AlphaSense vs. Kantar Research Services

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
Kantar Research Services
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Kantar Marketplace (formerly Lightspeed Research) is a market research specialist offering survey engagement software and global panel management, data on-demand, and market insights.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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
Alphasense has available information from analysts, which is difficult to get from platforms like FactSet unless you pay additional fees.
Kantar Research Services

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Top Pros

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Top Cons
Features
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Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.0
151 Ratings
12% below category average
Kantar Research Services
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Ratings
Private Company Data5.1123 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.6147 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access7.6141 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis7.1116 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data5.682 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.181 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.072 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.1107 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools9.1141 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Qualtrics
Qualtrics
Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 7.9 out of 10
QuestionPro
QuestionPro
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseKantar Research Services
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(221 ratings)
7.6
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(19 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(217 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(19 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
7.5
(19 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(14 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.7
(5 ratings)
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.9
(3 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.8
(19 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.3
(4 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(4 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AlphaSenseKantar Research Services
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the best overall Ml/CI solution I've ever used. The tool has far surpassed the capabilities I used in the past (tools like Nexis and Factiva) and offers unique content and better usability. I have found some gaps that require incremental subscriptions to complementary tools (HG Insights, Crunchbase, Crayon, etc.). Still, I believe these capabilities could be added through acquisition or further product development.
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Kantar
Really relevant for testing new product launches with customers. Often NPD fails to find the sweet spot of differentiation and impact (commercial or customer impact) and having the insights to test along the journey makes teams more agile and more motivated to trial new things without sinking over cost where you move from a concept to reality. Also helpful for studying different types of marketing impacts for longer-term campaigns on customer perceptions which are important measures of success beyond the commercial.
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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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Kantar
  • There studies provide brand insights in the most particular way.
  • They also help in media planning & measuring their effectiveness.
  • Helps in building brands.
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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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Kantar
  • The platform can be confusing to navigate at times; UX could be simplified.
  • Ability to utilize more competitive datasets would be helpful.
  • Sometimes takes a while to return data and build out full insights.
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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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Kantar
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Usability
AlphaSense
Alphasense is very user-friendly, and the team also does a great job of getting users set up before they are officially left to explore the platform on their own. While I have the added advantage of coming from a background that uses many of the same techniques to search for data, the prompts available and AI incorporated provide the needed direction to identify the information you are looking for without the experience I speak of.
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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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Kantar
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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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Kantar
Easy to use, better pricing, deeper understanding.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AlphaSense
flexible billing
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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
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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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Kantar
  • From my position, it's having a positive impact on the people involved in planning customer-led projects - more innovation that is bolder, more confidence we are focussing on the right areas, less time trying to sign things off or dissect where things went wrong, or convincing leadership teams to keep the the testing.
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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, 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.