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Alternatives to Glean
24 business intelligence tools sit alongside Glean in this directory. Below is what separates each from Glean on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 7
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Glean starts at
- On request
Why people look past Glean
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Glean entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Glean carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 7 of the 24 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Scalable, serverless BI by AWS
- Publishes an entry price of $3/month, where Glean does not.
- Sold on a per-user model rather than quote.
Enterprise analytics and mobility platform
- Publishes an entry price of $600/month, where Glean does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
Business analytics by Microsoft
- Can be used without paying; Glean cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $14/user/month, where Glean does not.
Infuse analytics everywhere
- Publishes an entry price of $10000/year, where Glean does not.
AI notebooks combining SQL, Python and no-code for small data teams
- Can be used without paying; Glean cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $39/month, where Glean does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
IBCS-based charting add-ins that replace native visuals in Power BI, Excel and PowerPoint
- Can be used without paying; Glean cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $50/month, where Glean does not.
- Sold on a Per year by licensed user count model rather than quote.
Every Glean alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glean (this page) | On request | Quote | - | |
| Amazon QuickSightScalable, serverless BI by AWS | $3/month | Per-user | 4 | vs Glean |
| MicroStrategyEnterprise analytics and mobility platform | $600/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Glean |
| Power BIBusiness analytics by Microsoft | Free, then $14/user/month | - | 3 | vs Glean |
| SisenseInfuse analytics everywhere | $10000/year | - | 3 | vs Glean |
| Fabi | Free, then $39/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Glean |
| Zebra BI | Free, then $50/month | Per year by licensed user count | 5 | vs Glean |
| Cabin | Free, then $14/month | Per month by pageview volume | 3 | vs Glean |
| Hex | Free, then $36/month | Seat-based subscription with credit system | 4 | vs Glean |
| Deepnote | Free, then $39/month | Subscription with free tier | 3 | vs Glean |
| Cube | Free, then $40/developer/month | Per-developer seats with volume pricing | 4 | vs Glean |
| Luzmo | €995/month | Per month by monthly active user count | 3 | vs Glean |
| DashThis | $44/month | Per month by dashboard count | 4 | vs Glean |
| Jedox | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Pigment | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Board International | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Phocas | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Snowplow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Anaplan | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Rill Data | $20/month | Per user per month plus metered compute | 3 | vs Glean |
| Quid | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Reportz | $9.9/month | Per month by dashboard count | 3 | vs Glean |
| NetBase Quid | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Zenlytic | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Glean |
| Evidence | $2500/month | Flat team pricing with no per-user fees | 2 | vs Glean |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Glean badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (7)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
What you would be giving up
Glean is most often brought in for onboarding new employees across distributed teams to company knowledge, maintaining centralized searchable intranet for compliance requirements, surfacing historical archived content for editorial and sales teams, creating ai agents through natural language without engineers, reducing language model costs by filtering unnecessary data. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Glean is broadly right and the question is cost, the Glean pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Business Intelligence category lists everything the directory holds, and best business intelligence tools ranks them.
Glean runs on not recorded. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Glean alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Glean?
- 24 other business intelligence tools are listed in this directory, led by Amazon QuickSight, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Sisense. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Glean?
- 7 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Power BI, Fabi, Zebra BI, Cabin, Hex.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Glean?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Glean?
- Glean is most often brought in for onboarding new employees across distributed teams to company knowledge, maintaining centralized searchable intranet for compliance requirements, surfacing historical archived content for editorial and sales teams, creating ai agents through natural language without engineers, reducing language model costs by filtering unnecessary data. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Glean?
- None of the business intelligence tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Glean alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Business Intelligence, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Glean against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Glean covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every business intelligence tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Business Intelligence category, 24 tools beside Glean. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.