n8n, Glean, authentik vs Microsoft Foundry Agent Service

The registry records n8n as available on self-hosted or vendor cloud or private cloud; it is scored here as enterprise SaaS.

The registry records Glean as available on vendor cloud or private cloud; it is scored here as enterprise SaaS.

The registry records authentik as available on self-hosted or private cloud; it is scored here as private cloud.

The registry records Microsoft Foundry Agent Service as available on vendor cloud or private cloud; it is scored here as enterprise SaaS.

For this brief — confidential documents — enterprise SaaS is conditional: worth it only if the conditions in the options section hold. Change the brief and this verdict changes.

For this brief — confidential documents — enterprise SaaS is conditional: worth it only if the conditions in the options section hold. Change the brief and this verdict changes.

For this brief — confidential documents — private cloud is the recommended shape of answer. Change the brief and this verdict changes.

For this brief — confidential documents — enterprise SaaS is conditional: worth it only if the conditions in the options section hold. Change the brief and this verdict changes.

Covers your main objective (employee helpdesk) and 0 of 1 secondary objectives.

Covers your main objective (employee helpdesk) and 1 of 1 secondary objectives (internal company search).

Covers your main objective (employee helpdesk) and 1 of 1 secondary objectives (internal company search).

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is a platform for running a model you choose, not a product built for one job, so there is no use-case overlap to measure — what it does depends on what you build on it. The fit that can be assessed is the deployment's, in the rows below.

You stated no hosting preference, so no option is favoured on that basis. No hard restriction on where processing happens was stated. This is a vendor-operated service. Your cloud account does not determine where it runs; confirm the vendor’s data processing and integration with your existing systems.

You stated no hosting preference, so no option is favoured on that basis. No hard restriction on where processing happens was stated. This is a vendor-operated service. Your cloud account does not determine where it runs; confirm the vendor’s data processing and integration with your existing systems.

You stated no hosting preference, so no option is favoured on that basis. No hard restriction on where processing happens was stated. You did not name a cloud you already run on, so no design is favoured on that basis.

You stated no hosting preference, so no option is favoured on that basis. No hard restriction on where processing happens was stated. This is a vendor-operated service. Your cloud account does not determine where it runs; confirm the vendor’s data processing and integration with your existing systems.

External data transfer: yes. No catalogue deployment names n8n, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Confidential content leaves your control on the Employees → Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office apps, Business Chat) link.

External data transfer: yes. No catalogue deployment names Glean, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Confidential content leaves your control on the Employees → Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office apps, Business Chat) link.

External data transfer: some. No catalogue deployment names authentik, so this is read from “Agent workflow on a managed cloud runtime”, the best-matching private cloud deployment for this brief. Confidential content leaves your premises for your own cloud tenancy ("Private endpoints"). You keep control of the account; the provider is a processor, so a DPA and a documented region apply.

External data transfer: yes. No catalogue deployment names Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Confidential content leaves your control on the Employees → Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office apps, Business Chat) link.

We hold no fetched residency commitment for n8n. That is a question to put to the vendor, not an assumption to make about them. The vendor is headquartered in European Union, which is where a transfer question starts, not where it ends.

We hold no fetched residency commitment for Glean. That is a question to put to the vendor, not an assumption to make about them. The vendor is headquartered in United States, which is where a transfer question starts, not where it ends.

We hold no fetched residency commitment for authentik. That is a question to put to the vendor, not an assumption to make about them. The vendor is headquartered in United States, which is where a transfer question starts, not where it ends.

We have fetched a supported-countries page for Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, which says where the product may be bought — not where content is processed or stored. No residency commitment has been read, so the residency question is unknown. The vendor is headquartered in United States, which is where a transfer question starts, not where it ends.[1]

We have fetched none of the four commitments for n8n: data processing agreement, subprocessor list, training on customer data, zero retention option. Each is a question for the vendor, and until it is answered it is unknown rather than absent.

Published and fetched: subprocessor list. Still open: data processing agreement, training on customer data, zero retention option — ask the vendor.[2]

We have fetched none of the four commitments for authentik: data processing agreement, subprocessor list, training on customer data, zero retention option. Each is a question for the vendor, and until it is answered it is unknown rather than absent.

Published and fetched: data processing agreement, subprocessor list. Still open: training on customer data, zero retention option — ask the vendor.[3][4]

10–30 FDE-days to implement. No catalogue deployment names n8n, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief.

10–30 FDE-days to implement. No catalogue deployment names Glean, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief.

8–20 FDE-days to implement. No catalogue deployment names authentik, so this is read from “Agent workflow on a managed cloud runtime”, the best-matching private cloud deployment for this brief.

10–30 FDE-days to implement. No catalogue deployment names Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief.

The vendor runs the service. Your standing work is access control, the policy staff work under, and re-reading the contract and subprocessor list when they change — not patching or capacity.

The vendor runs the service. Your standing work is access control, the policy staff work under, and re-reading the contract and subprocessor list when they change — not patching or capacity.

You own GPU drivers and the model server, the identity integration and joiner/leaver process, the connectors and their credentials, operating-system patching and backups. Assessed difficulty 4/5 is the shape of that work; someone has to hold it after go-live.

The vendor runs the service. Your standing work is access control, the policy staff work under, and re-reading the contract and subprocessor list when they change — not patching or capacity.

3/5. Starting point 1/5: a vendor product, configured rather than installed. +0.5 Single sign-on adds an identity provider, group-to-role mapping and a joiner/leaver process to the deployment.

3/5. Starting point 1/5: a vendor product, configured rather than installed. +0.5 Single sign-on adds an identity provider, group-to-role mapping and a joiner/leaver process to the deployment.

4/5. Starting point 2/5: your own tenancy to build in, but no hardware to buy or rack. +0.5 You run the model server yourself: GPU drivers, quantisation choice, memory headroom and restarts are all yours to own.

3/5. Starting point 1/5: a vendor product, configured rather than installed. +0.5 Single sign-on adds an identity provider, group-to-role mapping and a joiner/leaver process to the deployment.

USD 7,600 – 58,000 — one-off — for n8n at this headcount. No catalogue deployment names n8n, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Licences are not in that figure: no per-seat price has been read from the vendor’s own pricing page, so the software line is excluded from the total rather than guessed. Read it as implementation only.

USD 7,600 – 58,000 — one-off — for Glean at this headcount. No catalogue deployment names Glean, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Licences are not in that figure: no per-seat price has been read from the vendor’s own pricing page, so the software line is excluded from the total rather than guessed. Read it as implementation only.

USD 6,100 – 39,000 — one-off — for authentik at this headcount. No catalogue deployment names authentik, so this is read from “Agent workflow on a managed cloud runtime”, the best-matching private cloud deployment for this brief.

USD 7,600 – 58,000 — one-off — for Microsoft Foundry Agent Service at this headcount. No catalogue deployment names Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, so this is read from “Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout with permissions first”, the best-matching enterprise SaaS deployment for this brief. Licences are not in that figure: no per-seat price has been read from the vendor’s own pricing page, so the software line is excluded from the total rather than guessed. Read it as implementation only.

The registry files n8n as open source, so the interface, retrieval behaviour and the model behind it can be changed — subject to the licence, which is a fetched fact on its own page.

Glean is a vendor product: you configure what the vendor exposes — policies, connectors, retention settings — and nothing below that line.

The registry files authentik as open source, so the interface, retrieval behaviour and the model behind it can be changed — subject to the licence, which is a fetched fact on its own page.

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is a vendor product: you configure what the vendor exposes — policies, connectors, retention settings — and nothing below that line.

8 issues spotted for this brief, 0 of them legal requirements; 0 carry a quote from the instrument they rest on. Leading with: Confidentiality duties bind independently of data protection law.

8 issues spotted for this brief, 0 of them legal requirements; 0 carry a quote from the instrument they rest on. Leading with: Confidentiality duties bind independently of data protection law.

9 issues spotted for this brief, 0 of them legal requirements; 0 carry a quote from the instrument they rest on. Leading with: Confidentiality duties bind independently of data protection law.

8 issues spotted for this brief, 0 of them legal requirements; 0 carry a quote from the instrument they rest on. Leading with: Confidentiality duties bind independently of data protection law.