AlphaSense vs. Glean

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
Glean
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Glean is an AI-powered workplace search tool that supports search across all of a company's apps, centralizing company knowledge and helping employees to more quickly find what they need, with 100+ connectors.
$12
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Glean for Individuals - Monthly
$12
per month
Glean for Individuals - 1 Year
$129
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 2 Year
$245
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 3 Year
$348
one-time fee
Glean for Individuals - 4 Year
$439
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
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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Top Cons

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Features
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Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.0
172 Ratings
3% below category average
Glean
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Ratings
Private Company Data5.1142 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.6167 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access7.8161 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis6.9133 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data5.892 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.289 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports6.978 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.0120 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools9.0159 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Yext
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.9 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.9 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseGlean
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(240 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(236 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.6
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.7
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.7
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlphaSenseGlean
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is best for colleagues who need to dive into details and collect info on various topics (e.g. analysts). Most colleagues do not have time to search on the platform and cannot exploit the capabilities of AlphaSense. We are now in a "trial mode" for the first subscription year to see in real life how the selected users use their premium accounts, then we will decide on the extension of the number of accounts.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
Based on my experience, Glean is well suited for scenarios where you need to search through large amounts of information in a structured format, such as Confluence pages, knowledge bases, or other similar repositories. Glean's search algorithms make it easy to find the exact information you need, even if it's buried deep in a document or spread across multiple pages. On the other hand, Glean may be less appropriate for scenarios where you need to search through unstructured data, such as messages. While Glean can still be useful in these cases, its effectiveness may be limited.
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Pros
AlphaSense
  • More and unique content. Investor research and expert interviews are very valuable.
  • AI-generated bright summaries allow you to quickly understand the takeaways from an earnings call or an interview transcript.
  • Search tools and criteria allow me to narrow in on the right content quickly.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • Single search capability across all systems
  • High accuracy of search results
  • Saves you time in day to day work
  • Offers customization with the homepage and go links
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Cons
AlphaSense
  • The whole platform should be much faster with less lag.
  • The layout of the document search isn't great. Often, I find it hard to expand sources or dates.
  • Financials sections should be customisible, i.e. bolden certain ratios, remove others etc.
  • "Error loading documents, please refresh the widget" should be seen fewer times than often.
  • Why can't I export events dates to my Outlook calendar?
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • we can add more filters into Glean for granular level of search
  • we may can integrate google with Glean
  • not thinking of anything as it acts fabulously
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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Usability
AlphaSense
The search capabilities of AlphaSense are quite impressive. As a former Search Product Manager, I see where the boolean capabilities of AlphaSense's search allow me to control the scope, proximity, and keywords of the search. The addition of AI to the search keywords facilitates my booleans - frankly I don't have to use a boolean for additional keywords. That's quite helpful. The addition of AI (still in beta) to the search is helping those who don't want to get into the weeds
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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Alternatives Considered
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 didn't really enable access to news, so I had to supplement my work with RSS feeds and dozens of open browser tabs. AlphaSense collapsed all of that effort into one search in one window.
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Glean Technologies, Inc.
I like Glean a lot better as it's more intuitive.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
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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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Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • Glean has saved me approximately 5 hours/week in researching topics
  • Glean has saved me time with Go Links
  • Glean has made it easier to search company org chart
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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.