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Thesis
Bull case
Bear case
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Key metrics
Comparables
Risk flags
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FactSet has no individual subscription. There is no personal tier, no monthly billing and no self-serve checkout, and asking for one gets you routed to a sales team that sells annual contracts to institutions. That is the short answer, and almost every page on this topic stops there. The longer answer is more useful, because FactSet will sell a single named seat to a one-person firm, and the public contract record shows what that seat costs.
Two figures anchor it, both from signed US federal contracts that state a licence count. A premium workstation runs about $23,646 a user a year. A web portal licence, the lighter seat that gives lookup access without the full workstation, runs about $10,603, roughly 45% of the price. That second number is the one that matters to an individual, because it is the cheapest documented FactSet seat anywhere on the public record and it rarely appears in a first quote. Across all contract sizes, two procurement datasets put the median signed FactSet contract at $20,523 and $25,160 a year.
Investables.ai is not a workstation and does not pretend to be one. It costs $49 to $249 a month with no seat minimum and no annual term. Enter a ticker and you get a structured research card: what the business does, the metrics that matter, listed comparables, the bull case, the bear case and labeled risk flags. It carries no portfolio attribution, no risk models and no real-time exchange feeds, and it is informational research only rather than investment advice.
Both sides bull and bear
Risk flags on every card
The short answer
Can you buy FactSet as an individual?
Yes, but only as a business customer buying a named seat, and there is no individual or personal plan. FactSet sells annual contracts through a sales process with no monthly billing and no published price. Signed federal contracts that name a licence count put a premium workstation at about $23,646 a user a year and a lighter web portal licence at about $10,603.
Why it works
What a one-person FactSet buyer runs into
Ask for the web portal seat by name
The single most useful thing on this page for a one-person buyer is that FactSet has a cheaper seat tier than the one it quotes first. The Justice Department bought two web portal user licences at about $10,603 each a year. Treasury bought premium workstations at about $23,646. Same vendor, same era, 45% of the price, and the difference is the full workstation environment rather than the underlying company data. If your work is looking things up rather than building attribution models, the lighter seat covers it, and it will not be offered unless you ask for it by name.
One seat carries the whole contract minimum
The Treasury award covered up to seven users and the Justice award covered two, so even the cheap per-seat anchors come from small multi-user orders rather than from a single buyer. Nobody on the public record bought exactly one seat and got a per-head rate. A solo buyer should expect to sit at or above the top of any range quoted for a team, because the first seat pays for the contract before anyone else joins it. If a partner or colleague would take a seat, the per-head cost drops sharply.
Real-time data is a separate bill, and it is large
Exchange feeds are licensed by the exchanges, not by FactSet, and buyers report they add 30% to 60% per user a year on top of the seat. A quote that looks cheaper than expected usually has real-time entitlements sitting in a line you have not seen yet, or excluded entirely. For an individual this is the most common budgeting mistake: pricing a workstation, signing, then discovering that live prices on the exchanges you care about were never in the number.
What you get
Company research without a seat contract
Enter any ticker and the research card lays out what the business does, the numbers that matter, the listed comparables, the bull case, the bear case and the labeled risks. No sales call, no annual term, no minimum seat count.
- Turns any ticker into a structured research card in seconds
- Costs $49 to $249 a month against about $10,603 a year for the cheapest documented FactSet seat
- Puts the bull case and the bear case side by side with explicit risk flags
- Needs no seat minimum, no sales call and no one-year commitment
- Covers listed comparables and small caps alongside the company you are researching
- Complements a workstation rather than replacing portfolio attribution and risk models
Thesis
Dominant AI accelerator supplier. The debate is the durability of data-center demand versus a cyclical capex peak.
Bull
CUDA moat, near-monopoly share
Bear
Customer concentration, cycle risk
Side by side
What FactSet costs one person, by route
Federal figures are our own arithmetic on signed US contract awards at USAspending.gov that state a licence count: annualized amount divided by licences. Buyer-reported medians come from procurement marketplaces and are labeled as reported. Retrieved September 2026.
| Route | What you get | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web portal licence | Lookup access to company data, no full workstation | About $10,603 a year | Justice Department, 2 licences |
| Premium workstation | The full terminal for one named user | About $23,646 a year | Treasury, up to 7 users |
| Standard workstation, commonly quoted | Global fundamentals, screening, Office add-ins | About $12,000 a year | Buyer reports |
| Full stack workstation | Adds portfolio analytics, attribution, risk models | About $22,000 to $30,000 a year | Buyer reports |
| Median signed contract, all sizes | Whole contracts, seat counts vary | Reported $20,523 and $25,160 a year | Two procurement datasets |
| Real-time exchange data | Live prices, licensed by the exchanges | Reported to add 30% to 60% per user | Buyer reports |
| Monthly plan | Not offered | Annual contracts only | FactSet sales terms |
| University licence | Academic use while enrolled, ends at graduation | Paid by the institution | Common route |
| Investables.ai, for scale | A research card per ticker | $49 to $249 a month, no term | Our published rate |
Federal prices are negotiated under procurement rules and should be read as a floor for a commercial buyer, not a quote. FactSet has never filed a banded rate card the way S&P Global has, so there is no published list price at any seat count. Educational only, not procurement or investment advice.
Why Investables.ai
From about $10,603 a seat to $49 a month
The cheapest FactSet seat on the public contract record is a web portal licence at roughly $10,603 a year, and most one-person buyers are never offered it. If what you need is the written first pass on a company rather than portfolio attribution, that is a far smaller purchase.
Both sides, every time
The bull case and the bear case sit side by side, so you weigh the argument instead of reading a single take. Informational only, never a recommendation.
Risks on the page
Valuation, concentration and regulatory risks are flagged explicitly, so the downside is visible up front rather than buried in a footnote.
Faster diligence
A structured first pass in seconds means you spend your time on judgement, not on gathering, across stocks, ETFs, crypto and startups.
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