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Louvain vs Glean
Looking for company knowledge your team and its AI assistants can use? Compare the approach, the integrations and the deployment that fit your work.
Why choose Louvain?
An open core
The core and permission layer are MIT licensed, with source available to customers on request. Use hosted Louvain or run the core yourself.
Context with history
Connect facts, sources and the sequence of decisions behind an answer.
A practical starting point
Hosted plans start at $30 USD per person per month, with a 14-day free trial and no seat minimum.
Compare the approach.
| Glean | Louvain | |
|---|---|---|
| Search and answers | Permission-aware search and answers across connected sources. | Source-backed answers checked against their sources, answers as of any date, and Plate. |
| AI assistant integration | Platform APIs, Web SDK and MCP integrations. | HTTP API and a remote MCP server that AI assistants connect to with OAuth, reading with the same permissions as the app. |
| Connecting data | Native connectors and an Indexing API for custom sources. | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Dropbox, Box and eighteen structured sources such as Jira, GitHub and Salesforce, plus file uploads and an HTTP ingestion API for your own systems. |
| Permission updates | Content and permission changes are synchronised through connector crawls and supported events. | The source's own permissions, or the audience an admin chooses for a connection, decide access, and it is worked out before anything is retrieved. |
Sources checked 7 September 2026. Compare connector support, plan terms and deployment requirements for your own use case using the references below.
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