Productivity · Head-to-head
Glean vs Krisp
Glean (paid, AI Score 8.4/10) vs Krisp (freemium, AI Score 7.8/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.
The verdict
Pick Glean if…
- →overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.4 vs 7.8)
- →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
Pick Krisp if…
- →you need a genuinely free option
- →budget is the constraint
- →your primary use case is remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker.
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Glean | Krisp |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Headline pricing | Custom enterprise pricing — check website for current rates | Freemium — Free (60 min/day); Pro ~$8/mo billed annually; Business/Enterprise custom (check site) |
| Free tier | — | Free tier with a daily noise-cancellation allowance (historically 60 minutes/day) and limited AI note usage — confirm current limits on krisp.ai/pricing |
| AI Score | 8.4/10 | 7.8/10 |
| 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. | Remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker. |
| Editor's pick | — | — |
| Use cases | research productivity agents support | productivity support |
| Date added | 2026-05-01 | 2026-04-30 |
Pros and cons
Glean
Productivity · paid
Pros
- ✓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
Cons
- ×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
Krisp
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓System-level virtual mic and speaker works in every calling app with no per-app plugin or bot joining the meeting
- ✓Noise cancellation runs on-device, so the audio layer does not ship your call to a third-party cloud
- ✓Background Voice Cancellation removes other people's speech, which app-native suppressors generally do not attempt
- ✓Bundles clean audio, recording, transcription and AI summaries into one subscription instead of two tools
Cons
- ×Basic noise suppression is now free in Zoom, Teams, Meet, macOS Voice Isolation and Windows Studio Effects, so the core pitch is much weaker than it was in 2024
- ×The meeting-notes half is thinner than dedicated notetakers like Fathom or Granola on CRM integrations, cross-meeting search and templated outputs
- ×Always-on audio processing costs CPU and battery on laptops, and the free tier's daily cap runs out on a heavy meeting day
- ×The most differentiated technology — accent conversion, the voice SDK — sits behind enterprise sales and is not what an individual subscriber gets
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Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.