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Apex 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.

The short answer

Public API
Glean has one; not confirmed by us for Apex
Higher Trust score
Glean — 90 vs 68 for Apex
Best fit
Apex: Owner-operators who switch between Claude, ChatGPT and Grok and keep re-explaining their business · Glean: Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools
Platforms
Apex: Web · Glean: Web, Slack app, Chrome extension
Status
Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

ApexBuilds one memory of your business from the tools you connect and serves it to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok over MCP.GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applications

Side by side

FactApexGlean
CategoryAI Agents & Autonomous WorkersPersonal & Enterprise Search
Pricing modelContactContact
Public APINot confirmedYes
Trust score68 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsWebWeb, API, Slack app, Chrome extension
CompanyApexGlean Technologies, Inc.
Launched—2019
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Apex

Apex has moved from a chat-app assistant to a memory layer: it reads your connected tools into one graph of people, deals and commitments and serves it to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok over MCP, so whichever assistant you open starts with the same context. The documented tool list is concrete and every action is logged, which is the right design. It is still waitlist-only, with no price, no named legal entity and terms that its own authors say no lawyer has reviewed.

Pros

  • One business graph readable by Claude, ChatGPT and Grok over MCP
  • Read access with per-tool scoping, plus per-person sharing for team members
  • 1,379 connectable tools listed, and anything with an API or MCP server can connect
  • Every action it takes is logged with the tool, the requester and the outcome
  • Answers cite their sources and say when the graph has nothing on a question

Cons

  • Waitlist only, with access granted by cohort
  • No pricing published at any tier
  • Terms name no legal entity or country and state they have not been reviewed by a lawyer

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 Apex if you need

  • Owner-operators who switch between Claude, ChatGPT and Grok and keep re-explaining their business
  • Small teams whose commitments are scattered across mail, calendar, CRM and books
  • Giving an assistant or bookkeeper scoped access without sharing whole accounts

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

Apex vs Glean: the questions people ask

Which has a public API, Apex or Glean?

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

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