Disclosure, stated plainly
Jarvis AI is our product. ASCENDING Inc., the company that publishes Explore Agentic, builds Jarvis. We have tried to write this page the way we would want competitors to write theirs: honest about where we win, honest about where we lose, with public sources on both columns.
What each product actually is
Glean is a search engine first. One of the best money can buy. A layered assistant sits on top. The strength is the ranking model, the permissions-aware index, and a connector catalog wider than any competitor we track. Chat and assistance are added layers. Retrieval is the foundation.
Jarvis is an agent platform and MCP gateway. Retrieval is one capability among several. The centre of gravity is governance, tool use, and multi-LLM routing. Jarvis Registry (our MCP gateway) is first-class and in GA, with a growing catalog of MCP servers rather than hand-built connectors.
Where Glean wins
- Connector breadth. Glean's connector catalog is category-leading. If your problem is “we have 40 SaaS tools and can't find anything,” and your main solve is a single search box over everything, Glean ranks first.
- Ranking model maturity. Years of IR research and tuning. On pure “did we find the right document” benchmarks, Glean is the bar to beat. Jarvis will match on targeted corpora; Glean wins on breadth.
- Analyst footprint. Glean is a named Leader in Gartner's enterprise search / generative-AI-search quadrants. If your procurement team requires analyst-quadrant placement, we are newer in those reports.
Where Jarvis wins
- MCP-native. Jarvis Registry is an MCP gateway in GA. Glean has MCP support but its architectural centre remains closed connectors; Jarvis inherits whatever the open MCP community ships. If your bet is MCP-first, Jarvis is the more aligned product.
- Governance as a primitive, not a setting. PII/DLP, RBAC, SSO, audit log export, and egress policy sit at the platform layer in Jarvis, available identically to chat, agents, and MCP tool calls. Glean does governance well for search; Jarvis does it uniformly across the agent stack.
- Private AWS deployment and transparent mid-market pricing. Same story as the Moveworks comparison: $1,500/$2,500/custom monthly tiers on AWS and Azure Marketplace vs Glean's six-figure deals, with private VPC deployment available for regulated workloads. For the full pricing teardown — per-seat math, the $70K POC fee, renewal escalators, and the all-in TCO bands — see our Glean pricing teardown.
Which fits your situation
| If your situation is… | Our honest recommendation |
|---|---|
| Knowledge sprawl across 30+ SaaS tools, search is the primary solve | Glean |
| Agent orchestration with tool use, MCP on your roadmap | Jarvis |
| Regulated industry, strict governance at platform layer | Jarvis |
| Mid-market, $150K+ floor is prohibitive | Jarvis |
| Procurement team requires Leader-quadrant placement | Glean |
| Private AWS VPC deployment required | Jarvis |
TCO: a worked example at 500 seats
The seat math is easy to caricature. Walk a three-year scenario instead. Take a 500-seat mid-market firm. One platform admin. Moderate query volume. Five connectors that matter.
Year one on Glean. Reported base lands near $45-50 per user per month [8]. At $48 midpoint × 500 seats × 12 months that is $288K of base license. Add the Work AI add-on at $15 per seat per month (another $90K) if you turn it on, plus a $70K paid POC [8], plus a 10% support fee on annual license. Year-one cash out: around $400K before implementation services or VPC costs. For the underlying pricing math, see the Glean pricing teardown.
Year two on Glean. Apply the 7-12% renewal escalator reported in procurement-marketplace data. Base drifts from $288K to roughly $320K. Add-on drifts up the same percentage. Support tracks license. Add one platform-admin FTE at $100K-$150K loaded and around $10K per month of cloud-hosting overhead if you opted for the VPC deployment. Year three escalates again. The 3-year all-in for a 500-seat shop on Glean lands in the $350K-$480K band before any consulting hours.
Same shop on Jarvis. Pro tier at $2,500 per month on AWS Marketplace [4]: $30K of platform license per year, flat across seat count. Add model spend, billed by AWS or Azure under your existing cloud agreement — for a mid-volume 500-seat workload that runs $80K-$200K per year depending on which models you route to. Total platform cash: $110K-$230K year one. Renewal escalators are zero on the marketplace SKU; only your model spend grows with usage. Same admin FTE applies on both sides; same connector engineering on the long tail. The structural gap is the seat tax — at 500 seats on Glean it compounds, on Jarvis it does not exist.
Marketplace procurement and the EDP discount
Procurement teams with AWS Enterprise Discount Program commitments or Azure Marketplace MACC quotas are increasingly asked to spend through the marketplace to retire the commitment. The shape of the SKU matters for that workflow. Jarvis is published on AWS Marketplace (product ID prodview-ckf77lbx67sx2 [4]) and on Azure Marketplace; both transactions count against the relevant cloud-spend commitment. Glean does not maintain an equivalent transactable marketplace listing as of April 2026, so a Glean purchase typically lands on direct paper outside the EDP envelope.
For a 500-seat enterprise carrying a 7-figure AWS EDP commitment, that distinction reframes the buy. Retiring $200K-$400K of annual platform spend through Marketplace draws down a commitment the CFO is already on the hook for. Buying outside Marketplace does not. The deal economics shift before the per-seat math even starts. Ask the procurement office whether a marketplace transaction route is required, or merely preferred — the answer often picks the platform.
Frequently asked
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How does Jarvis vs Glean pricing compare in 2026?
Jarvis publishes monthly tiers on AWS and Azure Marketplace: $1,500 Basic (Chat or Registry), $2,500 Pro (Chat + Registry), Enterprise custom [4]. All flat-fee regardless of seat count. Glean is quote-based. Third-party data: roughly $50 per user per month, plus a Work AI add-on near $15 per user per month, 100-seat minimum. That works out to a $60K/year floor [8]. Paid POC with Glean is reported up to $70K before the first production seat. -
Should I pick Jarvis or Glean for enterprise search across 30+ SaaS tools?
Glean. The product was built for that exact shape. 100+ connectors on the catalog [1]. Permissions-aware index. Both are the bar in the category. Jarvis does search too, but the product's centre is agent orchestration and MCP, not breadth of connectors. -
Should I pick Jarvis or Glean if MCP is on my architecture roadmap?
Jarvis. Jarvis Registry is a first-class MCP gateway in GA today. Glean added MCP support in March 2025 [6] and has kept expanding server coverage. The architectural centre is still the closed connector catalog. -
Is Glean in the Gartner Magic Quadrant?
Not quite. Glean was named an Emerging Leader in Gartner's November 17, 2025 eMQ for Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps [5]. eMQ is the Emerging Market Quadrant, not a classic Magic Quadrant (a distinction most RFPs miss). Jarvis is not placed in analyst quadrants as of April 2026. -
Can Jarvis or Glean be deployed in a private AWS VPC?
Jarvis yes. Glean no. Jarvis offers private AWS deployment for regulated workloads. Glean is SaaS-first; the deployment model is the multi-tenant Glean cloud. If the security model requires data residency inside a customer-controlled VPC, Jarvis is the architectural match. -
Is Glean funded well enough to stay independent?
As of April 2026, yes. $150M Series F in June 2025 at a $7.2B valuation [3]. Less than a year after the Series E at $4.6B. That sequence put the company on the independent-platform path. After ServiceNow absorbed Moveworks in December 2025, Glean became the largest independent enterprise-AI-search pure-play in the category.