Most lists of guru alternatives have a common flaw: nobody has checked them. A vendor writes a comparison, competitors cite it, aggregators summarise the competitors, and figures that were roughly true in 2023 harden into something everyone repeats. We know, because ours was one of them until last week.
So this list was built differently. Every entry below was checked against the vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026, and where a vendor does not publish something, this page says so rather than repeating an estimate from somewhere else. Two findings came out of that and they change how you should shortlist.
Five of the 11 tools here publish no price at all, including Guru. And Guru is no longer a card-authoring tool, which means the argument most comparison content is built on has quietly expired. This guide sits under our wider 2026 enterprise search comparison guide, which covers procurement workflow across the same field.
One disambiguation before the list, because search results for this term mix three unrelated products. This is about Guru the knowledge management platform at getguru.com. It is not about Resource Guru, the resource scheduling tool, or A Cloud Guru, the AWS training service.
What Guru is now, and why it changes the comparison
Guru began as a card-based tool. Knowledge lived in cards that someone authored, reviewed and marked verified, and the comparison writing of that era focused, reasonably, on how much work that was.
That is no longer what the product does. Guru's own pages state it "unifies knowledge from Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Zendesk, Confluence, CRM systems, and more", that "everything retains original permissions", and that "every result comes verified, permission-aware, and backed by clear sources". Its Knowledge Agents automate much of the re-verification that used to be manual.
This matters to your shortlist in a specific way. If you excluded a tool for looking like "another card system", or picked one because it promised to save you from re-authoring, the reasoning behind that decision no longer holds. Searches for getguru alternatives and guru competitors surface a great deal of content built on it. The tell is easy: if the central argument is migration effort or a parallel card base to maintain, it is describing a product that has changed.
Three questions that shortlist faster than any feature table
Do you need somewhere to write knowledge, or answers from knowledge you already have? This one question splits the list below in two, and the halves are not substitutes. A wiki is where knowledge goes. A search layer answers from where knowledge already is. Buying the wrong one is the most expensive mistake available here.
Can you see a price? Five of these vendors will not tell you what they cost without a call. That is not a moral failing, but it is a procurement fact: if you need to prove value before you can open a budget conversation, a sales-gated vendor cannot be your first step.
Does the AI processing have to stay outside US jurisdiction? For most buyers this is irrelevant. For regulated UK and EU buyers it is usually the constraint that produces the shortlist, and it eliminates most of this list immediately.
The Guru alternatives, verified
If you want somewhere to author and maintain knowledge
Slab is an authored wiki with the most generous free tier here: free for up to 10 users, then $6.67 per user per month on Startup and $12.50 on Business, both billed annually. Enterprise is quoted. If the requirement is a clean internal wiki and the team is small, this is the cheapest honest starting point on the list.
Tettra publishes $8 per user per month on its Scaling plan with a 10-user minimum and a 30-day trial, with Enterprise quoted. It positions itself as an internal wiki with AI search over what you put into it.
Slite publishes $10 per user per month on Basic and $20 on Pro, billed yearly, with a 14-day trial and no card required. It also layers AI search across connected tools including Slack, HubSpot, Linear and Jira, which puts it part way between the two halves of this list.
Nuclino offers a permanently free plan and publishes Starter and Business tiers. We are not quoting its figures: the prices render client-side and were not readable when we checked on 24 September, and inventing a number would defeat the purpose of this page. Check it directly.
Notion publishes €9.50 per member per month on Plus and €19.50 on Business, with a free tier. Its Enterprise Search answers across the Notion workspace and connected tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams and GitHub, included on Business and above, with Jira, Box, OneDrive, Salesforce and Asana listed as beta. For teams already living in Notion, this is the lowest-friction option here.
Document360 no longer publishes pricing. The page asks you to "answer a few quick questions and get a customized pricing tailored to your documentation goals", and its FAQ says plainly: "Document360 prices around your specific configuration... We quote what fits." There is a 14-day trial. It is an authoring platform that publishes to a branded reader-facing site, so it suits external documentation more than internal answers.
Stonly publishes no price for its Small Business or Enterprise plans. There is a free Basic tier, limited to 400 views per month, five guides and one user. It builds step-by-step interactive guides, a genuinely different shape from everything else here and excellent if that is what you actually need.
Docmost is the interesting one. It is open source and, per its own page, "deployed entirely on your own infrastructure". Community edition is free; Business is $6 per seat per month billed annually with a 10-seat minimum. If your reason for leaving Guru is jurisdictional control and you have the engineering capacity to run your own service, this is the most complete answer on this list, and it is not us.
If you want answers from documents that already exist
Glean is the enterprise AI search incumbent. It publishes no pricing, offers no self-serve signup and no free trial; the page is a demo request. Figures quoted elsewhere, commonly £40 to £50 or more per user with a roughly 100-seat minimum, come from reported customer quotes rather than from Glean. Strong product, built for large enterprise, US-controlled with no sovereign option published.
Bloomfire publishes no pricing either; its tiers are Team, Department and Enterprise, all by quote. Worth listing because it is frequently miscategorised, including by us until recently: it now describes "Enterprise Search integrations with content repositories like SharePoint and Google Drive", so it spans authored content and connected sources rather than being purely the former.
Guru itself, for completeness, belongs in this half now rather than the first. It indexes connected sources, is permission-aware, returns cited results, and has the most mature verification workflow in the category. Guru pricing is quoted rather than published, and it is US-controlled with no sovereign option.
Side-by-side
| Tool | Shape | Price published? | Entry price | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slab | Authored wiki | Yes | $6.67/user/mo | Yes, to 10 users |
| Docmost | Open-source wiki, self-hosted | Yes | $6/seat/mo (10 min) | Yes, Community |
| Tettra | Authored wiki + AI search | Yes | $8/user/mo (10 min) | 30-day trial |
| Slite | Authoring + AI search | Yes | $10/user/mo | 14-day trial |
| Notion | Workspace + Enterprise Search | Yes | €9.50/member/mo | Yes |
| AnswerVault | Governed AI knowledge layer | Yes | £7/user/mo | Yes, Starter |
| Document360 | Authoring to published site | No | Quoted | 14-day trial |
| Stonly | Step-by-step guides | No | Quoted | Basic, heavily limited |
| Bloomfire | Authoring + enterprise search | No | Quoted | Not published |
| Guru | Connected-source search + verification | No | Quoted | Not published |
| Glean | Enterprise AI search | No | Quoted | No |
Checked against each vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026. Nuclino is omitted from the price column for the reason given above. Vendor pricing moves, so treat this as a snapshot with a date on it rather than a permanent fact, which is precisely the failure this page exists to avoid.
Where jurisdiction changes the answer
For regulated UK and EU buyers, one column decides more than all the others. Data residency, meaning which region your data sits in, is not the same as data sovereignty, meaning keeping the processing layer beyond the reach of a foreign jurisdiction. The CLOUD Act compels US-headquartered companies to produce customer data regardless of where it is held, so exposure follows corporate control rather than location.
Two options here address that. Docmost, by being self-hosted on infrastructure you choose. And AnswerVault's Enterprise tier, which runs the AI processing layer, not merely stored data, on non-US infrastructure under UK contractual control. AnswerVault's standard tiers run on AWS and carry the same exposure as any US-operated provider, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. No other tool in this list publishes a sovereign deployment option. Our guide to AI knowledge management for regulated industries works through how that constraint gets written into a procurement paper.
How AnswerVault fits
AnswerVault is a governed AI knowledge layer. It sits in the second half of this list: it indexes SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence and similar systems in place, honours their permissions, and answers with citations. Architecturally that is the same job Guru and Glean now do, and we are not going to claim a structural advantage the evidence does not support.
Two things differ. Curation is expressed as a governed document set approved by a named subject-matter expert, with sentence-level citations and a per-query audit trail, which suits organisations where the document owner is the approving authority rather than a central knowledge team. And the commercial model is published: a free Starter tier, Pro at £7 per user per month, Business at £14 adding SSO and SAML, API access, data residency and per-query audit trails, and Enterprise on application. Catapult CX Ltd, AnswerVault's operating entity, is certified to ISO 27001, and AnswerVault's ISO 42001 certification is underway; the detail procurement teams ask for is on our security page.
AI is included in every plan, with no per-query charges, and customer data is never used to train models. Web chat is the default surface, with Microsoft Teams, Slack, CLI and API alongside it.
Next steps
If you want a wiki, pick from the first half on price and editing experience, and discount the AI marketing on all of them; it is table stakes now rather than a differentiator. If you want answers from documents you already maintain, the field is Guru, Glean, Bloomfire and AnswerVault, and the deciding factors are jurisdiction, whose approval governs an answer, and whether you can trial before you buy.
For vendor-by-vendor detail, see our AnswerVault vs Guru, AnswerVault vs Glean and AnswerVault vs Atlassian Rovo comparisons, or the enterprise search comparison for the full procurement view. Our pricing is published, which after writing this page feels worth mentioning.
AnswerVault's Starter tier is free. Connect a document source and see how governed knowledge search works.
AnswerVault is built by Catapult CX, an enterprise technology consultancy. The product was originally developed for a global pharmaceutical company with strict data governance requirements; the same architecture now powers the SaaS platform.