Dust vs Glean

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

Compared from listings verified as of 2026-06-12

Dust

Agent

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

Glean

Assistant

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

At a glance

Feature comparison of Dust and Glean
Attribute	Dust	Glean
Category (differs)	Agent	Assistant
Pricing	PAID	PAID
License (differs)	Open core	Proprietary
Deployment (differs)	Hybrid	Cloud
Platforms (differs)	Web, API	Web, Browser extension
Model support	Multi-model	Multi-model
Vendor (differs)	Dust	Glean Technologies

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

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