# Glean vs Vespa

| Attribute | Glean | Vespa |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 70.3 (21% (low)) | 56.1 (77% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 7 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 7,069 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A distributed serving engine that unifies retrieval, ranking, machine learning inference, and real-time serving for business-critical AI applications. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"deployment_model":"managed_cloud_saas","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"configurable","deployment_model":"hybrid","relevance_tuning":"ranking_rules","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"15Five"},{"name":"Docebo"},{"name":"Lessonly"},{"name":"Nice CXone"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Salesforce Service Cloud"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Zoom AI Companion"}]` | `[{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"TwelveLabs"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"OpenAI Codex"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"IntelliJ"},{"name":"PyCharm"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"NO","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"subscription","summary":"Free trial available; contact sales for paid plan pricing","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:45:29.228Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 3 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.5.0","date":"2026-08-24T08:45:45Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.738.17","date":"2026-08-13T04:51:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.738.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.736.12","date":"2026-08-10T02:24:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.736.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.733.3","date":"2026-08-05T09:03:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.733.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.730.36","date":"2026-07-28T04:47:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.730.36"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.719.5","date":"2026-07-07T02:30:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.719.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.709.19","date":"2026-06-18T18:42:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.709.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.708.30","date":"2026-06-18T04:26:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.708.30"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.707.16","date":"2026-06-16T14:15:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.707.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.703.17","date":"2026-06-09T16:31:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.703.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.702.91","date":"2026-06-09T02:20:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.702.91"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.4.10","date":"2026-06-08T04:18:37Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.4.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.700.24","date":"2026-06-04T11:28:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.700.24"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.699.8","date":"2026-06-03T02:24:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.699.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.696.20","date":"2026-05-28T17:58:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.696.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.695.32","date":"2026-05-28T02:25:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.695.32"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.694.53","date":"2026-05-27T02:20:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.694.53"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.692.16","date":"2026-05-21T08:17:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.692.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.691.19","date":"2026-05-19T18:07:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.691.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.687.75","date":"2026-05-12T02:27:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.687.75"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.yahoo.vespa%3Acontainer-test&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (AI Enterprise Search)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:40:49.007Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*