AlphaSense

AlphaSense

342 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AlphaSense	Score9.7 out of 10	N/A	AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among 4,000 enterprise customers. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and…	N/A

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AlphaSense

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Pricing Offerings
AlphaSense
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	AlphaSense
Considered Both Products	AlphaSense Verified User Chose AlphaSense Actually have both AlphaSense and FactSet. Each has its uniqueness but all depends on nature of the task or project at hand. Incentivized Helpful? Elizabeth Dreyer Associate Director, Corporate Strategy at Ford Motor Company (Automotive, 10,001+ employees) Chose AlphaSense We use both CB Insights and AlphaSense for our work. While CB Insights is better suited for private companies, especially startups, AlphaSense is unmatched in its data for large, typically public companies and broader industry research. Incentivized Helpful? Tomas Arias Associate in Finance and Accounting at Carao Ventures (Venture Capital & Private Equity, 1-10 employees) Chose AlphaSense Alphasense has a much broader coverage breadth, as it includes financial data, market data, private research, and expert interviews, while the others are more limited. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Compared to FactSet and PitchBook, AlphaSense is a good tool to fill my suite of financial analysis. PitchBook is superior for private company and transaction data, as well as screening for similar companies (the sourcing feature of the job). FactSet is superior for financial … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I inherited AlphaSense access by joining my current role. AlphaSense's financial and deal information can not match pitchbooks. It does have better summarization for financial than PitchBook though. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense have less financial information than Evaluate Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I am not sure why you won't let me select EMIS Next, but that is a great tool with a lot of very good data that does not seem to be on your platform: Frost & Sullivan Mordor Intelligence Incentivized Helpful? Baxter Gosch Investor Relations Senior Analyst in Finance and Accounting at Payoneer (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is simply the best software when it comes to finding information from publicly available documents and their access to sell-side research. While it has some room to go in terms of their access to financials, they've already made significant improvements and I'm … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I prefer to use both in conjunction; AlphaSense generally provides deeper insights, but I'm unsure if it is readily available or the newest (Market cap). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Search and analysis of public market data - analyst feedback and management commentary: I would prefer AlphaSense over other Quant analysis of market data / charting: I would prefer S&P for Excel Plugins PitchBook: Proprietary private market and VC data Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Still evaluating. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Special features of AlphaSense that made us decide on this CI platform: - US-based market and competitive intelligence platform with various premium content (broker information, expert calls, earning transcripts, original company documents etc.) - AlphaSense is a trusted CI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I liked AlphaSense more than Tegus because the UI was better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I use TBR for totally different research. I use them for news about corporate direction, investment in technologies and executive leadership changes; M&A and corporate ventures; technology partnerships; and recent contract awards. AlphaSense gives deeper insights with Expert … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Alphasense is way better than GlobalData; the AI search word is like magic, and the grid view is constructive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Experts calls can help you to decide whether or not invest in a company. can give you insights on culture which is not easy to find in Annual reports. Tegus is much better in summarizing experts calls as well as give you a summary of experts calls called TOP INVESTORS QUESTIONS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Other platforms are not as user friendly nor have useful data outputs and sentiment analysis Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Alphasense has available information from analysts, which is difficult to get from platforms like FactSet unless you pay additional fees. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense All of them are better than AlphaSense. However, Bloomberg is over twice as expensive, and people are just paying a premium for Chat (which I don't want). I have not used FactSet for over three years. When I last used it, I would say that it was slightly better than AlphaSense … Incentivized Helpful? Tucker Boren Director, Market Intelligence in Marketing at Khoros (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense has the most sources and best usability of any tool I've used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense has better document search but is otherwise vastly inferior in every other way. If doc search isn't important to you, I wouldn't bother with AlphaSense. Incentivized Helpful? Kym Stewart Sr. Principal Strategist at Boeing (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is an affordable solution compared to other sources used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I did not do a competitive analysis of the product - was sold on it immediately Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is largely complementary to CapIQ or Eikon. CapIQ and Eikon do offer research capabliities for an additional fee, though it's currently more cost effective to use AlphaSense. PitchBook is still a must have if you need to evaluate start-ups/private companies Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense One integrated platform. Modern user interface, unlike Bloomberg Terminal. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

AlphaSense

Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense
Feature	AlphaSense 6.9 171 Ratings
Private Company Data	5.2141 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information	7.4166 Ratings
Independent Research Access	8.4160 Ratings
M&A Analysis	5.7132 Ratings
Supply Chain Data	6.691 Ratings
ESG Data	6.088 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports	6.677 Ratings
Macroeconomic News	7.7119 Ratings
Search Tools	8.3158 Ratings

User Ratings
	AlphaSense
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (239 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (20 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (235 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (21 ratings)
Performance	8.3 (21 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (1 ratings)
Online Training	6.4 (8 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (5 ratings)
Configurability	5.9 (5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	9.1 (4 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.6 (21 ratings)
Professional Services	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.2 (5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (5 ratings)