The alt-data market, counted.
A plain count of the alternative-data market as we track it — where supply concentrates, how much of it hides its price, when the firms were founded, how the data is delivered, and which providers have since been acquired or gone dark. Every figure below is computed from our register, not estimated.
Where the supply is
The register holds 354 providers across eighteen categories. Supply is far from even. News & Sentiment is the deepest chapter, with 43 providers; Email Receipts is the thinnest, with 5. For a buyer, the long bars are where you have negotiating leverage and real choice; the short bars are where a handful of firms hold the field.
The pricing fog
The single most striking number is what the market will not tell you. 44.4% of the providers we track (157 of 354) publish no discernible price at all — no band, no range, no list. Of those that do signal a price, 105 sit at the enterprise tier, 49 in the middle, and 9 at a startup-friendly entry point. Against all of them, 34 providers are free or open. Price opacity is not incidental; it is the working condition of the market.
The vintage curve
Alternative data felt new for a long time, but the supply side is no longer young. Among the 192 providers whose founding year we know, the median vintage is 2013. The clear wave crested between 2010 and 2014 — 74 firms — and has thinned since: only 7 of the firms we track were founded in 2020 or later. The category is consolidating around incumbents rather than minting new entrants.
The geography of supply
Alternative data is overwhelmingly an American business. Of the 351 providers whose home base or primary coverage we record, 198 are anchored in the US — more than half the register. A further 73 operate globally rather than from one market, and the UK is the largest single national base after the US with 24. For a buyer outside North America, the practical read is that local-market coverage is the scarce commodity.
How it is delivered
On delivery, the market has standardised. The API is the default mechanism by a wide margin (183 providers offer it), followed by dashboards and feeds. Bulk and S3 hand-offs remain an enterprise minority. A buyer planning integration can assume an API exists and treat anything else as the exception to confirm.
The consolidation ledger
A directory is only as honest as the firms it removes. We track decay: 51 providers have been acquired, folded into a parent, or had their sites go dark since we began. Each is recorded with the reason. This is the part of the market the paid guides rarely show — not who is selling, but who has stopped.
| Provider | What happened | Logged |
|---|---|---|
| Aviso | Redirects to NielsenIQ; Rakuten Intelligence wound down (off-host) | 2026-06-20 |
| Alexa | Alexa.com retired by Amazon 2022 (off-host redirect) | 2026-06-20 |
| Dataffirm | Redirects to a case-study page; firm absorbed/inactive (off-host) | 2026-06-20 |
| Drillinginfo | Rebranded to Enverus, already listed | 2026-06-20 |
| EEDAR | Acquired by Nielsen; site in maintenance (defunct) | 2026-06-20 |
| FaunaDB | Redirects to Fauna Robotics, unrelated; product wound down (off-host) | 2026-06-20 |
| Placemeter | Acquired by Netgear 2016; product defunct | 2026-06-20 |
| RootMetrics | IHS Markit subsidiary; RootMetrics shut down 2023 (defunct) | 2026-06-20 |
| Tribe Dynamics | Folded into CreatorIQ; site moved (merged) | 2026-06-20 |
| Rigdata | Rebranded into Enverus, already listed (off-host merge) | 2026-06-20 |
| SuperData | Acquired by Nielsen and shut down 2022 (defunct) | 2026-06-20 |
| VisibleAlpha | Acquired by S&P Global, already represented (off-host merge) | 2026-06-20 |
| Legal Shield | LawIndex data product discontinued; redirects to consumer site (off-host) | 2026-06-20 |
| Uber Media | Location business folded into Near/Azira, already listed | 2026-06-20 |
| RelationshipScience | Folded into Altrata; capability covered by BoardEx, already listed (merge) | 2026-06-20 |
| Beacon | Acquired by Clearwater Analytics; modeling tooling, not a dataset (off-host) | 2026-06-20 |
| Orb Intelligence | Acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, already represented (merge) | 2026-06-20 |
| Accrete | Page dead; RumorHound product discontinued | 2026-06-20 |
| GfK Boutique Research | Acquired by NielsenIQ (off-host merge) | 2026-06-20 |
| Datarama | SE-Asia company-intel firm; acquired/wound down | 2026-06-20 |
| AllTheRooms | Folded into Deckard Technologies (rebrand off-brand) | 2026-06-20 |
| AreaMetrics | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| BuildFax | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| FeatureX | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Hillside Partners | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Innovata | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| MasterCard Advisors | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Pacific Epoch (China) | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Quad Analytix | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Scoop Analytics | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Savvr | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Sentieo | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Selbourne Research | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| TickerTags | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| TXN | site under construction | 2026-06-16 |
| Digital Globe | defunct (DigitalGlobe → Maxar/Vantor); domain dead | 2026-06-16 |
| Data Simply | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Zdaly | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Statlas | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| humanpredictions | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Thomson Reuters Intelligent Tagging | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Verto Analytics | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Sigmai | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Global Tone Communication (GTCOM) | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| VidaMinds | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| TerraQuanta | domain repurposed (now a livescore site) | 2026-06-16 |
| Data Guru Limited | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Fraud Factors | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| TOMAHAWK | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| SatScout | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
| Del Mar Networks | DNS does not resolve (dead) | 2026-06-16 |
Method & caveats
These are honest counts of our coverage, not a census of the whole market. The register tracks 354 providers we have reviewed; it is not every provider in existence. Verifiedmeans a provider's own site was reachable and on-brand at the last check — a reachability and integrity signal, not an endorsement of data quality. Price bands are indicative ranges, never exact quotes. Two fields we are still completing — provider geography and due-diligence availability — are deliberately left out of this briefing rather than published half-blank. Figures are recomputed before each release and carry the date above. Nothing here is investment advice.
Free to cite and reproduce with attribution to AltData Atlas (https://altdataatlas.com). The aggregate findings are open; the underlying provider register is not redistributed. If a number looks wrong, write to us and we will correct it.