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Glean.ai

Summary

This accounts payable platform automates invoice processing, approvals, and payments. It adds machine-learning-powered analysis of vendor spend and invoice line items for finance teams.

A month of books at 100 transactions
Quote only
Open source
No
Best for
High-growth finance teams managing vendor invoices and spend

What we checked

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Price on its site
From $295 a monthFrom its pricing page

Changed since our last check

  • Promotion and regular price: now Yes. It was Partly when we checked on .
  • What the AI costs: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
  • Reads receipts and bills: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
  • Your data trains AI: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
  • Sign up without a sales call: now Partly. It was No when we checked on .

What it costs

A month of books at 100 transactions

Quote only

Checked against the maker's own pages, 30 October 2026.

Glean.ai price and plans

Prices excluding tax, as Glean.ai publishes them.

  • Basic

    $295 a month

    • 35 transactions
    • Moves you up a plan past the allowance
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What we checked on Glean.ai

YesPartlyNo

What it costs to keep your booksPartly

Cost for a solo freelancer

One person pays the same as a team, because the plans are sold by invoice volume and not per user: the cheapest public plan is $295 a month billed annually for up to 35 invoices, and that price does not include the accounting software the product connects to.

Basic $295/month billed annually Up to 35 /month

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What it costs to keep your booksYes

Promotion and regular price

yearly shown monthly: $295 is shown per month but sold on annual billing; no introductory price is stated.Was Partly before our last check.

$295/month billed annually

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What it costs to keep your booksNo

Ledger included

Glean is an accounts payable platform that integrates with a separate accounting system rather than replacing it.

Integrate Glean AI with your general ledger system to improve productivity and reduce costs.

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What it costs to keep your booksYes

What the price is based on

Plans are priced by invoice volume rather than by user seats, with unlimited users.

Pay based on volume, not per user.

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What it costs to keep your booksYes

Users included

All plans include unlimited users, so the vendor publishes no incremental user fee.

we offer UNLIMITED USERS across all plans.

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What it costs to keep your booksYes

Past your plan’s limits

There are no overage charges; after two consecutive months over a level, customers move up.

Glean.ai does not charge overages. Customer automatically goes to next tier after 2 consecutive months of exceeding a level.

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What it costs to keep your booksPartly

Catching up past months

Past invoices can be loaded, but only as a priced extra: the pricing page footnote charges $1.50 for each historical invoice, and it describes no cleanup or reopening of closed months beyond putting those old bills into the system.

* $1.50 per historical invoice.

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What the AI does with your booksYes

What the AI does

Machine-learning analysis supplies vendor-spend insights and automatically extracts invoice details for review.

An accounts payable platform to help you understand what's driving your vendor spend with analysis and insights powered by machine learning.

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What the AI does with your booksPartly

What the AI costs

included: Machine-learning capabilities are presented as product features, but no separate AI charge is published.Was Yes before our last check.

On the page: Platform introduction

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What the AI does with your booksYes

Categorizes transactions

Bills forwarded in are read and coded to your accounts with no typing, and the vendor says it extracts line items too; its pages do not say whether it learns from corrections you make.

Eliminate manual tasks with automated data extraction, GL coding, bill approvals & payments, accruals, prepaid amortizations, and more.

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What the AI does with your booksPartly

Reconciles your accounts

Glean describes reducing manual reconciliation through ledger integrations, without describing statement reconciliation.

We're here to make your life easier. Eliminate data entry and manual reconciliation.

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What the AI does with your booksPartly

Reads receipts and bills

Bills can be forwarded by email and their information extracted, but matching to transactions is undisclosed.Was Yes before our last check.

Forward vendor invoices by email. That’s it. Glean AI takes care of extracting the information from your invoices and entering it.

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What the AI does with your booksYes

Pays your bills

The product processes and approves invoices, then supports ACH, check, and international payments.

Make ACH, check, & international payments.

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What the AI does with your booksPartly

Accrual books and reports

It automates accrual bookings and reversals, but does not promise complete monthly financial statements.

Automated accrual bookings and reversals

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Who checks the AI’s workPartly

People check the books

Approval workflows provide a human control for bills, but bookkeeper review of automated work is undisclosed.

On the page: Glean AI feature comparison

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Who checks the AI’s workYes

Your accountant can sign in

Because every plan carries unlimited users at no charge, bringing your accountant or bookkeeper in costs nothing extra on any tier.

we offer UNLIMITED USERS across all plans. Pay based on volume, not per user.

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Who checks the AI’s workPartly

Accuracy the vendor claims

The vendor describes extraction as highly accurate but publishes no measurement or accuracy percentage.

Automatically extract highly accurate invoice summary and line item details within minutes.

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Where your books live and what it connects toYes

QuickBooks Online

It integrates with QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, and Oracle NetSuite for bill synchronization.

Glean AI integrates with Quickbooks online and Quickbooks desktop.

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Where your books live and what it connects toYes

Xero

It integrates with QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, and Oracle NetSuite for bill synchronization.

On the page: Integration cards

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Where your books live and what it connects toYes

QuickBooks Desktop

Glean AI integrates with Quickbooks online and Quickbooks desktop.

On the page: Integration cards

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Where your books live and what it connects toYes

NetSuite

It integrates with QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, and Oracle NetSuite for bill synchronization.

On the page: Integration cards

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Where your books live and what it connects toPartly

Bank and card feeds

You link a bank account so it can pay bills, and the vendor says it analyzes card spend as well as bills, but no page says it imports bank and card transactions daily or how.

Glean.ai is designed to analyze all of your vendor spend (expenses paid through AP + costs put on credit cards).

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Where your books live and what it connects toPartly

Moves your history in

Past bills can be brought in at a published $1.50 each, and the vendor publishes a switching case study, but no page describes moving historical books out of QuickBooks or Xero.

On the page: Pricing comparison table, footnotes below the plan columns

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Where your books live and what it connects toYes

Platforms

android: The vendor links a mobile app to Google Play; web, Windows, Mac, and iOS are undisclosed.

With Glean’s mobile interface, quickly access key spend summaries, track budget performance, and stay on top of expenses in real-time.

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Where your books live and what it connects toPartly

Getting your books out

The terms permit account closure but do not promise a complete export and reserve deletion rights.

Glean shall not be liable to you or any third party for termination of access to the Service, deletion of your information or Account data, or export…

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TaxesNo

Files your tax return

The vendor states flatly that it will not calculate, report or remit any tax, so no income tax return is prepared or filed on any plan.

Glean is not obligated to, and will not, determine whether taxes apply, or calculate, collect, report or remit any taxes to any tax authority arising…

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TaxesNo

Quarterly tax estimates

No quarterly tax estimate or reminder is offered: the terms put the whole job of working out and paying tax on the customer.

You are responsible for determining any and all taxes assessed, incurred, or required to be collected, paid, or withheld, in connection with your use…

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TaxesNo

Calculates sales tax

Sales tax is not calculated or tracked by state here; the vendor's terms say it does not determine whether taxes apply at all.

On the page: Terms of Service, Section 12 Taxes

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TaxesNo

Files sales tax

It neither files nor pays sales tax returns, and the terms also exclude tax payments from the bills it can pay for you.

The Bill Payment Services does not support payment to all types of billers, including certain government agencies and bills such as tax payments and…

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What it keeps track ofPartly

Other currencies

Paying vendors abroad is covered on both plans, with payments in dollars free and payments in another currency charged $10 plus 0.20% per transaction, but the pricing page says nothing about invoicing or keeping accounts in other currencies.

USD International payments FREE FX International payments $10 + 0.20% / transaction

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What it keeps track ofPartly

Profit by project or job

Spend can be viewed by department and the classes it keeps are written back to QuickBooks, but no page claims profit by project or job.

Glean.ai sends over the following information automatically to Quickbooks: • Accounts • Classes • Vendors • Bills • Bill Payments

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Your data and its securityYes

SOC 2 report

Glean states that it maintains a SOC 2 Type II compliance program for customer data.

Glean.ai maintains SOC 2 Type II compliance, assuring the safety of your data in the cloud.

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Your data and its securityPartly

Your data trains AI

The terms allow aggregated customer data to train machine-learning models; no opt-out is stated.Was Yes before our last check.

Glean may derive Aggregated Statistics from Customer Data in connection with the Service and use Aggregated Statistics for its own business purposes,…

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Who it is built forYes

For accounting firms

There is a partner program for accounting firms with training, a dedicated account manager and a listing in the vendor's accountant directory; firm pricing and your own branding are not described.

Empowering your firm with an intelligent AP platform. Provide insights into what your clients spend without having to pull, manipulate and analyze…

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Who it is built forYes

Several businesses

The pricing page charges a separate fee for each additional entity in the account.

Multiple Entity Fee: $50 for each additonal entity in Glean.ai.

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Who it is built forYes

Australia

Canadian, UK, and Australian availability is undisclosed.

Each Account must be linked to at least one verified U.S. bank account.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Free trial or free plan

The vendor invites visitors to try the product free, but does not state trial duration or limits.

Try it free, and join leading companies in managing spend.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Sign up without a sales call

A visitor can request a free start, but the vendor funnels this through a demo request form.Was No before our last check.

Let us show you how we can help.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Contract and cancelling

Terms permit account closure, but an order form can have a term and no duration is published.

you will not be eligible for a refund if you terminate for convenience before the end of the Term set forth in an applicable Order Form.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Support

Customer support is offered by email, while support hours and phone or chat availability are undisclosed.

You can terminate this agreement by contacting Glean’s customer support team at support@gleancompany.com.

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