Anvax vs. Glean

Glean is excellent at enterprise search. But even its customer-hosted option is deployed and operated by Glean in your public cloud, and priced per seat. Anvax runs wherever you need it, including fully air-gapped.

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At a glance

Strong search. Different deployment model.

Anvax

✓Runs on-premises, in your VPC or air-gapped
✓Data never leaves your perimeter
✓Open-weight models on your hardware
✓Redaction and audit in the data path
✓Platform pricing, not per seat
✓Permission-aware search across your systems

Glean

!Glean’s cloud or your AWS/GCP, operated by Glean
!Depends on the deployment
!Hosted models only
!Controls inside Glean’s platform
!Per seat plus usage credits
✓Glean’s core strength

What sets Anvax apart

AI your regulator can inspect, on infrastructure you control.

Runs where your data lives

On your servers, your private cloud or fully air-gapped. The same product in every deployment.

Governance in the data path

Redaction, prompt checks and model routing run before any model sees a request, with an audit entry for each.

Any model, no lock-in

Open-weight models on your hardware, or approved hosted providers, chosen per request by your policy.

Detailed comparison

Twelve questions a regulated buyer should ask.

Grouped the way risk, security and procurement teams review an AI platform.

1Deployment & data sovereignty 2Governance & security 3Knowledge & models 4Cost & rollout

Deployment & data sovereignty

Parameter

Anvax

Glean

Where it runs

✓Runs on your servers, in your private cloud or fully air-gapped.

✓The same product in every deployment, not a reduced on-prem edition.

!Glean’s cloud, or Customer Hosted in your AWS or GCP account.

!Customer Hosted is operated by Glean. No on-premises or air-gapped option.

Data residency

✓Index, prompts, outputs and logs stay in infrastructure you control.

✓Nothing leaves your perimeter unless a policy you wrote allows it.

✓Customer Hosted keeps data in your cloud account.

!Glean Hosted keeps it in Glean’s.

Vendor dependency

✓Keeps working if a model provider changes its terms, prices or regions.

✓Swap models or infrastructure without re-platforming.

✓Broad model choice reduces model lock-in.

!The platform is still operated by Glean.

Governance & security

Parameter

Anvax

Glean

Sensitive data

✓Personal data and account identifiers are redacted before any model sees them.

✓Redactions are shown to the user, so nothing disappears silently.

✓Glean Protect and an AI gateway govern AI use.

!Controls run inside a platform Glean operates.

Prompt and model controls

✓Prompt-injection checks run on every request.

✓The model gateway enforces which model may see which data.

✓Guardrails configured in Glean’s platform.

!No local models for the most sensitive requests.

Audit trail

✓An immutable audit entry for every answer: sources, model and redactions.

✓Records an examiner can read, exported from storage you own.

✓Admin insights and activity logs.

!Logs live in Glean’s platform unless exported.

Permissions

✓Inherits permissions from every source system.

✓Anvax can narrow access further, never widen it.

✓Mature, permission-aware retrieval across sources.

✓Permission changes sync in near real time.

Knowledge & models

Parameter

Anvax

Glean

Model choice

✓Run open-weight models on your own hardware.

✓Route approved requests to any hosted provider, after redaction.

✓A hub of hosted models from several providers.

!No open-weight models on your own hardware.

Enterprise search

✓Permission-aware search across documents, tickets, CRM and data platforms.

✓Every answer cites the source it came from.

✓A mature index with a very wide connector library.

✓Knowledge graph built from activity signals.

Workflows and agents

✓Ready-made workflows for regulated teams, editable by your staff.

✓Agents run inside the same governance pipeline as chat.

✓Agent builder and a library of prebuilt agents.

!Horizontal, not built around regulated workflows.

Cost & rollout

Parameter

Anvax

Glean

Pricing model

✓Platform pricing, not per seat.

✓Roll out to every employee without headcount driving the bill.

!Per-user seats plus usage credits.

!No published price.

Time to value

✓First team live within a few weeks.

✓Start with one department and two or three workflows, then expand.

✓Guided setup with real-time sync.

!Customer Hosted adds cloud-account setup with Glean.

Glean details from Glean’s website and documentation and independent pricing reviews, checked October 2026. Glean does not publish pricing; confirm current terms with Glean.

Which is right for you

Choose by your constraint.

Anvax is best for

→Regulated teams whose data cannot leave their perimeter
→Organisations that need on-premises or air-gapped AI
→Teams that must show an examiner how every answer was produced
→Companies that want model choice without lock-in

Glean is best for

→Companies whose main need is search across many SaaS apps
→Organisations happy for the vendor to operate the platform
→Teams running on AWS or GCP
→Buyers who don’t need air-gapped deployment

FAQs

No. Customer Hosted runs in your AWS or GCP account, but Glean deploys and operates it as a managed service. It does not run on-premises or on a network with no internet access. Anvax does both.

Search your knowledge without leaving your perimeter.

We will run the same searches on your kind of corpus, with every answer cited and logged inside your environment.

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