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amaiko vs Glean

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. amaiko publishes a starting price ($32); Glean does not. Only Glean ships a public API.

amaikoAn AI colleague inside Microsoft Teams that drafts documents, writes meeting minutes, and triages your inbox.GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applications

Side by side

FactamaikoGlean
CategoryPersonal AI AssistantsPersonal & Enterprise Search
Pricing modelPaidContact
Starts at$32 seat_month—
Public APINoYes
PlatformsWeb, Windows, macOS, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, Slack App, Chrome Ext
Companyamaiko GmbHGlean Technologies
Launched—2019
Last verifiedSep 1, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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 one fits

Choose amaiko if you need

  • Organizations already standardized on Microsoft Teams and 365 wanting an assistant without adding a new app
  • European companies for whom GDPR compliance and German data hosting are a procurement requirement
  • Teams wanting meeting minutes and inbox triage handled automatically

Choose Glean if you need

  • Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools
  • Regulated or security-conscious buyers who need source-system permissions honoured exactly
  • Teams building internal agents that need governed access to company context

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