The short answer
Hebbia costs far more per seat and Glean costs more per contract. Analyst estimates put a Hebbia Professional seat at about $10,000 a year, so a 10 person deal team runs near $100,000. Vendr reports a median Glean contract of $98,890 a year, usually sold to 100 to 250 users or more. Neither vendor publishes a price. They also do different jobs: Hebbia analyzes data rooms and financial documents for deal and legal teams, while Glean searches the whole company's apps. Plenty of firms that buy Hebbia still need search for everyone else. Every Hebbia figure is traced on our Hebbia pricing page.
Hebbia figures from hebbia.com, its Fair Use Policy and Sacra, read September 30, 2026. Glean figures from Vendr and SpendHound, read September 29, 2026. Neither vendor publishes a price.
Hebbia and Glean end up on the same shortlist at a particular kind of firm: an asset manager, an investment bank, a private equity shop or a large law firm, where somebody has been asked to "sort out AI" and both vendors have sent a rep. Both sell to the same budget holder, both talk about citations and security, and neither will put a number on its website. Glean redirects glean.com/pricing to its homepage. Hebbia's pricing page has only ever offered a demo request.
This piece puts numbers on both, with a source and a date on every one, runs them for firms of 50, 100 and 250 people, and says where each product is the right buy. We sell InSearch, which competes with Glean for company-wide search and does not compete with Hebbia's deal analysis, so read us as an interested party on one side of this.
Is Hebbia more expensive than Glean?
Per person, much more. A Hebbia Professional seat is estimated at about $10,000 a year, while a Vendr median Glean contract of $98,890 spread over 100 to 250 users works out to roughly $400 to $1,000 a user. Per contract, the two often land in the same range, because Hebbia is bought for a small team and Glean for the whole company.
That difference in who gets a seat is the whole story. A firm rarely buys Hebbia for its receptionists, and it rarely buys Glean for ten people. So the real question is not which is cheaper. It is which problem you are paying to solve, and for how many people.
How much does Hebbia cost?
Hebbia does not publish a price. The analyst firm Sacra estimates about $10,000 per Professional seat per year and $3,000 to $3,500 per Lite seat per year. Hebbia has not confirmed either figure, and an April 2025 version of the same Sacra page described a $15,000 sticker price instead.
The one pricing rule Hebbia does publish is in its Fair Use Policy. Each seat is a "Core User License" assigned to "a single, named individual who actively uses Hebbia's platform". Shared or pooled accounts are not allowed, seats cannot be rotated between people, and scripts cannot stand in for licensed users. Usage is not metered by query, which is a real advantage, but it means cost grows with every analyst or associate who needs to run their own work. We read sixteen archived copies of Hebbia's pricing page and traced every figure in circulation on our Hebbia pricing page.
How much does Glean cost?
Glean does not publish a price either. Vendr reports a median Glean contract of $98,890 a year across 174 purchases, with a range of $29,880 to $208,897, and says minimums are "often starting around 100 to 250 users". SpendHound reports average spend of $142,019 a year for companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.
Those are secondary figures from procurement platforms, not Glean's own, and they describe what buyers paid, not a list price. The minimum matters most for a smaller firm. A 60 person boutique that needs search may be asked to buy for 100. Our Glean pricing page tracks these numbers and the renewal terms buyers report.
What do Hebbia and Glean cost for a 50, 100 and 250 person firm?
For a firm with a 10 person deal team, Hebbia for that team alone is about $100,000 a year at any firm size. Glean for the whole firm sits around its $98,890 median once you pass its usual minimum. Putting every employee on Hebbia, even on Lite seats, costs several times more than either.
| Yearly cost | 50 person firm | 100 person firm | 250 person firm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebbia, 10 Professional seats for the deal team | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Hebbia, deal team plus everyone else on Lite seats | $220,000 to $240,000 | $370,000 to $415,000 | $820,000 to $940,000 |
| Glean, whole firm, Vendr median | Often below Glean's usual minimum | About $98,890 | About $98,890 (SpendHound average $142,019) |
| InSearch Business, whole firm | $19,200 | $38,400 | $96,000 |
| Hebbia deal team plus InSearch for the whole firm | $119,200 | $138,400 | $196,000 |
Hebbia rows use Sacra's estimates of $10,000 per Professional and $3,000 to $3,500 per Lite seat. InSearch Business is $32 per seat per month billed annually. The Lite row is there to show why Hebbia is not a firmwide tool, not because anyone should buy it that way: a Lite seat lets someone read outputs and run agents a colleague built, and it still does not search the firm's Slack, Confluence or email.
The last row is the pattern we see most often in practice. The deal team gets the specialist tool it bills against, and everyone else gets search at a per-seat price the firm can extend to the whole headcount.
What does Hebbia do that Glean does not?
Hebbia does structured analysis across large sets of long documents and financial data. Its Matrix product lays out findings across hundreds of documents in a grid with a citation behind every cell, and its Max agent spreads comps, screens targets and builds Excel models and decks for deal work.
Its data sources show who it is built for: SEC filings, earnings transcripts, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, Preqin, Fitch, IntraLinks data rooms and DealCloud, alongside SharePoint, Box, Egnyte and Snowflake. Its security page lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023. If your associates spend their week reading credit agreements or spreading comps, nothing in Glean or InSearch replaces that, and we would not suggest otherwise. We cover that line in more depth in deep document analysis versus enterprise search.
What does Glean do that Hebbia does not?
Glean searches everywhere a company works. It lists more than 250 connectors, including Slack, Confluence, Jira, Gmail, Outlook and Teams, and answers everyday questions for every employee while respecting what each person is allowed to open.
Hebbia's source list is built around documents and financial data, with no Slack, Confluence, Jira or Gmail in it. So the operations lead looking for the current travel policy, the associate hunting for the client email that settled a point, or the IT manager looking for a vendor contract are not Hebbia users. That is Glean's job, and it is the job InSearch does at a published per-seat price: one search across SharePoint, Google Drive, Slack, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce, with a written answer that cites its sources and is scoped to each person's existing permissions.
Do law firms and investment firms need both?
Many do, because the two tools serve different people. The deal or litigation team needs deep analysis of a defined set of documents, and the rest of the firm needs to find things across its everyday apps. Buying one and stretching it to cover the other is usually the expensive mistake.
Stretching Hebbia across the firm multiplies a $3,000 to $10,000 seat by headcount. Stretching Glean into diligence work leaves the deal team without the grid, the financial data and the model building it actually uses. Law firms have a third category on top of both: lawyers researching case law and statutes need AI legal research software built for law firms, which neither Hebbia nor a workplace search tool is designed to be. Scope each purchase to the people who will use it daily.
Whichever route you take, check how each tool enforces permissions before rollout. A firm with ethical walls or deal-team confidentiality cannot have a search tool that shows one matter's documents to people walled off from it. Our page on permission-aware AI search covers what to ask.
Which one should you buy?
Buy Hebbia if you have a deal, credit or legal team whose billable work is analysis across hundreds of long documents and financial datasets. Buy Glean if you have 250 or more people who need answers across dozens of workplace apps and the budget for a six figure contract. Choose a per-seat search tool if the need is firmwide search without a 100 user minimum.
Hebbia's case is depth. For the people it is built for, a $10,000 seat can pay for itself in saved associate hours. Its weaknesses are the unpublished price, the named-seat rule and a source list that stops at documents and financial data.
Glean's case is breadth, with the widest connector list in the category. Its weaknesses are the quote-only price, the user minimums and a median contract near $100,000 that is hard to justify for a firm under 150 people.
InSearch covers the firmwide search job at $20, $32 or $49 per seat billed annually from three seats, bought by card with no sales call. A 100 person firm on Business pays $38,400 a year, and it can sit alongside a Hebbia contract for the deal team. Try it on your own documents with the search box at the top of this page, and see the full Hebbia cost picture on Hebbia pricing before your next vendor call.