AlphaSense vs. S&P Capital IQ

AlphaSense

342 Reviews and Ratings

S&P Capital IQ

91 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
S&P Capital IQ	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Capital IQ is a market intelligence software solution offered by S&P Global Market Intelligence, which is the result of McGraw Hill Financial's acquisition of SNL Financial.	N/A

Pricing

AlphaSense

S&P Capital IQ

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Pricing Offerings
AlphaSense	S&P Capital IQ
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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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AlphaSense	S&P Capital IQ
Considered Both Products	AlphaSense 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 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 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? 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? 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? Luis Sanchez portfolio manager in Finance and Accounting at lvs advisory (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose AlphaSense Capital IQ has more data but capital IQ is very clunky to use (it is very slow). Capital IQ lacks expert insight calls but has other data to offer including credit analytics BamSEC only has SEC documents and has integrated with Tegus expert calls. It is lighter on data and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is one tool I have in my analyst toolbox that helps me dive deep into the research process. It isn't the first place I go when I begin the research process, but it's one area where I spend more time the deeper I get into the process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is my go to for market intelligence. Capital IQ is my go to for financial data - mainly because I am use to it. PitchBook is my go to for private investment round / private company data Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Much better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense's search engine for filings is powerful/more UI friendly than its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Nothing else had the platform capabilities nor the level of access to information that AlphaSense does. Everything else I tried had one area or type of information it aggregated, but none of them were able to integrate information the way AlphaSense does, and most of them … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense provides a much more user-friendly UI/UX than S&P's Capital IQ. It has the same, if not more content, and is much easier to jump in and use without needing months of training to know where everything is. There are a few features like stock price tracking that CapIQ … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense has hands down greater coverage of analyst reports. AlphaSense's search and filter capabilities also look superior and more easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Not much compares to AlphaSense, it's my go to for research on public companies CapIQ is a comparator for analyst reports but they are easy to pull on AlphaSense Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is much better at searching qualitative information (e.g., analyst reports); CapIQ is still better for getting historical financial data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense Stronger in terms of 3rd party reports. Weaker in terms of the depth of financial information available. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I have not used any other platform like AlphaSense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense makes it easy to get to the right info quickly. The coverage of industries and companies for broker research is much more than the other products. AlphaSense also includes detailed financial info for companies and its AI-based summaries are helpful. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense As compared to Refinitiv, AlphaSense is easier to use off the shelf (has less of the codes to find exactly what one's looking for) and provides more detailed insights a lot quicklier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense We use a combination of the above. As previously mentioned, CIQ and Bloomberg are better for market data (broker estimates, NAVPS data, etc.). The main difference is access to broker research and the excel plug in Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Koranek Senior Director in Professional Services at Huron Consulting (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is very differnet from other simlar tools I have used. However, it is very powerful for doing the things it is designed to do. Its search engine feature is among the best and most user friendly that I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense The S&P interface is not as easy to use and takes a lot longer to load. Incentivized Helpful?	S&P Global Inc. Verified User Chose S&P Capital IQ S&P Capital IQ is great for bringing market data into Excel. It is also fantastic for finding older public market data / screening assets Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose S&P Capital IQ S&P Capital IQ is one of the best value products from a cost / benefit perspective. The Excel add in function is also unrivaled. For accessing public company data on demand (both operational and financial) it is a must have. The other tools are great but tend to be more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose S&P Capital IQ I think Eikon is a close substitute. It doesn't have as many features as S&P Capital IQ, but unless you're working for a bank, hedge fund, or in corporate treasury, you probably won't notice it. In my opinion, FactSet is another good alternative. It comes with more features … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

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S&P Capital IQ

Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and S&P Capital IQ
Feature	AlphaSense 6.9 171 Ratings	S&P Capital IQ 6.4 3 Ratings
Private Company Data	5.2141 Ratings	6.03 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information	7.4166 Ratings	7.83 Ratings
Independent Research Access	8.4160 Ratings	8.52 Ratings
M&A Analysis	5.7132 Ratings	5.33 Ratings
Supply Chain Data	6.691 Ratings	5.01 Ratings
ESG Data	6.088 Ratings	5.52 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports	6.677 Ratings	7.33 Ratings
Macroeconomic News	7.7119 Ratings	6.33 Ratings
Search Tools	8.3158 Ratings	6.23 Ratings

User Ratings
	AlphaSense	S&P Capital IQ
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (239 ratings)	7.1 (10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (20 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (235 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.3 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	6.4 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	5.9 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	9.1 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.6 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Professional Services	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.2 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)