# Glean vs Lens (Thought Industries) (slim)

> Glean scores 69.8 (B) to Lens's 43.3 (E) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-thought-industries-lens.md (~2,550 tokens) · this version ~730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-thought-industries-lens.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-thought-industries-lens
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-21
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Glean scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Lens (Thought Industries)'s 43.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lens (Thought Industries) leads on payments & pricing. Both do company knowledge search.

- Glean: B 69.8, rank #186 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.min.md
- Lens (Thought Industries): E 43.3, rank #1041 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thought-industries-lens.min.md
- 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 30; Schema & documentation, 93 against 56; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 37; Security & auth, 87 against 56; Maintenance & community, 85 against 36; Transparency & trust, 80 against 63.
- Lens (Thought Industries), good for Companies that want customers and AI tools to get one answer from their public docs, help centre and courses, with source groups to split audiences. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 0. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Glean | Lens (Thought Industries) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 93 | 56 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 37 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 87 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 36 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Glean | Lens (Thought Industries) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Glean Technologies, Inc. | Thought Industries, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.lens.thoughtindustries.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Glean's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository, the API clients and the Glean CLI on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary hosted service. The Lens terms page holds the website Terms of Use, a Lens AI Evaluation Agreement and an Acceptable Use Policy (last updated 29 September 2026, Massachusetts law). Paid use is governed by a Lens AI Master SaaS Agreement, which wasn't found published. No open-source code or package was found |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-20 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 |  |
| Popularity | 58k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (4) |