Alternative data providers
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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.
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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
ALASA Sentiment data covering financial news and social media. Founded in 2015; 9 employees.
Alexandria Technology Sentiment analysis using machine learning over news and filings for institutional investors.
Alphamatician Sentiment analysis based on various public news sources (traditional news and blogs) and social media. Founded in 2012; 1 employee.
AlphaSense Market-intelligence search over filings, transcripts, news, and research.
AltIndex Alternative-data analytics platform producing AI-generated stock signals and company alerts.
Amenity Analytics Text analytics that extract sentiment and key events from filings, transcripts, and news.
Associated Press Structured data for news archives, real time news, live and archived vote tabulation and a database of 140k upcoming potentially newsworthy events. Founded in 2
Benzinga Capital markets and fin-tech news platform that hosts a variety of industry events, often featuring alternative data topics. Founded in 2010; 69 employees.
Bloomberg Tesla Tracker Tracks Model 3 production by counting VIN sequences across National Highway Traffic Safety Administration registrations, social media, and user submissions. Fou
Brain Research firm producing sentiment and language-based signals for markets.
Causality Link NLP platform extracting causal relationships and forward-looking views from text.
Dataminr Social sentiment and news analysis based on Twitter data. Has exclusive partnership with Twitter and has raised $407mm in funding. Founded in 2009; 272 employee
DigitalMR Sentiment and topic data for social media posts in any language.
Event Registry Sentiment and event tracking data sourced from 2mm public web pages, blogs, and twitter. Founded in 2017; 3 employees.
Fashionbi Web data covering digital presence, social media performance, and financial data across 3500+ fashion and luxury brands. Founded in 2012; 15 employees.
GDELT Free sentiment and news data dating back to 1979 and geo-referenced to create global sentiment network. Coverage of 100+ languages and daily granularity since 2
Heckyl News analytics and search technologies. Founded in 2010; 76 employees.
Hivemind Alternative data infrastructure provider for creating structured datasets out of multiple unstructured sources; spun out of Winton. Founded in 2017; 12 employee
Inferess Converts news feed into event-driven analytics. Founded in 2013; 8 employees.
Investing.com Investing.com is a financial markets platform providing real-time data, quotes, charts, financial tools, breaking news and analysis across 250 exchanges around
Lexalytics Text analytics platform that can be used for sentiment analysis. Founded in 2003; 42 employees.
LikeFolio Consumer sentiment data via partnership with Twitter. Founded in 2013; 7 employees.
LSEG News Analytics Machine-readable news and sentiment scoring delivered through the LSEG (Refinitiv) data platform.
Lucena Research Code-free analytics platform for deriving insights from public, social/sentiment, and web traffic data. Founded in 2014; 15 employees.
MarketPsych Sentiment and ESG analytics scored from news and social media, with LSEG.
Meltwater Media and social monitoring platform that ingests news and social content at scale to track coverage, sentiment, and brand signals.
MKT Mediastat Unique signals from company media coverage, including measurements of unexpected news coverage, rate of agreement across media sources, and linkages between com
RavenPack Entity-level news and sentiment analytics scored from financial text in real time.
Reviewshake Online review data on virtually any company out there, supporting 70+ review sites globally (more sites added every week).
S&P Global Market Intelligence Using language analytics to understand sentiment from earnings calls. Has data on 8,300 companies with history back to 2004. Founded in 1999.
Selerity A.I. powered contextual search of social feeds and public news sources targeted towards for enterprise applications. Works with Genscape. Founded in 2009; 33 em
SESAMm News, social media, blogs and forums, including investment strategy suggestions based on the data. Founded in 2014; 23 employees.
Social Alpha Investment insights and signals based on analysis of social feeds. Founded in 2014; 2 employees.
StockTwits Tracks social/sentiment data from multiple primary sources to generate signals on various equities. Founded in 2008; 31 employees.
TheySay Utilize AI platform to analyze sentiment and emotional mood across the web. Founded in 2010; 4 employees.
Tipranks Sentiment and ratings data on sell-side and investor stock opinions. Founded in 2012; 41 employees.
TVeyes Data on brand placements in TV and radio, including logo and object recognition. Founded in 1999; 31 employees.
Zhiwei Data Chinese sentiment provider covering social media and news. Founded in 2012; 2 employees.