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PitchBook does not have a personal plan. There is no individual tier, no monthly billing and no self-serve checkout; you buy through its sales team, on an annual contract, and what you buy is a named seat. It will sell you one. The catch is that the first seat on a contract carries most of the contract, so a single user pays more per head than almost anyone else in the customer base.
The numbers are better documented than most pages admit. Buyers report a single named seat at $12,000 to $20,000 a year, a three-user package at $18,000 to $32,000 in total, and extra seats near $7,000 each. US federal awards that name a licence count put the standard platform seat at $7,000 to $10,500, and the smallest of those awards covers five users. Nobody on the public record bought one seat and got the team rate.
Investables.ai is not a private markets database 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 or a startup and you get a structured research card: what the business does, the metrics that matter, comparables, the bull case, the bear case and labeled risk flags. It carries no cap tables, no deal terms and no investor lists, and it is informational research only rather than investment advice.
Both sides bull and bear
Risk flags on every card
The short answer
Can individuals buy PitchBook?
Yes, but only as a business customer buying one named seat, not through any personal plan. PitchBook sells annual contracts through its sales team, with no monthly billing and no public price. Buyers report a single seat at $12,000 to $20,000 a year. US federal awards that name a licence count put the standard platform seat at $7,000 to $10,500, and the smallest of those awards is five users, so a solo buyer should budget toward the top of the range.
Why it works
What a one-person PitchBook buyer runs into
One seat costs most of what three seats cost
The reported figures make the shape plain. A single named seat runs $12,000 to $20,000 a year, and a three-user package runs $18,000 to $32,000 in total. At the midpoints that is about $16,000 for one person against roughly $8,300 each for three. The second and third seats are cheap because the first one already paid for the contract. For an individual that means the real decision is not whether PitchBook is worth $16,000 to you, it is whether a partner or colleague would take a seat and halve the per-head cost.
The seat price is rising, and one buyer has no leverage against it
The Justice Department bought a 21-user standard platform subscription at $8,000 a seat in 2024, then a 15-user subscription of the same named product at $10,500 a seat in August 2026. Some of that 31% is volume, the rest is escalation. Renewals on the federal record have run from exactly 5.00% at Commerce to 18.75% at HHS and 27.6% at the State Department. A team can threaten to move seats to a rival. A single subscriber can only accept the renewal or leave, so price the second year before you sign the first.
A named seat means one person, so sharing a login is not a workaround
PitchBook licences are named, not concurrent. Each login belongs to one person, and sharing credentials breaches the terms, which vendors actively police. When the Swedish pension fund AP2 ran an open tender for this kind of data, it required every bidder to quote the yearly base licence per person per year, and PitchBook won on that basis. If two people need the data, the honest budget is two seats, which at the reported rates is still far cheaper per head than one.
What you get
Private company and startup research without a seat contract
Enter a startup, a private company you are diligencing or a listed comparable, and the research card lays out what the business does, the numbers that matter, the bull case, the bear case and the risks, with no annual commitment behind it.
- Turns any ticker or startup into a structured research card in seconds
- Costs $49 to $249 a month against a reported $12,000 to $20,000 a year for one PitchBook 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 private company you are looking at
- Complements a deal database rather than replacing cap tables and round data
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 PitchBook costs one person, by route
Buyer-reported figures come from procurement marketplaces (Vendr, CostBench) and are labeled as reported. Federal figures are our own arithmetic on US contract awards at USAspending.gov that name a licence count: annual amount divided by licences. UK figures are whole contracts from Contracts Finder, annualized, with no seat count stated. Retrieved August and September 2026.
| Route | What you get | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| One named seat, bought directly | Full platform for one person, one-year minimum | Reported $12,000 to $20,000 a year | Buyer reports |
| Three-user team package | Three named seats on one contract | Reported $18,000 to $32,000 a year in total | Buyer reports |
| Extra seat on an existing contract | One more named user | Reported about $7,000 a year | Buyer reports |
| Department of Labor EBSA, 5 user licences | One 12-month subscription, Sep 2025 to Sep 2027 period | About $10,250 per seat a year | USAspending.gov |
| Justice Department NSD, 15 authorized users | Standard platform subscription, awarded Aug 2026 | $10,500 per seat a year | USAspending.gov |
| Justice Department, 21 authorized users | Standard platform subscription, FY2025 | $8,000 per seat a year | USAspending.gov |
| HHS, 13 licences | PitchBook licences subscription, FY2023 | $7,000 per seat a year | USAspending.gov |
| Small UK public-body contracts | Whole subscriptions, seat count not stated | About GBP 21,200 to GBP 34,500 a year ($27,000 to $43,800) | UK Contracts Finder |
| Monthly plan | Not offered | Annual contracts only | Buyer reports |
| Investables.ai, for scale | A research card per ticker or startup | $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. Round results such as $7,000, $8,000 and $10,500 suggest PitchBook works from an internal per-seat list even though it publishes none. Educational only, not procurement or investment advice.
Why Investables.ai
From about $12,000 a seat to $49 a month
A PitchBook seat buys the deal database: rounds, valuations, cap tables and investor lists. If what you actually need is the written first pass on a company, that is a far smaller purchase, and it does not require a one-year contract.
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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