Glean Platform vs Pega Platform comparison

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Glean and Pega are both solutions in the AI Software Development category. Glean is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5, while Pega is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.6. Glean holds a 0.4% mindshare in ASD, compared to Pega’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Glean users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Pega users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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

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

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Categories and Ranking

Glean Platform

Ranking in AI Software Development

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Indexing and Search (3rd), Search as a Service (6th), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Customer Support (7th)

Pega Platform

Ranking in AI Software Development

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Rules Management (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (3rd), Process Automation (3rd), Rapid Application Development Software (12th), Low-Code Development Platforms (7th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of Glean Platform is 0.4%. The mindshare of Pega Platform is 0.7%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Glean Platform	0.4%
Pega Platform	0.7%
Other	98.9%

AI Software Development

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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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Venkat Sriram

Quality Assurance Team Lead at HCLSoftware

Process automation has improved case handling and now saves half of our daily manual work

Pega Platform has improved my business process overall. The manager confirmed that manual statuses are automated and manual evaluations are automated. For eight hours of work, it automates four hours of work. Pega Platform has features for operational efficiency that are significant. It provides a business security texture app, which is a valuable feature, and it also offers report definitions such as bar charts, pie charts, and operational help. In terms of management capabilities, Pega Platform provides dashboards and tools that help with management and categories. Pega Platform has good integration features, as integration can be done in many ways, and even for legacy systems, it is a strong feature. I did not encounter any problems with legacy systems. Pega Platform has good scalability. It is not difficult to scale up or down if there is a need.

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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

"Productivity has really skyrocketed."

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

"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."

"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."

"Life became so easy when we started using Glean Platform."

"The major impact that I have noticed is how business users are now being impacted and they are using the platform because they understand it easily."

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

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

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"The most valuable feature is the situational layer cake."

"Using Pega Platform has saved me time during development, as it takes significantly less time to create example use cases compared to other platforms."

"Pega's technical support team is very helpful and I would rate them ten out of ten."

"Although the solution might be too big for our purposes, as of now we are continuing with Pega because we don't know of any such tools which have the scalability, as well as the ease of use that this solution provides."

"The interface is quite simple and easy to use, even for beginners."

"Fast prototyping."

"The visualization of the business process and the collaboration aspects of the solution are its most valuable features."

"Overall, Pega 8 is a good platform with improvement."

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Cons

"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."

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

"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."

"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."

"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."

"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."

"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."

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"Pega Cloud early adoption and use for cross enterprise capability was new to many. The early adoption meant version 2.0 of their cloud service may require refactoring and redesign of some services."

"The extensive availability of ready-made gadgets in Pega BPM is a double-edged sword. While it offers convenience, it also leads to a steeper learning curve."

"This is a quite expensive product."

"Lack of stronger cloud support is somewhat inconvenient for users and implementation."

"There is a scarcity of resources who have worked with this solution before."

"Implementation is a challenge due to the handling of the code"

"The solution would benefit from more integration capabilities."

"The main problem with Pega is that it is quite complex, so it is very difficult for the developer to learn."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They need to come up with licensing options. Right now they do have a cloud-based option, but the cloud prices I've seen are much more expensive compared to competing products."

"PegaRULES is a good product, but its pricing is a bit on the premium side, especially for professionals."

"They're very cagey in giving out prices, and it is very difficult to find out the real price any organization is going to get. It is almost never their list price, if you can find it, and there are a lot of factors that go into the whole pricing."

"Licensing varies across geographical regions for us."

"They have both on-premise and cloud licensing. If you are a small to medium company, go for the cloud option because that eliminates a lot of the setting up of your DevTest and performance environments, multiple environments, because you can buy that from Pega with the cloud option. So your setup time really goes down. If you're a large company, then you're better off putting it within your company. You have other skill resources within your company to create environments."

"Users have to pay a yearly license cost for Pega BPM, which is expensive."

"The price of Pega BPM is in the middle range compared to other solutions."

"Its pricing is on the higher side, but they have come up with different plans and different small products that can be used by smaller organizations that don't have that much money to spend. They have different pricing packages depending on the number of users or depending upon the number of cases created in the production or live environment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	70

Questions from the Community

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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Is Pega BPM easy to work with and can beginners utilize this software?

You do need some preparation to be able to use all functions of Pega BPM. However, all users of this platform are in luck as it comes with good documentation and you can learn pretty much everythin...

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Have you encountered any issues while using Pega BPM and were you assisted by the company?

My company has been using this tool for years and the only issue we have had, if you can call it that, was while setting it up. When we were setting it up initially, we had some drawbacks and could...

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When you consider the features and benefits of Pega BPM, would you say this product is fairly priced?

Pega BPM can be considered overpriced for some; it all depends on the size of your company and the requirements of your customers. Sure, there are products out there that do the things that Pega B...

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Also Known As

Glean Work AI Platform

Pega BPM, Pegasystems, SmartBPM, PegaRULES

Overview

Glean Platform offers an intuitive interface, easing data consolidation and workflow automation, enhancing productivity with seamless tool integrations and powerful agent creation, simplifying tasks for teams.

Glean Platform simplifies workflows by integrating with tools like Slack, enhancing search functions and reducing manual efforts. Its customizable agents and extensive data connectors lead to significant time savings and improved efficiency. Some users identify challenges with integrations, color schemes, and request improvements in Salesforce integration, latency, and no-code agent builders. Enhanced permissions and access controls, better Microsoft services integration, and improved NLP speed are among the suggestions for future improvement.

What are the key features of Glean Platform?

Intuitive Interface: Designed for ease of use, enhancing user navigation and interaction.
Seamless Integrations: Connects effortlessly with platforms like Slack for streamlined operations.
Powerful Agent Creation: Allows users to create agents to automate tasks effectively.
Data Consolidation: Combines data from multiple sources for better accessibility and analysis.
Customizable Agents: Offers flexibility to tailor agents to specific needs.

What benefits and ROI should users expect from Glean Platform?

Increased Productivity: Automates workflows and simplifies tasks.
Time Savings: Reduces manual efforts through efficient data management.
Enhanced Search Functions: Improves data retrieval and accessibility.
Streamlined Communication: Integrates with communication tools for optimized collaboration.
Improved Efficiency: Simplifies processes with powerful agents and connectors.

In industries like marketing and sales, Glean Platform consolidates materials, supports sales teams, and automates workflows. Organizations use it to create agents for drafting emails, summarizing documents, and generating presentations, helping find personas and compare data. It boosts productivity in departments by integrating with tools like Slack.

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Pega Platform provides flexible business process management with a focus on rapid application development and automation through a low-code approach, enhancing efficiency across sectors.

Pega Platform is renowned for its ability to streamline operations with robust automation features, including robotic process automation and decision-making capabilities. Its intuitive interface and workflow management contribute to a reputation for enhancing business processes. Although users face challenges with integration limitations and high licensing costs, they benefit from rapid deployment and efficient process adaptations. The unified architecture reduces complexity, while case management and integration services support digital transformations in sectors such as banking, insurance, and healthcare.

What are the key features of Pega Platform?

Low-Code Development: Facilitates rapid application development with minimal coding.
Case Management: Efficiently manages complex workflows and cases.
Integration Services: Offers seamless connectivity with diverse systems.
Robotic Process Automation: Automates repetitive tasks for increased productivity.
Decision-Making Capabilities: Enhances process accuracy with advanced decision tools.
Intuitive Interface: Simplifies user interaction and workflow management.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Efficiency: Streamlines operations, reducing time and resource usage.
Quick Deployment: Facilitates rapid implementation and adaptability.
Improved Customer Experience: Integrates seamlessly with customer service solutions.
Increased Flexibility: Adapts to changing business requirements effectively.

In industries like insurance, banking, healthcare, and government, Pega Platform is implemented to automate diverse workflows, supporting initiatives from claims processing to customer onboarding. Enterprises use Pega for case management and digital transformations, valuing its out-of-the-box integrations and real-time reporting capabilities to boost operational automation and enhance customer experiences.

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Sample Customers

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The State of Maine, ANZ, Coca-Cola, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), ME, New South Wales, OptumRx, Texas Department of Transportation, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement

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