Built as an AI answer engine
Perplexity
Cited answers, market data and earnings calls in one app.
Built for financial research
Bigdata.com
Licensed financial data in Claude, ChatGPT and, under an enterprise agreement, your own agents.
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The short answer.
Perplexity
Perplexity suits individuals and small teams who want cited answers, market data and earnings-call transcripts in one app.
Bigdata.com
Bigdata.com fits when you want company financials included with every plan, plus pay-as-you-go access to SEC filings, expert interviews and podcast transcripts.
Best fit, need by need.
Best fit: Perplexity
Best fit: Bigdata.com
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A free AI answer engine on web and mobile
02
Licensed data in your own agents, through our API
Bigdata.com
03
Companies matched by ticker, ISIN, CUSIP or SEDOL
Bigdata.com
04
Market data, charts and live earnings calls in one app
Perplexity
05
Tearsheets and a screener in Claude or ChatGPT
Bigdata.com
06
FedRAMP authorization
Perplexity
Which one fits your agent?
Perplexity
Choose Perplexity if…
01
You want a free, general-purpose AI answer engine on the web, in a desktop browser and in mobile apps.
02
You want market data, charts, watchlists and live earnings calls in one consumer finance app.
03
You want a research agent that works across your work apps and files, and can use licences your firm already holds, such as FactSet or Morningstar.
04
Your organization needs FedRAMP authorization.
05
You’re building on a low-cost web search API: $5 per 1,000 requests, or $1 with Fast Search.
Bigdata.com
Choose Bigdata.com if…
01
You want financial data you can use to ground answers in your own internal agents, through our API under an enterprise agreement, as well as in Claude or ChatGPT.
02
You need companies matched by ticker, ISIN, CUSIP or SEDOL, with their financials (statements and ratios since 1985, analyst estimates, prices) and everything published about them in one place.
03
You want to start free, then pay as you go for premium news, earnings-call transcripts, SEC filings and expert interviews. No subscription needed.
04
You already work in Claude or ChatGPT and want financial research there, with ready-made tearsheets, a company screener and research workflows.
05
You want your own research (SharePoint, email, broker research you already receive) searched alongside everything else.
Side by side.
Checked on [date]. Perplexity details come from Perplexity’s own public pages and documentation, linked in each cell.
Perplexity
Bigdata.com
Data
The open web
Its own continuously refreshed web index, behind its answer engine and APIs (Search API)
Live web results in the same search as financial data, from the free Starter plan up; opt-in in the API
Financial data in the plan
Perplexity says its subscriptions include research data from providers such as Benzinga, FMP, MT Newswires, Quartr and TradingView (Perplexity for finance)
Premium news, earnings-call transcripts, SEC filings, expert interviews and podcast transcripts on pay as you go; company financials included with every plan (Data catalog)
Licences you already hold
Connectors for FactSet, Morningstar, Daloopa and 20+ other providers on Pro, Max and Enterprise. They aren’t available in its API. (Premium data sources)
Financial Times and S&P Global, searched with everything else. FactSet through us, with a FactSet licence we request activation of.
Financial documents
Live and past earnings-call transcripts and audio, and SEC filings, in its finance product
Pay as you go: earnings-call transcripts from Quartr, SEC filings, expert interviews from Knowledge Ridge and podcast transcripts from Podchaser. Earnings-call transcripts from S&P Global with your own licence, and from FactSet through us with a FactSet licence we request activation of. Archives start: Quartr 2010, SEC filings 2020, Knowledge Ridge 2020, Podchaser 2022, FactSet 2003; with your own licence, S&P Global 2004.
Financials and market data
Quotes, charts, statements and ratios in its finance dashboard. Its API’s Finance Search covers public equities and ETFs and doesn’t name its data providers. (Finance Search)
Financial statements and ratios since 1985, analyst ratings and estimates since 1996, global prices, dividends, segment and territory revenues, ETF holdings and a company screener, all included with every plan
Your own content
Connectors for Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Notion and other work apps, plus file uploads
Connect SharePoint, email and uploads; searched alongside everything else
Technology
Company lookup
Finance Search takes ticker symbols, with no ISIN, CUSIP or CIK field and no as-of-date option (Finance Search)
By name, ticker, ISIN, CUSIP and SEDOL
Research
Deep research in its app; Computer, an agent that runs multi-step tasks; an Agent API at several effort levels
Research agent and workflows; ready-made company and market tearsheets and a company screener in the connector
Commercials
How you start
Free plan with daily limits. API use is prepaid credits, billed separately from any plan. (Plans)
Free Starter plan with $10 in credits and no card, then pay as you go per token, with no subscription needed
How you pay as you grow
Pro $20 a month or $200 a year; Max $200 a month; Enterprise Pro from $40 per seat a month
Optional Pro ($40 a month billed yearly, $50 monthly) and Max ($160 or $200) plans with monthly credits; Enterprise committed spend
Rights to use results
A right to use content to ground AI answers for your own internal purposes, as set out in our Terms of Service. Building or powering a product for others requires an enterprise agreement. Content you access under your own licence is governed by that licence.
Integration and accessibility
Where it works
Its web app, Comet browser and mobile apps; Slack and Microsoft Teams; a server you add to Claude as a custom connector; Python and TypeScript SDKs
Claude and ChatGPT; Microsoft 365 Copilot through your admin; REST API
Trust
For enterprise
FedRAMP Moderate for Perplexity Enterprise and API Platform; SOC 2 Type II, SSO and SCIM, and no training on enterprise data, per Perplexity (FedRAMP Marketplace)
ISO/IEC 27001 certified; SOC 2 Type II report available under NDA; SSO and audit logs on Enterprise. Hosted in the US and Ireland; EU data residency available under enterprise agreements, subject to scope. Certain features, such as web search, involve processing by subprocessors outside the EU.
List prices as published by each provider, excluding applicable taxes. Worked examples are illustrative estimates based on the stated assumptions and are not quotes. Actual costs depend on usage, plan and negotiated terms.
Three reasons to choose Bigdata.com.
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Data · Technology
A company’s numbers and narrative, side by side
Look up a company by ticker, ISIN, CUSIP or SEDOL. Get its financials (statements, ratios, estimates and prices) alongside everything published about it. Financial data comes with a sentiment score and the right to use it in your answers. The Bigdata.com connector adds ready-made company and market tearsheets and a company screener.
02
Data · Commercials
Licensed content, with the right to use it
Premium content is licensed from its publishers or their authorised distributors, and each use comes with the right to ground your AI answers in it for your internal purposes, in Claude, ChatGPT or, under an enterprise agreement, your own agents, as set out in our Terms of Service.
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Integration · Technology
The same data in your Apps and your own agents
Use the same licensed financial data in Claude or ChatGPT and, under an enterprise agreement, in your own internal agents through our REST API. Each provider is named in our data catalog.
For teams, and for individuals.
Individuals and small teams
For individual analysts and small teams
Start free and pay as you go. Even the free Starter plan includes company financials: statements, estimates and prices. Add Bigdata.com to Claude or ChatGPT and get sourced answers from the open web and from financial data, with ready-made research workflows, tearsheets and a screener. In the Bigdata.com app, keep watchlists and get briefs on the companies you follow.
Start with $10 in free credits, and top up or pick Pro or Max for monthly credits. Self-serve plans are for individual use; to build or power a product, talk to us about an enterprise agreement.
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Teams and enterprises
For teams and enterprises
Enterprise buyers usually weigh three things: do you have the rights to the content, will security approve it, and how many contracts will you manage? Here’s where Bigdata.com stands on each.
Rights
A right to ground AI answers in our content for your internal purposes, in Claude, ChatGPT or, under an enterprise agreement, your own agents, as set out in our Terms of Service.
Security
ISO/IEC 27001 certified; SOC 2 Type II report available under NDA; SSO and audit logs on Enterprise. Hosted in the US and Ireland; EU data residency available under enterprise agreements, subject to scope. Certain features, such as web search, involve processing by subprocessors outside the EU.
One search
The open web, financial data, the licences you already hold and your own documents in the same search.
Commercials
Committed-spend pricing with volume discounts.
See how investment banks, asset managers, research firms and wealth managers use Bigdata.com. Read our client stories
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The same job, two ways.
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Recap one company’s earnings
Perplexity
Perplexity Finance shows live and past earnings calls and the company’s financials, and its answer engine summarizes them with citations.
Bigdata.com
Look up the company by ticker, and the agent pulls its Quartr earnings-call transcript, SEC filings and premium news such as Benzinga Pro and The Fly, plus recent web coverage. All on pay as you go. S&P Global transcripts come in if you hold that licence, and FactSet transcripts once your FactSet licence is activated through us.
02
Screen, then read
Screen for companies whose margins fell last quarter, then pull what management said about it on the call.
Perplexity
Computer can run multi-step finance tasks with its built-in finance tools, and its API’s Finance Search returns financials by ticker.
Bigdata.com
The company screener, financial ratios and Quartr transcripts work together on pay as you go, matched to the same companies.
03
Ground your own agent’s answers
Perplexity
Its Agent API returns cited answers from the web and from Finance Search. The licensed connectors you hold aren’t available through it.
Bigdata.com
Returns passages from financial data about the companies you looked up, with sentiment scores and the right to use them, plus web results when you ask for them.
04
Ask quick questions on your phone
Perplexity
Perplexity is built for this: free, fast cited answers in its mobile apps and browser.
Bigdata.com
Ask in Claude or ChatGPT, on any device where you use them.
What you’ll pay.
Prices as of [date]; check the pricing pages for current rates: Bigdata.com pricing · Perplexity pricing · Perplexity API pricing
An individual analyst
Perplexity
Free
Free plan with daily limits; Pro $20 a month or $200 a year; Max $200 a month
Bigdata.com
Free
Free to start with $10 in credits, then pay as you go; or Pro at $40 a month billed yearly ($50 monthly) with $50 of credit each month. Example research workflows on our pricing page cost $0.57 to $1.82 a run: $0.57 for a post-earnings flash, $1.70 for an initiation report.
A developer running 1,000 searches a day
Perplexity
≈$30–$150/mo
About $150 a month on the Search API (30,000 × $5 per 1,000), or $30 with Fast Search. Cited answers at the Agent API’s fast level run about $40–$70 a month at Perplexity’s example token counts.
Bigdata.com
Per token
Pay as you go per token, from fractions of a cent, with rates by content type in your account. Subscribing to a content set removes its per-token content charge; search and retrieval tokens still apply.
A team of 10 analysts
Perplexity
≈$4,000/yr
Enterprise Pro at $400 per seat a year, so about $4,000 for 10 seats; API use billed separately
Bigdata.com
Committed
Committed spend with volume discounts, SSO, audit logs and an SLA
List prices as published by each provider, excluding applicable taxes. Worked examples are illustrative estimates based on the stated assumptions and are not quotes. Actual costs depend on usage, plan and negotiated terms.
Keep both, or use one.
Already using Perplexity? Keep it.
Add Bigdata.com in Claude or ChatGPT, or through our API, for licensed financial data you can use in your own internal agents, matched to companies by ISIN or ticker.
Starting fresh? Get both in one.
Bigdata.com covers both: open-web results and financial data in the same search, on one bill.
Questions, answered.
Start free with $10 in credits.
Pay as you go after that on the Starter plan, or book a demo for your team.
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