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AlphaSense vs Semantic Scholar
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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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
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Choose Semantic Scholar if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: researchers, students
Side by side
Feature AlphaSense Semantic Scholar
Pricing modelContact for pricingFree
Starting price—Free
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API
CategoryAI Investing & Stock ResearchResearch Assistants
CompanyAlphaSenseThe Allen Institute for AI
Based in——
Founded—2015
Part of—Ai2
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
S Semantic Scholar
- Search across 239+ million scientific papers
- Coverage of all fields of science
- Semantic Reader augmented reading for select papers (beta)
- Developer API with paper search
- API documentation, tutorials and gallery
- Free user accounts
- Resources for librarians and publishers
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
AlphaSense
Market IntelligenceCustom
Enterprise IntelligenceCustom
Semantic Scholar
FreeFree
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
Semantic Scholar
- Free to use
- Indexes over 239 million papers from all fields
- Public API with documentation and tutorials
- Built by the nonprofit research institute Ai2
- Semantic Reader is in beta and only works on select papers
- No mobile apps listed
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