amaiko vs Glean

amaiko

amaiko's pitch is avoiding another app: it lives entirely inside Teams and Microsoft 365, drafting documents and minutes and triaging email using context it's already absorbed from an organization's conversations. The German hosting and GDPR framing is a real differentiator for European buyers specifically, but that also makes the pitch narrower for teams outside the Microsoft ecosystem or outside Europe.

Pros

• +Runs natively inside Teams rather than as a separate destination app
• +Connects across the full Microsoft 365 suite plus Google Workspace, HubSpot, and Dynamics 365
• +German hosting and GDPR compliance explicitly addressed, including a certified R&D status seal
• +One-click installation from the Teams store

Cons

• −Priced in euros, so US-based buyers deal with currency conversion and exchange-rate drift
• −Deep dependence on the Microsoft 365 ecosystem limits it for mixed-tool organizations
• −Per-seat pricing scales linearly with headcount, which adds up for larger teams

Glean

Glean is the reference implementation of permission-aware enterprise search, and permissions are the hard part everyone else underestimates. It is also priced so that only companies with a real sprawl problem can justify it.

Pros

• +Permission inheritance from each connected system is done properly, not approximated
• +Answers cite and link the underlying documents rather than paraphrasing them away
• +Connector coverage across the mainstream SaaS estate is broad
• +Commercially solid: about $300M ARR by May 2026 at a $7.2B valuation

Cons

• −No published price anywhere, and contracts start in six figures
• −Value depends entirely on connector coverage of your specific stack
• −Index quality inherits whatever mess exists in the source systems
• −Overlaps increasingly with Microsoft and Google's bundled offerings, which cost nothing extra

Which has a public API, amaiko or Glean?

Glean ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for amaiko is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.