A Glean alternative for small teams

Glean is enterprise search across every app a company uses. If you're a team of ten who mostly need answers from your documents and Drive, a smaller tool may fit better.

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Team assistant

Where is the latest price list?

Looking through your knowledge

It is “Price list 2026”, in the Sales folder in Google Drive.

Message Team assistant…

In short

ClearMakes Agents is a small-team alternative to Glean. Instead of searching every company app, you give each agent the documents, websites and Google Drive folders it should know, and your team asks it in plain words. Prices are public: free to start, Pro $39 a month for three people, Business $99 for ten.

By the ClearMakes team · Last updated 29 September 2026

What a small team gets

Answers from your own documents, set up in an afternoon.

Prices on the page

Free, Starter $12, Pro $39 (3 people), Business $99 (10 people).

Google Drive folders

Each agent reads the folders you choose, on Pro and Business.

Access by agent

The HR agent can't answer from the sales folders.

In Claude and ChatGPT

Read an agent's knowledge from the AI tools your team already uses.

Your website too

The same workspace can put a customer-facing agent on your site.

Set up in an afternoon

No IT project: one person can do it.

Why do small teams look past Glean?

Mostly price and size. Glean's pricing page shows no prices, only a demo request, and it is built for companies that need search across dozens of apps.

On Hacker News, people call tools like Glean useful but expensive.
A small team often needs answers from a handful of folders, not search across every system.

What should a small team use instead?

Pick by where your knowledge lives and where people ask. If it's documents and Drive, an assistant per team is enough; if it's Slack threads and a dozen tools, look at Dust or Glean.

Glean and the alternatives, side by side

Four ways to give a team AI answers from company knowledge.

	ClearMakes Agents	Glean	Dust	Claude Team
Price	Free; $39 a month for 3 people; $99 for 10	Not published (demo request)	€30 per seat a month (€24 yearly)	$25 per seat a month ($20 yearly), 2 seats minimum
Best for	Small teams with documents and Drive	Large companies searching many apps	Teams that build agents in Slack and many tools	Teams working in Claude every day
Google Drive	Yes (Pro and Business)	Yes	Yes	Yes, a connector
Website chat for customers	Yes	Not its focus	Not its focus	No
Slack	Posts to Slack; no Slack bot	Yes	Yes, including a Slack bot	A Slack connector

Figures from glean.com/pricing, dust.tt/home/pricing and claude.com/pricing, checked on 29 September 2026. Glean publishes no prices. Prices change; check before you decide.

How to set it up

Try it with one team

1
Pick one team
HR or sales is a good start: lots of repeat questions.
2
Give it their documents
Upload files or connect their Drive folders.
3
Ask for a week
Read what people ask and fill the gaps.

Honest limits

When Glean is the better pick

You need one search box across email, chat, tickets, code and dozens of other systems.
You have hundreds of staff and need enterprise controls and support.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

How much does Glean cost?

Glean doesn't publish prices; its pricing page asks you to request a demo (checked 29 September 2026). ClearMakes Agents shows every price on its pricing page.

Is ClearMakes Agents enterprise search?

No. It answers from the documents, websites and Drive folders you give each agent. It doesn't index every app in your company.

How many people can use it?

Pro includes three team members and Business ten. A share link lets others ask without an account.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan includes one agent and 30 conversations a month. Starter is $12 a month, Pro $39 and Business $99, with two months free on yearly billing.

Dust alternative

A Dust alternative with one price for the team

Internal assistant

An internal AI assistant that knows how your company works

HR helpdesk

An HR chatbot trained on your employee handbook

Claude and company documents

How to connect Claude to your company documents

Put your first agent to work today.

Free to start. Set up in minutes. One ClearMakes account for everything.

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