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Pharma Observatory and DrugPatentWatch

DrugPatentWatch carries litigation, pricing-history and sales-data modules Pharma Observatory does not. Pharma Observatory resolves trials, sites, investigators, companies and investors well beyond patents.

Individual plan, $249/seat/mo. Card required.

What DrugPatentWatch is

DrugPatentWatch describes itself as "Authoritative biopharmaceutical intelligence" covering "patents, pipelines, litigation, pricing, and global market opportunities". source

Its pricing page lists eight modules: Pharmaceutical Drugs, Biologic Drugs, Deep Research Engine, Excipients, Investigational Drugs, US Drug Patent Litigation, US Drug Prices and US Top Drug Sales. It sells three plans: Starter, Professional and Enterprise. source

The homepage banner reads "Updated Daily" and lists capabilities including patent litigation intelligence, generic entry opportunities, global drug patents, sales analytics, an AI research assistant and automated reports. 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.

For patents, Pharma Observatory shows a patent cliff view: which drugs approach loss of patent protection, by year and company. The litigation, drug-price and sales-history modules listed above are not part of it.

The Patent Cliff page: three headline figures above a stacked bar chart by year and company
The Patent Cliff page: headline figures above a stacked bar chart by year and company. Captured from production data on 2026-10-06.

Side by side

Every DrugPatentWatch 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 DrugPatentWatch
Fact Pharma Observatory DrugPatentWatch
Published pricing Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-led verify Starter $1,000/month or $8,000/year; Professional $3,000/month or $24,000/year; Enterprise custom pricingsource
Self-serve sign-up Individual and Team self-serve checkout verify Yes, self-serve with published list pricessource
Trial 14-day trial on Individual (Card required. Your first charge is when the trial ends) verify A paid one-week Professional trial. The pricing page shows "Try for $499/one week"; the trial page that the homepage's "Start Free Trial" button opens states "$299 Professional Plan Trial. One week. All access. No commitment." The two pages show different amounts.source
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 Cursor Whether connections are open is read live from this deployment's identity provider configuration verify Not published
REST API Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specification verify Not published
Data sources 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, defined on the data page verify Eight modules named on the pricing page: Pharmaceutical Drugs, Biologic Drugs, Deep Research Engine, Excipients, Investigational Drugs, US Drug Patent Litigation, US Drug Prices, US Top Drug Sales; patents in 134 countries per drug-type module, 130+ countries per the site's own footer bannersource
Connected entity model One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and site verify Not published
Update cadence Rebuilt each cycle verify The homepage banner reads "Updated Daily"source
Citations Figures on record pages link to their source records verify The homepage describes the Deep Research Engine as "pulling together information from disparate sources with full citations for accuracy and reliability"source

Pharma Observatory

Published pricing
Individual $249/seat/mo; Team $399/seat/mo; Enterprise sales-led verify
Self-serve sign-up
Individual and Team self-serve checkout verify
Trial
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 Cursor Whether connections are open is read live from this deployment's identity provider configuration verify
REST API
Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specification verify
Data sources
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, defined on the data page verify
Connected entity model
One resolved identity per trial, drug, company, person and site verify
Update cadence
Rebuilt each cycle verify
Citations
Figures on record pages link to their source records verify

DrugPatentWatch

Published pricing
Starter $1,000/month or $8,000/year; Professional $3,000/month or $24,000/year; Enterprise custom pricingsource
Self-serve sign-up
Yes, self-serve with published list pricessource
Trial
A paid one-week Professional trial. The pricing page shows "Try for $499/one week"; the trial page that the homepage's "Start Free Trial" button opens states "$299 Professional Plan Trial. One week. All access. No commitment." The two pages show different amounts.source
Works inside an AI agent
Not published
REST API
Not published
Data sources
Eight modules named on the pricing page: Pharmaceutical Drugs, Biologic Drugs, Deep Research Engine, Excipients, Investigational Drugs, US Drug Patent Litigation, US Drug Prices, US Top Drug Sales; patents in 134 countries per drug-type module, 130+ countries per the site's own footer bannersource
Connected entity model
Not published
Update cadence
The homepage banner reads "Updated Daily"source
Citations
The homepage describes the Deep Research Engine as "pulling together information from disparate sources with full citations for accuracy and reliability"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 DrugPatentWatch when

  • You need drug-patent litigation, patent-expiry and US drug-pricing/sales-history modules on the same record, self-serve and published. 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 DrugPatentWatch statement above, from DrugPatentWatch's own pages.

  1. https://www.drugpatentwatch.com/pricing/ checked Oct 8, 2026
  2. https://www.drugpatentwatch.com/trial/ checked Oct 8, 2026
  3. https://www.drugpatentwatch.com/ checked Oct 8, 2026

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Every fact here is re-checked at least every 90 days; the newest check was 2026-10-08 (5 days ago).

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