Agentic Index
Glean vs UiPath (2026)
Both want to be the layer agents run on and they own different assets, at 12 and 13.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Glean unifies search, an assistant and agents over a permissions aware knowledge graph across more than a hundred connected systems, so it knows what your company knows. UiPath orchestrates agents, robots and people across the automation estate with Maestro, self healing and the AI Trust Layer, so it knows how your company does things. Knowledge against execution, and most enterprises eventually need both, in which case buy the one solving your current bottleneck.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Glean and UiPath are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 969 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Glean if
- Finding and reasoning over company knowledge is the bottleneck, not executing tasks.
- A permissions aware graph is what makes an enterprise assistant safe to deploy broadly.
- Your systems have APIs, so screen level automation is not the problem.
Choose UiPath if
- Documented coverage is the deepest in the index and execution is the bottleneck.
- Systems without APIs are a large part of your estate.
- Governance over what agents and robots may do is the requirement.
| At a glance | Glean | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Contact for pricing | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | — | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | G Glean |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | G Glean |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact for pricing | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
— | consumption and role (robots, agents, platform units) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
— | Sales call |
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