# Dust vs Glean (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on payments & pricing. 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 Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on payments & pricing. Both do company knowledge search.

- Dust: B 62.8, rank #378 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md
- Glean: B 69.8, rank #159 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md
- Dust, good for A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 20 against 0. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.
- 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 53; Schema & documentation, 93 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 67; Security & auth, 87 against 75; Transparency & trust, 80 against 68.

| Category | Dust | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 87 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Dust | Glean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Glean Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` | 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 | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-04-01 |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |