Figorit vs Glean: Workplace Search vs Codebase Intelligence
Glean is enterprise search across your SaaS stack. Figorit is purpose-built for codebase Q&A. Here's how they compare on price, depth, and what each is actually good at.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Figorit | Glean |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose-built for codebase Q&A | Yes | No |
| Semantic search across source code | Yes | No |
| Cited answers from actual files | Yes | No |
| Slack bot with plain-English answers | Yes | Yes |
| File summaries refreshed on every push | Yes | No |
| Code experts (who knows what) | Yes | No |
| Automated release notes | Yes | No |
| Search across Slack, Drive, Notion, Jira | No | Yes |
| Personalised feed of company activity | No | Yes |
| Enterprise-wide deployment | No | Yes |
Pricing Comparison
| Figorit | Glean | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1 repo, 5 credits/mo | None (sales call required) |
| Starter / Team plan | $100/mo (unlimited users) | Typically $40–50/user/mo (annual) |
| Pro plan | $250/mo (unlimited users) | Custom enterprise pricing |
| 15-person team cost | $250/mo flat | $7,200–9,000/year minimum |
| Time to first value | Minutes | Weeks (sales + IT rollout) |
Different Problems, Despite the Overlap
Glean indexes everything: Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, GitHub. It's built to be the universal search bar for a 1,000-person company. Figorit indexes your codebase deeply: every file, every commit, every contributor, with summaries that update on every push. If your problem is 'I can't find anything across our SaaS stack', Glean is the right tool. If your problem is 'nobody outside engineering can get answers about the code', that's Figorit.
Codebase Depth vs Workplace Breadth
Glean's GitHub connector indexes repository metadata, READMEs, and recent activity. It's enough for finding a repo or surfacing a recent PR. It's not enough for answering 'how does our checkout flow handle a failed payment?', because that question requires reading the actual implementation across multiple files. Figorit was built specifically for that depth, with semantic embeddings, file summaries, and citations down to the line number.
The Pricing Reality
Glean is enterprise software with enterprise pricing. Most published estimates put it at $40–50 per user per month on annual contracts, with sales calls required to get a quote. For a 15-person product team that's $7,200–9,000 per year, often more once professional services are added. Figorit's Pro plan is $250 a month flat, unlimited users, no sales call. Different category, different cost structure.
When Teams Use Both
Larger companies often run both. Glean for the company-wide search problem (where every department has knowledge spread across ten tools). Figorit for the engineering-knowledge-for-non-engineers problem (where the source of truth is the code and the audience is everyone). They're complementary, not competitive.
The Bottom Line
If you're a 500-person company drowning in scattered SaaS knowledge, Glean is the right investment. If you're a startup or product team where the specific bottleneck is 'every question about the code goes to engineering', Figorit solves that for an order of magnitude less money and ships in minutes instead of weeks. The two tools answer different questions; pick the one that matches the bottleneck you actually have.