AlphaSense vs. PitchBook

AlphaSense

240 Reviews and Ratings

PitchBook

9 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
PitchBook	Score8.1 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	PitchBook is a resource for data, research, and insights spanning the global capital markets. Founded in 2007 and acquired by Morningstar in 2016, PitchBook's data on the private and public markets helps business professionals discover and execute opportunities.	N/A

Pricing

AlphaSense

PitchBook

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Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Pricing Offerings
AlphaSense	PitchBook
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AlphaSense	PitchBook
Considered Both Products	AlphaSense 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 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 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 PitchBook has much better private company data. FactSet i find has more financial insights. Gartner has more reliable market research and studies. I would say AlphaSense i more well rounded and excels in research reports and current events 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 I really like AlphaSense but it's not a stop shop. For broker research / keyword search, its the best. But it doesn't have private company info, debt info, or the level industry metrics that PitchBook, Bloomberg, and CapIQ have. Additionally, it doesn't have financials at the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I also use Cap IQ and Biotech Gate which are not in your list. I believe PitchBook has a better search function as it allows the user to create a much more sophisticated search strategy. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Diederich Snr Director, Global Business Development in Marketing at Align Technology (Medical Device, 10,001+ employees) Chose AlphaSense Alphasense is much more insightful than PitchBook as it has analyst reports. 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 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 is much better at searching qualitative information (e.g., analyst reports); CapIQ is still better for getting historical financial data. Incentivized Helpful? Rajeev Samuel Director Corporate Strategy at NetApp (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose AlphaSense Slightly different use case. I use the PB for data. I use AS for insights 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? Franco Herrera Vice President in Finance and Accounting at Wells Fargo (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose AlphaSense AI generated insights, keyword search engine are features not seen on other platforms Incentivized Helpful? Ted Malpiede Associate in Corporate at Capstone Partners (Investment Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose AlphaSense Very solid. Superior in many respects. The greatest distinction / "barrier" relates to users (be it myself / teammates) strengthening familiarity with continued experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense AlphaSense is more user-friendly. Keyword search is way better and table explorer feature makes it easier to collate data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I think it lacks valuation sections and comprehensiveness, but I think it's specific qualitative search capabilities are better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense I don't believe I've used or come across any other products similar to AlphaSense Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense These databases are rather great at what they do. For example - MergerWare is great at M&A deals, BamSEC is great for company docs, etc. However, as an analyst, you have to craft information across these data sources which is what AlphaSense helps us with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AlphaSense In terms of breadth and depth of data and search functionality, AlphaSense blows other products out of the water. I tend to use AlphaSense for more general company research, and other products for transaction specific purposes. Incentivized Helpful?	PitchBook Verified User Chose PitchBook PitchBook excels at private company data and has significantly improved its coverage of investors and funds. It is generally more easy to navigate and information is updated frequently. It is not nearly as strong with public, credit or market data including access to news and … Incentivized Helpful? Rich Julien Partner at BOKA Capital (Venture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees) Chose PitchBook The strength of Pitchbook is its consistency. While many of the competitors do one aspect better than Pitchbook, Pitchbook does each aspect I am looking for well. In other words, while Pitchbook might not be the #1 in a specific category, they are always at least #2 so that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PitchBook PitchBook has the most accurate and complete data. CB Insights platform loads slightly more quickly and is a little more intuitive, but lacks data integrity. Tracxn is not easy to use, but offers some data on a lot of international and small, non-VC or PE-backed companies. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PitchBook PitchBook is better than most other tools. Incentivized Helpful? Shreyans Parekh Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives + Corporate Venture Capital in Corporate at JLL Technologies (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose PitchBook PitchBook is truly a best in class financial research and diligence hub that provides accurate and relevant background research needed prior to performance any venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions. It is a thorough database that stands out among its peers, with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PitchBook Far ahead of all competitors on private companies. Far behind S&P and Fact set on public company data Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	97% Would buy again 34 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	92% Delivers good value for the price 22 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	94% Happy with the feature set 33 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	No answers on this topic	95% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 21 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
No answers on this topic	100% Implementation went as expected 22 Answers

Features

AlphaSense

PitchBook

Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and PitchBook
Feature	AlphaSense 6.9 171 Ratings 3% below category average	PitchBook 7.8 1 Ratings 10% above category average
Private Company Data	5.2141 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information	7.4166 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Independent Research Access	8.4160 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
M&A Analysis	5.7132 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Supply Chain Data	6.691 Ratings	00 Ratings
ESG Data	6.088 Ratings	00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports	6.677 Ratings	00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News	7.7119 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Search Tools	8.3158 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

User Ratings
	AlphaSense	PitchBook
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (239 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (20 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (235 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.3 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)	7.0 (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)	- (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	6.7 (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)

User Testimonials
	AlphaSense	PitchBook
Likelihood to Recommend	AlphaSense AlphaSense is very well suited to investing teams that need a research management system that has a robust database behind and rich content management features for note-taking. AlphaSense may not be well-suited to individual investors who want data access but don't need to be sharing notes to a wider team. The sharing features are what make AlphaSense most useful. Incentivized Tim Beyers Senior Analyst and Lead Advisor Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Pros	AlphaSense Summarizing information across multiple company documents via their new Generative Grid tool. Aggregating the latest insights from diverse sources - broker research, expert insights, company documents, and news. Providing a repeatable way to query information. Smart keywords to help you search, e.g., car = auto = automotive. Incentivized Elizabeth Dreyer Associate Director, Corporate Strategy Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Cons	AlphaSense I believe the AI agent could be improved to answer more detailed questions and provide better data. Access to real time financial data in a similar vein to Koyfin. The ability to easily search across all company decks to be able to quickly gather all relevant slides for a specific topic, similar to what Quartr offers. Incentivized Tomas Arias Associate Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	AlphaSense AlphaSense is a very useful tool and is reasonably priced for our organization. While I may not be a hyper-active user, it's a great resource when I need to quickly do a competitive landscape survey, review publicly available documents (transcripts, etc.), or review Wall Street research Incentivized Danny Beck Sr. Director of Business Development and Corporate Strategy Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Usability	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Performance	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Support Rating	AlphaSense Customer support is very prompt. I get personalized support for search recommendations and content that I could not find in my own search. Support checks in with me on a bi-monthly basis to keep me informed of the many different feature additions, I cannot find a more kind, understanding, and supportive team. Aruna Rajan CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
In-Person Training	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Online Training	AlphaSense Our online training was led by a AlphaSense representative. The training is always good. The bigger issue is our time availability to remember the training and utilize it. The trainers will show us examples and then ask us for real industries or companies of interest to use so that the training is most relevant. Incentivized Peter Smith Principal Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	AlphaSense It has been very simple. Contract terms are standard for an online portal. Of course, I would like unit pricing to be lower so I could get more users on the license or to rotate seats to get more value out of each license. Billing frequency has been standard as well. This could be more significant for a larger customer. Incentivized Peter Smith Principal Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Scalability	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Professional Services	AlphaSense Very professional and knowledgeable team. Easy to work with and communicates in a way that's helpful for users who aren't experts on the platform Incentivized Danny Beck Sr. Director of Business Development and Corporate Strategy Read full review	PitchBook No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	AlphaSense No answers on this topic	PitchBook No answers on this topic
ScreenShots	AlphaSense Screenshots	PitchBook Screenshots