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Glean vs GoLinks

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. GoLinks publishes a starting price ($2); Glean does not. Only GoLinks has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applicationsGoLinksShort go/ links for internal URLs, plus an AI assistant that searches what those links point at

Side by side

FactGleanGoLinks
CategoryPersonal & Enterprise SearchPersonal & Enterprise Search
Pricing modelContactFreemium
Starts at—$2 seat_month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, Slack App, Chrome ExtWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, Slack App, API
CompanyGlean TechnologiesGoLinks, Inc.
Launched2019—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

GoLinks

Solves a small, real problem - nobody can remember where the payroll doc lives - and then builds search on top of the map that solves it. The AI layer only starts at the $4 Pro tier, so the cheap plan is a well-run link shortener rather than a search product.

Pros

  • Link types beyond a plain redirect: variables, geo-routing, private, unlisted, aliases and QR codes
  • Free tier covers up to 20 users with unlimited links, not a trial
  • Around fifty integrations plus browser extensions and mobile apps
  • Enterprise tier exposes an API and webhooks with a 99.95% SLA

Cons

  • The AI search is gated to Pro; Basic is just link management
  • The pricing page demands a work email login, which is a poor look for a $2 product
  • Per-user billing counts anyone who creates, edits or regularly uses links, so cost tracks headcount

Which one fits

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

Choose GoLinks if you need

  • Companies where the same handful of internal documents get re-asked in chat every week
  • Teams already using go/ links informally who want them to actually resolve
  • Organisations wanting one place to point at across Slack, Jira, GitHub and Salesforce

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