Cogito vs Glean
A shared business brain. Without the enterprise rollout.
Glean is built for 1000+ employee enterprises and a multi-week procurement cycle. Cogito is a shared AI brain for teams of 1 to 100, deployed in Slack via OAuth in minutes, with self-hosted deployment available on Enterprise.
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In one sentence
Glean is enterprise AI for 1000+ employee organizations with formal procurement. Cogito is a shared AI brain for teams of 1 to 100, deployed in Slack via OAuth, with self-hosted deployment available on Enterprise.
What Cogito does that Glean doesn't
The angles that actually differ. Different on every comparison because the leverage is different on every comparison.
Knows AND does, not just answers
Cogito doesn't stop at the answer. It drafts the email, files the Linear ticket, updates records, posts to Slack, all with human-in-the-loop approval. Glean is built for enterprise search and Q&A; cross-system action with deep API integration isn't part of what ships.
Live in an afternoon, not next quarter
OAuth setup in minutes, end-user driven, no IT ticket required. Glean is built for the multi-week enterprise rollout, by design.
Flat per-workspace pricing
From $69/mo with unlimited users, on the public pricing page. Glean requires a demo and an enterprise contract before you see a number.
Self-hostable on Enterprise
Single-tenant deployment on customer infrastructure available today. Glean is cloud-only.
Built for teams of 1 to 100
Cogito's depth and procurement model fit smaller, faster-moving teams. Glean is built for 1000+ employee enterprises with formal IT.
Has personality, cites every claim
Cogito argues when it thinks you're wrong, concedes when you make a good point, and grounds every answer with deep links. Glean is built for enterprise search and Q&A; opinionated voice isn't part of what they ship.
Open source on roadmap
Cogito is being built toward open source so customers can audit the code that handles their data. Glean is and will remain a closed enterprise platform.
Which one fits your team?
Best for Glean
- 1000+ employee enterprises with formal IT procurement
- Companies ready to invest in a multi-week enterprise rollout
- Workplaces that need 100+ pre-built connectors on day one
Best for Cogito
- Teams of 1 to 100 that want this running this week, not next quarter
- Companies that want self-hostable deployment on Enterprise without a procurement cycle
- Buyers who want flat per-workspace pricing instead of an enterprise contract
Side by side
Sourced from Glean's public docs and Cogito's own site. We update this when either changes.
CogitoWhere Glean breaks down
Glean's depth and procurement model fit at 1000+ employees with formal IT. At 30 people, the rollout investment dwarfs the value before any team gets the AI. Glean isn't designed to ship in an afternoon - that's not the shape of the buyer they were built for.
In practice
Six months in, your CRO asks 'why did we change our enterprise pricing in March?'
CogitoCogito surfaces the Slack debate from January, the Notion strategy doc where the reasoning was written down, the customer feedback in Intercom that drove it, and the personal email thread with finance approving the change.
Glean retrieves the document that summarizes the change, if someone wrote it up. Decisions that lived in conversations and across systems surface less reliably.
More common workflows
Concrete day-to-day moments where the architecture difference shows up.
Scenario
A new engineer joins on Monday. By Friday they need to be productive.
CogitoThey get added to Slack, OAuth into Cogito, and inherit the same team brain everyone else uses. By Friday they are asking the same questions about customers, deals, and architecture that the staff engineers ask. Onboarding is the workspace invite plus a connect step.
Glean is shaped for an enterprise identity rollout: SSO provisioning, group memberships, access reviews. The first useful query usually waits on IT. The deployment depth that fits a 5000-person org is the same depth that slows a 30-person org down.
Scenario
Friday afternoon, you want to add a new tool to the team brain.
CogitoAnyone with admin access opens Cogito, clicks connect, OAuths the new tool, and it is reasoning across the new data within minutes. No procurement, no SOW, no ticket.
Adding a new connector at most enterprise scale runs through IT and procurement. The connector exists; the path to turning it on is the multi-week one Glean was designed for.
Not another AI tool
Three different shapes of AI for business. Cogito is structurally different from each.
Personal chat AI
One person at a time.
Per-user chat assistants. Each person builds their own context from scratch. No shared team brain, no organizational memory, no cross-user permission scoping.
Glean
Enterprise depth. Enterprise procurement.
Built for 1000+ employee orgs with formal IT, multi-week rollouts, and demo-only pricing. The depth is real, but the procurement cycle doesn't fit faster-moving teams under 100.
A business brain
All systems. One mind. No platform agenda.
Sees every system at once. Cites every claim with deep links. Pushes back when you're wrong. Acts across the stack with approval.
Should you switch?
If your organization is past 1000 people and needs Glean's specific compliance footprint today, Glean is the right fit. If you are under 100 people and want a shared AI brain that runs in Slack this afternoon, Cogito is built for you. Many companies start with Cogito and graduate to a heavier platform later, after the use case is proven.
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