MarketAgent and CB Insights
CB Insights alternative with listed pricing, market maps and competitor monitoring
If you want a CB Insights alternative without a 25,000 to 185,000 USD annual contract, MarketAgent is a self-serve AI agent that builds market maps, sizes markets, profiles and monitors competitors, and answers research questions with a source on every fact. Every plan price is listed, starting at $99 a month billed yearly.
About CB Insights
CB Insights (cbinsights.com) is a private company and technology market intelligence platform used by corporate development, corporate venture, strategy, M&A, venture capital and consulting teams. Its Strategy Terminal covers more than 13 million private company profiles and over 1,700 tech markets, with funding and valuation data, predictive scores such as the Mosaic Score and exit probability, analyst market maps, an LLM called ChatCBI, research agents for scouting and due diligence, plus API, data feeds and Salesforce and Snowflake integrations. CB Insights does not publish prices. Vendr reports a median contract of about 46,984 USD a year, with a range of roughly 24,748 to 184,986 USD depending on seats and data access.
cbinsights.com · based on public information. Prices are public estimates and can change.
About MarketAgent
A self-serve AI agent that answers market questions with sourced reports, maps and sizes markets, monitors competitors daily or weekly and recommends what to do about each change. Plans from $99 a month billed yearly, with the price on the page for every plan.
Side by side
CB Insights and MarketAgent compared
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| Criterion | CB Insights | MarketAgent |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Quote only; Vendr median about 46,984 USD a year, range about 24,748 to 184,986 USD | From $99 a month billed yearly ($199 monthly), Enterprise $2,499 a month billed yearly |
| Buying process | Free trial or demo, then an annual quote | Self-serve checkout on every plan, monthly or yearly, one time demo market map on the homepage |
| Seats | Priced largely by user seat | Per workspace, with 1, 5, 15 or 50 seats included |
| Private company data | Over 13 million company profiles, 1.5 million tracked deals, funding and valuations | Company profiles built from public web sources per question, not a proprietary funding database |
| Market maps | Analyst built maps across more than 1,700 tech markets | A market map of the exact category you define, with segments, players and pricing, generated in the session |
| Market sizing | Not a core part of its public positioning | TAM, SAM and SOM with the method written out, estimates labelled Estimate |
| Competitor monitoring | Watchlists and alerts on companies and markets | Pricing, product, hiring, funding and news checked weekly to daily, alerts by email or Slack |
| Predictive scores | Mosaic Score, commercial maturity, exit probability | No proprietary scores; recommended moves per competitor change instead |
| API and data feeds | API, data feeds, Snowflake and Salesforce | JSON API, webhooks and a data feed on Enterprise |
Competitor details come from public sources and third party public estimates as of October 2026. Check cbinsights.com for current terms.
When CB Insights is the better choice
- You screen thousands of private companies for venture deals or acquisitions and need funding rounds, valuations and investor data in one database.
- Your team relies on predictive signals such as the Mosaic Score or exit probability to rank startups.
- You need a licensed data feed of private company records piped into Snowflake or your CRM.
When MarketAgent fits better
- Your question is about one market or one set of rivals, not a screen of the whole private company universe.
- You need a sized market with the method shown, rival pricing tiers and a market map in one sourced report for a board, a client or an investment memo.
- You want weekly or daily alerts when a competitor changes its price, packaging or product, sent to the Slack channel your team already reads.
- You want to see the price and start this week on a monthly plan instead of signing an annual seat based contract.
Trying MarketAgent next to CB Insights
Most teams that look for a CB Insights alternative do not need the whole private company database. They need answers about a handful of markets: who the players are, how they price, how big the market is and what changed this month. Test that directly. Pick a monthly plan, run a market map of the category you are working on, add the five to 25 companies you watch most closely and compare the output with what your team pulls from CB Insights today.
If the reports cover what you use, move the companies on your watchlists into monitored companies and set alert rules for the changes that drive decisions, such as a new pricing tier or a price drop over 10 percent. Consultants and corp dev teams often keep a database seat for deal screening and use MarketAgent for the market and competitor work around it. Yearly plans are half the monthly price, see MarketAgent pricing, the competitive intelligence pricing breakdown and the market sizing method, or compare with another research platform on the AlphaSense alternative page.
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