Plantel vs Glean
Glean is enterprise search bolted onto the SaaS you already run. Plantel Brain is the search, wired into one product — and Plantel is the rest of the company around it.
Glean is great at indexing the SaaS you already have. Plantel Brain is great at indexing the workspace where everything is one product. The difference shows up in what gets searched. Glean is a layer that crawls connectors across your existing vendor stack; Plantel Brain is wired straight into the product, so Drive, Mail, Huddle, Chat, Signature, calls, agent action logs and browser history become searchable knowledge the moment they happen — automatically, deduped by source, and never doubled. Three retrieval modes run together (vector similarity, full-text and a knowledge graph), so you get a real answer with the source cited in under 500ms at the median — not ten blue links. Need-to-Know is enforced on every result: people see their access, agents see their role. And Brain search is unmetered — included in every $24.95 seat, with no per-seat search fee stacked on top of the SaaS you already pay for.
Honest feature matrix
| Feature | Plantel | Glean |
|---|---|---|
| What it searches | Everything your company produces inside one workspace — Drive, Mail, Huddle, Chat, Signature, calls, agent action logs, browser history + the web | The third-party SaaS you already run |
| Index across third-party SaaS | Selected | Yes |
| Retrieval modes | Three together — vector similarity, full-text + a knowledge graph | Hybrid retrieval |
| Answer, not links | A cited answer in under 500ms at the median (p50) | Cited answers |
| Source attribution | Cited every time | Yes |
| Permissions-aware | Need-to-Know on every result — people see their access, agents see their role | Yes |
| Real-time + idempotent ingest | New work is searchable the moment it happens, deduped by source | Connector-sync dependent |
| Memory that never forgets | No decay, no forced expiry — survives reorgs + turnover | Index of current state |
| Per-company isolation | Keyed to your tenant — hard walls, every query audited | Permissions-aware |
| 3D Brain view | A navigable map of your knowledge across five lobes | No |
| Integrated workspace | Yes — search is one surface of the product, not a layer on top | No |
| AI agents who use the search | Configurable workforce | Glean Chat (single) |
| Search pricing | Unmetered — included in every $24.95 seat | Priced per seat, on top of your SaaS stack |
When to pick Glean instead
If you're locked into a multi-vendor SaaS stack and need to make it searchable in 90 days without changing tools, Glean is the right wrapper — it crawls the systems you already run. Plantel is the rebuild: one workspace where the Brain already sees everything, a configurable AI workforce that uses that search to do the work, and a 3D map of your knowledge you can fly through. Glean does not publish a public per-seat list price; figures discussed in market are illustrative only and change independently of Plantel. Plantel's $24.95 list price and unmetered Brain search are internally sourced and current as of June 2026.