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Amazon Kendra vs Glean Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Kendra
Ranking in Search as a Service
5th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Glean Platform
Ranking in Search as a Service
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (6th), AI-Agent Builders (7th), AI Software Development (36th), AI Customer Support (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon Kendra is 6.3%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 4.0%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Kendra6.3%
Glean Platform4.0%
Other89.7%
Search as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

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Architect at IGT Solutions
Kendra has a nice AI built-in, enhancing the search experience and highly stable solution
There are many valuable features. For example, there are many documents that contain a lot of legal information. So we want to understand whether all the documents have the required complaint-related information or not, and whether they are following the standard policies of documentation. We have multiple documents, so we don't know which document has the sought-after information. Therefore, we want to perform an enterprise search on it. So there are a lot of use cases we are trying to build using these newer technologies, specifically Kendra. Moreover, Kendra has AI, which has an upper edge, and that is really helpful. It has a nice AI inbuilt, which improves the search part of it.
Ananya Bl - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at Capgemini
Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilities
Orchestration primarily decides which agent handles which part of a task and manages errors, retries, and complete state while maintaining the workflow effectively. On the orchestration side, branching, looping, and human approvals support non-linear workflows in production environments with real-time access. Through refined and improved prompts, this helps in closing the loop with actual users. One unique feature that stood out is that every step in the workflow can pause or recover from failures. Instead of finishing the entire agent in one go, this approach is interesting because if there is a minor change in a previously completed step regarding the state, I can re-edit and restart from the beginning. This is truly impressive.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Provides flexibility to tune the relevance and ranking of results."
"We have good use cases where stability is everything. So it's a stable solution."
"Until recently, there wasn't an out-of-the-box service in the market for enterprise documents like Kendra."
"Glean Platform has increased productivity by at least one hundred hours per week for my organization."
"I have used many solutions, but Glean Platform is the best, and I would truly appreciate it if everyone considers this platform."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted my organization by speeding up a lot of repetitive tasks and making it easier for people outside of support to understand what kind of issues impact the support groups."
"When I searched for internal information spread across different systems, Glean Platform did centralize and retrieve that data for me effectively, giving me eighty percent accuracy."
"The best features Glean Platform offers include the ability to create my own agents, for example, I created a self-service agent for my stakeholders, so rather than email me, I sent them a link to an agent where the agent asks them questions and drills down to exactly what they need, and then I get a qualified response from them."
"The major impact that I have noticed is how business users are now being impacted and they are using the platform because they understand it easily."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted our organization, especially in terms of productivity for both us and our customers."
"Glean Platform offers excellent user interface design and integration capabilities with other platforms."
 

Cons

"This is a really, really expensive solution making the adoption of it very difficult at the enterprise level."
"The time it takes for indexing documents could be reduced."
"There are some token limits."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licenses were expensive, and it was hard to convince the company to adopt based on that."
"Glean Platform can implement more models. The NLP creation could be a little faster, and while debugging is amazing, the routing also needs to provide higher quality outputs sometimes rather than extensive searching."
"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."
"Also, the latency that the platform offers is a little high right now; what I have noticed is that on a particular query, the user has to wait a long time in order to get responses."
"I chose seven out of ten because if I could upload PDFs and have them analyzed, or have it integrate with my Gmail and help me go through my emails, that would be very useful, but I do not think it does that."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available."
"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."
"There are multiple ways in which Glean Platform can be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing falls in the medium range."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Glean Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been pretty smooth actually, with no issues.
What needs improvement with Glean Platform?
I don't have any complaints with Glean Platform actually. I can't think of anything right now regarding needed improvements, even small things. I rate it a nine because sometimes it's difficult to ...
What is your primary use case for Glean Platform?
My main use case for Glean Platform is consolidating marketing materials, as I work in DevOps Sales Ops. I set up this platform for the sales team to review material that might be useful for talkin...
 

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Glean Work AI Platform
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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