Apex vs Glean

SpecialistThe AI workspace where teams and agents get work done together

Your personal AI agent from Meta that actually gets things done

The AI productivity suite with agents, email, and docs that work wherever you do

Builds collaborative enterprise AI agents connected to company knowledge, but offers less robust out-of-the-box universal search.

Free / Open-sourceThe AI super app for work — tasks, projects, calendar and meetings in one place

Free / Open-sourceAn adaptive AI work assistant that learns how you work across inboxes, calendars, chats, and apps

SpecialistBuild, share, and control AI agents that actually do the work

SpecialistAutomates employee IT and HR support requests exceptionally well, but focuses less on general universal document search.

SpecialistDeploys enterprise conversational assistants and automated workflows, but lacks Glean's unified organization-wide knowledge graph search.

Creates permission-aware context graphs and routes tasks across enterprise tools, but has a smaller connector library than Glean.

Combines enterprise search, AI agents, and corporate learning, but is less specialized for pure universal workplace search than Glean.

Free / Open-sourceAI-first email that turns your inbox into a chat-like workspace