Cohere North vs Glean Assistant (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Cohere North and Glean Assistant share a 1.8 GPA, neither has a free plan and their prices can't be set side by side, so the choice depends on whether you care more about features, where Cohere North grades higher, or platforms, where Glean Assistant does.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Glean Assistant
Workplace AI assistant that searches and acts across company apps
Paid
Which one is for you
Pick Cohere North if
- Makes sense if your company wants agents inside its own VPC
- Fits if a team will pay for a managed rollout
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you're an individual: it's sold to organizations
- Skip it if you want to try before talking to sales
- Watch out: no price is published, and hosting is quoted by GPU and replicas
- Watch out: no phone or desktop apps are listed
Pick Glean Assistant if
- Makes sense if your company wants one assistant across its work apps
- Fits if IT will connect the apps and set permissions
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you're an individual: it's sold to organizations
- Skip it if you want a price or a trial before talking to sales
- Watch out: proactive AI, shared chat and cross-system workflows are beta
- Watch out: no phone or desktop apps are listed
How we grade them
| 1.8GPACohere NorthWeak | 1.8GPAGlean AssistantWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published and pricing is custom, so it sits in the middle. Model Vault hosting is priced separately by GPU. | CNo price is published, so it sits in the middle. Access starts with a demo request. |
| Free plan and trial | FNo free plan, no trial and no self-serve. You request a demo first. | FNo free plan and no trial. You ask for a demo. |
| Features | BAgents, automations, search over company knowledge, apps from chat, memory, admin guardrails and private deployment. The listing shows no gap. | CAnswers from connected apps, documents, decks, dashboards and workflows. Several parts are beta. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. It's an enterprise rollout needing sign-in, data connections and admin setup. | CNo rating on record. A company rollout that needs app connections and permissions set up. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only through a browser sign-in. No phone or desktop apps and no integrations are listed. | BWeb, with Slack, Teams, GitHub, Jira and Excel. No phone or desktop app is listed. |
| Best for | an enterprise AI workspace with agents | a workplace assistant over company apps |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Cohere North and Glean Assistant. How we grade
Where they differ
In commonWebChat assistantAI searchWorkflow automationAI agents
At a glance
| Cohere North | Glean Assistant | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Cohere | Glean |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Cohere North
- No price is published; pricing is custom and starts with a demo request.
- It is sold to organizations, with no self-serve or free plan.
- The pages do not list apps for phones or desktops; it is reached through a browser sign-in.
- Model Vault, the hosting option, is priced separately by GPU type and number of replicas.
Glean Assistant
- There is no published price or free trial; access starts with a demo request.
- Several features, including proactive AI, shared chat and cross-system workflows, are marked beta.
- It is sold to organizations, not individuals.
- The pages read do not list phone or desktop apps; Slack and Teams are named as places it works.
Key features
Cohere North
- Agents and automations
- Agents and automations can be deployed and shared across teams to handle routine tasks and multi-step workflows.
- Search over company knowledge
- North answers questions grounded in a company's own knowledge and data, from simple Q&A to more involved queries.
- Applications and memory
- Users can build decks, dashboards, documents and apps from chat, and memory keeps context between sessions.
- Guardrails and admin
- Administrators get a control panel for users and agents, plus guardrails on how people interact with the AI.
- Private deployment
- North can run in the customer's own VPC, on premises, or on Cohere's Model Vault inference platform.
Glean Assistant
- Answers from company context
- Responses draw on connected apps and are tied to what each person is permitted to see.
- Proactive suggestions
- In beta, it surfaces items that need attention, such as updates and blockers, and prepares next steps.
- Shared chat
- A beta feature lets teammates join one chat to work on shared artifacts, with voice available for real-time conversation.
- Content and analysis
- It generates documents, decks, dashboards and podcasts, and analyzes data from warehouses and BI tools.
- Work execution
- Skills and actions automate recurring work, and multi-step workflows across systems are in beta.
Plans
Cohere North
Pricing could not be confirmed. See cohere.com.
Glean Assistant
Pricing could not be confirmed. See glean.com.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Cohere North or Glean Assistant?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Cohere North has no price we could confirm, and Glean Assistant has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Cohere North or Glean Assistant?
As of Nov 12, 2026, neither Cohere North nor Glean Assistant has a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.