Comparison

Amazon Kendra vs Glean

No leader: the top candidate Glean has only 0.21 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Kendra46
Glean70
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Kendra46 / 100medium · 55%updating
Glean70 / 100low · 21%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Kendra
Glean
Model
Amazon Kendrafreemium
Price level
Amazon Kendralow
Glean
Transparent
Amazon Kendra
Glean
Integrations
Count
Amazon Kendra14
Glean100
Security
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

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

An AWS-managed service that uses ML and natural language processing to deliver accurate search results and instant answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Integrates with generative AI and LLMs for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Independently observed

Glean

An enterprise AI system that integrates with business applications to index company data, enabling teams to search across their tools, get contextual answers, and build automated agents while maintaining security and compliance controls.

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
iOS
Amazon Kendra
Glean
Android
Amazon Kendra
Glean
macOS
Amazon Kendra
Glean
Windows
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

14 total - 13 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
Independently observed

Glean

8 total - 7 not shared
  • 15Five
  • Docebo
  • Lessonly
  • Nice CXone
  • Slack
  • Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Zoom AI Companion
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.