Luffy
Choose Luffy when the bottleneck is recurring work such as weekly reports, enrichment, and follow-ups rather than finding documents.
Glean Alternatives in 2026
The best Glean alternative depends on what you actually need: Luffy if you want an AI coworker in Slack that does the work, not just finds it; Onyx if you want open-source enterprise search you can self-host; Dust if you want to build custom agents; Microsoft 365 Copilot if your company lives in Microsoft tools.
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The practical differences
A concise view of what each product does, where it fits, and how its pricing is presented.
| Product | What it is | Best for | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luffy | An AI coworker that works inside Slack, connects to 900+ tools, and ships completed work: reports, dashboards, follow-ups, research, and automations with workspace memory. | Teams on Slack who want work done, not just answers found. | Monthly work budget that scales with usage (see luffy.so/pricing). |
| Onyx | Open-source (MIT) AI chat and enterprise search that connects to company docs and tools; ~20k GitHub stars; cloud or self-hosted. | Teams that want Glean-style search with self-hosting and code-level control. | Open-source self-host is free; cloud and enterprise tiers exist. |
| Dust | A platform for building custom AI agents that collaborate with people across company data and tools ("multiplayer AI"). | Teams that want to design their own agents per workflow. | Per-seat SaaS pricing with a free trial. |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft’s assistant embedded across Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams, grounded in your Microsoft 365 data. | Organizations standardized on Microsoft 365. | Per-seat add-on to Microsoft 365 licensing. |
When to choose each
Onyx
Choose Onyx when data-residency or open-source control matters more than a managed experience.
Dust
Choose Dust when you have the appetite to build and maintain agent configurations tailored to each team.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Choose Copilot when your documents, mail, and chat already live entirely inside Microsoft 365.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Luffy a direct Glean alternative?
- Partially. Glean is enterprise search: it finds and answers from your documents. Luffy is an AI coworker: it connects to your tools from Slack and produces reports, follow-ups, and automations. If your goal is "find things," compare Glean with Onyx; if it is "get work done," that is Luffy’s category.
- What is the difference between enterprise search and an AI coworker?
- Enterprise search retrieves and summarizes what exists. An AI coworker takes actions: it drafts the report, updates the sheet, sends the follow-up, and remembers how your team works. Retrieval is a feature of an AI coworker; it is the whole product for enterprise search.
- Which Glean alternative can be self-hosted?
- Onyx is open source under the MIT license and can be self-hosted. Luffy, Dust, and Microsoft 365 Copilot are managed services.
- Does Glean publish pricing?
- As of July 2026, Glean does not publish pricing on its website; quotes come through sales. Among alternatives here, Onyx self-hosting is free, and Luffy and Dust publish their pricing models publicly.