AlphaSense vs Perplexity AI

Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.

AlphaSense

AI market intelligence across filings, broker research and expert calls

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Perplexity AI

AI answer engine and search APIs for people and developers

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Choose AlphaSense if…

you work on iOS, Android
you're in its core audience: hedge funds and asset managers, private equity and investment banks

Choose Perplexity AI if…

you need an API to build on
you're in its core audience: researchers, knowledge workers

Side by side

FeatureA

AlphaSenseP

Perplexity AI

Pricing modelContact for pricingPaid

Starting price——

Free plan

Free trial

API

Open source

PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API

CategoryAI Investing & Stock ResearchAI Search

CompanyAlphaSensePerplexity

Based in——

Founded—2022

Part of——

Key features

A AlphaSense

Search across 500M+ financial and business documents
SuperAnalyst agent for topic monitoring with cited outputs
Deep Research for synthesized answers to complex questions
Tegus expert call transcripts and Wall Street broker research
PowerPoint and Excel add-ins for decks and models
Connectors that link other apps to the platform
AI search over internal company content (Enterprise plan)
Sentiment indices and financial data

P Perplexity AI

Answers questions using live web search
Search API with Standard and Fast Search modes
Agent API running OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other models
Built-in tools: web, image, people and finance search
Code sandbox sessions for agents
pplx-embed embedding models
Orchestrator API with per-token billing
Decisions API that charges for input tokens only

Plans and prices

From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.

AlphaSense

Market IntelligenceCustom

Enterprise IntelligenceCustom

Perplexity AI

Search API$5.00 per 1K requests (Standard); $1.00 per 1K (Fast Search)

Agent API toolsFrom $0.50 per 1K calls

Embeddings API$0.004–$0.05 per 1M tokens

Decisions API$0.01–$0.02 per 1M input tokens

Strengths and limitations

AlphaSense

Library of 500M+ premium documents, including expert call transcripts and broker research
Agent outputs come with citations
iOS and Android apps plus Office add-ins
Enterprise plan adds search over internal content and extra hosting options

No public prices; you have to contact sales
Sold as annual subscriptions
Expert calls and Canalyst financial models are paid add-ons

Perplexity AI

Published per-request and per-token API pricing
Requests rejected with a 429 error are not billed on the Orchestrator API
Access to models from several vendors through one Agent API
Decisions API output tokens are free

Search API bills successful requests even when they return no results
Per-token model rates are on separate pages rather than in the main pricing overview