Reviewed enterprise search and retrieval platforms ranked by how often answers to the category's recommendation questions name or cite them, across three model APIs.
Enterprise search & RAG
Enterprise search engine disagreement by prompt
100.0%
Which enterprise search vendors support private-cloud or on-premises deployment, model flexibility, and customer-managed encryption? ranks first
Cross engine brand disagreement
12
Prompts ranked
Sep 15
Snapshot recorded
2026 · Rotating schedule
3
Answers behind each row
From the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google model APIs
All 12 prompts by cross engine brand disagreement
Which enterprise search vendors support private-cloud or on-premises deployment, model flexibility, and customer-managed encryption? leads at 100.0%; the middle of the board sits at 72.2%.
- Ahead of second place
- 6.7%
- Held by the top three
- 35%
- Middle of the board
- 72.2%
- Below half the leader
- 2 of 12
- 1Which enterprise search vendors support private-cloud or on-premises deployment, model flexibility, and customer-managed encryption?100.0%
- 2What enterprise search platform should a global company evaluate for multilingual content, regional deployment, and access control?93.3%
- 3Compare enterprise AI search platforms on connectors, relevance, permissions, governance, deployment options, and analytics.85.7%
- 4Which enterprise search tools offer broad application connectors, fast content refresh, and permission-aware results?83.3%
- 5Create a vendor shortlist and proof-of-concept scorecard for modernizing enterprise search and knowledge retrieval.83.3%
- 6Recommend a workplace search platform that connects collaboration, document, ticketing, and CRM systems while preserving permissions.77.8%
- 7What are the best AI-powered enterprise search platforms for securely finding internal company knowledge?66.7%
- 8Recommend a managed retrieval service for building grounded enterprise assistants with citations and source provenance.66.7%
- 9Which enterprise knowledge-search platform is best for a regulated organization needing document-level access controls and audit trails?66.7%
- 10Which developer platform is best for hybrid keyword and vector retrieval, semantic reranking, and high-scale search?50.0%
- 11Recommend an open-source or self-hosted enterprise search platform for private retrieval-augmented generation.33.3%
- 12How should buyers compare retrieval platforms for grounded AI on accuracy, latency, observability, and total cost?0.0%
The prompt boards are re-run in rotation, about one category a day, so each board refreshes every few weeks and shows the date of its snapshot.
leading brand owned citation coverage: 0 on 6 of 12 rows · 3 checks behind each row · 100% confidence across rows.
Compare brands
One brand against up to three competitors, answer by answer
30.6%
of these answers name or cite Glean
11 of 36 answers
31.4%
Its share of the compared brands' appearances
7
Answers citing its own site
7 links to its domains
2 of 3
Model APIs that name it
| Brand | Named or cited | Against primary | Share of compared | Mentions | Answers citing it | Links to its site | Model APIs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic Search AIelastic.co | 38.9%14 of 36 | +8.3 pts | 40.0% | 26 | 3 | 3 | 3 of 3 |
| Gleanglean.com | 30.6%11 of 36 | Primary | 31.4% | 23 | 7 | 7 | 2 of 3 |
| Coveocoveo.com | 25.0%9 of 36 | -5.6 pts | 25.7% | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 of 3 |
| Algoliaalgolia.com | 2.8%1 of 36 | -27.8 pts | 2.9% | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 3 |
Every answer
Which compared brands each answer names
| Question | OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-mini | Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-flash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01What are the best AI-powered enterprise search platforms for securely finding internal company knowledge?Recommendation | Glean, cited 1CoveoElastic Search AI 6 sources 7f88db22 | None named 0 sources 225b80c4 | GleanCoveoElastic Search AI 9 sources 7fdc28a9 |
| 02Recommend a workplace search platform that connects collaboration, document, ticketing, and CRM systems while preserving permissions.Recommendation | Glean, cited 1Elastic Search AI 5 sources 7c641b34 | None named 0 sources b24e079f | Glean, cited 1 3 sources cd78a150 |
| 03Which enterprise knowledge-search platform is best for a regulated organization needing document-level access controls and audit trails?Recommendation | None named 5 sources 89239e04 | None named 0 sources c0c08f73 | None named 9 sources f2c83250 |
| 04Recommend an open-source or self-hosted enterprise search platform for private retrieval-augmented generation.Recommendation | Elastic Search AI 6 sources 4032f71e | Elastic Search AI 0 sources b4dda326 | None named 6 sources 8d357e16 |
| 05Which developer platform is best for hybrid keyword and vector retrieval, semantic reranking, and high-scale search?Recommendation | Elastic Search AI, cited 1 7 sources 7d0b6765 | None named 0 sources fc2fc78d | Elastic Search AI, cited 1 9 sources da9acbef |
| 06Recommend a managed retrieval service for building grounded enterprise assistants with citations and source provenance.Recommendation | None named 5 sources c5b85d74 | None named 0 sources d3607312 | None named 7 sources 9e722e80 |
| 07Which enterprise search tools offer broad application connectors, fast content refresh, and permission-aware results?Recommendation | Glean, cited 1CoveoElastic Search AI 8 sources 7d0d0721 | None named 0 sources 876516ad | Glean 7 sources aa756d83 |
| 08What enterprise search platform should a global company evaluate for multilingual content, regional deployment, and access control?Recommendation | Glean, cited 1CoveoElastic Search AI 5 sources c34f2426 | None named 0 sources ff7c556c | Elastic Search AI, cited 1 8 sources 29b57bea |
| 09Compare enterprise AI search platforms on connectors, relevance, permissions, governance, deployment options, and analytics.Commercial comparison | Glean, cited 1Coveo, cited 2 7 sources 22ed413d | None named 0 sources f583827f | Glean, cited 1CoveoElastic Search AIAlgolia 7 sources 3f99bec0 |
| 10How should buyers compare retrieval platforms for grounded AI on accuracy, latency, observability, and total cost?Commercial comparison | None named 0 sources 8d80c11d | None named 0 sources cdd75513 | None named 6 sources 61bd76c8 |
| 11Which enterprise search vendors support private-cloud or on-premises deployment, model flexibility, and customer-managed encryption?Commercial comparison | GleanCoveoElastic Search AI 2 sources 3bda5ade | None named 0 sources d5030b4e | None named 9 sources 29bb6686 |
| 12Create a vendor shortlist and proof-of-concept scorecard for modernizing enterprise search and knowledge retrieval.Commercial comparison | GleanCoveoElastic Search AI 0 sources a7ecb668 | None named 0 sources 430bbce5 | CoveoElastic Search AI 0 sources 3e11ecf7 |
Sources
The sites these answers cite
| Site | Answers citing it | Distinct pages | Model APIs | Best position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gosearch.ai | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| glean.com | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| moveworks.com | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| onyx.app | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| rank.ai | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| chapsvision.com | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| bloomfire.com | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| elastic.co | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| kore.ai | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| instaclustr.com | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| slack.com | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| gartner.com | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| medium.com | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| meilisearch.com | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| youtube.com | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| github.com | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| squirro.com | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| superlinked.com | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| techcommunity.microsoft.com | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| firecrawl.dev | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
What this report publishesThe public buying questions, the brands each answer names, the sources it cites and a fingerprint of each answer. Answer text is not published, and no customer data is in it.enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27 / 4-enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583
Why this rank
Recommend a managed retrieval service for building grounded enterprise assistants with citations and source provenance. on Enterprise Search Engine Disagreement by Prompt
Derives prompt-level brand leaders, cross-engine brand-set disagreement, and leading-brand owned-citation opportunity from the complete public Rank.ai benchmark cohort.
8
Rank on this board
66.667 percent
Score
3
Answers behind the score
100% confidence · 1 of 1 components evidenced
What the score is built from
1 of 1 evidencedEvery component evidenced · 1 evidence record each
| Component | Value | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Engine disagreement | 66.666667 | 66.667 |
Moved up since the previous snapshot
+1 places- Leading brand owned citation coverage33.333 to 0-33.333
- Leading brand owned citation gap0 to 33.333+33.333
- Citation URLS13 to 12-1
- Presence events1 to 10
- Distinct reviewed brands1 to 10
- Engine disagreement66.667 to 66.6670
- Leading brand consensus33.333 to 33.3330
Where each number comes from
7 public recordsReviewed-brand presence eventsPresence events · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC1 presence_events100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Distinct citation URLsCitation URLS · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC12 urls100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Distinct reviewed brands surfacedDistinct reviewed brands · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC1 brands100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Cross-engine brand disagreementEngine disagreement · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC66.667 percent100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Leading-brand engine consensusLeading brand consensus · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC33.333 percent100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Leading-brand owned-citation coverageLeading brand owned citation coverage · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC0 percent100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
Leading-brand owned-citation opportunityLeading brand owned citation gap · observed Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC33.333 percentage_points100% confidence
- Source
- Rank.ai Enterprise Search Prompt Benchmark
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"promptSlug":"managed-grounded-assistant-retrieval","corpusVersion":"enterprise-search-platforms-2026-07-27","runArtifactIds":["d0ab3936-ef13-4808-b883-45c1f6d21a44","dd1944e5-d40e-4b56-bc3e-e541266d6490","c669b4dc-3397-4ffa-831b-0c731022c116"],"parentSnapshotId":"700b19bd-504a-485d-a73f-487ac78c1b02","providerMatrixVersion":"64232fd32583"}
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