AlphaSense

AI-powered market intelligence platform

Business & Finance Enterprise
Researched · Published
RECATOOLS Score
7.6 / 10
Capability
9
Value for money
5
Ease of use
7
ASEAN readiness
6
API quality
5
Founded
2008
HQ
New York, USA
Users
Launched
Developer

Overview

AlphaSense lets financial analysts search 10,000+ data sources — broker reports, earnings transcripts, regulatory filings, news, expert calls — with AI-powered summaries and Q&A. Used by 85%+ of S&P 500. Acquired Tegus in 2024.

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Use cases

Investment research Expert call summaries Filing search

What you can produce with AlphaSense

  • Search across 500 million+ documents — broker research, earnings-call transcripts, SEC and global filings, news and expert calls — from a single query with smart-synonym expansion.
  • Ask Deep Research to build a full investment-grade briefing on a company or theme and receive a structured, cited report assembled by the AI agent in minutes.
  • Read AI-generated summaries of an earnings call minutes after it ends, with sentiment shifts and guidance changes highlighted against prior quarters.
  • Mine the 200,000+ Tegus expert-call transcript library for candid practitioner views on a private company or niche market before commissioning your own calls.
  • Set watchlist alerts so you are emailed whenever a tracked company, topic or keyword appears in new filings, broker notes or transcripts.
  • Snip charts, tables and passages directly into shareable notes and decks, keeping source links intact for compliance and audit trails.
  • Interrogate a 300-page filing or transcript with follow-up questions in the AI chat and get answers pinned to the exact source paragraphs.
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ASEAN Perspective

AlphaSense in Southeast Asia

ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).

RECATOOLS Verdict

AlphaSense is a leading AI market-intelligence and financial-research platform that searches across SEC filings, earnings transcripts, broker research, news, and expert-call libraries, with strong semantic search and generative summaries. For analysts, investors, and corporate strategy teams, its breadth of premium content plus AI search and the Smart Synonyms engine make it a serious time-saver and a category leader.

The defining caveat is cost: it is a premium enterprise subscription far out of reach for individuals or small firms, and much of its value is the licensed content behind the AI. ASEAN coverage exists but is strongest for US/Western markets and English-language sources; data residency is enterprise-handled. Developer API access is enterprise-only. Outstanding for funded research teams, prohibitive for everyone else.

Independent AI-assisted assessment by RECATOOLS.

What people say

AlphaSense has grown from a financial-search startup into one of the dominant market-intelligence platforms, and the numbers back it up: after acquiring expert-network rival Tegus for $930 million in 2024, it raised $350 million in June 2026 at a $7.5 billion valuation, reportedly around $600 million in annual recurring revenue. The product now spans broker research, earnings transcripts, filings, news and a 200,000+ expert-call transcript library, topped by Deep Research (launched June 2025), an agentic AI that assembles investment-grade briefings from the content universe, and an AI agent interviewer with Channel Checks added in August 2025.

User sentiment is strong but not uncritical. The platform holds roughly 4.4 to 4.6 out of 5 across G2, Capterra and Gartner Peer Insights, and reviewers consistently praise the breadth of premium content — especially sell-side research and expert transcripts you simply cannot search anywhere else — along with the smart-synonym search and AI summaries that compress hours of transcript reading into minutes.

The complaints are equally consistent. Pricing tops the list by a wide margin: quote-only, opaque, and steep — third-party buyer data puts real contracts between roughly $12,000 and $51,000 per year, with per-seat costs commonly $10,000 to $20,000, plus add-ons that inflate quickly. Reviewers also flag noisy search results that need heavy filtering, an interface with a real learning curve, and a March 2025 Gartner review that called the financials data section frequently incomplete or stale. This is a research tool, not a fundamentals terminal.

AlphaSense genuinely fits institutional investors, corporate strategy and competitive-intelligence teams, and consultants whose employers pay for it — the claimed penetration of most of the S&P 500 is plausible given how embedded it is in those workflows. Independent analysts, students and small firms will find the price impossible to justify and should look at cheaper filing-search alternatives.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.

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