Mithrandir vs Glean
Mithrandir is one company memory, running in your own cloud, that every AI agent your people already use can ask, with each person seeing only what they can already access at work.
Glean is an AI enterprise search and assistant over your company's apps, hosted by Glean and built for large enterprises.
At a glance
| Capability | Mithrandir | Glean |
|---|---|---|
| Time to result | Seconds | A list to read through |
| AI cost per answer | 8.3× lower | Not published |
| Access control protocol | Exact to your company, automatically | Mirrors source permissions |
| Covers the whole company | Every team you have | Only its connected apps |
| Works with | Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor and any agent on the market | Its own assistant |
| History, with sources | Full history, sourced | Current sources only |
| Answer when access is limited | Complete for what you can see, nothing leaked | Thins out silently |
| Runs in your own cloud | Yes, by default | No, vendor-hosted |
Based on public material, October 2026.
Where Mithrandir is the better choice
- Every AI agent your people already use gets the whole company's memory. Nobody moves into a separate search app.
- 8.3× lower AI cost per answer, an 88% smaller AI bill, with 14× fewer tokens.
- 2.2× faster answers, and 100% of answers sourced.
- Each person sees only what they can already access at work: 0 leaks across more than 30,000 entries.
Live demo and pilots, 13 Sep to 19 Oct 2026, more than 30,000 entries. Method on the methodology page. How we measure
Pricing
Mithrandir
$29 per seat per month billed annually, or $35 monthly, for early customers.
Source: Mithrandir pricing, checked 25 October 2026
Standard price $49 per seat per month annually, $59 monthly. Enterprise priced per company.
Source: Mithrandir pricing, checked 25 October 2026
Glean
Not published. The pricing page offers a demo only.
Source: glean.com/pricing, checked 20 October 2026
Third-party estimate: about $45 to $50 per user per month at 200 to 230 users.
Source: Macha blog, a Glean competitor, checked 20 October 2026
Questions
- Can I use Mithrandir and Glean together?
- Yes. Glean keeps its own search and assistant. Mithrandir serves the agents your people already use, from your own cloud. Neither one blocks the other.
- Does Mithrandir work with Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT?
- Yes. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor and 16 more agents ask Mithrandir directly, 20 in all. Nobody changes the tool they work in.
- Where does the data live?
- Mithrandir runs in your own cloud account on AWS, Azure or GCP, with your own model key. We never host your data, and restricted content never reaches a model. Glean is hosted by Glean.
- What does switching cost?
- Little. Mithrandir reads the sources your company already has, 26 of them, so nothing is migrated by hand and nobody moves to a new app. It installs in one step on AWS, Azure or GCP, and the first useful answers come back the same week. Seats are $29 per month for early customers.
Last updated 25 October 2026 · Mert Uzun, co-founder