AlphaSense is a horizontal AI search platform over filings, transcripts, broker research and expert calls with a life-sciences franchise. Pharma Observatory is an entity-resolved canonical model across trials, drugs, companies, sites and investors.
Individual plan, $249/seat/mo. Card required.
What AlphaSense is
AlphaSense says it "is not a pharmaceutical database, nor is it intended only for life sciences customers", and describes itself as "an AI-driven market research platform" with a library of premium and proprietary content. source
Its pricing page says the platform aggregates "over 500+ million documents", including regulatory filings, earnings call transcripts, global equity research, expert call transcripts and life sciences content "covering clinical trials, biomedical research, global public health information, and more". source
Its life sciences page lists five use cases: competitive intelligence, market opportunity assessment, regulatory and market intelligence, strategic partnership and M&A intelligence, and benchmarking pipelines and portfolios against a customer's internal data. source
What Pharma Observatory is
Pharma Observatory is a connected model of public biomedical evidence. Trials, drugs,
companies, people and sites are each matched into one record, and figures on record pages link to their source records. It holds 94+ data sources, 930 million+ source records, 600,000+ trials, 380,000+ investigators, 1 million+ research sites, 350,000+ organizations, 790,000+ publications (rounded down to two significant figures; each is defined on the data page). Public trial data comes from ClinicalTrials.gov.
Search finds a trial, drug, condition, company, investigator, site or target by name, code or keyword and counts the matches by type. It searches records, not documents such as transcripts or broker research.
pharmaobservatory.com/app/search?q=semaglutideSearch results for one drug name: matches counted by type, with the first trials listed. Captured from production data on 2026-10-08.
Side by side
Every AlphaSense value is quoted or summarized from its own pages, with the page linked and the date we checked it. Ours comes from this application; the counts and the date they were taken are on the data page.
Pharma Observatory compared with AlphaSense
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Pharma Observatory
AlphaSense
Published pricing
Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-ledverify
Quote-only: "Connect with our sales team for scalable pricing"source
14-day trial on Individual (Card required. Your first charge is when the trial ends)verify
Free trial via request form; the confirmation page states "Thanks for requesting a free trial!" with no length statedsource
Works inside an AI agent
Included in every paid plan. We issue your connector credential after sign-up; setup steps are published for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, and CursorWhether connections are open is read live from this deployment's identity provider configurationverify
Not published
REST API
Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specificationverify
Agent API quickstart documentation: "The AlphaSense API uses OAuth 2.0 password-grant authentication"; a prospective integrator must "request API access"source
Data sources
94+ data sources, 930 million+ source records, 600,000+ trials, 380,000+ investigators, 1 million+ research sites, 350,000+ organizations, 790,000+ publicationsRounded down to two significant figures, defined on the data pageverify
Aggregates "over 500+ million documents from premium private and public sources", including regulatory filings, earnings call transcripts, equity research, expert call transcripts and life sciences contentsource
Connected entity model
One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and siteverify
Figures on record pages link to their source recordsverify
The life sciences page says outputs are "fully cited, context-aware, and tailored to therapeutic area" and describes "fully cited, evidence-backed answers in seconds"source
Pharma Observatory
Published pricing
Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-ledverify
14-day trial on Individual (Card required. Your first charge is when the trial ends)verify
Works inside an AI agent
Included in every paid plan. We issue your connector credential after sign-up; setup steps are published for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, and CursorWhether connections are open is read live from this deployment's identity provider configurationverify
REST API
Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specificationverify
Data sources
94+ data sources, 930 million+ source records, 600,000+ trials, 380,000+ investigators, 1 million+ research sites, 350,000+ organizations, 790,000+ publicationsRounded down to two significant figures, defined on the data pageverify
Connected entity model
One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and siteverify
Free trial via request form; the confirmation page states "Thanks for requesting a free trial!" with no length statedsource
Works inside an AI agent
Not published
REST API
Agent API quickstart documentation: "The AlphaSense API uses OAuth 2.0 password-grant authentication"; a prospective integrator must "request API access"source
Data sources
Aggregates "over 500+ million documents from premium private and public sources", including regulatory filings, earnings call transcripts, equity research, expert call transcripts and life sciences contentsource
Connected entity model
Not published
Update cadence
Not published
Citations
The life sciences page says outputs are "fully cited, context-aware, and tailored to therapeutic area" and describes "fully cited, evidence-backed answers in seconds"source
Scope: A published price here is not like-for-like coverage: the two products cover different things, as the summary at the top of the page says.
Which to choose
Choose AlphaSense when
You need horizontal search across filings, transcripts, broker research and expert calls across industries, with your own agent built against AlphaSense's Agent API. source
Choose Pharma Observatory when
You want to see the price before talking to anyone. Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-led.
You want to start on a card. 14-day trial on Individual (Card required. Your first charge is when the trial ends).
You want one connected record, with links from figures to their source records. One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and site.
You want to put an AI assistant on the same data. Included in every paid plan. We issue your connector credential after sign-up; setup steps are published for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, and Cursor.
Using both
AlphaSense's own buyer's guide says it can be "highly beneficial to pair" quantitative pharma platforms with a qualitative research platform like AlphaSense, and describes "a connected stack that supports both quantitative rigor and contextual interpretation". source
Pharma Observatory covers the structured side: trials, drugs, companies, people and sites
resolved into one model, each figure linked to its source record.
Sources
Every AlphaSense statement above, from AlphaSense's own pages.
