AlphaSense vs TrendSpider
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
Choose AlphaSense if…
- you're in its core audience: hedge funds and asset managers, private equity and investment banks
Choose TrendSpider if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on Chrome
- you're in its core audience: active traders, swing and intraday traders
Side by side
Key features
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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
T TrendSpider
- Automated chart pattern recognition
- 200+ built-in technical and fundamental indicators
- No-code strategy backtesting on 50+ years of data
- Market scanners and watch lists
- Cloud alerts and no-code trading bots
- ML Strategy Lab for predictive models
- Sidekick AI assistant for charts and filings
- Custom indicators in JavaScript or generated with AI
Plans and prices
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AlphaSense
TrendSpider
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
TrendSpider
- Every plan includes the same features and market data access
- 14-day trial available for $19
- iOS and Android apps plus a Chrome extension
- No-code backtesting and trading bots
- No free plan; the trial costs $19 and is non-refundable
- Sidekick is limited to 25 messages on every plan
- No public API is documented
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