Azure AI Search vs. Glean

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cognitive Search
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.
$0.10
Per Hour
Glean
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Glean is an AI-powered workplace search tool that supports search across all of a company's apps, centralizing company knowledge and helping employees to more quickly find what they need, with 100+ connectors.
$12
per month
Pricing
Azure AI SearchGlean
Editions & Modules
Basic
$0.101
Per Hour
Standard S1
$0.336
Per Hour
Standard S2
$1.344
Per Hour
Standard S3
$2.688
Per Hour
Glean for Individuals - Monthly
$12
per month
Glean for Individuals - 1 Year
$129
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 2 Year
$245
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 3 Year
$348
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 4 Year
$439
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Cognitive SearchGlean
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Azure AI SearchGlean
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(3 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI SearchGlean
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Incredibly robust software for an enterprise organization to plug into their application. If you have a full development resource team at your disposal, this is great software and I highly recommend it. Largely, however, you won't be able to use this prior to the enterprise level. It's just too complicated and cumbersome of a product.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
Based on my experience, Glean is well suited for scenarios where you need to search through large amounts of information in a structured format, such as Confluence pages, knowledge bases, or other similar repositories. Glean's search algorithms make it easy to find the exact information you need, even if it's buried deep in a document or spread across multiple pages. On the other hand, Glean may be less appropriate for scenarios where you need to search through unstructured data, such as messages. While Glean can still be useful in these cases, its effectiveness may be limited.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Search provides a fully-managed service for loading, indexing, and querying content.
  • Azure Search has an easy C# SDK that allows you to implement loading and retrieving data from the service very easy. Any developer with some Microsoft experience should feel immediate familiarity.
  • Azure Search has a robust set of abilities around slicing and presenting the data during a search, such as narrowing by geospatial data and providing an auto-complete capabilities via "Suggesters".
  • Azure Search has one-of-a-kind "Cognitive Search" capabilities that enable running AI algorithms over data to enrich it before it is stored into the service. For example, one could automatically do a sentiment analysis when ingesting the data and store that as one of the searchable fields on the content.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • Single search capability across all systems
  • High accuracy of search results
  • Saves you time in day to day work
  • Offers customization with the homepage and go links
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Cross platform compatibility to integrate with various OS
  • Optimizing latency.
  • Nothing better than work on price, create more flexible options.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • we can add more filters into Glean for granular level of search
  • we may can integrate google with Glean
  • not thinking of anything as it acts fabulously
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Search is a competitor against Google's own AI autosuggest a feature. We went with Azure because our network security folks found it to be more robust from a security standpoint, which is incredibly important when you have proprietary manufacturing information. Additionally, we're a Microsoft shop so it plugged into our cloud hosting package and client facing OS.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
I like Glean a lot better as it's more intuitive.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure Search enabled us to stand up a robust search capability with very few developer hours.
  • The fully-managed service of Azure Search means we get low cost of management (EG, DevOps) going into the future, even though the cost of the service itself definitely reflects the time saved.
  • Azure Search counts as a "Cognitive Service" for Microsoft Azure consumption and aligns our products with Microsoft's interests of driving an AI-first approach in the enterprise. Microsoft Partners, service and product companies alike, should be looking to align with this AI vision as it means favorable treatment from the Microsoft sales teams.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • Glean has saved me approximately 5 hours/week in researching topics
  • Glean has saved me time with Go Links
  • Glean has made it easier to search company org chart
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