Productivity · Head-to-head

Glean vs Gamma

Glean (paid, AI Score 8.4/10) vs Gamma (freemium, AI Score 8.3/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Glean if…

→your primary use case is enterprise it and knowledge-management leads at 1,000+ seat companies whose work is split across both google and microsoft plus slack, jira and salesforce, and who need search that respects existing permissions.
→you need: research, agents, support

Try Glean →

Pick Gamma if…

→you need a genuinely free option
→budget is the constraint
→your primary use case is founders, sales teams, and educators who need a client-ready deck, one-pager, or landing page out of an outline today and care more about speed-to-polished than pixel-level layout control.
→you need: content-creation, design, marketing

Try Gamma →

Spec	Glean	Gamma
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	paid	freemium
Headline pricing	Custom enterprise pricing — check website for current rates	Free (400 credits) + Plus $10/mo, Pro $20/mo, Ultra $60/mo (annual billing) — confirm current rates on site
Free tier	—	400 AI credits at signup — enough to build and iterate on a few full decks before deciding. Note: month-to-month billing costs more than the annual rates shown, and Gamma adjusts tiers fairly often, so confirm current numbers at gamma.app/pricing before quoting them.
AI Score	8.4/10	8.3/10
Best for	Enterprise IT and knowledge-management leads at 1,000+ seat companies whose work is split across both Google and Microsoft plus Slack, Jira and Salesforce, and who need search that respects existing permissions.	Founders, sales teams, and educators who need a client-ready deck, one-pager, or landing page out of an outline today and care more about speed-to-polished than pixel-level layout control.
Editor's pick	—	—
Use cases	research productivity agents support	content-creation design productivity marketing
Date added	2026-05-01	2026-04-30

Productivity · paid

✓Mirrors each source system's permissions per user, so answers can't surface documents the searcher lacks access to — the failure mode that sinks most in-house RAG projects
✓Genuinely broad connector library (100+) covering both the Google and Microsoft worlds, plus Slack, Atlassian, Salesforce and developer tooling
✓Model-agnostic: not locked to one lab's stack, with customer-hosted and BYO-model paths for regulated buyers
✓Agents can write back into source systems and speak MCP, so it functions as an action layer rather than only a question-answering surface

×No self-serve tier and no published pricing — every deployment routes through sales and an IT-led rollout
×Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Gemini Enterprise now ship comparable grounded search bundled with suites most buyers already own, making Glean a second line item to justify
×Answer quality tracks source-data hygiene: stale wikis and over-shared drives produce confidently wrong answers, and cleanup is on you
×Value scales with how fragmented your stack is — a company living almost entirely inside one suite gets far less out of it

Productivity · freemium

✓Prompt or uploaded file to a presentable, on-brand artifact in roughly a minute
✓Four output formats — deck, document, hosted webpage, social graphic — from one set of cards
✓Import-and-redesign handles existing PowerPoint, PDF, and Slides files, which is how most teams actually get value from it
✓Per-card view analytics on shared links, uncommon outside dedicated sales-enablement tools
✓Free tier is large enough to evaluate on a real project rather than a toy one

×PowerPoint export flattens nested cards and interactive embeds — the exported file is noticeably worse than the hosted version
×Little pixel-level layout control; the guardrails that make it fast are the same ones that frustrate designers
×Copilot in PowerPoint and Gemini in Google Slides are bundled into subscriptions many buyers already hold, making Gamma a second line item for deck generation
×Credit-metered generation and the premium image/video models sit behind the top tier, so heavy or media-rich use gets expensive fast

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.