Launched 2019 · Verified Oct 16, 2026

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Permission-aware search and agents across company applications

enterprise searchknowledge discoverypermission awareinternal agentsContact sales

Listed on EffectHub · Aug 16, 2026

Web · API · Slack app · Chrome extension

Screenshot of the Glean website — glean.com as we captured it — our own screenshot, not the vendor’s press image.

Pricing

Pricing model: Contact sales

No public price: the old /pricing address now redirects to the home page, and every path leads to 'Get a demo'. Sold as an annual per-seat enterprise contract; third-party trackers report initial contracts in the six figures a year.

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Overview

About Glean

Glean indexes a company's SaaS applications and documents, inherits the access rules of every source system, and answers questions with links back to the underlying items. The same index backs agents that carry work across those systems. It is sold to mid-market and enterprise buyers, with the platform assembled from Assistant, Agents and Protect.

Platforms: Web · API · Slack app · Chrome extension
API: Yes
Last verified: Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

Home page navigation lists Glean Enterprise Context with more than 250 connectors, APIs, Glean Protect, Assistant and Agents; every call to action is 'Get a demo'; the /pricing URL 301-redirects to the home page (15 October 2026)glean.com ↗
Timeline starts with Glean founded in 2019 and building enterprise search in stealth; footer reads Glean Technologies, Inc. (15 October 2026)glean.com ↗
Third-party profile: Palo Alto, founded 2019, $300M ARR in May 2026, $768.2M raised (15 October 2026)getlatka.com ↗

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Is Glean legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered: Nov 22, 1998 (27 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate: Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 7, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked: Oct 16, 2026The site answered
On the market since: 2019The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by: Glean Technologies, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Glean

medium confidence

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

Best for

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

Not for

Small teams and startups, where the contract floor alone exceeds the problem
Anyone who needs to evaluate on price before committing to a sales cycle
Single-repository search, which the underlying tool usually does adequately

Watch out: There is no self-serve path and no published price. Reported entry contracts run $100K-$500K a year, so this is a procurement project, not a tool you trial and expense.

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