Atlassian Rovo vs Glean Pricing, Cost per User 2026

The Rovo versus Glean question usually starts with a renewal. A company runs on Jira and Confluence, somebody pitched Glean last year, and then Atlassian started bundling Rovo into the plans the company already pays for. Now the IT lead has to explain why the business should sign a six-figure search contract when a search and chat product appeared on the bill for free.

It is a fair question, and the honest answer depends less on features than on where your company's knowledge actually lives and how hard people will use the assistant. This piece prices both with sources and dates, runs the numbers for a 100 person Atlassian team, and says where each one is the better buy. We sell InSearch, which competes with both, so read us as an interested party.

Is Atlassian Rovo cheaper than Glean?

For a company already on a paid Atlassian Cloud plan, yes by a wide margin: Rovo carries no separate license fee, while Glean is a quote-only contract with a reported median of $98,890 a year. The gap narrows only if your team burns through Rovo's credit pool every month once overage billing starts on December 3, 2026.

Atlassian's pricing page states that Rovo, "including Search, Chat, and Studio apps as well as agents, is available to customers with a Standard, Premium, or Enterprise Cloud plan of Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, or Service and Teamwork Collections", and that "no separate Rovo purchase is required". That was not always true. Before April 2025 Rovo was a paid add-on, and several of the pages ranking for this comparison still quote the old $20 annual and $24 monthly seat price. That price no longer exists.

Glean, by contrast, has no pricing page at all. glean.com/pricing now redirects to the homepage, and the only call to action is a demo request. So the comparison is between a bundle you already own and a separate purchase you have to size and negotiate.

How much does Atlassian Rovo cost?

Rovo is included in Standard, Premium and Enterprise Cloud plans of Jira, Confluence and the Atlassian collections, with a shared monthly pool of Rovo credits. From December 3, 2026, usage above the pool is billed at $0.01 per credit, or $10 per 1,000, and extra usage is enabled by default.

The pool is set per user and per product, then combined into "a single shared pool" for the organization. Unused credits do not roll over.

What spends those credits is set by a rate card Atlassian applies from August 31, 2026. Rovo Search, definitions and summaries are free. Chat quick answers and basic agents cost "10 Rovo credits per billable event". Heavier features such as Think deeper, advanced agents, the Jira coding agent and Confluence slides are priced at a variable premium rate. Admins get alerts at 80 and 100 percent of the pool and can set a spending cap; with extra usage switched off, new requests pause until the monthly reset.

Two more lines matter for budgeting. Rovo Dev, the coding product, is a separate system at "$20 per developer / month" with 2,000 credits each and the same $0.01 overage. And there is now a way to buy Rovo without Jira or Confluence: Rovo Standard gives "standalone access to Rovo", free during its beta and $5 per user per month after an opt-in. Rovo needs a verified business email domain, and it does not run on Data Center: Atlassian requires a Cloud plan, and Data Center connectors only feed Rovo running in the cloud.

How much does Glean cost?

Glean does not publish a price. Vendr reports a median Glean contract of $98,890 a year across 174 purchases, with a middle range of $29,880 to $208,897, and SpendHound reports an average of $142,019 a year for companies with 50 to 1,000 employees and $259,933 above that.

Those are contract values, not seat rates, and neither source publishes the seat counts behind them. Vendr adds that minimums are "often starting around 100-250 users for enterprise deployments". Glean's AWS Marketplace listing runs on a 12-month contract through a private offer and states that all fees are "non-cancellable and non-refundable except as required by law". Blog figures of $30 to $50 or $50 to $75 per user per month contradict each other and trace to no Glean source, so we leave them out. The detail on what can and cannot be known is on our Glean pricing page.

What do Rovo and Glean cost for 100 Jira and Confluence users?

A 100 person team on Jira Premium and Confluence Premium pays about $31,500 a year for the two products and receives 14,000 Rovo credits a month at no extra charge. Light Rovo use fits inside that pool; heavy chat use can add $10,000 to $50,000 a year in overage. Glean for the same team is a separate quote on top.

Atlassian's USD price plans list Jira Premium at $18.30 and Confluence Premium at $13.20 per user per month for 1 to 100 users, or a flat annual $18,300 and $13,200 for 51 to 100 users. The pool is 70 credits per user per product, so 100 users on both products get 14,000 credits a month, which is $140 of usage at the overage rate. At 10 credits per chat answer, that covers about 1,400 chat answers a month across the whole company, or 14 per person.

The scenarios assume 21 workdays and quick answers only at 10 credits each; Think deeper and agents cost more per event. On the Standard plans the pool drops to 25 credits per user per product, or 5,000 a month for the same team, so overage starts sooner. None of this is a reason to avoid Rovo. It is a reason to turn on the spending cap before December 3 and look at a month of real usage before anyone compares Rovo's cost with a Glean quote.

Does Rovo search Slack, Google Drive and SharePoint?

Yes. Atlassian lists 56 Rovo connectors, including Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Gmail, Outlook, Notion, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Box and Dropbox, and states that "Rovo respects existing permissions set in third-party SaaS apps." The catch is that the connectors are not equal.

Atlassian documents three connector types. Synced connectors index content ahead of time and give the "Highest" search quality. Direct connectors, which include Slack, Gmail and Outlook Mail, query the app live and are rated "Medium". Smart Link connectors are rated "Low": they index "only the links a user has seen", and that is the default type. On top of that, every plan carries an indexed objects allowance per user (100 on Standard, 250 on Premium and 625 on Enterprise for Jira and Confluence), pooled across the organization. For an Atlassian shop whose other knowledge sits in a few Google Drive folders, that is plenty. For a company where most answers live in Slack threads and SharePoint libraries, it is the thing to test.

Glean's connector page says "Connect 275+ Apps Instantly" in its title and "more than 250 connectors" further down, and its product was built around indexing all of them. Glean even ships a connector for Rovo itself, so it can create and update Jira issues and Confluence pages. Breadth and depth of the index outside Atlassian is the honest reason to pay for Glean.

Which one should you buy?

Use Rovo first if most of your company's knowledge lives in Jira and Confluence, because you already own it. Buy Glean if you have 250 or more people, most answers live outside Atlassian, and you can budget a quote in the high five or six figures. Between those two, compare a published per-seat tool before signing either.

Rovo wins on cost and on depth inside Atlassian. It also wins on reversibility: there is nothing to cancel if people do not use it. Glean wins on breadth outside Atlassian and on a single index built for search across every app. The companies that end up unhappy are the ones that buy Glean for a problem Rovo already solves, or that lean on Rovo for Slack and SharePoint answers it can only reach through a live or link-level connector.

Before a renewal meeting, gather two things: a month of Rovo credit usage from the admin view, and a list of the five places your people actually look for answers. If you want a second opinion on either vendor, independent software reviews from other buyers are a useful check against both sales decks.

There is a third option for teams in the middle. InSearch searches Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Gmail and Salesforce in one box and returns an answer with citations to the exact source, scoped to what each person can already open. It indexes those apps with an admin connection rather than per user, and it has no credit meter. Plans are $20, $32 and $49 per user per month billed annually, from three seats, and the price is on the pricing page. For a 100 person team on the Team plan, that is $24,000 a year. If Confluence search is the main complaint, our Confluence search engine page covers that case, and the wider field is on Glean competitors and alternatives.