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Head to head · Company knowledge search · October 2026 research run

Glean vs Hexis Cloud

Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing. Both do company knowledge search.

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GleanGlean Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API B69.8/100#173 of 1084 Hexis CloudBevelites GmbH (Bevel) · MCP server C55.3/100#705 of 1084

Which one, for what

Glean B

Best 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 18
  • Schema & documentation, 93 against 83
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 57
  • Security & auth, 87 against 64
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 75

Watch for

No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request

Hexis Cloud C

Best for A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 0

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGleanHexis CloudEdge
Reliability16%206018Glean +42
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29383Glean +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.28057Glean +23
Security & auth14%17.58764Glean +23
Payments & pricing10%12.5030Hexis Cloud +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88585even
Transparency & trust7%8.88075Glean +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 69.8/100C 55.3/100

Facts side by side

FactGleanHexis Cloud
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorGlean Technologies, Inc.Bevelites GmbH (Bevel)
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp
TransportsHTTPStreamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MITApache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrynot listedio.github.Bevel-Software/hexis
Last release2026-10-022026-10-14
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-04-01couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk114 stars, 900 npm/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Glean

Three public OpenAPI specs (Client, Indexing, Platform) regenerated almost daily, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs. No public price, trial or self-serve signup. Access starts with a demo request.

Hexis Cloud

Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.

Before you call either

Glean

  1. Get the backend host from the Glean admin. APIs answer at https://<instance>-be.glean.com and MCP at that host under /mcp/<server-name>
  2. Ask for a user-scoped token with only the scopes the task needs. A global token can impersonate whoever X-Glean-ActAs names
  3. Keep chat under 0.5 calls a second and search under 5, and back off on 429
  4. Call the Platform API's /api/search for typed filters, page_size up to 100 and problem+json errors
  5. Send X-Glean-Exclude-Deprecated-After in tests to catch fields due for removal

Hexis Cloud

  1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere
  2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused
  3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false
  4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat
  5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Glean or Hexis Cloud?

Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on payments & pricing.

Do Glean and Hexis Cloud need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Glean and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Glean. Hexis Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp.

Are Glean and Hexis Cloud open source?

No open-source release is listed for Glean. Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).

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