Glean vs You.com
A side-by-side comparison of capabilities, autonomy, integrations, and pricing to help you choose.
Short answer: choose Glean if you want enterprise work ai platform: permission-aware search, assistant, and agents (Supervised agent, enterprise); choose You.com if you want answer engine and supervised research agents (ari) with grounding apis (Supervised agent, usage).
| Glean | You.com | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Enterprise Work AI platform: permission-aware search, assistant, and agents | Answer engine and supervised research agents (ARI) with grounding APIs |
| Type | platform | product-with-agents |
| Autonomy | Supervised agent | Supervised agent |
| Pricing | enterprise | usage · Search API $5/1k calls; Research API from $12/1k calls; $100 free credits |
| Best for | enterprise, mid-market, developers | developers, enterprise, consumers |
| Deployment | saas, self-hosted | saas, api |
| Modalities | text, api | text, api |
| Models | model-agnostic, gpt, claude, gemini | model-agnostic, gpt, claude, gemini |
| Protocols | mcp, rest-api | rest-api, mcp, function-calling |
| Integrations | Slack, Google Workspace, Jira, Salesforce, Confluence, GitHub | Google Drive, SharePoint, Databricks, Notion, Slack, Claude Code |
| Capabilities | 5 documented | 4 documented |
Glean
- +Best-in-class unified, permission-enforced index across many apps with citation-grounded answers
- +Genuinely model-agnostic and open: MCP host plus server, bring-your-own model, and on-prem deployment
- +One governed platform spanning search, assistant, and agents with built-in certification and monitoring
- -Opaque, expensive pricing with high seat minimums and add-on fees; reported fully-loaded deployments run into the hundreds of thousands
- -The autonomous-agents marketing outpaces demonstrated autonomy; in practice agents are supervised
You.com
- +Deep research via ARI processes hundreds of sources with citations
- +Model-agnostic and standards-friendly (REST, OpenAPI, MCP), easy to drop into agent stacks
- +Transparent, low-friction usage-based API pricing with free starter credits
- -Strategic shift away from the consumer answer engine leaves that pricing and roadmap ambiguous
- -Benchmark and win-rate claims are largely self-published, not independently audited
Which should you choose?
Glean is enterprise work ai platform: permission-aware search, assistant, and agents, best for enterprise, mid-market, developers. You.com is answer engine and supervised research agents (ari) with grounding apis, best for developers, enterprise, consumers. The right choice depends on the autonomy level you want, your existing integrations, and your budget, all compared above.