This is your annual budget
But budgets get exhausted.
Spend is climbing ~4× year over year.
Every query, every agent step, every retry burns tokens — and someone pays for all of them.
Off-the-shelf agent
Glean context layer
Bad AI architecture ate your token budget
Glean Assistant saved 81% on token costs versus Claude Cowork.
Token costs are an
AI architecture problem,
not just a model problem.
AI architecture problem,
not just a model problem.
Everyone measures token costs.
Almost no one measures the value delivered per token.
Glean uses less tokens at a lower cost to deliver significant cost savings.
81%
Glean saves 81% per task
$0.58 Glean cost per task vs. $2.98 Claude cost per task
At $2.98 per task, running Claude Cowork across thousands of employees can become an expensive line item in your budget. Glean is more token efficient and routes across model providers instead of having you pay frontier prices by default.
Cost per million tokens
Tokens per task
Cost per task
Glean
Glean
$0.46
x
1.3M
=
$0.58*
Claude
Claude
$0.68
x
4.4M
=
$2.98*
*Figures rounded. Cost per task calculated from unrounded values.
Token yield maximizes useful outputs per token spent.
Overall preference
Completeness
Correctness
Interaction quality
74% win rate.
On the queries where graders picked a winner, Glean won 74% of the time — leading on every evaluation component, with correctness its biggest advantage.
Every department. Glean won.
Sales
Marketing
HR/People
Engineering
Finance
Support/Success
Product
Glean's output is preferred by every department, including sales, marketing, HR, engineering, and finance.
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Employees using AI
Tasks per employee per day
$94.4M
you could save annually.
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Glean
Tokens consumed
40
Cost/run
$20.0
Claude Cowork
Tokens consumed
40
Cost/run
$20.0
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