AlphaSense vs. CB Insights

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlphaSense
Score 9.5 out of 10
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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
CB Insights
Score 7.9 out of 10
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CB 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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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlphaSenseCB Insights
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
AlphaSense
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 …
Chose AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a little cleaner than Refinitiv and S&P since it does not house financial information.
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 …
Chose AlphaSense
Pretty similar, AlphaSense indeed bought them.
CB Insights

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Top Cons
Features
AlphaSenseCB Insights
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.0
139 Ratings
16% below category average
CB Insights
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Ratings
Private Company Data5.2111 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.7135 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access7.6130 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis7.2106 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data5.572 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.170 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.063 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.195 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools9.2130 Ratings00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseCB Insights
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(208 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(204 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(18 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
7.4
(18 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(4 ratings)
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.1
(3 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.8
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.1
(4 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AlphaSenseCB Insights
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense
AlphaSense works very well for researching topics related to companies, technologies and/or industries. The information access is super useful. Sorting by search relevance and filtering by source type can help curate the information to what you are looking for. One area that could use some help is how to digest that information down to usable chunks. If your goal is to synthesize the information into your research, then the platform seems to have some tools to help do that, but it will still be a manual process. A CoPilot or similar integration could go a long way to improving the time to value of using this tool and the information it gathers for you.
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CB Insights
It is great for investment teams looking for new opportunities. Good for inside sales teams looking for well-funded clients.
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Pros
AlphaSense
  • Key market trends- I input a topic name and get information related to the topic.
  • Competitor filings- Alphasense is able to get all the regulatory documents quickly.
  • Earnings calls- Alphasense now provides transcripts, which is incredibly helpful when I can't attend the earnings call live.
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CB Insights
  • Transparency - lets me separate the hype from the reality.
  • Real-time intelligence-packed reporting. The graphs and metrics they provide along with their perspectives allow anyone to apply their own understanding and reproduce a nearly identical perspective.
  • Their daily e-newsletter is chock full of intelligence presented in such a fun and entertaining way, it makes you want to pay for it too!
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Cons
AlphaSense
  • Provide access to research reports on latest technology topics like Small Modular Reactor in Nuclear industry
  • Curate end industry commentary based on particular account expectations on regular basis ( monthly/bi monthly)
  • Mail communication regarding latest topics that are included to the AlphaSense library
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CB Insights
  • Might only suggest more corporate events
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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
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CB Insights
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Usability
AlphaSense
The ability to quickly move between transcripts/research is excellent, as is the previews generated of excerpts around search terms, and really increases efficiency/ability to find what you are looking for. The advanced search functionality is more challenging to use, and can some times be difficult to figure out how to set the exact parameters you are looking for (however, once you have the search in place, it is easy to amend)
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CB Insights
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Reliability and Availability
AlphaSense
The availability of Alphasense is great. I have used the software for multiple years and cannot remember ever having an outage issue. This is surprising actually, as I use other software applications that do not have regular outages, but still have outages periodically. Alphasense, on the other hand, never seems to have any outages. Good sign if I can't remember the software not working :).
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CB Insights
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Performance
AlphaSense
Loading or performing searches on AlphaSense platform is reasonably fast for most of the time. However, it is sometimes unacceptably long for me to load PDF files (earnings presentation, supplementary financial report) on AlphaSense. Certain features might also take very long time, such as loading for "similar tables" across EDGAR filings, or downloading tables from EDGAR filings
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CB Insights
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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.
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CB Insights
Very responsive and eager to maintain client relationships.
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In-Person Training
AlphaSense
The person was prepared, attentive, understood the nature of my questions, was willing to work through any difficulties or misunderstandings, was patient, and super pleasant to work with. Great customer service.
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CB Insights
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Online Training
AlphaSense
Trainers address the basics, and such training was meant for new users. Instructions are really helpful by providing scenarios that our team will face in our daily tasks. It will be more thoughtful if the training is conducted by case studies so as to allow new users to get first-hand experience during the training.
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CB Insights
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
seamless integration
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CB Insights
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Alternatives Considered
AlphaSense
We primarily use Aiera for live transcripts but their transcripts are not as accurate and a bit more glitchy. AlphaSense is really strong on that front and even organizes your printouts with smart summaries and a collection of all of your highlights. It is much better for organizing your thoughts.
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CB Insights
Better Pricing & Better ROI !
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AlphaSense
I believe this service is highly affordable for the value it creates. I think it is priced appropriately
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CB Insights
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Scalability
AlphaSense
The sharing features provides by AlphaSense mean that it can be readily scaled for teams within an organization and, subject to compliance requirements, with client organizations. The ability to share annotations of transcripts and investor releases is valuable, and facilitates collaboration between analysts.
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CB Insights
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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
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CB Insights
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Return on Investment
AlphaSense
  • AlphaSense has allowed us to generate deeper competitive insights. For example, we conducted an in depth analysis of the aerial data analytics (drone) industry, and AlphSense helped us narrow in on the market leaders and their various strengths / weaknesses.
  • AlphaSense has improved our team's overall efficiency. With Stream in particular, we are able to pinpoint insights in a matter of minutes through the transcript feature as opposed to having to conduct a series of calls ourselves. This is a significant time saver.
  • AlphaSense has allowed us to make more informed decisions on our public holdings by providing us with unfettered access to equity research analyst reports.
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CB Insights
  • Positive from the operational efficiency of getting this intelligence in a ‘breaking news’ format from this highly trusted resource.
  • Positive From the extensive, highly detailed reporting they do on both the markets that matter to us today, and those that are shifting so quickly that we should have them on our radar too.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of AlphaSense's AI search, available across 2,000+ premium business data sources including SEC filings, earnings calls, broker research, business journals, news & more. It can be used to stay ahead of market-moving trends and instantly surface critical information buried within millions of documents.Screenshot of a single view of the industries, companies and themes within a fully-customizable dashboard, that can be tailored to fit any research process.Screenshot of a purpose-built generative AI that offers insights from a premium content universe.