Is there a European alternative to Glean or Dust?

Glean: what is it, and who is it for?

Glean is a US company. Its product searches across every app your company uses at once. It advertises more than 275 connectors and shows each person only what they are allowed to open.

It also has an assistant and agents. Employees build agents without code by describing the task in plain English, and developers can use its API.

Glean is aimed at large enterprises, and the customers on its website are big companies. Pricing isn't published; you start with a demo.

It runs either in Glean's own environment on Google Cloud or inside your Google Cloud or AWS account. If you need a European region, ask Glean directly.

Dust: what is it, and who is it for?

Dust is a French company based in Paris. On its platform, your teams create, share and run their own agents.

Those agents connect to more than 70 tools, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk. They run on models from several providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and others.

Pricing is published and billed per seat. The Business plan is for teams of up to 100 people and caps the number of connectors; Enterprise is quote-based.

You pick where your data is hosted, in the US or the EU. Dust says your data is never used to train models.

What does Saména do differently?

You don't build anything. Our engineers sit down with you to find what eats up your team's time, build your agents from your documents and fine-tune them with you.

Saména reads your documents in SharePoint, OneDrive or Dropbox, read-only, in the folders you choose. Your files stay where they are. Every document is linked to the others by client, project, method and team, in the language your business actually uses.

Your agents cite their sources and write Word and PowerPoint files. They live in the Saména app, and you can also reach them from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot.

Servers are in France and the database is in the EU. You choose the model: Claude, models from OpenAI, or Mistral if you prefer a French model. It runs in Europe and keeps none of your data. Each company gets its own encryption key, and Saména can run on your own servers.

• Who builds the agents? With Glean and Dust, your teams do. With Saména, our engineers do, together with you.
• How is it billed? Dust lists a per-seat price, and Glean shares pricing after a demo. Saména charges one subscription for the whole company, with unlimited users.
• Where does the data live? Dust: the US or the EU, your choice. Glean: in its environment or in your cloud. Saména: on servers in France.
• Which models? Dust and Glean offer models from several providers. With Saména you choose too: Claude, models from OpenAI or Mistral, served in Europe.

When are Glean or Dust a better fit?

Glean fits a large organization that wants one search across dozens of apps, with each person's access rights respected.

Dust fits if someone on your staff has time to design, test and maintain agents, and if your teams mostly work in Slack, Notion or Google Drive. If you want to try it on your own, Dust offers a free seat.

Both connect to far more sources than Saména, which supports SharePoint, OneDrive and Dropbox today. And with Saména, there's a setup phase with our engineers before your first agents go live.

How do you choose?

Answer these four questions before any demo, ours included:

• Where do your documents live? If they are in SharePoint, OneDrive or Dropbox, Saména reads them. If they are in Slack, Notion or a CRM, look at Glean or Dust.
• Who will build the agents? If nobody on staff has the time, rule out the products where you build them yourself.
• How many people will use it? With per-seat pricing, the bill grows with headcount. A company-wide subscription doesn't.
• Where does the data go? Ask about server location, which models read your documents, and what the contract says about training.

Frequently asked

Is Dust a French company?

Yes, Dust is based in Paris. You can have your data hosted in the EU or the US. Its agents run on models from several providers, Mistral AI among them.

How much do Glean, Dust and Saména cost?

Glean doesn't publish its pricing and shares it after a demo. Dust lists per-seat prices on its website. Saména charges a one-time setup fee based on your document volume, then one monthly subscription for the whole company, with unlimited users. We share pricing during the demo.

Will my documents be used to train AI models?

Not with Saména: the model you choose (Claude, models from OpenAI or Mistral) runs in Europe and retains none of your data. Dust also says it never trains models on your data. For Glean, ask the vendor.

Can I use Saména with Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot?

Yes. Your agents live in the Saména app and also answer inside Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, so your teams keep the tool they already know.