Glean Pricing Plans in 2026

How much is a Glean subscription?

Glean publishes no pricing. Reported enterprise rates run $50–$75+ per user per month, typically split as a base enterprise search licence around $45–$50 plus a Work AI add-on near $15.

The number that decides whether Glean is even available to you is not the seat rate — it is the minimum contract of roughly 100 seats, around $50,000–$60,000 a year.

The seat minimum is the real gate

Below about 100 employees Glean is effectively not purchasable, whatever your budget. That single fact answers most enquiries faster than any feature comparison.

100 seats: roughly $60,000–$90,000 a year. 500 seats: roughly $300,000–$450,000. 1,000+ seats: reported deployments exceed $240,000 and fully-loaded TCO for mid-to-large rollouts is commonly modelled at $350,000–$480,000 once support and services are counted.

Add a mandatory support fee of about 10%, and reported renewal increases of 7–12% a year. Model year three, not year one.

Can I use Glean for free?

No. There is no free tier, no freemium plan and no self-serve signup. Access is a sales-led trial or pilot as part of a contract conversation.

If you are a small team wanting enterprise search over your own tools, Glean is not the product to evaluate. Open-source options and lighter commercial tools serve that need at a fraction of the commitment.

Who are Glean's main competitors?

Microsoft Copilot and Google's Gemini for Workspace compete hardest on price, because organisations often already own them — the marginal cost of turning on search across your existing suite is far below $60 per seat.

On capability, Coveo and Elastic compete in enterprise search, and a growing set of lighter tools target the same job without the seat minimum.

Glean's case is quality of retrieval across many disconnected systems. If your knowledge already lives mostly inside one vendor's suite, the incumbent's own AI is the cheaper answer and usually good enough.

How much does enterprise search software cost?

The category prices per seat per month and gates on minimums. Based on reported contract data rather than published rate cards, Glean sits at the premium end at $50–$75. Suite-bundled assistants from Microsoft and Google list nearer $20–$30 per user. Open-source deployments trade licence cost for engineering time.

The differentiator across all of them is connector coverage, not the search itself. Price the connectors you actually need before comparing seat rates — a cheaper tool that cannot read your systems costs more.