AlphaSense vs. D&B Credit 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
D&B Credit Insights
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Dun and Bradstreet's Credit Insights is for any small business owner who wants to know their business’s credit, offering real-time alerts when there are changes to business scores and ratings so the user can quickly spot potential issues and act fast. Strong business credit scores may not only help secure favorable financing terms and attract potential investors, but it may also signal reliability and trustworthiness to interested suppliers, partners, and customers.
$49
per month
Pricing
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.7
185 Ratings
4% above category average
D&B Credit Insights
6.7
27 Ratings
10% below category average
Private Company Data5.4151 Ratings6.525 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information8.0178 Ratings7.023 Ratings
Independent Research Access8.5170 Ratings6.221 Ratings
M&A Analysis7.0141 Ratings6.617 Ratings
Supply Chain Data7.496 Ratings6.521 Ratings
ESG Data7.495 Ratings6.318 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports8.383 Ratings7.626 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.4132 Ratings6.519 Ratings
Search Tools9.0172 Ratings7.324 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.7 out of 10
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.7 out of 10
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(252 ratings)
7.5
(30 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(20 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(249 ratings)
7.5
(18 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(22 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.6
(22 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(17 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.6
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(5 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
6.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(22 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.3
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlphaSenseD&B Credit Insights
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.
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Dun & Bradstreet
D&B Credit Insights allows an organization to improve their credit score. It is great for companies who already have established credit terms but may not have kept up with improving their D&B scores. Small companies may find D&B Credit Insights challenging because it requires established credit relationships with vendors. It can be challenging to have D&B approve your documentation as a small business.
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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.
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Dun & Bradstreet
  • Tells you if businesses pay their bills: They're really good at providing reports that show how reliably a company pays its debts. This helps you decide if you can trust them as customers or partners.
  • They have tools that give you detailed information about businesses, making it easier to find potential customers for what you sell.
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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.
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Dun & Bradstreet
  • Using the correct personal credit score. My score is not right and won't allow me to change it.
  • Have more financial options available for businesses that actually need funding. The requirements state we need to make a certain large amount in order to be approved for funds.
  • New and slow growing businesses should have business lives of credit automatically.
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
Best product I've tried
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Usability
AlphaSense
AlphaSense has a very intuitive user interface, and I can tell they have been focused on expanding their product breadth and continuing to innovate on current products. Some basic features are missing or I can't find (I can't just sort expert calls by only the ones that are applicable to that ticker, most relevant is the one that works best, but I want just the ticker)
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Dun & Bradstreet
The usability is good but could be better in my opinion. Once you login, the dashboard is great to quickly view things but they could have a better login experience. Overall, I think the usability is fine though as they provide a bunch of information that you can view quickly and easily.
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
It's always available
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
Yes very fast load, accurate insights and breaks down details to help it's great
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
Very friendly and efficient
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
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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.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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Dun & Bradstreet
Very easy and understandable
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Alternatives Considered
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 platform by world’s leading corporations and financial institutions - AlphaSense’s proprietary AI stack has been meticulously engineered over a decade so that their AI accelerates speed-to-insight so clients can act with confidence when making critical decisions - Private and public companies, therapeutic areas and products can be monitored - Datalog is available up to 15 years, and advanced search is supported for them - Curated newsfeed is available from more than 3,500 top news publications, client requests and hand-picked vendors for premium subscription - Very advanced company profiles are available by default with newsfeed, original company documents, expert calls and reports - Newsfeed and alerts can be also set by admins and individual users
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Dun & Bradstreet
I would say that D&B Credit Insights in comparable to Equifax Credit Risk and Experian Credit Risk. There is very little that set each apart as all provide vague information related to the credit of your business. All of them lack any specific recommendations for a business owner to improve their business credit standing.
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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.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
Very easy and accurate information
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
  • Being able to secure favorable terms for business financing has a huge impact on my business. Before building my business credit I had to rely solely on my personal credit and provide a personal guarantee. Now my business is separate and has its own business scores.
  • Previously I had to utlize MCA loans and other short term, high interest loans, where now I can qualify for much more favorable terms, lower interest rates, and business credit cards with better perks.
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ScreenShots

AlphaSense Screenshots

Screenshot of AlphaSense's AI search, available across 2,000+ premium business data sources including SEC filings, earnings calls, broker research, business journals, and news. 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.

D&B Credit Insights Screenshots

Screenshot of D&B Credit Insights using Plaid to connect to a business accountScreenshot of D&B Credit Insights - All NotificationsScreenshot of D&B Credit Insights - Delinquency Score NotificationsScreenshot of D&B Credit Insights - Scores & Ratings