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Dust vs Glean

A side-by-side comparison of Dust and Glean, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Dust

Agent

Enterprise platform for building and sharing custom AI agents on company knowledge.

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Glean

Assistant

Work AI: enterprise search, assistant, and agents over your apps.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Dust and Glean
AttributeDustGlean
Category (differs)AgentAssistant
PricingPAIDPAID
License (differs)Open coreProprietary
Deployment (differs)HybridCloud
Platforms (differs)Web, APIWeb, Browser extension
Model supportMulti-modelMulti-model
Vendor (differs)DustGlean Technologies
Capabilities (differs)
  • Agent framework
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • MCP server
  • RAG pipeline
  • Chat with documents
  • Unified search
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Unified search
  • Knowledge graph
  • RAG pipeline
  • AI app builder

The honest brief

Dust

Org-wide 'multiplayer' AI over shared company knowledge — agents are built once and reused across teams, not siloed per user.

  • Agents shareable across the org
  • Broad workspace connector library
  • Per-agent choice of frontier models
  • MIT-licensed open codebase
  • No free tier beyond a 14-day trial
  • Per-seat cost scales with org size

Glean

Permission-aware knowledge graph that no-code agents can act on, not just search across your enterprise apps.

  • Indexes 100+ enterprise apps
  • Enforces each user's existing permissions
  • No-code custom agents
  • Strong onboarding/knowledge ROI
  • Opaque, sales-only enterprise pricing
  • High seat minimums (~100 users)
  • IT-heavy to deploy and maintain
  • Limited to supported connectors

When to pick which

Both cover Multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipeline, and Unified search.

Pick Dust if you need Agent framework, MCP server, and Chat with documents.

  • Agent framework (primary capability)
  • MCP server (secondary capability)
  • Chat with documents (secondary capability)

Pick Glean if you need Workflow orchestration, Knowledge graph, and AI app builder.

  • Workflow orchestration (primary capability)
  • Knowledge graph (secondary capability)
  • AI app builder (secondary capability)

They share capabilities, but each leads with different ones as a headline job:

Dust is built around RAG pipeline.

  • RAG pipeline (primary capability)

Glean is built around Unified search.

  • Unified search (primary capability)

They also differ on:

License
Open core · Proprietary
Deployment
Hybrid · Cloud
Platforms
Web, API · Web, Browser extension
Dust detailsGlean details