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bcontext vs Glean

Glean owns enterprise Work AI. Bcontext owns the same shape for everyone under their 100-seat floor.

Capability
Glean
bcontext
Exposes an MCP server
yes
yes
Typed knowledge graph
no
yes
Idempotent agent writes
no
yes
Available below 100 seats
no
yes
Free tier
None
Free forever
Entry price
$40–50 / seat + $15 AI add-on (custom quoted)
$19 / mo solo
Annual contract minimum
Typical: $50–60K/yr
None — monthly
EU data residency
Available (EMEA region)
Default (Frankfurt)
Connector breadth
100+ enterprise SaaS apps
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Comparison updated 2026-05-12. Filed an inaccuracy? Email founders@bcontext.es — we update within a week.
Honest framing

When each is the right call.

Pick Glean if…

  • ·Where Glean wins, decisively: connector breadth and permissions inheritance. Indexing 100+ apps and enforcing source-app ACLs at query time is years of engineering — and the right shape for an enterprise tenant where Confluence + Jira + Slack + Salesforce already hold the institutional knowledge.
  • ·Procurement readiness is the other moat. Single-tenant or customer-cloud deployment, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP path, HIPAA, dedicated CSM — Glean ships the things a 1,000-seat enterprise has to check off. Bcontext is intentionally not in that fight.
  • ·And the agent runtime is real. Glean Agents processed 100M+ agent actions/yr by mid-2025; they fundraised $150M at $7.2B in June 2025 to keep scaling. For a customer that fits Glean's segment, the platform maturity is hard to argue with.

Pick bcontext if…

  • Priced for solos and small teams — Free forever for one user; $19/mo Pro; $29/seat for 3–15 person Team. No minimums, no annual contracts, no enterprise sales motion.
  • Typed graph through MCP — Glean's MCP exposes search and chat over a unified index. Bcontext's MCP exposes typed nodes with kind-aware tools (search_nodes, link_nodes, run_skill) — and write tools the agent can use to file decisions or update tasks.
  • EU + zero LLM retention by default — Frankfurt hosting and Gateway-enforced zero retention on every plan. Glean offers EU residency but the meaningful tier requires Enterprise procurement.

Rule of thumb · Pick Glean if you're 500+ seats with enterprise procurement, an Okta, and a Confluence + Jira + Slack tenant Glean's connectors light up. Pick Bcontext if you're under Glean's 100-seat floor.

Migration · from Glean

Bring your content. We won't hold it hostage.

Markdown export at any time. Re-imports are idempotent — running the migration again updates in-place instead of duplicating.

1

Export

Most tools support a markdown or JSON export. Drop the folder into the bcontext importer — sub-folders become folder nodes, pages become docs.

$ bcontext import ./glean-export
2

Re-type

Run the auto-typer to suggest kinds — tasks, decisions, runbooks, meetings — based on title patterns and frontmatter. Review the diffs as proposals.

$ bcontext skill run auto-typer
3

Verify

Side-by-side view of original + bcontext-typed nodes. Accept what's right, reject what's noise. The whole thing exports back to clean markdown anytime.

$ bcontext export ./out
Under the hood

The why, in three paragraphs.

Glean's MCP launch in September 2025 closed the "do you ship an agent surface?" gap with everyone else in the space — Bcontext included. The remaining differentiation is shape and segment. Glean's MCP is a window onto their unified index of pre-existing SaaS content; it's read-leaning and tuned for enterprise corpora. Bcontext's MCP is a window onto a typed knowledge graph the team and agents both write into, with kind-aware tools and idempotent writes as first-class primitives.

Segment is the bigger story. Glean's typical engagement involves a 100+ seat minimum, a $50–60K annual floor, FlexCredits consumption metering, and a custom quote. The 1-person indie hacker doing $50K/mo on Claude Code, the 4-person AI consultancy, the 12-person YC startup — none of these can actually buy Glean. Bcontext exists because that segment generates real demand and Glean has correctly chosen not to chase it.

Pricing structure underlines this. Bcontext is monthly, no minimums, free at the entry tier; you can adopt it from a personal credit card and graduate to Team as you hire the third human. Glean is annual contracts, custom quotes, FlexCredits — fine for a buyer with a procurement function, prohibitive for everyone else.

FAQ · Glean

Common questions about Bcontext vs Glean.

next step

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