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Compare · Hugin vs Glean

Glean is where your team goes to ask. Hugin is what your agents already use.

Both build a permission-aware picture of your company. The difference is who it's for: Glean is a workplace-AI destination employees open; Hugin is the context layer behind the agents already doing the work.

Glean

Work AI platform · for employees

Enterprise search, an assistant, and agents on one permission-aware index. You go to Glean.

Hugin

Context layer · for agents

Your company's live, connected context, handed to the agents you already run. Hugin comes to them.

Credit where it's due

Glean is a serious enterprise platform.

If you want one AI homepage your whole staff opens — search, an assistant, governed agents — Glean does it well, at enterprise scale. We're not pretending otherwise.

100+

app connectors

Enterprise Graph

people · projects · customers

Search + Assistant + Agents

one platform

Governance

permission-aware, enterprise-grade

The real difference

A destination, or a layer behind what you already run.

Glean · the destination

Work moves into Glean. Your team opens it to search and ask; its agents live inside the platform.

Glean
employees go here ↑

Hugin · the layer

Hugin sits under the agents your team already uses and feeds them the live context — they stay where they are and get smarter.

↑ your agents, fed by ↓
Hugin · the Map

Not a vague promise

Here's exactly what that layer hands an agent.

Hugin
Active

An agent asks · prep the Acme renewal

The Map · how it connects

Your championnow reports toa new VP who holds budget
This accountlooks like3 at-risk accounts you saved
2 open ticketsowned bythe Platform team

What the brain knows

Usage down 22% · the objections that sank past renewalsThe renewal play your best CSM actually runsNo exec has touched this account in 62 days
Permissions — each agent sees only what you allowRedaction — private fields hiddenSource-linked — every fact traceableAlways currentEvidence, not guesses

That's the difference between permission-aware search and context an agent can act on — the relationships, the proof, and the trust layer, handed over for one task.

Side by side, for real

The differences that actually decide it.

Glean

Hugin

Who actually uses it
Your employees — they open it to search and ask
Your agents — wherever they already run
What it is
A workplace-AI destination you adopt company-wide
A context layer behind the agents you already use
The company graph
Enterprise Graph — powers Glean's own assistant & agents
The Map — handed to any external agent at task time
Where the work happens
Inside Glean (Slack, Teams, the Glean app)
In Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, your own agents
Control per agent
Platform-level permissions for employees
Per-agent — each sees only what you allow, private fields redacted
Getting started
Enterprise rollout, weeks, 100-seat minimum
Connect a tool today, self-serve
Pricing
~$50/user/mo + AI add-on, ~$60k+/yr, custom quote
$199/mo, public, self-serve

The honest verdict

They're not really the same purchase.

Choose Glean if

You're a larger org that wants one governed AI surface for employees to search and ask across everything — and you have the budget and rollout appetite for it.

Choose Hugin if

You want the agents your team already runs to produce better work — connected to your live company context today, self-serve, without an org-wide platform migration.

Not mutually exclusive: a team can run Glean for employee search and still use Hugin to feed its agents. They serve different buyers.

Give the agents you already use your live company brain.

Connect the tools where work happens — no org-wide rollout, no enterprise minimum.

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