PitchBook Gives You a Database — AlphaLens Gives You a Pipeline
PitchBook indexes companies. AlphaLens indexes what companies actually make — 12 million products and counting. That difference means you find opportunities PitchBook's taxonomy can't surface. Combine that with automated deck-to-CRM processing, and you get a pipeline that runs itself.
AlphaLens indexes products — the things companies build and sell — not just company profiles. 12M+ products indexed in the past year. No other platform does this.
PitchBook is strong on historical financials, LP data, and fundraising round depth. If your workflow is research-first — running complex financial queries and pulling cap table data — PitchBook is built for that.
Where it falls short: triaging inbound decks, answering bespoke DD questions from live sources, automating CRM sync, and finding companies that its taxonomy misses. That's where AlphaLens picks up. This is an honest comparison — we'll show you where each platform wins.
How AlphaLens and PitchBook Actually Differ
| Feature |  | PitchBook |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Agentic sourcing & triage platform | Financial data & research database |
| Inbound deck processing | Native. Drop a DocSend/Pitch.com URL — auto-extract, enrich, create CRM entity | None. Manual read → manual search → manual CRM entry |
| Search | Semantic search across 12M+ indexed products from 10M+ tracked companies — the only platform that indexes live product-level data at scale. Search by what products do, not just company categories. No booleans needed. | Boolean search with pre-defined taxonomy, focused on funding history |
| Custom due diligence | Deploy Web Agents that answer your bespoke questions with cited sources, formatted to your CRM field constraints | Limited to their pre-defined data columns |
| CRM integration | Native field-level sync to Affinity, Attio, Salesforce, HubSpot | CSV exports or expensive API add-ons |
| Coverage approach | White-glove onboarding: bring your data, we learn your market, guarantee coverage parity, and fine-tune our indexing to your thesis. No other platform does this | Broad global coverage, quarterly institutional updates |
| Pricing model | Credit-based, starting at $1K/mo. No per-seat fees. Full API access included | Per-seat licensing, ~$25K–$70K/yr. CRM integration and API are paid extras |
| Chrome Extension | Deep company intelligence on any website or LinkedIn page — team, growth metrics, products, funding, similar companies in one click | Chrome extension for basic profile lookups |
| Funding data freshness | Real-time funding signals powered by AI agents, proprietary data, and community partners — a continuously refreshed flywheel with global coverage | Solid coverage but US-heavy and slow to react to funding events — often days or weeks behind |
| LP data & fund performance | Not our playground — we focus on company and product intelligence, not fund-level data | Deep LP commitments, fund performance metrics, and fund benchmarking — a genuine strength PitchBook strength |
| Round depth (board seats, price per share) | Not our forte — we surface funding events and signals, not cap table mechanics | Detailed historical round data including board composition, price per share, and option pools PitchBook strength |
| API access | Full API included in every plan — no separate tiers between web app and API | API is a premium add-on |
Your Pipeline Today vs. Your Pipeline on AlphaLens
- 1Receive deck via email or DocSend
- 2Read it manually — PitchBook can't parse decks
- 3Search PitchBook for the company
- 4Export data to CSV, paste into CRM by hand
- 1Build boolean search in PitchBook's taxonomy
- 2Browse results, export CSV manually
- 3Manually enrich each company from other sources
- 4Type findings into CRM — repeat weekly
AlphaLens handles both motions in a single system. Inbound decks are auto-parsed, enriched, and pushed to your CRM. Outbound searches run daily, feeding new matches into the same pipeline. No manual steps, no context-switching.
Built for the way you actually work
Search That Thinks Like You Do
PitchBook forces you into boolean queries against rigid taxonomies that index companies, not what companies make. AlphaLens has indexed over 12 million products in the past year — the actual things companies build and sell. This is an architectural difference, not a feature gap. When you search at the product level, you find opportunities that company-level databases structurally cannot surface.
All searches can be saved with alerts, and results export to CSV with one click.
12 Million Products Indexed — and Counting
Every other platform in this space indexes companies. AlphaLens indexes products — the actual things companies build, sell, and bring to market. With over 12 million products indexed in the past year alone, no platform gives you a more granular view of what the market actually looks like.
Don't just find companies in a space — find every product competing in it. Map a vertical by what tools do, how they're positioned, and who they target. This is the kind of intelligence that used to take an analyst days to compile.
A company tagged 'Enterprise Software' in PitchBook might be the market leader in AI-powered compliance tooling for fintechs. Product-level indexing finds them. Category-level indexing doesn't.
12 million products indexed in the past year, continuously updated. No competitor has attempted this. It is AlphaLens's deepest structural moat — and the reason our search returns results that simply do not exist in PitchBook.
Product-level search is available on every AlphaLens plan, including API access.
Agentic Triage, Enrichment & Research
PitchBook gives you the data columns they've decided to track. AlphaLens gives you a pipeline that triages, routes, scores, enriches, and researches — automatically. Every company that enters your pipeline is scored for priority, routed to the right team or stage, enriched with deep entity data, and then handed to Web Agents that go live on the internet to answer your most specific DD questions.
Coverage Built Around You, Not Everyone
PitchBook covers the world a mile wide and an inch deep. AlphaLens covers your world — deeply, accurately, and on your terms. We don't play the "we have X million profiles" game. We play the "every company you care about is indexed, enriched, and current" game.
End-to-End Workflow Automation
PitchBook is a place you go to look things up. AlphaLens is a system that runs your pipeline.
Sourcing → triage → enrichment → scoring → CRM routing. End to end.
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A Chrome Extension That Goes Deep
Visit any company's website or LinkedIn page. One click gives you everything your team needs, right where you're already browsing.
- Full company profile — team, incorporation details, addresses
- Growth metrics — headcount trends, web traffic, social following
- Product data and descriptions
- Funding history
- All similar products in the market — navigate to any of them instantly
It's like having an analyst tab open for every company you encounter online.
Transparent and team-friendly
PitchBook charges $25,000–$70,000 per year with rigid per-seat licensing. Adding a junior analyst? That's another $7,000+/year. Want CRM integration? Extra module. API access? Another add-on.
AlphaLens is credit-based, starting at $1,000/month. Your entire team shares a generous credit pool — no per-seat fees, no artificial access gates.
Credit usage — you only pay for what you use
Included in every plan — no add-ons
- Full API access — same capabilities as the web app
- Native CRM integrations with granular field-level mapping
- Chrome Extension
- Saved searches with real-time alerts
- CSV export
- Pipeline automation
When PitchBook Might Be the Right Choice
We believe in being straightforward about this. Many of our customers use AlphaLens alongside PitchBook — using us for top-of-funnel velocity and pipeline automation, and PitchBook for deep-dive financial diligence later in the process.
LP data & fund performance
LP commitments, fund performance benchmarks, and limited partner intelligence going back decades — PitchBook's depth here is unmatched. This is not territory AlphaLens is trying to cover.
Deep round mechanics
Detailed historical round data including board composition, price per share, option pool details, and cap table history. If you need this level of financial granularity, PitchBook is built for it.
Institutional research reports
PitchBook produces high-quality analyst reports and market research. If consuming pre-packaged sector reports is a core part of your workflow, that's a genuine strength.
Research-first workflows
If your team's workflow is fundamentally research-first — not pipeline-first — and you have analysts whose job is to spend hours in a database running complex financial queries, PitchBook is purpose-built for that use case.
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