# Alation vs Glean (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Alation's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.

- Alation: C 60.3, rank #472 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.min.md
- Glean: B 69.8, rank #159 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md
- Alation, good for A company already on Alation Cloud Service that wants agents to find governed tables, columns, queries, BI reports and lineage, and to run read-only SQL against data products, under an Alation role. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Glean, good for Agents working inside a company that already runs Glean and need answers from its documents, chats, tickets, code and people with each user's permissions applied. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 93 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 71; Security & auth, 87 against 63; Maintenance & community, 85 against 71.

| Category | Alation | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 87 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Alation | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Alation, Inc. | Glean Technologies, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Alation's Master Cloud Software Licence and Services Agreement. The AI Agent SDK, the MCP server package, the Allie SDK and the Data Quality SDK are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 16 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-04-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 19 stars, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |