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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. Lore publishes a starting price ($99); Glean does not. Only Glean ships a public API.

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_month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, API, Slack App, Chrome ExtWeb
CompanyGlean TechnologiesBrewster Consulting Group
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

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

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