glean-cost-tuning

Glean Cost Tuning

Overview

Glean pricing scales with indexed content volume and user count. Reduce costs by indexing only relevant content, pruning stale data, and using incremental indexing.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Strategy	Savings	Implementation
Filter irrelevant content	20-40%	Skip drafts, templates, archived pages
Prune stale documents	10-20%	Delete docs not updated in 12+ months
Use incremental indexing	Compute savings	Index only changed docs, not full corpus
Consolidate datasources	Admin savings	Fewer connectors to maintain
Set content size limits	Storage savings	Truncate body to ~50KB per doc

Content Filtering Example

function shouldIndex(doc: SourceDocument): boolean {
  if (doc.status === 'draft' || doc.status === 'archived') return false;
  if (doc.updatedAt < oneYearAgo) return false;
  if (doc.title.startsWith('[Template]')) return false;
  if (doc.content.length < 50) return false;  // Skip near-empty pages
  return true;
}

const filtered = allDocs.filter(shouldIndex);
// Typically reduces corpus by 30-50%

Resources

• Glean Developer Portal