Head-to-head comparison
GuruvsGlean
Guru and Glean both answer employee questions from company knowledge, but from opposite directions. Guru is a wiki with verification workflows and an AI answer layer over connected apps. Glean is enterprise search that indexes everything and adds assistants and agents, aimed at large organisations.
At a glance
| Guru | Glean | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Function | Knowledge base | Enterprise search |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting price | From $15/user/mo; free trial | Enterprise — typically $40-$50 per user/mo |
| Released | January 2013 | February 2021 |
Guru
Pros
- Verification keeps AI answers grounded in current content
- Meets people in Slack and the browser
- Cheaper than enterprise search suites
Cons
- Per-seat pricing for a whole company adds up
- Needs disciplined content owners to stay useful
- Search across apps is shallower than Glean's
Glean
Pros
- Best-in-class for "where is that document"
- Permissions actually respected
- Adoption inside companies tends to be high
Cons
- Enterprise pricing — not for individuals
- Implementation takes weeks
Which one should you pick?
Pick Guru if
You are a mid-sized company that wants a trustworthy knowledge base with owners and review dates, and you need answers in Slack and the browser at a moderate per-seat price.
See Guru details →Pick Glean if
You are a large enterprise with dozens of systems, need permission-aware search across all of them, and have budget for a platform deployment.
See Glean details →Bottom line
Guru for curated, verified knowledge at mid-market scale. Glean for enterprise-wide search and agents. Under a few hundred employees, Guru usually wins on cost; above a few thousand, Glean usually wins on coverage.