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Homla vs Glean: enterprise search, or a team home sized for 5 to 50

The short answerOverlaps with Homla

Pick Homla if you are 5 to 50 people and want to start this week, self-serve.

Pick Glean if you have hundreds of staff, many document sources and an IT team.

  • Sized for small teams

    Glean sells to enterprises, by demo only.1,2

  • Start today

    Glean's docs plan 1 to 3 weeks before users start.3

  • Search vs playbooks

    Glean searches 275+ sources. Homla holds what your team saves.1

  • Certificates

    Glean holds SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA. Homla none yet.5

The key difference

Glean finds what your company wrote. Homla shares how your team works.

Glean connects to 275+ sources and searches them with each user's permissions. It is sold to enterprises, by demo.1,2

Homla holds what your team chooses to save: playbooks, facts and rules. It also gives each person's AI the right access to your tools.

Rollout is the other gap. Glean's docs plan 1 to 3 weeks before users start. Homla is self-serve, with a free plan.3

Side by side

What matters to an owner.

Homla compared with Glean
TopicHomlaStart freeGlean
Cost and setup
Price

Free for one person. Team plan from $79 a month for 10 people. No cap on AI use. Pricing

No public price. Demo only.2

Setup
Yes.

No developer. Guided setup in the browser. Paid plans: we set it up with you.

Partly.

About 1 to 3 weeks, with SSO and a content crawl.3

Your team's know-how
Shared playbooks
Yes.

Save from the chat. Everyone gets the latest version. Skills

Yes.

Agents shared with people, departments or the company.4

Team memory
Yes.

One memory every AI on the team reads. Memory

Yes.

Search across 275+ sources, by each user's rights.1

Control
Access per person
Yes.

Per role, per tool: none, look only or change. Access

Yes.

Source permissions enforced on every read and write.5

Agents and approvals
Yes.

Schedule, email or by hand. Changes wait for a yes. Agents

Partly.

Agents exist. Multi-step workflows in beta.6,7

Admin and security
Partly.

Two-step sign-in. No SSO, SCIM or SOC 2 yet.

Yes.

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA. SSO, SCIM.5,10

Where it works
Works in
Yes.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and 9 more apps.

Yes.

Glean Assistant, plus an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor.8,9

Yes. YesPartly. PartlyNo. NoSmall numbers link to the source.

Which one to pick

Pick by the job you need done.

Choose Homla if…

  • You are 5 to 50 people. You want to start this week, with no sales call.
  • You want shared playbooks your whole team's AI runs by name.
  • You want each person's AI to change things in your tools, after a yes.
  • You want a price on the page.
Start free

Choose Glean if…

  • You have hundreds of staff and many document sources to search.1
  • You need ISO 42001, HIPAA or SOC 2 from your vendor.5
  • You want to host it in your own cloud.3
  • You have an IT team to run a rollout of a few weeks.3
FAQ

Questions

What owners ask when they weigh Homla against Glean.

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How much does Glean cost?

Glean does not publish prices. Its pricing page asks you to book a demo.

Homla shows its price on the page. Free for one person. Team plan from $79 a month for 10 people.

Sources 2

Is Glean too big for a small business?

It is built for enterprises. Rollout takes about 1 to 3 weeks with an admin and SSO.

If you have under 50 people, Homla is sized for you.

Sources 1,3

Can Glean work inside ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes. Glean has an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and more. An admin must enable it first.

Sources 8,9

Does Homla search all our documents like Glean?

No. Homla's memory holds what your team chooses to save. It does not crawl every file.

Your AI can still look things up in connected tools, with each person's access.

Keep your AI. Give it your team's know-how.

Start free. Save one playbook. See it in everyone's AI.