You are a large company that wants one hosted search box and assistant across hundreds of workplace apps, and your data can live in a US-headquartered cloud.
Certant vs Glean
Glean searches across your company's apps. Certant answers from your documents with the paragraph attached, and can run inside your own network.
Which one fits you
Your knowledge sits in long documents, scans and tables, your answers have to cite the paragraph, or your data has to stay in Australia or inside your network.
Compare them line by line
What each vendor publishes about the things regulated buyers ask first. Where a vendor doesn't say, we say so.
| Question | Glean | Certant |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Work AI platform: enterprise search, an assistant and agents across workplace apps | Reads your documents and data into one model, with a knowledgebase, chatbots, agents, analytics and Strata on top |
| Where it runs | Glean's cloud. A customer story on glean.com mentions hosting inside the customer's own cloud tenant; no deployment options are published | Certant's cloud, your own cloud account, or air-gapped on your own hardware |
| Australian data | No data residency option published. Glean opened an Australian entity in May 2026 | Australian region on Certant's cloud, or in-country on infrastructure you run |
| Citations | Citations open the source item; passage-level deep links when its agentic engine is on. Tables show as plain text in citations | Every answer opens the source document at the paragraph it came from |
| When the documents don't answer | Not documented on the public pages we checked | Says it can't find the answer and offers to pass the question to a person |
| Connects to | More than 250 workplace apps (the homepage says 275+) | SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, Box, S3 and your website; Slack and Teams apps; an API and an MCP server |
| Scans and tables | Not a stated focus | A separate reader for each kind of file keeps tables as tables, and Strata turns them into data you can query |
| Agents and actions | Agent builder, orchestration and governance | Agent Builder for multi-step workflows with approvals; Strata monitors act only after a second person approves |
| Certifications listed | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA | SOC 2-aligned controls. On a sovereign deployment Certant is assessed inside your own boundary |
| Pricing | Not published. Vendr reports a median contract of about US$99,000 a year | Published: free trial, then plans from $49 a month billed annually. Sovereign deployments are an annual licence |
Prices in US dollars unless marked. Competitor details come from their own pages or the third parties named here, checked 2 November 2026; check the vendor before you rely on them. Sources: Glean homepage, Glean security, Glean citations documentation, Glean expands to Australia (BusinessWire, May 2026), Vendr: Glean pricing. Certant details: pricing, security, deployment options.
Where Glean leads
A fair comparison says what the other product does better.
- It reaches far more workplace apps, so it can answer from Slack threads, tickets and code as well as documents.
- Independent certifications are already in place, including SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001.
- It is a larger company with named Australian enterprise customers, including Optus, Canva, Xero and REA Group.
What you get with Certant
Answers you can check
Every answer shows the paragraph it came from, and one click opens the page. When your documents don't cover a question, Certant says so instead of guessing.
Runs where your data must stay
The same product runs in our cloud, in your cloud account, or on a box in your office with the network cable unplugged. We published the packet captures.
Turns tables into data
Strata reads the tables inside your reports and agreements into data you can query and monitor, and every number traces to its page.
Some teams keep Glean for searching across apps and use Certant for the documents that need a cited, checkable answer, such as agreements, policies and rate tables.
Questions buyers ask
Short answers. If yours isn't here, ask us.
Is Certant a Glean alternative?
Yes, for document-heavy and regulated work. Glean is strongest at searching across many workplace apps. Certant reads your documents, including scans and tables, answers with the paragraph each answer came from, and can run in your own cloud or fully air-gapped.
Does Glean keep data in Australia?
Glean does not publish a data residency option on its website as of November 2026. It opened an Australian entity in May 2026. Certant offers an Australian cloud region and can run inside your own infrastructure.
How does pricing compare?
Glean does not publish prices; Vendr, a software purchasing marketplace, reports a median contract of about US$99,000 a year. Certant publishes its prices, starting with a free trial and plans from $49 a month billed annually.
Can Certant run inside our own network?
Yes. The same product runs in Certant's cloud, in your own cloud account, or on hardware in your office with no internet connection, using open-weight models.
Try it on your own documents.
Bring twenty real questions and see which answers come back with the paragraph attached.