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Glean vs Lore

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
Glean has one; not confirmed by us for Lore
Higher Trust score
Glean — 90 vs 72 for Lore
Best fit
Glean: Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools · Lore: Services firms whose pricing and process knowledge lives in a few people's heads
Platforms
Glean: Web, Slack app, Chrome extension · Lore: Web
Status
Both up at our last check — Glean Oct 16, 2026, Lore 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 applicationsLoreCompany knowledge base you load with existing documents, then query, train new hires from and run agents against

Side by side

FactGleanLore
CategoryPersonal & Enterprise SearchKnowledge Management & Wikis
Pricing modelContactPaid
Starts at—$99/seat/mo
Public APIYesNot confirmed
Trust score90 / 10072 / 100
PlatformsWeb, API, Slack app, Chrome extensionWeb
CompanyGlean Technologies, Inc.Brewster Consulting Group
Launched2019—
Last verifiedOct 16, 2026Oct 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

Lore

Lore's pitch is narrower and more honest than most 'company brain' tools: start from the documents you already have, get answers with receipts, and put agents on the recurring jobs. Pricing is unusually legible for the category — real numbers, real limits, a no-card trial. It is also expensive per head, and the operator is a consultancy rather than a software company with a support org behind it.

Pros

  • Publishes hard limits per plan: pages, active agents, agent runs and audit retention
  • External guests and client logins are free rather than billed as seats
  • Nine quick-start kits give the upload step a concrete target instead of a blank library
  • Pro's 14-day trial needs no card; Enterprise offers SSO, a HIPAA BAA and a 99.9% SLA

Cons

  • No free tier at all — the cheapest real usage is $99 per seat per month
  • Business auto-charges on day 15 of its trial and does require a card
  • Built and run by a consulting firm, so support depth and roadmap are tied to their client work

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 Lore if you need

  • Services firms whose pricing and process knowledge lives in a few people's heads
  • Onboarding new hires from existing SOPs and past deliverables
  • Teams answering repeat RFPs or quotes from prior work

Glean vs Lore: the questions people ask

Is Glean cheaper than Lore?

Lore starts at $99/seat/mo; Glean prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Which has a public API, Glean or Lore?

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

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