Best Glean alternative for a 10- or 20-person startup (2026 prices)

What is the cheapest Glean-like tool for a 10-person team? For a hosted tool, Enhanciar Team at $100 a month flat for up to 10 people, plus your own AI usage (a few dollars per thousand questions on a fast model); it answers from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, Jira and GitHub with sources and drafts follow-ups for approval. Per-seat tools like Notion AI Business, Slite Pro, GoSearch Pro and Onyx Cloud cost about $200 a month for ten people on yearly billing. Onyx is the cheapest if you self-host and run it yourself.

What it costs

Monthly cost for 10 and 20 people.

Tool	10 people	20 people	AI usage
Enhanciar	$100/mo flat (Team, up to 10 people) + your AI usage	Team covers up to 10 people; for more, Enterprise (custom)	About $4 per 1,000 questions on Gemini 2.5 Flash, about $33 on Claude Sonnet 4.5 (our estimate, paid to your provider)
Notion AI (Business, billed yearly)	$200/mo	$400/mo	Included
Slite (Pro, billed yearly)	$200/mo	$400/mo	50 credits per seat a month included
GoSearch (Pro)	$200/mo	$400/mo	Included
Onyx Cloud (Business, billed annually)	$200/mo	$400/mo	Check Onyx; self-host has no licence fee
Dust (Pro, monthly)	€300/mo (€240 yearly)	€600/mo (€480 yearly)	8,000 credits per seat a month included
Guru	Not public / contact sales	Not public / contact sales	—
Glean	Not public / contact sales	Not public / contact sales	—

Competitor details from each vendor’s own pages, checked October 2026 (links in Sources); summarised, not quoted. A dash or “not stated” means the pages we checked don’t describe it, not that it is missing. Monthly figures are list price × seats from each pricing page; taxes and discounts not included.

For a 20-person startup

Be aware of one limit: Enhanciar Team covers up to 10 people. A 20-person company is on Enhanciar Enterprise, which is priced with you; email the Enhanciar team. At 20 seats, per-seat tools land around $400 a month (Notion AI Business, Slite Pro, GoSearch Pro, Onyx Cloud), and Dust Pro is €600 a month billed monthly.

What a small team actually needs from a Glean alternative

The right five connectors, not 275. Most startups need Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Notion or Confluence, Jira or Linear, and GitHub.
A link to every source. If people can’t check the answer, they stop asking.
Self-serve sign-up. Set it up on a Friday afternoon, not after procurement.
A predictable bill. Flat pricing, or per-seat pricing you can multiply out.
Something after the answer. The ticket filed, the reply drafted, with a person approving.

Where Glean is still the right call

If you are growing fast toward hundreds of people, need certifications on day one, want it hosted in your own cloud account, or need connectors for a long tail of apps, Glean is a strong product and worth the sales process. Enhanciar’s SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress, not finished; it has no Microsoft Teams app and no CRM or HR connectors yet.

Features

Price, connectors, sources and follow-ups.

	Enhanciar	Glean	Notion AI	Onyx	GoSearch	Dust
Price	Solo $24/mo; Team $100/mo flat, up to 10 people; Enterprise custom; plus your AI key at cost	Not public / contact sales	$20/member/mo yearly, $24 monthly (Business); Enterprise custom	Cloud $20/user/mo (annual); self-host free (MIT)	$20/user/mo (Pro); Enterprise contact sales	€30/seat/mo (€24 yearly), credits; Enterprise custom
Connectors	GitHub, Slack, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Zendesk, Postgres/MySQL, websites, files	275+	Slack, Teams, Drive, SharePoint, Jira (beta), GitHub, Linear, Gmail, Outlook, Calendar	~50: Slack, Gmail, Drive, Jira, Linear, Confluence, GitHub, Zendesk, Notion	100+: Slack, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Jira, Linear, Confluence, GitHub, Zendesk, Notion	70+: Slack, Drive, Confluence, GitHub, Zendesk, Notion, Snowflake; Gmail/Calendar/Jira as tools
Answers cite sources	Yes, every answer links its sources	References sources	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drafts follow-ups for approval	Yes, you approve first (Gmail draft, Jira/Linear ticket, Notion page, Slack post, calendar event, Zendesk note, GitHub issue)	Agents act in tools; approvals set by admins	Notion Agent, asks before sending	Custom actions; no approval step described	Agents act; approval not described	Yes, with approvals
Reviews pull requests	Yes, on repos you turn it on for	Yes (PR review agent)	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Yes
MCP	Yes, MCP server	Yes	Yes	Yes	MCP for connectors	Yes
Bring your own AI key	Yes, required (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic)	Yes (Customer Key)	No	Yes (incl. self-hosted models)	Yes (Enterprise)	Model choice in credits; BYOK not documented
Hosting	Hosted (Google Cloud, data in India); no self-host	Glean cloud or your own GCP/AWS	Hosted; EU residency on Enterprise	Cloud or self-host, air-gapped possible	Hosted; VPC on Enterprise	Hosted; US or EU
Setup	Self-serve, same day	Sales-led	Self-serve; first sync up to 36 h	Cloud self-serve; self-host you run	Self-serve	Self-serve; build agents

Competitor details from each vendor’s own pages, checked October 2026 (links in Sources); summarised, not quoted. A dash or “not stated” means the pages we checked don’t describe it, not that it is missing.

Then hand it the follow-up

Ask it anything. Hand it the follow-up.

After the answer, say what you need. It drafts the work and waits in your Actions queue for a person to approve.

Review this PR Turn these notes into Linear tickets Draft the reply to Acme Add it to the calendar Write the decision up in Notion Post the summary to #product

Orange dot: waits for your approval. Teal dot: pull-request review posts on its own, only on repos where you turn it on.

Getting started with Enhanciar

Sign up at enhanciar.in and pick a plan (Solo $24/month, Team $100/month for up to 10 people).
Paste an AI key from Google (Gemini), OpenAI or Anthropic. It takes a few minutes on the provider’s site.
Connect the places your team writes things down: Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Zendesk, GitHub or a database.
Ask the ten questions people asked most last month. Every answer links to where it came from, so you can check it.
Add the Slack bot so people can ask where they already work, and connect Claude or Cursor over MCP.

Things people ask.

What is the best Glean alternative for a 20-person startup?

If you want hosted, self-serve and cited answers from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, Jira and GitHub with follow-ups drafted for approval, Enhanciar (Team covers up to 10 people; a 20-person company is on Enterprise, priced with you). Per-seat options at about $20 per user a month include Notion AI Business, Slite Pro, GoSearch Pro and Onyx Cloud. To self-host, Onyx.

What is the cheapest Glean-like tool for a 10-person team?

Enhanciar Team is $100 a month flat for up to 10 people plus your own AI usage. Per-seat tools at $20 per user a month come to about $200 a month for ten people. Self-hosted Onyx has no licence fee, but you run the servers.

How much does Glean cost?

Glean does not publish prices; its pricing page asks you to request a demo.

Do Glean alternatives need a sales call?

Not most. Enhanciar, Notion AI, Slite, GoSearch, Onyx Cloud and Dust all have self-serve sign-up; Glean and Guru are sales-led.

How much does Enhanciar cost?

Solo is $24 a month and Team is $100 a month for up to 10 people (one flat price, not per seat), billed monthly; Enterprise is custom. Every plan is paid, and you bring your own Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic key and pay that provider directly; Enhanciar adds $0 on AI usage.

Sources (checked October 2026)

Competitor facts come from each vendor’s own pages, checked October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check the linked page before you buy. Where a figure isn’t public we say “not public / contact sales”. Written by the Enhanciar team; if something here is out of date, email us and we’ll fix it.

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The best Glean alternative for a 10- or 20-person startup