Comparison

Kelu vs Guru

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Guru is a knowledge platform where teams write and verify knowledge cards, with AI agents that also search your connected apps. Kelu ingests the sources you already have — docs, help desk, Drive, GitHub, and more — and answers questions for both your team and your customers via widget, API, bots and MCP. This comparison is checked against Guru's own site and docs.

Short answer

Choose Guru if your team wants to write and verify its knowledge in one place, with expert review cycles and answers for employees in Slack, Teams and the browser. Choose Kelu if your knowledge already lives in docs, repos and help desks, and you want it to answer your customers too, through a public widget, helpdesk AI and an MCP server, with public prices.

Feature comparison

The Guru column comes from Guru's own website and help center.

Feature
Kelu
Guru
Product category
AI knowledge assistant — RAG answers over your existing sources for your team and your customers
Governed knowledge layer for enterprise AI: verified cards written in Guru, plus AI agents that search your connected apps
Content model
Ingests sources you already have — docs sites, GitHub, Notion, Confluence, help desks, Drive, files
Cards and pages authored in Guru, plus Knowledge Agents that search connected sources such as Google Drive, Slack, Confluence and Salesforce
Customer-facing answers
Yes — public web widget, REST API, and support-form deflection for your users
Internal-first: embedded cards need a Guru login. Its MCP server and API can feed a customer-facing bot you run elsewhere.
Website / docs crawling
Yes — sitemap and link discovery, incremental sync, HTML→markdown normalization
No website source listed on their site; agents can run web searches
GitHub repo indexing
Yes — five sources over one repo: docs files, source code, issues, pull requests and discussions. Git-push webhook for incremental sync.
Yes — repository, issues, discussions and wiki sources
Retrieval method
Hybrid: pgvector semantic + PostgreSQL full-text, RRF fusion, LLM query rewrite, cross-encoder re-ranking, then a coverage check that decides whether to answer
Knowledge Agents search cards and connected sources; the retrieval method is not described in detail
Answer citations
Yes — answers link to the exact source passages they used
Yes — answers cite the cards and sources they used
Slack bot
Yes — /kelu slash command and @mention. Included on Pro and Enterprise.
Yes — @guru, /guru and auto-answers in channels
Microsoft Teams bot
Yes — @mention or direct message. Included on Pro and Enterprise.
Yes — direct message or @mention
Discord bot
Switched off for now
Not documented on their site as of October 2026
Web widget & SDKs
Widget: yes, embeddable. SDKs: React and JavaScript, on npm
Browser extension (side panel in Chrome, Edge and Opera) and agents that open on pages you choose, for employees
MCP server
Yes — per knowledge base (search_<name>_knowledge_sources, ask_question, list_sources, feedback). A client key, or the reader's Google or GitHub sign-in. On every plan.
Yes — one server at mcp.api.getguru.com, with OAuth or an API token. Each tool call uses a Guru credit.
Content freshness
Scheduled source syncs keep the index current automatically; Knowledge Maintenance drafts answers for knowledge gaps
Verification: every card has a verifier and a review interval, and agents can verify cards automatically
Support ticket deflection
Yes — Support Ticket AI in Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, Front and Linear, and Freshchat live chat; a support form deflector
Answers for support agents in chat, email and helpdesks. Ticket deflection through your own bot over MCP.
Security & compliance
SOC 2 Type II audit in progress (no report yet). DPA available. SSO (OIDC / SAML) on Enterprise.
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GxP
Pricing model
Public: Free $0, Pro $99/month ($79/month billed yearly), Enterprise custom. No per-seat fees.
No public prices. Seats plus a shared pool of AI credits; talk to sales.

Where Kelu focuses differently

No re-authoring — your existing sources are the knowledge base

Guru's model centers on knowledge cards your team writes and verifies inside Guru. Kelu indexes what you already maintain — docs sites, GitHub repos, Notion, Confluence, resolved help desk tickets, Drive files — and keeps the index current with scheduled syncs. The docs stay where they live.

Answers for customers, not only employees

Kelu ships a public 'Ask AI' widget, a REST API, Slack and Teams bots, a support-form deflector and Support Ticket AI in your helpdesk — so the same knowledge base answers your customers on your docs site and your team in Slack, each with the right permissions.

Developer-grade APIs and an MCP server per knowledge base

An open REST API with streaming, public client keys for the browser, and MCP servers you create per knowledge base mean your knowledge is queryable from AI coding tools, custom apps and external agents — not just inside one product's UI.

Find and close the gaps

Gap analytics cluster unanswered questions, and Knowledge Maintenance drafts answers to close gaps — your team reviews and adds them instead of writing from scratch.

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Frequently asked questions

How is Kelu different from Guru?

Guru is a knowledge platform: teams author knowledge cards in Guru, experts verify them, and Knowledge Agents answer employees from those cards and connected apps. Kelu ingests the sources you already have — docs sites, repos, wikis, help desks, Drive — and answers questions with citations for both your team (internal Ask assistant, Slack and Teams bots) and your customers (widget, API, helpdesk AI, MCP).

Can Kelu replace Guru for internal knowledge?

If your knowledge already lives in docs, Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, OneDrive, or repos, yes — Kelu indexes those directly into internal knowledge bases with per-knowledge-base permissions, and SSO on Enterprise. If your team prefers authoring and verifying knowledge inside a dedicated wiki product, Guru's card model may fit better.

Does Kelu have something like Guru's verification workflows?

Kelu approaches freshness differently: scheduled syncs keep the index matching the live sources automatically, gap analytics surface questions your content doesn't answer, and Knowledge Maintenance drafts answers for those questions that your team reviews and adds or dismisses. There is no per-document expert sign-off like Guru's verifiers.

Does Kelu support the same integrations?

Kelu ships a web widget, a support form deflector, Slack and Microsoft Teams bots, an open REST API with WebSocket streaming, an MCP server per knowledge base, and Support Ticket AI in Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, Front and Linear (tickets) and Freshchat (live chat). React and JavaScript SDKs are on npm.

Do answers include citations?

Yes. Each answer built from your content links to the exact source passages it used.

Is my data used to train AI models?

No. Your connected content and your users' conversations are never used to train models. Content is indexed only to answer questions for your knowledge base. PII masking and zero data retention are available on every plan.

Is this comparison up to date?

The Guru column was checked against Guru's own website and help center on October 29, 2026. The pages we used are listed under the table. If you spot something outdated, contact us and we'll correct it.

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