# Cohere North vs Glean (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 6 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 Cohere North's 55.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do company knowledge search.

- Cohere North: C 55.4, rank #320 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Glean: B 69.8, rank #105 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md
- Cohere North, good for Regulated companies that want an agent and search platform over their own documents, mail and tickets, run privately or air-gapped and called through a REST or OpenAI-compatible API.
- 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 Reliability, 60 against 37; Schema & documentation, 93 against 85; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 71; Security & auth, 87 against 77; Maintenance & community, 85 against 78; Transparency & trust, 80 against 73. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Cohere North | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 87 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere North | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Glean Technologies, Inc. |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |
| Popularity | none | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |