Glean vs Toggl Track

Glean is an enterprise work AI platform that indexes a company's apps, documents and conversations and lets employees search, ask questions and run agents over that knowledge. It was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto by former Google search engineer Arvind Jain, who previously co-founded Rubrik, and it raised a $150 million Series F at a $7.2 billion valuation in June 2025.

The platform has three layers: Glean Search, a ranked enterprise search; Glean Assistant, a chat assistant grounded in company data; and Glean Agents, which automate multi-step work from natural-language instructions. Underneath sit 275+ connectors, an Enterprise Graph that maps people, content and activity, and permission enforcement that mirrors each source system in near real time. It also offers APIs and MCP support. Pricing is not published; it is sold per seat through sales, with demos instead of a self-serve trial.

Glean fits large organizations with knowledge scattered across Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, Salesforce and code hosts. It is overkill and likely too costly for small companies, and results depend on clean permissions in source systems. Microsoft 365 Copilot is the natural rival for Microsoft-centric firms, ChatGPT Enterprise offers broader general AI with connectors, and Notion AI covers search well if Notion is already your wiki.

Glean announced in December 2025 that its annual recurring revenue had passed $200 million, doubling in nine months. When evaluating, run a pilot on your messiest knowledge sources and test permission boundaries with a few restricted documents.

Toggl Track is a time tracking app from Toggl, a fully remote company founded in Estonia in 2006. It is built around one-click timers and manual entries that work the same on web, desktop, mobile and a browser extension that adds a timer button inside more than a hundred tools such as Asana, Jira, Trello, GitHub and Google Docs, so people record time where they already work.

Entries are organised by client, project, task and tag, with billable rates, project estimates and budgets that show profitability. Reports summarise hours by any dimension and can be shared or exported, while idle detection, reminders, calendar integration and an automatic background tracker help fill gaps. The free plan covers up to five users with core tracking; paid Starter and Premium plans are priced per user and add billable rates, project templates, timesheet approvals, fixed-fee projects, forecasting and more administration, with Enterprise for larger organisations. Toggl also makes other productivity apps alongside Track.

Toggl Track fits freelancers, agencies and consultancies that bill by the hour or need to understand where team time goes, and teams that want tracking people will actually use. Its invoicing is basic, producing PDF invoices from reports rather than acting as a billing system, advanced reporting is limited to paid tiers, per-user pricing adds up for larger teams, and it is intentionally not an employee monitoring tool. Clockify is a lower-cost alternative, Harvest includes invoicing and expenses, and Timely focuses on automatic tracking.