DFX Intelligence vs AlphaSense
AlphaSense is an AI search and research platform over 500+ million financial and business documents, including Tegus expert transcripts, broker research, company filings and financial data.[1] DFX Intelligence is a private-market intelligence and data company whose Data Factory resolves US public filings and registries into one graph of firms, funds, companies, people and dated events, with a source and a date on every fact.
The main difference is documents against records: AlphaSense searches a library of documents (expert transcripts, broker research, filings) and a firm's own content, while DFX publishes structured records of US private-market firms, funds, people and dated events built from filings.[1]
Facts about AlphaSense as of , each linked to its source below. DFX currently tracks 7,638 private equity firms, 365 business development companies and 2,362 private credit firms, as of 10 October 2026.
Side by side
AlphaSense comes out ahead on 4 of the 6 rows below. We say so because a comparison written by one side is only worth reading if it is willing to lose.
| Criterion | DFX Intelligence | AlphaSense | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you search | Structured records of firms, funds, people and their relationships, not a document library. method | 500+ million financial and business documents, plus fundamental, market and transaction data.[1] | Even |
| Expert interviews | No expert interviews or expert call service. method | Tegus expert transcripts and Tegus expert call services.[1] | AlphaSense |
| Broker research | No broker research. method | Broker research is part of the content set.[1] | AlphaSense |
| Your own documents | Searches DFX's public-record graph only, not a customer's own documents. method | Searches a firm's internal content alongside the external content set.[1] | AlphaSense |
| Citations in answers | Every fact names the public record it was read from and the date it was read. method | SuperAnalyst, its AI analyst, delivers cited outputs.[1] | Even |
| Office tools | A real estate MCP server and an llms.txt index for AI assistants; the other graphs are read through the public pages. No CRM sync or bulk feed is published. method | PowerPoint and Excel add-ins, and connectors for other apps.[1] | AlphaSense |
Who AlphaSense is for
AlphaSense says it is trusted by 7,000+ enterprises and lists investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, asset management, consulting and corporate teams.[1]
Who DFX Intelligence is for
Choose DFX if your question is who rather than what was said: which firms, funds, sponsors, lenders and allocators exist in the US private markets, how they connect, and what changed and when, as structured records you can list, count and cite.
How DFX sources its data
- SEC Form ADV filings since 2011 and the daily IAPD adviser feeds, for investment advisers, their private funds, owners and registered advisers. Method
- SEC Form D notices, for private fund offerings and venture rounds. Method
- SEC Form 13F holdings, read as long positions in 13(f) securities and never as a portfolio or as assets under management. Method
- Business development company 10-Q and 10-K schedules of investments, read position by position. Method
- Public pension board and investment committee minutes, for dated fund commitments, each carrying the sentence that states it. Method
Every registered source is listed on the sources page. The figures DFX publishes are on the statistics page (for example this one), and each dataset, with how to cite it, is on the datasets page.
Sources for the AlphaSense column
- AlphaSense home page, read 10 October 2026.
Every statement about AlphaSense on this page comes from the sources above, read on the dates shown. We do not state prices, ratings or judgements about another company's data. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.