Sistava vs Glean
AI Knowledge Bases
Sistava vs Glean
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.
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 Sistava
- 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 $49/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 |
|---|---|---|
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Custom enterprise pricing | Free + public tiers | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Glean Agents (limited) | ✓ | |
| Yes, enterprise-proven | Yes, smaller deployments | |
| 100+ enterprise connectors | 1,000+ via OAuth + MCP | |
| Work AI context | Graph + episodic, persistent | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Weeks (enterprise rollout) | Minutes |