Best Glean alternatives in 2026
Adapt is the strongest Glean alternative for agents that finish the work, not just find the answer, with published pricing and no seat fees.
Why do teams look beyond Glean?
No price
Glean publishes no plans or per-user prices; buying starts with a demo.
Adapt: Published usage rates
Source: glean.com
100–250
Seat minimums Vendr reports for Glean’s enterprise deployments.
Adapt: No seats or minimums
Source: vendr.com
$98,890
The median yearly contract across 174 purchases on Vendr.
Adapt: $0 platform fee, plus usage
Source: vendr.com
Why choose Adapt over Glean?
Pricing you can read
No seat fee, just usage at published rates, so you can price a rollout yourself.
Start with one team
No seats or minimums, so start with one team and invite the rest later.
Answers that turn into work
Agents file the ticket, update the record and draft the reply, all logged.
- Pricing
- Adapt Cloud: no platform or seat fee, just usage at published rates, with 0% markup on your own model keys. Open source: free to self-host from January 4, 2027. Enterprise: an implementation fee plus an annual fee.
- Where it runs
- Run on Adapt Cloud, self-host the MIT-licensed company agent from January 4, 2027, or have AI Transformation Services run it in your VPC or on-prem.
Sources: adapt.com/pricing, adapt.com/product/overview#waitlist, adapt.com/services
What are the other Glean alternatives?
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s AI assistant add-on that works across Microsoft apps and work data.
- Best for
- Companies standardised on Microsoft 365 that want AI search and chat over data already in their tenant.
- Pricing
- $30 per user per month, paid yearly, on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan.
- Trade-off
- It requires a separate qualifying Microsoft 365 license, and external data sources come in through Copilot connectors.
Source: microsoft.com
Onyx
Open-source enterprise search and AI chat with agents, actions and 40+ app connectors.
- Best for
- Engineering-led companies that want to self-host for data control, or a low-cost hosted plan without a sales process.
- Pricing
- Free open-source self-hosting; Business $20 per user per month billed annually; Enterprise through sales.
- Trade-off
- Supported on-premise deployment and an SLA are Enterprise only.
Source: onyx.app
Atlassian Rovo
Atlassian’s AI search, chat and agents, built on its Teamwork Graph.
- Best for
- Teams already on Jira, Confluence or Jira Service Management Cloud that want search and agents without a separate purchase.
- Pricing
- Included with Standard, Premium and Enterprise Cloud plans, with monthly credit allowances; extra usage at $0.01 per credit.
- Trade-off
- Usage is metered by credit allowances; past them, new credit-using requests pause if extra usage is off, while search and summaries keep working.
Source: atlassian.com
Dust
A multiplayer platform where companies build, share and run agents over their knowledge and tools.
- Best for
- Teams of up to about 100 people that want custom agents on self-serve pricing, especially with EU data residency.
- Pricing
- Pro €24 per seat per month billed yearly; Max €120; Enterprise through sales.
- Trade-off
- The self-serve plan caps connectors at 3; unlimited connectors, SCIM and audit logs are Enterprise only.
Source: dust.tt
Notion AI
AI agents, meeting notes and search built into the Notion workspace, with connectors to Slack, Google Drive and GitHub.
- Best for
- Companies whose docs and wikis already live in Notion and want AI answers over that workspace.
- Pricing
- Business $20 per member per month; Enterprise custom. Custom agents cost $10 per 1,000 monthly credits after a trial.
- Trade-off
- Full Notion AI needs Business or above, and Enterprise Search is in beta.
Source: notion.com
Guru
A governed knowledge layer that verifies company information so people and AI tools can trust the answers.
- Best for
- Support, sales and operations teams that need a curated, verified source of truth in Slack, Teams and the browser.
- Pricing
- Sales-led; no published pricing.
- Trade-off
- Its value depends on curation, and reviewers report that keeping content organised at scale takes sustained effort.
Sources: getguru.com, capterra.com
Moveworks
An enterprise AI assistant for finding information and automating IT and HR requests, now part of ServiceNow.
- Best for
- Large organisations that want an AI front door for IT and HR requests, especially on ServiceNow.
- Pricing
- Sales-led; custom quote.
- Trade-off
- ServiceNow completed its acquisition in December 2025; teams outside ServiceNow should check how standalone the roadmap stays.
Sources: moveworks.com, newsroom.servicenow.com
Questions
Adapt, if you want agents that act on answers across every tool, with published pricing and no seat fees. If you run entirely on Microsoft 365, Copilot is the simplest add-on, and Onyx suits teams that only need search they can self-host.
Yes: Adapt’s company agent is MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027. Onyx is open-source search you can also self-host, MIT-licensed outside its ee/ directories.
Glean doesn’t publish pricing. Vendr reports a median contract of about $99,000 a year and minimum commitments often around 100–250 users.
Adapt is built for it: its agents act in connected tools rather than only searching them. Dust, Rovo, Notion AI and Moveworks also run agents, while Guru focuses on verified knowledge.