AlphaSense vs. Modus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlphaSense
Score 9.4 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
Modus
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Modus (formerly App Data Room) is designed to drive sales success, by helping customers create and distribute content for the most critical moments of their sales process. The vendor boasts more than 120,000 sales and marketing professionals are using Modus to conduct 250,000 Critical Customer Conversations every day.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThe off-the-shelf version starts at $45 per user per month. Whitelabel, integrations, enterprise pricing and authentication packages available on request.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
AlphaSense
Chose AlphaSense
Different in lots of ways. Each vendor above has things that are unique. Bloomberg is a necessity for my role, but the AS like product they have (Docusearch) doesn’t compare. Alphasense is worth the money right after Bloomberg and Visible Alpha (which is significantly cheaper). …
Modus

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Top Pros

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Top Cons
Features
AlphaSenseModus
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
AlphaSense
7.0
150 Ratings
12% below category average
Modus
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Ratings
Private Company Data5.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.6146 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access7.6140 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis7.1116 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data5.582 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.180 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.072 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.1106 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools9.1140 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Enterprises
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Score 7.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlphaSenseModus
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(220 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(18 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(216 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.5
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(14 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.8
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(4 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(4 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AlphaSenseModus
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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Modus
ADR is a great interactive tool for B2B businesses that sales deals one-on-one with the customer. I don't think it would be well suited for B2C businesses because of the need and cost for individual licenses per user. I would highly recommend this tool to B2B companies that practice traditional sales with a technological edge.
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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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Modus
  • Allows us to include video collateral in our portfolio
  • Allows visibility into an activity that the recipient performs once collateral is sent to them
  • Provides analytics around most and least used pieces of collateral
  • Allows our marketing team to generate and upload new collateral on demand
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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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Modus
  • I wish the App UI was the same across all platforms. The app looks different on Windows than iOS.
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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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Modus
App Data Room has been instrumental in allowing our sale representatives to present up-to-date and innovative marketing collateral to potential customers. A second value add is that our Marketing Department is able to create and upload the most current material to the app so that our sales representatives have access to the most up-to-date information to present to our customers.
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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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Modus
Overall, the App Data Room product is easy to use. Our Marketing Department is able to quickly upload updated and new material once they create the documents. Users are able to quickly find material filed by subject matter. Once the appropriate material is located, it can be presented on their iPad and emailed to prospective customers who indicate interest in the products.
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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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Modus
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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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Modus
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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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Modus
The few support requests that we have submitted have been resolved within 2 business days. The App Data Room staff has also been responsive to suggestions from our staff to upgrade the product - specifically in the area of analytics.
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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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Modus
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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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Modus
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Implementation Rating
AlphaSense
use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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Modus
No, key insights. Implementation was easy. The App Data Room staff hosted initial training sessions for our support personnel, and then these support persons conducted training and support sessions for our users.
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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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Modus
We've used custom developed tools in the past but the upfront cost is very high and the solution we had was very costly to update. We did not have a CMS previously so real-time updates were unheard of. App Data Room has all of the features we previously had plus so much more.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AlphaSense
flexible billing
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Modus
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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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Modus
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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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Modus
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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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Modus
  • I don't have any hard numbers. But all I get are good reviews and compliments from our sales team and customers who interact with ADR.
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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.

Modus Screenshots

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