GlobalData Pharma is a breadth-led, molecule-to-market suite (pipelines, epidemiology, forecasts, deals, trials) sold through a sales-led enterprise motion; Pharma Observatory is self-serve and entity-resolved, with figures on record pages linking to their source records.
Individual plan, $249/seat/mo. Card required.
What GlobalData is
GlobalData Healthcare's page describes "over 290 proprietary datasets built on primary research and in-house methodologies", "validated and analyzed by over 2,000 experts and healthcare market specialists". source
Its Direct Data Solutions page lists six delivery methods: MCP general access, advanced MCP, API integration, CRM integration, a Snowflake share and cloud data warehouse delivery. source
A July 30, 2026 announcement says its pipeline and clinical trials data is "built and maintained by a global team of 700+ researchers and analysts", and that every MCP query is "authenticated against a client's existing entitlements". 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 condition page gathers the trials, sites, drugs and targets for one disease from public registries, so a question about a disease starts from one page.
pharmaobservatory.com/conditions/D003924A condition page (type 2 diabetes mellitus): the sites where its trials run most and its most-trialled drugs. Captured from production data on 2026-10-08.
Side by side
Every GlobalData 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 GlobalData
Fact
Pharma Observatory
GlobalData
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
MCP access announced July 30, 2026 for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini; "Existing Direct Data Solutions clients can request access through their account manager"source
REST API
Enterprise plan; documented in the OpenAPI specificationverify
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
MCP access announced July 30, 2026 for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini; "Existing Direct Data Solutions clients can request access through their account manager"source
"Access up-to-the-minute intelligence" (no refresh interval stated)source
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 GlobalData when
You already hold a Direct Data Solutions contract and want in-Claude access managed through your account manager. 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 GlobalData statement above, from GlobalData's own pages.
