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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlphaSense

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAlphaSense 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

    CB Insights

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACB Insights is a tech market intelligence platform that analyzes data on venture capital, startups, patents, and other data to predict market trends.N/A
    Pricing
    AlphaSenseCB Insights
    Editions & Modules
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    AlphaSenseCB Insights
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AlphaSenseCB Insights
    Considered Both Products
    AlphaSense
    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
    Chose AlphaSense
    In general, PitchBook and CB Insights are better equipped than AlphaSense to provide data specifically geared towards private market investing. S&P Capital IQ, on the other hand, is - like AlphaSense - designed primarily to provide information from public sources in a …
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Much better as AlphaSense offers a lot more information than just the companies and CB Insights is only covering the startups.
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose AlphaSense
    Alphasense is way better than GlobalData; the AI search word is like magic, and the grid view is constructive.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Some of the other products listed above provide much richer private market research than AlphaSense. AlphaSense does not provide their capabilities at the moment, and so we need multiple solutions for our goals. Eikon is more similar to AlphaSense. Their search capabilities are …
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Pretty similar, AlphaSense indeed bought them.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense is a little cleaner than Refinitiv and S&P since it does not house financial information.
    Incentivized
    CB Insights
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AlphaSenseCB Insights
    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and CB Insights
    Feature
    AlphaSense
    6.9
    171 Ratings
    CB Insights
    -
    Ratings
    Private Company Data5.2141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry-Specific Information7.4166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Independent Research Access8.4160 Ratings00 Ratings
    M&A Analysis5.7132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain Data6.691 Ratings00 Ratings
    ESG Data6.088 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit Ratings Reports6.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Macroeconomic News7.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools8.3158 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AlphaSenseCB Insights
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (239 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.1
    (235 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    5.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    6.7
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
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