Exa vs Glean

SpecialistThe AI workspace where teams and agents get work done together

Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content

SpecialistOne API key for agent-grade web search, fetch, browsing and automation

The real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research

Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data

SpecialistWeb data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets

SpecialistAI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce

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

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

SpecialistSearch foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs

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.