Compare CB Insights pricing, features and alternatives

Multiples is a private and public comps valuation database, with 165,000+ M&A transactions, 330,000+ funding rounds (with revenue and EBITDA multiples where financials were disclosed), plus 19,000+ public companies with consensus estimates.

Multiples and CB Insights are both market intelligence platforms serving investors/bankers, but they focus on different use cases. Multiples specializes in valuations - public comparables, private M&A valuation multiples, VC rounds. Its data is licensed and powered by FactSet, so expect high-quality, concrete data sets. CB Insights functions as a broader tech market intelligence platform. It tracks global private companies using predictive algorithms like the Mosaic Score. It mines unstructured data sources including patents, earnings calls, regulatory filings, and media to map technology trends and competitive landscapes.

Compared to CB Insights, Multiples sells data, not research. Multiples is a lean, affordable ($239–$499/mo) financial data platform that delivers high-quality valuation data. CB Insights is a heavy, enterprise-grade market intelligence and trend-prediction platform, with significantly higher annual contract costs ($40k+/yr).

PitchBook and CB Insights are both premier private markets intelligence platforms, but they sell different core products. PitchBook is a raw data powerhouse: VC and PE deals, fund performance, LP relationships and investor contacts. CB Insights is more of a research-focused tool built on top of its company database. It delivers niche market maps, briefs and proprietary "Mosaic" scores.

Data depth favors PitchBook vs. CB Insights. It is reported PB has more datapoints, significantly better coverage outside of North America, and is much better in tracking early stage startups.

PitchBook reported pricing is $25,000-$40,000 per year - usually bit below a CB Insights contract. API access for PitchBook is expensive, reported at $70,000+/yr. Both platforms are annual-contract only.

What to choose? Teams that need deal-level data, valuations and email contacts lean toward PitchBook. Teams that want ready-made research (especially around tech), stay with CB Insights.

Crunchbase and CB Insights both track startups and funding rounds, but they sit at opposite ends of the price range. Crunchbase is a self-serve database used by startups, angel investors and BD teams. CB Insights is a (much more expensive) enterprise product with better data depth and proprietary research.

Crunchbase started in 2007 as part of TechCrunch and was spun out as its own company in 2015. It covers a claimed 4M+ companies with funding rounds, investors and news.

Crunchbase is a cheap platform: it has a free tier, then Pro at $49 per user per month billed annually ($99 monthly), Business at $199. Compared to a reported $40,000+ annual for CB Insights, it's a very different price point.

Choose Crunchbase if you need basic startup discovery, and you're budget limited. It has no institutional research layer, no proprietary market mapping or valuation data. For public and private comps specifically, look at Multiples as an alternative.

Tracxn and CB Insights are often compared together, but they solve different problems. Tracxn is built around breadth and taxonomy: millions of companies mapped into thousands of (analyst-maintained) sector feeds, with unusually strong coverage of India, Southeast Asia and other ecosystems that Western vendors don't cover well. CB Insights however, is a research product with a database underneath it. The value sits in the proprietary market maps, company scores and analyst commentary. CBI coverage is strongest across the US and Western Europe.

Tracxn was founded in 2013 by Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal, both former VC analysts, and has been listed on the NSE and BSE since October 2022.

Pricing is the big difference between Tracxn and CB Insights. A single-user plan is reported at around $550 per month, team licenses at $6,500-$15,000 per year - a fraction of a CB Insights contract.

Choose Tracxn for sector mapping on a smaller budget, especially if you are looking for emerging markets coverage. CB Insights wins on the "finished" research: its written briefs and scoring have no full Tracxn equivalent.

Harmonic and CB Insights answer different questions about the same companies. CB Insights tells you what a market looks like (proprietary maps, briefs, scores). Harmonic focuses on actual company signals: headcount growth, founder departures, stealth incorporations, web and social traction.

Harmonic claims 35M+ companies and 195M+ people profiles, with priority companies refreshed daily. Scout, the built-in AI agent, is an AI layer of Harmonic, it answers plain-language questions and enhances analyses.

Pricing is quoted per team and reported at $10,000-$30,000 per year - expensive, but still a fraction of a CB Insights contract.

Choose Harmonic if the goal is pure deal sourcing/company discovery: finding companies before rounds are announced.

Specter, like Harmonic, competes with CB Insights on the data rather than the research. Like Harmonic, it tracks measured signals - headcount changes, web traffic, app rankings, funding, M&A events. It claims a huge database of 55M+ companies, 550M+ people profiles and 330K+ investors.

Pricing is not openly advertised. Access starts with a sales demo.

Data delivery is broad for Specter: customers can use a web platform with natural-language AI search, a credit-based API, bulk export, a Chrome extension, CRM integrations and an MCP server.