Alternatives
Glean alternatives
6 alternatives to Glean, each with who it suits and a source: Onyx, Dust, Atlassian Rovo, Claude Team and Enterprise, Langdock and Fabric. Every fact is from the vendor's own documentation, read on 10 October 2026. Fabric is on the list, and we built it.
Written by TechFabric, which builds Fabric, an open-source AI agent platform that answers from your company's own documents, code, tickets and conversations, citing its sources, with a person's yes before anything writes. Fabric is on this list, placed by fit.
Vendor documentation read 10 October 2026 · by TechFabric
Why teams look beyond Glean
The alternatives
- 01Onyx
- Teams that want an open-source enterprise search and AI assistant they can run in their own cloud, on bare metal or air-gapped, with any model. Business is $20 per user per month billed annually; OIDC/SAML SSO and on-premise deployments are listed under Enterprise.
- onyx.app
- 02Dust
- Teams of up to 100 people who want to build and share agents over 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk, on self-serve pricing: Pro is €24 per seat per month billed yearly (€30 monthly) with a monthly credit allowance.
- dust.tt
- 03Atlassian Rovo
- Organisations already on Jira, Confluence or Jira Service Management Cloud at Standard, Premium or Enterprise, where Rovo is included with a monthly credit allowance per user pooled across the organisation; extra usage, if enabled, is $0.01 per credit.
- atlassian.com
- 04Claude Team and Enterprise
- Organisations that want a chat assistant with connectors and enterprise search included in the seat. Team Standard seats are $20 per month billed annually ($25 monthly) with single sign-on; SCIM is on Enterprise, which is $20 per seat per month plus usage at API rates.
- claude.com
- 05Langdock
- Organisations that want company-wide chat, agents and workflows across several model vendors, hosted in Europe, with cloud or on-premise options; custom deployment is listed from 1,000+ seats. Prices are on a separate page; there is a 7-day trial.
- langdock.com
- 06Fabric
- Product and engineering teams whose knowledge sits in GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack and Confluence and who want agents with defined jobs working from it, with every agent action that writes to a shared system waiting on a time-boxed permission a person approves. It is open source under Apache-2.0, free to use with your own model keys, and hosted at fabric.pro or self-hosted with Docker Compose or Aspire; customer data and keys are not used to train models. Fabric is made by TechFabric, the publisher of this page.
- fabric.pro
How the list was chosen
The list starts from the tools people name when they leave Glean, then each entry is checked against its vendor's own documentation, read on 10 October 2026. TechFabric builds Fabric, which is on this list; it is placed by fit, like every other entry, and nobody paid to be included.
Sources
Each page below was read on 10 October 2026.
- https://www.glean.com/pricing
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835845
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45019420
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278471
- https://onyx.app
- https://onyx.app/pricing
- https://dust.tt
- https://dust.tt/home/pricing
- https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo
- https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo/pricing
- https://claude.com/pricing
- https://langdock.com
- https://fabric.pro
Questions
Who should pick Onyx instead of Glean?
Teams that want an open-source enterprise search and AI assistant they can run in their own cloud, on bare metal or air-gapped, with any model. Business is $20 per user per month billed annually; OIDC/SAML SSO and on-premise deployments are listed under Enterprise.
Who should pick Dust instead of Glean?
Teams of up to 100 people who want to build and share agents over 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk, on self-serve pricing: Pro is €24 per seat per month billed yearly (€30 monthly) with a monthly credit allowance.
Who should pick Atlassian Rovo instead of Glean?
Organisations already on Jira, Confluence or Jira Service Management Cloud at Standard, Premium or Enterprise, where Rovo is included with a monthly credit allowance per user pooled across the organisation; extra usage, if enabled, is $0.01 per credit.
Who should pick Claude Team and Enterprise instead of Glean?
Organisations that want a chat assistant with connectors and enterprise search included in the seat. Team Standard seats are $20 per month billed annually ($25 monthly) with single sign-on; SCIM is on Enterprise, which is $20 per seat per month plus usage at API rates.
How was this list of Glean alternatives chosen?
From the tools people name when they leave Glean, checked against each vendor's own documentation on 10 October 2026. TechFabric builds Fabric, which is on this list; it is placed by fit, like every other entry, and nobody paid to be included.