing support agent" rather than an internal knowledge-and-agent layer. Sierra resolves customer issues end to end across every channel on outcome-based pricing -- you pay only for resolutions, human escalations are free -- with real enterprise scale behind it: $150M+ ARR by February 2026 and named customers including SoFi, Ramp and Chime. The tradeoff: it is enterprise-only and sales-led with no public pricing, no free tier and no self-serve API, and its outcome pricing is custom-negotiated and hard to benchmark ahead of a contract. | Custom | — |
| 5 | [Fin](https://theagentsindex.com/intercom-fin.md) | Intercom’s customer-service AI agent, resolves tickets omnichannel over any helpdesk, billed per resolution. | The second single-purpose-support alternative Glean's own not_for line names, and the more accessible of the two: Fin layers onto an existing helpdesk in under an hour with published per-resolution pricing starting at $0.99, against Sierra's fully custom, sales-gated rate. The tradeoff: Fin bills for "assumed" resolutions when a customer simply stops replying, its "qualifications" are billed separately at $9.99 each -- roughly 10x the headline resolution rate -- and Salesforce's pending ~$3.6B acquisition of Intercom/Fin (announced June 2026, expected to close around Salesforce's fiscal Q4 2027) leaves pricing and non-Salesforce-helpdesk support undecided for now. | $0.99 / outcome | Yes |
| 6 | [Salesforce Agentforce](https://theagentsindex.com/salesforce-agentforce.md) | Salesforce's enterprise platform for building, testing and running AI agents across customer and employee workflows, with CRM actions, voice, APIs, MCP and multi-agent orchestration. | For readers whose knowledge and workflows already live inside Salesforce rather than spread across 100+ disconnected systems -- a genuine angle Glean's own fields do not name, but its own live-CRM-record integration supports directly. Agentforce agents call Salesforce Flows, Apex and MuleSoft APIs directly against live CRM records, it is genuinely model-agnostic (GPT-5.x, Claude and Gemini alongside Salesforce's own Einstein models), and it has real scale behind it -- 10,000+ agents built in its Dreamforce launch week alone. The tradeoff: consumption pricing has already changed shape multiple times since its October 2024 launch, full cross-system context requires the separately-priced Data Cloud, and independent buyer analyses put real mid-market annual spend at $150,000-$600,000 once that is included -- in the same range as Glean's own sales-gated deals, so this is a lateral move for CRM-native reach, not a cheaper one. | Free | Yes |

## Methodology

We only draw alternatives from this site's own Published, individually-researched Agent-platforms and Customer-support-agent listings, never a fresh, unverified list. A tool qualifies only if it is a genuine platform a company would actually adopt in place of Glean, fact-checked against its own pricing and deployment model, with sourced pros, cons and a best-for call already in place. The order below runs from the one alternative Glean's own listing calls its closest comparator, through the two workflow-canvas and two single-purpose-support alternatives Glean's own not_for line names directly, to a CRM-native platform for companies whose knowledge already lives inside Salesforce.