Glean vs Hebbia

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

Hebbia

Hebbia is the tool to shortlist when a deal team needs the same forty questions answered across a data room, with every cell traceable to a source page, and the customer logos say the big banks and law firms have already bought in. It is not something an individual analyst or a small shop can simply sign up for, and with no public price the cost of entry is whatever the sales team decides it is.

Pros

• +Matrix turns document analysis into a spreadsheet-like grid that scales to thousands of files
• +Native connectors to FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, SharePoint and Box, not just file upload
• +Customer logos include Morgan Stanley, Centerview and Latham & Watkins, which signals the vendor passed heavy security review
• +Backed by a16z, Index Ventures, GV and Peter Thiel, so the company is unlikely to disappear mid-contract

Cons

• −No public pricing, trial or self-serve path; everything runs through a demo request
• −No legal entity, address or governing law stated on the terms page, which is unusual for an enterprise vendor
• −No public API documentation found, so integration beyond the listed connectors is a sales conversation
• −Output quality on sample pages is vendor-curated and not independently verifiable

Which has a public API, Glean or Hebbia?

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