Amazon Connect vs Glean Platform comparison

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Glean are both solutions in the AI Customer Support category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while Glean is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.1% mindshare in ACS, compared to Glean’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Glean users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon Connect and Glean Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AI Customer Support solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Connect

Ranking in AI Customer Support

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Contact Center Platforms (1st), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (2nd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (1st)

Glean Platform

Ranking in AI Customer Support

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Indexing and Search (3rd), Search as a Service (4th), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Software Development (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Customer Support category, the mindshare of Amazon Connect is 2.1%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 1.3%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Customer Support Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon Connect	2.1%
Glean Platform	1.3%
Other	96.6%

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Featured Reviews

John Ing

Founder at The Independent User Group for Amazon Connect

Cloud contact flows have unified omnichannel journeys and now support natural language self-service

To improve the reporting, it would be beneficial to provide better visualization of the data. Currently, you typically have to take the data out into another service to make it readable and understandable. It would be easier if it were available in that format from the start. Amazon Connect should continue to develop the AI capability within the platform and improve the performance of the AI features, as they are still relatively new and the performance can sometimes be inconsistent. Additionally, there are a number of basic features that could potentially be continued to be improved. The pricing and licensing of Amazon Connect are not licensed. The pricing is consumption-based with two pricing models: one called the AI pricing model and the other called basic. Amazon Connect should provide greater clarity for customers on the pros and cons of its pricing, as some customers might end up paying more than they should if they do not understand it properly. I believe Amazon Connect should add more information on how the pricing works. It is available publicly, which is good. However, when you turn on Amazon Connect, you immediately start using the AI pricing bundle, which may not be the most appropriate for some customers, resulting in them paying nearly twice as much as they should.

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reviewer2810748

Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Creating low-code agents has transformed policy queries and now saves employees hours daily

What I would like to see is an ease by which I can have different connectors set up. Right now I have to do a lot of back and forth in order to have these connectors enabled. Having them by default on the platform would be very helpful for me. Also, when developing custom actions, having a developer portal where users can track the log of how the requests are being sent to custom endpoints created would be helpful because right now I do not have anything of that nature. It is just a final response that I get and it becomes very difficult to keep track of what is happening in the backend. 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. If there is a way to reduce this time and improve performance by decreasing the time for responses, that would be very good. I believe that the latency offered is a little high right now. If I can get prompt responses quickly, then that would be a real user experience enhancement. Also, what I have noticed is the problem that developers face when creating custom actions in Glean Platform, where we are not able to keep track of what is happening in the backend. A logger of sorts would be very good so that I can maintain an idea of what is happening in the backend. If that issue is resolved, along with also the issue of having custom connectors available from the start rather than going to Glean Platform and having conversations about the thing, then it would be very good. If these issues are resolved, then it would be a strong 10 out of 10 from me. But as of now, it will be an 8 out of 10. Glean Platform is a very capable platform. It is good for indexing documents and reducing manual workflows by incorporating an element of AI in it. Business usage can be increased as well. The one caveat is if there are developers who are creating actions on Glean Platform, then I must keep an eye on the logging that I have for the platform because interacting with the backend systems becomes very difficult using Glean Platform. Also, what I have noticed is that it is a real challenge in terms of latency as some of the responses may take a little while to load. However, what I have noticed is that the responses are usually very accurate, and so it is a trade-off between speed and accuracy. This is what I would advise to someone who is looking at Glean Platform.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Setting up a call center and onboarding agents is easy using Amazon Connect."

"Amazon Connect is really simple, straightforward, and very flexible."

"The solution is easy to use and has no downtime. 99.9 percent of customers are happy with AWS cloud services. It is also easy to learn, but you need to practice daily."

"Amazon Connect has positively impacted our organization because we used to have manual processing to gather more information and then create the summary, which takes time for our customers, but now it's a plug-in solution, and this summary is very helpful for us to review and settle the claim early."

"Amazon Connect is an easy tool to use, and one of the big things is when you look at a customer's journey and how you want to present it, it all starts with what they call contact flows, which essentially is a flowchart that can be omnidirectional with a drag-and-drop process where it's building blocks of how you want the customer's journey to go."

"The product is cloud-based and easy to operate. We have a broad integration capability, allowing for a multitude of integrations. This gives our customers a good understanding of our product, even if they aren't actively utilizing it. They can easily access and utilize all the features that Amazon's cloud services offer, making integrating with other cloud platforms simpler. It's not a standalone solution, which is advantageous for our customers."

"The Connect Lens feature most improves contact center efficiency by providing insights into customer journeys, behavior, and sentiment scores, allowing for areas of improvement to be identified and addressed."

"In my experience, one of the tool's most valuable features is its ease of use. Setting up a contact center can be done in just a few minutes with a few clicks. This contrasts with the hours or days it might take using other solutions."

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"Glean Platform has increased productivity by at least one hundred hours per week for my organization."

"Glean Platform has positively impacted our organization, especially in terms of productivity for both us and our customers."

"I have used many solutions, but Glean Platform is the best, and I would truly appreciate it if everyone considers this platform."

"Glean Platform offers excellent user interface design and integration capabilities with other platforms."

"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."

"Since I have joined, I have built around ninety agents with Glean Platform, and it has saved our organization around twenty-seven hours a week for each user, and it has also positively impacted our ARR."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"There are issues on features like Lambda integrations and time-out"

"Smaller organizations might prefer standalone products like Success KPI WFM or Genesys WFM. Adopting Amazon Connect necessitates using other AWS services, which could lead to higher-than-expected costs. So, the potential for unknowingly increased costs is a con."

"There are two perspectives to consider: one from the development side and the other from the customer's side. From a development standpoint, there are various aspects that Amazon needs to address, such as providing tools or direct development scenarios in Amazon Connect for building contact flows. Some essential reporting features in Genesys are currently lacking in the product."

"Due to network issues, the agent desktop might be affected. If the firewall blocks the agent's desktop, connectivity might be disrupted."

"The tool needs to improve its bandwidth. When multiple users use Lambda functions, there can be timeouts from the Lambda function due to coding constraints. If it times out, the Lambda function fails and switches to an alternative branch. Improving bandwidth could address this issue."

"Amazon Connect could enhance its service by revising its pricing structure. It operates on a pay-for-call basis. This means that organizations whose call volumes fluctuate, or are heavy at specific times of the day or year, aren't burdened with fixed costs such as hardware liabilities and licenses."

"We have faced many challenges with the solution's call quality that could be improved."

"Amazon Connect could benefit from having flow blocks that do that naturally without having another company behind it supporting it."

More Amazon Connect cons

"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."

"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."

"I tried pulling in an architecture diagram of a workflow, and it pulled in some other image instead."

"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."

"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."

"There are multiple ways in which Glean Platform can be improved."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can't speak for the pricing of other contact center solutions, but in terms of Amazon Connect, compared to other AWS products, it's one of the more expensive options. However, the cost can be low if you have a smaller team of agents or receive fewer calls. Pricing is typically based on a per-user basis."

"I would rate the pricing a nine out of ten, with ten being the most affordable."

"The solution is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"The pricing of the Amazon is reasonable compared to other cloud providers."

"The licensing is a pay-as-you-go model."

"The tool is cheaper than on-premise contact centers."

"The tool's licensing model is pay-as-you-go."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect contact center management software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Genesys Cloud. Ge...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Connect?

Most of my customers are not going with the pay-as-you-go pricing model, as they prefer yearly contracts or three-year contracts. They reserve it. So not all the services we used are pay-as-you-go;...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Connect?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Glean Platform?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available.

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What needs improvement with Glean Platform?

In workflow agents, I would prefer that we do not use AI in every step and instead we have a toggle button or something which can configure whether AI should be used in this specific search field o...

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What is your primary use case for Glean Platform?

I use Glean Platform as an enterprise search tool and I am a power user of agents, so I mostly use this on a day-to-day basis for random searches that I need to do about a company, a website, or if...

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Also Known As

AWS Connect

Glean Work AI Platform

Overview

Amazon Connect offers a cloud-based contact center solution, featuring seamless AWS integration and AI capabilities like Lex Bot. It enables cost-effective, scalable operations across global locations with a pay-as-you-go model, eliminating maintenance fees and hardware requirements.

Amazon Connect revolutionizes contact centers by integrating AI-driven automation and real-time analytics for efficient operations. It supports agents with flexible call routing, machine learning insights, and an intuitive design. Businesses benefit from its scalability and reliability while leveraging its global reach. While it excels in many areas, improvements are needed in pricing structure, workforce management features, CRM integration, and multi-channel communication capabilities. Further enhancements in call quality, outbound call features, and security would strengthen its market position.

What are the most important features of Amazon Connect?

Seamless AWS Integration: Easily connects with AWS services for enhanced operations.
AI Capabilities: Utilizes Lex Bot for intelligent call handling and automation.
Flexible Call Routing: Adjusts to meet diverse business needs and workflows.
User-Friendly Interface: Allows quick setup and management.
Analytics and Machine Learning: Provides real-time insights and automation.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Cost-Effectiveness: Pay-as-you-go model minimizes expenses without maintenance fees.
Scalability: Adapts to business growth across global locations.
Reliability: Ensures continuous and seamless operations.
Efficiency: Reduces need for VoIP hardware, optimizing resources.
Omni-channel Capabilities: Supports voice, chat, and email communication.

Amazon Connect is widely utilized by organizations migrating from traditional contact center solutions like Cisco and Avaya. Integrated with CRM systems such as Salesforce and ServiceNow, it enhances call routing, IVR, and agent dashboards, promoting efficiency. Industries benefit from its AI-driven automation and softphones to streamline communication processes, particularly in those seeking to modernize and achieve seamless omnichannel customer engagement.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Glean Platform harnesses cutting-edge technology to empower organizations, bridging data access gaps and enhancing productivity through its advanced search and knowledge capabilities.

Glean Platform transforms how organizations operate by integrating powerful search functions with intelligent knowledge management tools. It empowers users to locate and utilize information efficiently, fostering a more connected work environment. Its dynamic capabilities provide seamless integration, enabling users to access critical data swiftly, thus driving informed decision-making processes within teams. Designed for scalability, Glean Platform adapts to varying enterprise needs, ensuring customized solutions that align with business objectives.

What features does Glean Platform offer?

Intelligent Search: Delivers precise search results tailored to user queries.
Knowledge Graph: Visualizes connections between data for better insights.
Seamless Integration: Works with a wide range of existing tools and applications.
Security Controls: Protects data with robust security features.

What are user benefits and ROI?

Increased Productivity: Reduces time spent searching for information.
Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitates knowledge sharing across teams.
Scalability: Grows with the organization’s evolving needs.
Improved Decision-Making: Provides access to real-time information.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Glean Platform aids in streamlining operations by offering tailored data solutions that adhere to specific compliance standards. By facilitating efficient information retrieval, it supports critical tasks such as data analysis and regulatory reporting.

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Sample Customers

Capital One, Intuit, Adobe, Siemens, LegalZoom, DXC technology, Rackspace, Bellhop, American Preparatory Academy, The University of Texas at Dallas, University of Auckland, Origin Energy, and others.

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