Glean vs Gurubase

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: Both have one
Higher Trust score: Glean — 90 vs 83 for Gurubase
Best fit: Glean: Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools · Gurubase: internal IT or HR helpdesks with a large document corpus
Platforms: Glean: Web, Slack app, Chrome extension · Gurubase: Web, Slack app
Status: Both up at our last check — Glean Oct 16, 2026, Gurubase Oct 15, 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

GurubaseTurns your docs, tickets and wikis into a question-answering agent that cites its sources and answers inside Slack, Jira or Zendesk.

Side by side

Fact	Glean	Gurubase
Category	Personal & Enterprise Search	Custom GPTs & Bot Builders
Pricing model	Contact	Contact
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	90 / 100	83 / 100
Platforms	Web, API, Slack app, Chrome extension	Web, API, Slack app
Company	Glean Technologies, Inc.	Ddosify Inc.
Launched	2019	2024
Last verified	Oct 16, 2026	Oct 15, 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

Gurubase

A grounded-answer agent aimed at teams that care more about a citation and a refusal than about fluent prose. The integration list is unusually deep for a product this young, and actions plus MCP mean it can do more than answer. The catch is cost visibility: both plans now go through sales and the pricing page no longer shows a figure, so expect an enterprise-style negotiation rather than a self-serve purchase.

Pros

Answers carry links back to the source passage, and the product is designed to decline when the corpus does not cover a question
Reaches live data through REST calls, Python execution and MCP rather than only reading a static index
Ships as bots for Slack, Discord, GitHub, Jira and Zendesk plus a web widget
Enterprise tier offers self-hosted and air-gapped deployment with SSO, RBAC and audit logs

Cons

Both plans are 'Talk to sales'; no price is shown on the pricing page
Question volume above the plan allowance is billed in metered bands on top of the subscription
API access and custom models are held back for the Enterprise tier
Pro limits are counted per guru, so several departments mean several gurus

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 Gurubase if you need

internal IT or HR helpdesks with a large document corpus
support teams that need answers traced back to a source
companies already on Confluence, Jira and Zendesk