Cortellis is a modular, expert-curated intelligence suite spanning regulatory, clinical, deals, generics and discovery data; Pharma Observatory is one connected, entity-resolved model over public-source evidence, not a licensed expert-curated corpus.
Individual plan, $249/seat/mo. Card required.
What Clarivate Cortellis is
Clarivate says it helps customers "throughout the drug and device lifecycle" through "trusted intelligence platforms including Cortellis and DRG, proprietary data and deep domain expertise". source
Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence is described as covering "27+ therapy areas and 6500+ diseases", with 820k+ drugs and biologics and 728k+ patents listed on the product page. source
The product page says its data is "curated through advanced technology and expert scientific review", and describes a Drug Discovery Assistant, an AI assistant that summarizes and compares drug 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.
A drug page folds one molecule's brands, trial variants and development programs into a single record, with tabs for regulatory status, label safety, targets, pricing, approvals and patents.
pharmaobservatory.com/app/chemical-entities/unii:DPT0O3T46PA drug page for one molecule: counts of trials, variants, programs and approvals above its regulatory details. Captured from production data on 2026-10-08.
Side by side
Every Clarivate Cortellis 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 Clarivate Cortellis
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Pharma Observatory
Clarivate Cortellis
Published pricing
Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-ledverify
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
Announced March 10, 2026: Cortellis Regulatory Intelligence data would be integrated into Claude through MCP, "available to customers of Clarivate CRI and Claude"source
REST API
Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specificationverify
Cortellis "Drugs API" offers "REST-based search and retrieve programmatic access"; "Access to this API requires a paid license"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
Not published
Connected entity model
One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and siteverify
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
Announced March 10, 2026: Cortellis Regulatory Intelligence data would be integrated into Claude through MCP, "available to customers of Clarivate CRI and Claude"source
REST API
Cortellis "Drugs API" offers "REST-based search and retrieve programmatic access"; "Access to this API requires a paid license"source
Data sources
Not published
Connected entity model
Not published
Update cadence
Not published
Citations
Not published
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 Clarivate Cortellis when
You need Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence's expert-curated biological, chemical and pharmacological data, or you already hold a Clarivate CRI license and want the Cortellis-Claude MCP integration. 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.
Sources
Every Clarivate Cortellis statement above, from Clarivate Cortellis's own pages.
