AlphaSense
AI-powered market intelligence and search platform delivering cited, decision-ready insights from 500M+ premium documents.
By AlphaSense · HQ New York, US · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Enterprise investment research teams at banks, asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms
- Corporate strategy, competitive intelligence and market intelligence groups in large enterprises
- Consulting, legal and advisory firms needing fast, cited market and company research
- Life sciences, healthcare, industrial and consumer-goods teams tracking markets and competitors
Ideal size: 10+ researchers; enterprise-wide deals people · Enterprise with an established research, strategy or investment function
Not for
- Small teams or individuals needing a low-cost, self-serve research tool
- Buyers who require published list pricing and instant online sign-up
- Companies looking for operations or transactional software rather than research intelligence
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
2–6 weeks
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$100,000/yr
Starts at $15,000 · Annual subscription, quoted by sales; enterprise-wide packages or per-seat options
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Per-seat to enterprise-wide; custom quotes for all team sizes
Add-on costs
- Expert calls (Tegus expert network)
- Canalyst financial models
- Enterprise Intelligence tier for internal content search
- Professional services, IT support and custom training (Enterprise Intelligence only)
Company & support
Who is behind AlphaSense, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2011 · 15 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- New York, US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatPaid plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerPaid plans
- In person / on-sitePaid plans
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
24/7 Live Help and a dedicated account manager are listed on both Market Intelligence and Enterprise Intelligence; IT support, professional services and custom training are Enterprise Intelligence only.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where AlphaSense sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- AlphaSense
- FloQast
- Hex
- Lattice
- Halo
- Drivetrain
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What AlphaSense ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Homepage and pricing pages describe SuperAnalyst (an AI analyst), Deep Research, Generative Search and Workflow/Custom Workflow Agents, with sentence-level citations and a claimed 98% citation accuracy. Security page states LLMs are accessed via a private link through Bedrock and are never trained on customer content.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- Amazon
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
AlphaSense is an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by 7,000+ enterprises to research companies, markets and industries across 500M+ premium documents. Curated content — filings, broker research, expert transcripts, news and internal files — is combined with generative AI features such as Generative Search, Deep Research, SuperAnalyst and Workflow Agents to produce cited, decision-ready output. Sold as an annual subscription with per-seat or enterprise-wide options; SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified.
Frequently asked questions
How is AlphaSense priced?
Pricing is quote-based. AlphaSense sells annual subscriptions ranging from enterprise-wide packages to per-seat options and publishes no list price; you contact the sales team for a quote. Two published packages exist: Market Intelligence (curated external content plus AI workflows) and Enterprise Intelligence (adds internal content search, private-cloud hosting, BYOB/BYOK and IT professional services). Expert calls and Canalyst financial models are paid add-ons.
Can AlphaSense search our firm's internal documents?
Yes, on the Enterprise Intelligence plan. Internal content can be uploaded through an API or third-party connections and searched with AI search and summarization alongside external content. Enterprise Intelligence also offers additional cloud-hosting options, permission mirroring so existing access controls carry over, and BYOK/BYOB so documents can remain in your own AWS S3 bucket.
Is AlphaSense secure and compliant enough for regulated industries?
The vendor states SOC 2 Type 2 attestation and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, GDPR-aligned handling of personal data, encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), dedicated encrypted per-customer storage, and continuous monitoring with logged access. AlphaSense states it is not currently ISO/IEC 42001 certified but is pursuing certification. Reports are available through its Trust Center, subject to NDA.
Does AlphaSense train AI models on our data?
No. Vendor pages state that LLMs are never trained on customer uploaded data, that client documents, prompts and queries are not used to train underlying LLMs, and that AlphaSense works only with LLM providers enforcing zero data retention. The privacy policy adds that customer content is not used to train generally available models except where expressly agreed with the customer.
Who uses AlphaSense?
More than 7,000 enterprise customers, including 90% of the S&P 100, 90% of the top investment banks and 95% of the top consultancies. Typical functions are investment research, competitive and market intelligence, corporate strategy, corporate development and M&A, investor relations, and consulting.
What support is included?
Both published plans include 24/7 live help, a dedicated account manager, and virtual and in-person training. IT support, professional services and custom training programs are listed for Enterprise Intelligence only. A customer help center is also available, and support can be reached at [email protected].