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Louvain vs Glean
Looking for company knowledge your team and its AI assistants can use? Compare the approach and the integrations that fit your work.
Why choose Louvain?
Checked answers
A sentence whose figure, date or name no source supports is removed before you see it, and every answer carries its sources.
Context with history
Connect facts, sources and the sequence of decisions behind an answer.
Any date you choose
Ask as of a date and the answer comes from what the sources had said by then.
Compare the approach.
| Glean | Louvain | |
|---|---|---|
| Search and answers | Permission-aware search and answers across connected sources. | Source-backed answers checked against their sources, answers as of any date, and Plate. |
| AI assistant integration | Platform APIs, Web SDK and MCP integrations. | HTTP API and a remote MCP server that AI assistants connect to with OAuth, reading with the same permissions as the app. |
| Connecting data | Native connectors and an Indexing API for custom sources. | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Dropbox, Box and eighteen structured sources such as Jira, GitHub and Salesforce, plus file uploads and an HTTP ingestion API for your own systems. |
| Permission updates | Content and permission changes are synchronised through connector crawls and supported events. | The source's own permissions, or the audience an admin chooses for a connection, decide access, and it is worked out before anything is retrieved. |
Sources checked 7 September 2026. Compare connector support and plan terms for your own use case using the references below.
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