# Glean Alternatives: Features, Pricing and Comparison

*AI Knowledge Bases*

Looking for an alternative to Glean? Compare features, pricing, and fit to choose the right platform.

Glean vs Sistava

Glean is one of the strongest names in enterprise search. It connects to a large set of workplace tools, respects permissions, and uses company context to surface answers, experts, and related work. Glean has expanded from search into a broader Work AI platform with assistant, agents, and actions. It is a serious choice for organizations that want a security-aware knowledge layer across many apps.

> **Bottom line:** Glean is enterprise search first. The defining job is finding the right document, the right person, the right answer. Sistava starts a step further: take the answer and do the work (file the ticket, draft the response, update the doc, send the email).

## Profile

- **Pricing:** Custom enterprise pricing, sales-led. Ballpark reports put the base license around $50-75+ per user per month with a roughly 100-seat minimum (about $60,000/year ACV floor), plus a Work AI agents add-on around $15 per user per month.
- **Founded:** 2019, Palo Alto, California
- **Funding:** $7.2B valuation after a $150M Series F in June 2025; $765M+ raised in total across 6 rounds.
- **Focus:** Enterprise search and AI assistant across company knowledge and work apps

## Why choose Sistava as an alternative to Glean

- Glean is enterprise search first. The defining job is finding the right document, the right person, the right answer. Sistava starts a step further: take the answer and do the work (file the ticket, draft the response, update the doc, send the email).
- Honest concession: Glean has been built around enterprise permission models and large-org deployments since 2019. If your buyer cares most about secure cross-app retrieval at thousands of seats, Glean has the longer track record.
- Sistava works outside the Atlassian/Slack/Google enterprise stack Glean is shaped around. SMBs that mix Notion, ClickUp, and Linear get a single workforce model rather than an enterprise search product.
- Sistava is self-serve from $25/mo. Glean is custom enterprise pricing only.
- Sistava scales beyond knowledge: hire a Sales Team, a Support Team, an Ops Team, all sharing the same memory layer. Glean is the knowledge surface for any team that uses it.

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Glean | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| Self-serve signup | ✗ | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | Custom enterprise pricing | Free + public tiers |
| Pre-built specialists beyond knowledge (sales, support, ops) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Acts on the answer (files tickets, drafts emails, updates CRM) | Glean Agents (limited) | ✓ |
| Permissions-aware retrieval at thousands of seats | Yes, enterprise-proven | Yes, smaller deployments |
| Search across many third-party SaaS connectors | 100+ enterprise connectors | 1,000+ via OAuth + MCP |
| Persistent memory beyond search index | Work AI context | Graph + episodic, persistent |
| Knowledge ingestion from URLs and uploads | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser and desktop automation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sprint planning and team workflows | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time to first value | Weeks (enterprise rollout) | Minutes |

## What is Sistava?

Sistava is an AI workforce platform where you hire AI employees and work with them through conversation. Tell an employee what you need in plain language, and Sistava handles the setup behind the scenes, including the tools, context, and team coordination needed for the work. You do not need to learn AI configuration or build workflows first. You can start with the work you want done, stay involved in the decisions that matter, and see how your team is moving forward.

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