Event data, not document search
AlphaSense is a market-intelligence search platform over 500M+ premium documents — SEC filings, earnings and broker research, and Tegus expert-call transcripts — with in-platform AI research agents, sold to financial teams. GDELT Cloud is a different shape of product: structured global events as a queryable time series, over a REST API and MCP, self-serve from a free tier.
Event-centric: query structured global events and trends as data — not a corpus of documents to search.
Global, multilingual news events, clustered stories, Wikipedia-linked entities, and energy-asset data.
Integrate via REST API + MCP into your own models and agents — not a seat-based search platform.
Self-serve from a free tier — no enterprise seat licenses or document-library contract.
Document search vs. structured events
AlphaSense is unmatched for searching filings, broker research, and expert-call transcripts. GDELT Cloud is built for the other half of the question — the structured global events you can filter, aggregate, and backtest — and it's self-serve.
| GDELT Cloud | AlphaSense | |
|---|---|---|
| Content universe | Structured events, stories, entities, energy assets | 500M+ docs: filings, earnings & broker research, Tegus expert calls |
| Unit of analysis | Events & stories (queryable time series) | Documents & expert transcripts (search) |
| How you use it | Query / integrate via REST API + MCP | Search platform + AI agents (seats) |
| Built-in AI | MCP for your own agents | Generative Search & research/workflow agents (in-platform) |
| Best for | Geopolitical/macro signals, event monitoring, builders | Equity & fundamental research, due diligence, competitive intel |
| Coverage | Global, multilingual news events + energy infra | Financial & business documents, mostly English |
| Getting started | Self-serve API key, free tier | Sales + procurement (enterprise seats) |
GDELT Cloud at scale
Every day, GDELT Cloud clusters a continuous, multi-source raw-article stream into tens of thousands of Stories, codes structured CAMEO+/ACLED Events, and resolves Wikipedia-linked Entities — refreshed hourly, around the clock. These Events, Stories, and Entities are data we produce, not redistribute.
And it's more than events: the API, MCP server, and Briefs also draw on a growing set of data sources — financial markets, macroeconomic indicators, prediction markets, web research, and Global Energy Monitor energy-infrastructure data.
Price & fit
AlphaSense is sold as enterprise seat licenses — publicly reported in the tens of thousands of dollars per seat-year, into six figures at the enterprise tier. GDELT Cloud is self-serve: a free tier, with paid plans from $49 to $1,499/mo.
Independent analysts, small funds, researchers, and builders who need structured global events programmatically — not a premium document library and per-seat search.
GDELT Cloud can deliver the event-data half of the picture — global, multilingual, programmatic — at orders of magnitude less than a per-seat AlphaSense contract, alongside their document and expert-research tools.