AlphaSights Pricing and Cost Per Credit

AlphaSights does not publish pricing or the dollar value of a credit. Clients prepay for a package of credits under an annual agreement, and a one-hour call with a senior expert often uses more than one credit. Two numbers are on the public record: the UK National Wealth Fund paid AlphaSights £37,500 for twelve months of expert network access in 2024 to 2025, and buyer-reported data on Vendr puts the median AlphaSights contract at $78,980 a year, with a range of $71,596 to $987,796. Everything else you will read, including "about $1,000 to $1,500 an hour", is an estimate from forums or competing networks. This guide sorts the two apart and shows how to work out your own cost per credit before you sign.

How much does AlphaSights cost?

For most US funds and consulting teams, AlphaSights is a five-figure annual commitment. There is no rate card on its website, no self-serve plan and no trial you can start without a sales conversation. The contract sets three things: how many credits you buy, what a credit is worth in dollars, and when unused credits expire.

The UK award is the only contract with a named buyer and a fixed term. The National Wealth Fund, the UK's state investment bank, bought "the ability to access Expert Networks to allow deal teams to answer deal specific questions quickly and effectively" from AlphaSights Limited, awarded on October 14, 2024, for a contract running October 21, 2024 to October 20, 2025. At the exchange rate of the time that is roughly $49,000, which sits below the bottom of Vendr's range. A small deal team with a modest number of calls is the profile that buys at that level.

We also checked USAspending for a US federal AlphaSights award and found none, and SEC full-text search returns 63 filings that mention AlphaSights. They are insider-trading and expert-network policies, not invoices, so none of them gives a fee.

What does one AlphaSights credit cost?

Nobody outside a client contract can tell you, and AlphaSights does not say. What third parties agree on is the structure: you prepay for credits, a standard one-hour call uses one or more credits depending on the seniority of the expert, and extras such as transcripts, recordings or blind calls can cost additional credits or fees. One comparison site notes that "a call at GLG or AlphaSights often costs clients more than one credit."

That means the hourly price you pay is not the same as the price of a credit. Two contracts with the same credit price can produce very different hourly costs if one team mostly books former C-suite executives and the other mostly books mid-level operators.

You can still estimate your effective cost per credit and per call before you sign. The arithmetic is simple, and the examples below use round illustrative numbers, not AlphaSights prices:

• Cost per credit = annual contract value divided by credits purchased. A $75,000 package of 60 credits works out at $1,250 a credit.
• Cost per call = cost per credit multiplied by the average credits a call uses. If your calls average 1.3 credits, each hour costs about $1,625.
• Cost per call actually used = contract value divided by calls completed before expiry. If 10 of those 60 credits lapse unused, your real price per credit rises to $1,500.

The third line is where most of the money goes. Ask for the credit multiplier by expert seniority in writing, and ask whether unused credits roll over or expire at the end of the term.

AlphaSights rates for experts versus what clients pay

Search results for "AlphaSights rates" mix two different numbers. Pages aimed at experts report that AlphaSights pays consultants roughly $250 to $500 for a one-hour call, more for senior executives. The client pays that fee plus the network's margin for recruiting, compliance screening and scheduling, which is why client-side estimates of $1,000 to $1,500 an hour circulate. Neither figure is published by AlphaSights. If you are the buyer, the expert's fee only tells you the floor under your price.

AlphaSights pricing compared with GLG, Third Bridge, Guidepoint and Tegus

No large expert network publishes a rate card, so the useful comparison is between documents. These are the figures we have been able to trace to a filing, an audited account or a public award, plus buyer-reported medians where nothing better exists.

GLG's 2021 Form S-1, filed for an IPO that did not go ahead, is the best window into the category. It shows GLG at about $192,000 of revenue per client account in 2020, and its own competitor comparison implies roughly $256 million of AlphaSights revenue that year, making AlphaSights the second-largest network. Our GLG pricing breakdown works through that filing, and the Guidepoint pricing guide covers the Third Bridge accounts in detail. If you are choosing between networks for a fund rather than pricing one, start with our best expert networks for private equity comparison.

Transcript libraries are the cheaper route when the question is not unique to your deal. AlphaSense sells Tegus transcripts inside its platform, and our Tegus pricing page covers what that seat costs compared with live calls.

Is AlphaSights worth it?

AlphaSights is worth it when a decision hinges on something only a former operator knows: how a niche supplier actually prices, why a customer churned, whether a carve-out can stand alone. Its reputation with deal teams rests on fast turnaround for niche operator profiles. It is poor value when the call is spent establishing basics you could have read. At $1,000 or more per hour, ten minutes of "so what does the company actually do" is a $200 question.

That is where the cheaper half of the work sits. Before booking an expert on a listed company or its competitors, you want the business model, the latest filings, the peer comparison and the bull and bear cases in front of you. Investables.ai writes that as a structured research card for any US ticker, from $49 a month or $288 a year, and the Hudson Labs pricing comparison shows how it stacks up against AI filing tools at the next price point. It does not replace a conversation with someone who ran the business. It tells you which three questions that conversation should be about, so each credit buys an answer you could not get elsewhere.

How to negotiate an AlphaSights contract

Expert network pricing is negotiated, and buyers with a competing quote do better. These are the terms worth getting in writing:

• Credit value and multipliers. The dollar value of one credit, and how many credits a call uses for each expert tier.
• Expiry and rollover. Whether unused credits lapse at the anniversary or roll into a renewal. Lapsed credits are the largest hidden cost in this category.
• Extras. What transcripts, recordings, blind calls, surveys and follow-up calls cost, and whether they draw on the same credits.
• Cancellations. Whether a call cancelled by the expert, or one that ends early, is refunded in credits.
• Renewal notice. The notice period before automatic renewal. Put the date in your contract management software the day you sign, because a missed notice window usually means another full year.

Ask GLG, Guidepoint or Third Bridge for a comparable quote with the same number of calls and the same expert seniority mix. A competing number is the one piece of leverage every network responds to.

Does AlphaSights offer a free trial?

AlphaSights does not advertise a free trial. Access starts with a sales conversation. A small paid or free pilot is something you can negotiate as part of the first contract, so ask for a small pilot with a defined number of calls before committing to an annual package, and check that the pilot calls count toward the first year if you sign.

The short version

AlphaSights publishes no prices. Budget from the public record: £37,500 a year at a UK state investment bank as the small end, a $78,980 buyer-reported median, and contracts reported up to $987,796. Convert any quote into a cost per credit, a cost per call and a cost per call actually used, insist on written rollover terms, and do the reading before the call so the expert hours go on questions only an expert can answer.