Business Intelligence · head to head
Exa vs Glean
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Exa pricing is metered per 1,000 requests and stacks by feature: $7 per 1,000 basic searches, $12 to $15 per 1,000 for deep search variants, and separate per-ACU and per-search charges for the Agent product, as of August 2026.; Glean glean publishes no self-serve pricing tiers at all; both the homepage and dedicated pricing page route every visitor to a demo request with no plan names or figures shown, as of August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Exa and Glean actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Business Intelligence).
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Exa
- Pricing is metered per 1,000 requests and stacks by feature: $7 per 1,000 basic searches, $12 to $15 per 1,000 for deep search variants, and separate per-ACU and per-search charges for the Agent product, as of August 2026.
Glean
- Glean publishes no self-serve pricing tiers at all; both the homepage and dedicated pricing page route every visitor to a demo request with no plan names or figures shown, as of August 2026.
Pricing, plan by plan
Exa
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Exa review.
Glean
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Glean review.
Which should you pick?
Choose Exa if
Nothing in the data separates Exa from Glean on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Choose Glean if
Nothing in the data separates Glean from Exa on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Exa or Glean better?
- Neither clearly leads. Exa starts at On request and Glean at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Exa or Glean?
- Exa starts at On request and Glean at On request.
- Does Exa or Glean run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.