AlphaSense alternatives in 2026

The dataset nobody published

AlphaSense searches documents that a broker, an expert or a company has already written. The count your story needs, or the cross-section your model is missing, is spread over hundreds of company sites, registries and local pages. On SpecStream you write it once: "US cities over 100,000 people that passed a short-term rental rule since 2022, with the date and the permit cap", or "companies that make solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, with funding raised and announced factory capacity". SpecStream searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per row.

Each number has its page

When an editor or a partner asks where a number is from, the answer is in the row. Every value carries its source URL and the time it was read, and each condition of the request shows the page that states it. get_find_decisions returns the reason, the value, the source and the time for any row, and replay_find_decisions reads the saved record again at no charge: same record, same answer.

A price before the run, on a deadline in hours

Sign up, describe the data and read the quote: the most the run can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, and the charge never goes past that amount. A row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, a row with up to 15 facts and one set of related records costs 15¢, and a deep row costs $1. A sizing brief of 500 rows with 15 facts each is $75. At that rate, the $18,750 Vendr reports as the median AlphaSense contract pays for 125,000 rows.

A run keeps working until it reaches the count, up to four hours on the largest requests. The full list is on pricing.

Public data, read every morning

SpecStream already holds the public records analysts and data desks count from. On Nov 9, 2026, US bank failures shows 3,526 failures since 1934, 6 of them in 2026, and federal rules shows 169 proposed rules open for comment and 8,222 final rules since 2024. Both pages are free to read, and you can ask for your own cut of either as rows.

The most accurate search under every row

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, with 978 correct. On all 200 official WideSearch tasks SpecStream scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1, and the Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and method are on benchmarks.

The table stays up to date

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New rows and changes arrive in Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Slack or Teams, or in your agent through the MCP server.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the dataset as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, each number with its source URL and read time. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card, and the price of a run is on the screen before it starts.

Statista

A library of statistics that others have published. Basic is free with 5 Research AI queries, Starter is €199 a month for 1 seat, billed annually, and Personal is €599 a month. On SpecStream you ask for the table that is in no library, and 500 rows with 15 facts each cost $75.

Koyfin

Market data, charts and screens for investors. Plans run from Free through Plus at $39 a month and Premium at $79 to Advisor Core at $209 and Advisor Pro at $299, with up to 30% off on an annual plan. SpecStream returns the records a screen has no column for, on any kind of company, place or filing, at 5¢ to $1 a row.

Contify

A market and competitive intelligence platform that sends updates on the companies and topics you follow. Its pricing page shows a 7-day free trial and no plan price. SpecStream gives new accounts $10 of credit and prints every rate: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.