Glean vs GoSearch

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

Free plan: GoSearch has one; Glean prices on request
Public API: Both have one
Best fit: Glean: Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools · GoSearch: Mid-sized teams that want enterprise search with a price on the page
Trust score: About even — Glean 90, GoSearch 88
Status: Both up at our last check (Oct 16, 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

GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applications

GoSearchEnterprise search across 100+ connected apps, with grounded chat, role-specific agents and no-code workflows

Side by side

Fact	Glean	GoSearch
Category	Personal & Enterprise Search	Enterprise Search
Pricing model	Contact	Freemium
Starts at	—	$20/seat/mo
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	90 / 100	88 / 100
Platforms	Web, API, Slack app, Chrome extension	Web, API, Chrome extension, Slack app
Company	Glean Technologies, Inc.	GoLinks, Inc.
Launched	2019	—
Last verified	Oct 16, 2026	Oct 16, 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

GoSearch

A credible mid-market enterprise search product with a published per-seat price, which is rare in this category. It sits inside GoLinks' wider suite, so the short-link and employee-directory products come along as neighbours. The limits are the usual ones: the API and every enterprise control sit behind a sales call, and the free tier is too small to evaluate on.

Pros

100+ connectors covering native integrations, MCP and custom sources
Pro is priced publicly at $20 per user per month with unlimited searches and agents
Custom agents and no-code multi-step workflows run on the same index as search
SOC 2 Type II with zero data retention and bring-your-own cloud or model on Enterprise
Slack, Teams and a browser extension put it where people already work

Cons

The GoSearch API is Enterprise-only, so automation needs a sales conversation
Free plan is capped at 10 searches and 3 AI queries a day
Per-seat pricing gets expensive across a whole company compared with a flat platform fee

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 GoSearch if you need

Mid-sized teams that want enterprise search with a price on the page
Companies already using GoLinks or GoProfiles
Teams needing answers grounded in Slack, Jira, Notion and Salesforce at once