Alternative data providers
Filter and compare providers by signal, geography, delivery, price and dataset coverage
Explore providers by signal, coverage, delivery and licensing. Use the filters below to narrow the directory and add up to four providers to the comparison table.
How to choose a provider
Start with the signal you need, then compare coverage and methodology before price. Validate a sample against a known historical window, confirm revision and compliance policies, and only then evaluate commercial terms. See the institutional vendor-evaluation guide.
ProviderCategoryDatasetsGeographyDeliveryPrice band
1010data Consumer-spending panels and analytics on point-of-sale and transaction data.
Above Data Consumer data infrastructure layer offering SKU-level product transaction signal across roughly twenty million US households to investment funds.
Affinity Solutions Purchase-signal data built from a large panel of US credit and debit card accounts.
Black Box Intelligence Restaurant-industry performance benchmarks covering sales, traffic, per-person averages, and labour metrics, drawn from a long-running operator data network.
Bloomberg Second Measure Consumer transaction analytics drawn from billions of US card purchases, delivered via the Bloomberg Terminal and data feeds.
Cardlytics Purchase-intelligence platform built on bank card-transaction data.
DecaData POS data mapped to over 50k CPG products, available daily back to 2007. Products are mapped to brands and parent companies
Earnest Analytics Credit and debit card transaction panels mapped to public tickers for near-real-time revenue tracking.
Envestnet Yodlee Aggregated and anonymised consumer financial transaction data derived from account-aggregation infrastructure.
Fable Data Real-time European consumer and business transaction data.
Facteus Anonymised consumer payment-transaction data drawn from financial-technology sources.
KD Interactive Transaction and mobile match key data in mid-market retail, including convenience stores, 3-star hotels, restaurants, and airport concessions. Founded in 2017;
M Science Research and data analytics firm combining transaction and other alternative datasets into company-level insight.
Nikkei POS data in Japan, covering 3,000,000 products across 4,000 companies. Data is provided daily only 2 days after actual purchase.
Tala Collects data points on user behavior including geographic patterns and financial transactions. Founded in 2012; 158 employees.