Comparison

Amazon Kendra vs Glean

No leader: the top candidate Glean has only 0.29 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Amazon Kendra52
Glean68
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Kendra52 / 100medium · 55%
Glean68 / 100low · 29%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean–
Model
Amazon Kendrafreemium
Price level
Amazon Kendralow
Glean–
Transparent
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean–
Integrations
Count
Amazon Kendra14
Glean275
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Kendra–
Glean✓
Fedramp
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean–
Gdpr
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Hipaa
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Iso27001
Amazon Kendra–
Glean✓
Pci
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean–
Soc2
Amazon Kendra–
Glean✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Amazon Kendra6 items
Glean5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai enterprise search. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Deployment model
Amazon KendraManaged cloud saas
GleanManaged cloud saas
Source system RBAC permissions mirroring
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Generative AI answer synthesis rag
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Hybrid dense and sparse lexical reranking
Amazon Kendra✗
Glean-
Pre built native crawlers for 100 plus saas apps
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Multi lingual semantic understanding
Amazon Kendra✗
Glean-
Personalization based on user department context
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Optical character recognition OCR for pdfs
Amazon Kendra✗
Glean-
Admin dashboard for search analytics and gaps
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
Bring your own LLM byo model support
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
SOC2 type ii
Amazon Kendra-
Glean✓
HIPAA compliance for medical records
Amazon Kendra-
Glean✓
Pricing model
Amazon Kendra-
Glean-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Kendra

A managed machine learning service that enables organizations to create intelligent search experiences across enterprise data sources. It integrates with generative AI models to provide conversational question-answering capabilities through retrieval augmented generation.

Independently observed

Glean

Glean indexes and provides secure, permissions-aware search and AI agents across 275+ enterprise applications. It enables teams to build AI-powered workflows while maintaining source-system security and compliance standards.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Kendra

Usage-basedFree tier
as of verify ↗

Glean

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓
CLI
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Kendra✓
Glean✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • ServiceNow

Amazon Kendra

15 total - 14 not shared
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon FSx
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Box
  • Confluence Cloud
  • Atlassian Confluence Server
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
  • Alfresco On-Prem
  • Alfresco One
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Salesforce
  • Google Drive
  • Confluence
Independently observed

Glean

12 total - 11 not shared
  • 15Five
  • Docebo
  • Lessonly
  • Nice CXone
  • Slack
  • Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Zoom AI Companion
  • VS Code
  • Claude Desktop
  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
Independently observed
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