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Top 5 Clarivate Cortellis Alternatives & Competitors for Life Sciences Teams (2027)

Cortellis and DRG, formerly Clarivate's Life Sciences & Healthcare business, have been owned by Altaris since the sale closed on 6 October 2026, and their pricing is not published. For curated R&D data the closest alternatives are Citeline, GlobalData, Evaluate and AlphaSense; for BD and sales teams that need account signals, contacts and outreach, Salesmotion starts at $85/month on a monthly contract.

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Semir JahicBy Semir JahicCEO & Co-Founder, SalesmotionLast reviewed

Top picks at a glance

  1. #1

    Salesmotion

    Best for: Life sciences BD and sales teams that need account intelligence, buying signals, and meeting prep on a monthly contract

  2. #2

    Citeline (Norstella)

    Best for: Pharma R&D, clinical operations, and BD teams that need a direct Cortellis alternative with proprietary pipeline and trial databases

  3. #3

    AlphaSense

    Best for: Competitive intelligence, BD, and medical affairs teams that need AI document research with expert call access

At a glance

How Clarivate Alternatives Compare

Side-by-side comparison of the key capabilities that matter most.

FeatureSalesmotionCitelineAlphaSenseGlobalDataEvaluate (Norstella)
Primary FocusAI account intelligence & selling signalsDrug pipeline & clinical trial databasesAI document search with expert call transcriptsConnected pharma intelligence platformConsensus drug-sales forecasting
Clinical Trial DataScans & consolidates trials globally from ClinicalTrials.gov + public registriesTrialtrove: 555,000+ trials from 70,000+ data sourcesLife sciences content covering clinical trials and biomedical researchTrials Intelligence moduleConsensus forecasts for almost 6,000 drugs; Biomedtracker
Buying Signals50+ signal types monitored across 1,000+ sourcesPipeline and trial events inside the research platformMonitoring product in the platformBuying signals from patents, filings, jobs, social and news (Sales Intelligence)Forecasts and competitive intelligence
AI CapabilitiesCited AI briefs, talking points, outreach draftsElla AI chat assistant for building and validating search strategiesGenerative Search and Deep Research with citationsAva, an AI research analyst; Sam, an AI sales analystAsk Ella AI analyst; Evaluate Omnium risk/return modelling
IntegrationNative Salesforce integration; HubSpot integration; REST API and MCPSitetrove and Trialtrove linked by TrialtroveIDConnectors; PowerPoint & Excel add-insSalesforce or HubSpot, REST API, Snowflake and MCPData Feeds product
Pricing$85/mo for individuals. Custom pricing for teams & enterprise.Custom, enterprise-onlyCustom; annual subscriptionsCustom, demo-gatedCustom, enterprise-only
Best ForBD & sales teams needing account contextR&D & clinical ops needing pipeline dataCI teams needing document researchStrategy teams needing market intelligenceStrategy, corporate development, and finance teams
Rating (G2)4.8/5—4.7/5——

Why teams are evaluating Clarivate alternatives

In July 2026, Clarivate announced the sale of its Life Sciences & Healthcare division to Altaris LLC for $600 million. The sale closed on 6 October 2026, and the business, which includes Cortellis, DRG Fusion and BioWorld, now operates as an independent company under Altaris. A change of owner is a natural point to review what each team actually uses.

That review usually splits a contract into two parts. R&D, regulatory and market-access teams rely on curated data: Cortellis modules for competitive, deals, clinical trials and regulatory intelligence, and DRG for market assessment and epidemiology. Commercial teams often use the same subscription for a different job, such as account research, competitive monitoring and meeting preparation.

The key distinction is between proprietary data needs and intelligence workflow needs. Teams that need curated regulatory intelligence, real-world data or drug pipeline records compare Cortellis with Citeline or GlobalData. Teams that need account intelligence, buying signals and outreach support for BD and sales are better served by a platform built for selling, such as Salesmotion.

What buyers tell us

We held 55 sales and customer calls between August and October 2026, 17 of them with life sciences teams. The recurring theme was timing: reaching a sponsor before the vendor decision is made.

“if we reach out too late, I don't care how well my messages ... If they've already signed for like their phase two study, they're just not going to be interested.”
Business development rep, CRO
“So how confident are you that your data is up to date?”
Business development rep, CRO
“I would like to replace kind of the highly manual process of using multiple different tools and a significant amount of time”
Business development, CRO

Why Trust This Guide?

Semir Jahic, CEO & Co-Founder of Salesmotion

I'm Semir Jahic, CEO of Salesmotion. Last year we signed our first CRO customer, and since then we've added several more life sciences companies. I've seen firsthand how much time commercial teams spend toggling between research sources. Cytel, a 2,000+ employee life sciences analytics company, consolidated ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, SEC.gov, Google News and ClinicalTrials.gov into Salesmotion and cut account research time by 50%. This guide comes from real conversations with life sciences commercial teams, and every competitor fact in it was checked against the vendor's own site.

Semir Jahic — CEO & Co-Founder, Salesmotion

Detailed Breakdown

Best Clarivate Alternatives

An in-depth look at each platform, including features, pricing, and limitations.

1

Salesmotion

Our Pick
G2: 4.8/5 (26 reviews)

Salesmotion is an AI account intelligence platform that helps life sciences BD and sales teams research accounts, track buying signals, and personalize outreach from publicly available data. It synthesizes intelligence from over 1,000 sources (news, earnings calls, job postings, press releases, clinical trial registries, leadership changes) into cited account briefs with AI-generated talking points.

Cortellis is built on internally curated databases for R&D and regulatory teams. Salesmotion is built for the commercial team: it scans and consolidates clinical trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov and equivalent public registries worldwide, monitors 50+ signal types, and drafts outreach anchored to what changed at the account.

Cytel, a 2,000+ employee life sciences analytics company, consolidated ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, SEC.gov, Google News and ClinicalTrials.gov into Salesmotion, cut account research time by 50%, and made account planning 30% faster.

Best for:Life sciences BD and sales teams that need account intelligence, buying signals, and meeting prep on a monthly contract

Key Features

  • Cited AI account briefs from 1,000+ public sources, including global clinical trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov and public registries
  • Real-time buying signal monitoring: earnings, leadership changes, clinical trials, hiring, news
  • Cross-signal keyword search across all accounts and data types
  • AI-generated talking points and outreach drafts anchored to real events
  • Native Salesforce integration and HubSpot integration; REST API and MCP server
  • Published pricing on a monthly contract

Limitations

  • Cortellis and Citeline remain the right choice for internally curated pipeline and regulatory databases
  • DRG is the tool for real-world data and market-access analytics
  • Built for commercial teams working from public sources
Pricing: $85/mo for individuals — flexible monthly billing. Custom pricing for teams and enterprise on request.
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Citeline (Norstella)

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Citeline is part of Norstella, alongside Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group, and is the most direct alternative to the Cortellis suite. Its flagship products, Pharmaprojects, Trialtrove and Sitetrove, cover drug pipeline intelligence, clinical trial intelligence and site selection, with proprietary data curated for over 40 years.

Citeline's "+" products add AI and analytics: Pharmaprojects+ includes Drug Similarity, Advanced Analytics, Company Compare and Ella, an AI chat assistant that helps create and validate search strategies. Norstella describes NorstellaLinQ, which connects data across its brands, as the biopharma industry's first fully integrated data asset.

For teams that want a like-for-like Cortellis alternative with proprietary curated data, Citeline is the most natural fit.

Best for:Pharma R&D, clinical operations, and BD teams that need a direct Cortellis alternative with proprietary pipeline and trial databases

Key Features

  • 100,000+ drug profiles, tracked for over 40 years (Pharmaprojects)
  • 555,000+ clinical trials from 70,000+ data sources (Trialtrove)
  • Ella AI chat assistant for creating and validating search strategies
  • 580,000+ investigators and 208,000+ clinical trial sites across 185 countries (Sitetrove)
  • NorstellaLinQ integrated data asset across the Norstella brands
  • Direct, unlimited access to therapeutically aligned expert analysts

Limitations

  • Pricing is not published
  • Built for R&D and clinical operations, not sales prospecting
  • People data covers investigators and sites
Pricing: Citeline does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization; its product pages (Pharmaprojects, Trialtrove, Sitetrove) offer a demo request or a contact form instead of a price.
3

AlphaSense

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AlphaSense is an AI market intelligence platform that takes a different approach from Cortellis. Instead of curated proprietary databases, it uses generative AI to search and reason across more than 500 million documents from premium private and public sources: equity research from 1,000+ firms, regulatory filings, earnings transcripts, news, expert call transcripts, and life sciences content covering clinical trials and biomedical research.

For life sciences teams, the draw is asking natural-language questions across all of that content and getting cited answers, plus Tegus expert insights and an expert call service. Deep Research works as an AI agent that produces analyst-style output, and Enterprise Intelligence brings your internal documents into the same search.

AlphaSense says it serves 8,000+ enterprise customers.

Best for:Competitive intelligence, BD, and medical affairs teams that need AI document research with expert call access

Key Features

  • Generative Search across 500M+ premium documents, with citations
  • Tegus expert insights and expert call services
  • Deep Research and Workflow Agents
  • Life sciences content covering clinical trials and biomedical research
  • Canalyst financial models and PowerPoint & Excel add-ins
  • Enterprise Intelligence: search internal documents alongside external content

Limitations

  • Document search across clinical-trial and biomedical content, not a curated pipeline database
  • Built for document research and financial data; Salesmotion is built for account signals, contacts and outreach
  • Sold as annual subscriptions, with pricing on request
Pricing: AlphaSense does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization; its pricing page says it sells annual subscriptions ranging from enterprise packages to per-seat options, with a "Get Started for Free" button but no stated trial length.
4

GlobalData

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GlobalData provides broad market intelligence across pharmaceuticals and many other industries. Its pharmaceutical intelligence platform brings drugs, trials, therapeutic analysis, pricing and patents into one connected platform, built on over 290 proprietary datasets and validated by more than 2,000 experts and pharma market specialists. Its Price Intelligence module covers drug pricing and market access.

GlobalData's strength is breadth, which makes it useful for strategy teams that need cross-market views. It also sells a Sales Intelligence product with buying signals drawn from patents, company filings, jobs, social media and news, and an AI sales analyst called Sam that generates account plans and pitch scripts.

Delivery options are wide: a REST API, Snowflake, MCP access for AI assistants, and account intelligence inside Salesforce or HubSpot.

Best for:Strategy and BD teams that need broad cross-sector market intelligence

Key Features

  • Drugs Intelligence, Trials Intelligence, Therapeutic Analysis and Price Intelligence modules
  • Over 290 proprietary datasets validated by 2,000+ experts
  • Ava, an AI research analyst
  • Sales Intelligence with Sam, an AI sales analyst
  • REST API, Snowflake delivery and MCP access
  • Account intelligence inside Salesforce or HubSpot

Limitations

  • Platform pricing is not published
  • Built for research and strategy teams
  • Verified emails and direct dials are not marketed
Pricing: GlobalData does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization for its platform, though it lists prices for individual store reports and offers trials on request. Vendr reports a median of $68,500 a year (observed range $43,000–$73,875), so treat any single figure as approximate.
5

Evaluate (Norstella)

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Evaluate is a commercial-intelligence and forecasting business for life sciences, founded in 1996 and now part of Norstella, the same group as Citeline. It serves teams inside pharma and biotech who need to understand a market, and its pricing page also addresses financial services, consulting, medtech, CDMO and CRO buyers.

Its flagship, Evaluate Pharma, is the reference consensus-forecast dataset, with 1.5M+ consensus forecasts of 10,000 products dating back to 2003. Evaluate Omnium adds risk and return modelling, and Ask Ella is an AI analyst that returns sourced, citable answers from Evaluate's data.

Where Cortellis leans on curated R&D and regulatory data, Evaluate leans on forecasting and valuation. Strategy, corporate development and finance teams use it for market sizing, portfolio comparison and asset modelling.

Best for:Strategy, corporate development, and finance teams that need consensus forecasts, valuation inputs, and market sizing

Key Features

  • Evaluate Pharma consensus drug-sales forecasts
  • 1.5M+ consensus forecasts of 10,000 products, dating back to 2003
  • Ask Ella, an AI analyst with sourced, citable answers
  • Evaluate Omnium risk and return modelling
  • Biomedtracker, Evaluate Medtech and CDMO Intelligence
  • Data Feeds

Limitations

  • Built for forecasting and valuation, not day-to-day commercial prospecting
  • Pricing is tailored per organization and not published
  • Delivery is through its products and Data Feeds
Pricing: Evaluate does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization; its pricing page states pricing is tailored to each organization's data requirements, users and workflows.

Customer Story

How Cytel cut research time by 50% and consolidated 5 research sources into one

50%

less research time

5 → 1

research sources consolidated

30%

faster account planning

“All of the vendors that I've worked with, all of the onboarding that I have had to deal with, I will say, hands down, Salesmotion was the easiest that I have had.”

Lyndsay Thomson

Lyndsay Thomson

Head of Sales Operations, Cytel

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Founder's Take

“Let me be direct: Cortellis and DRG hold internally curated data that we do not replicate, including curated regulatory intelligence, analyst-annotated pipeline data and DRG's real-world data and commercial analytics. If your R&D or regulatory affairs team needs those datasets, you need Cortellis or Citeline. Salesmotion does a different job. We track clinical trials globally from ClinicalTrials.gov and public registries, alongside 1,000+ other sources, and turn that into signals, briefs and outreach for BD and sales. With the business under a new owner, the question I'd ask is simple: which teams use the curated data, and which teams mostly need account context for selling?”
Semir Jahic

Semir Jahic

CEO & Co-Founder, Salesmotion

Summary

Key Takeaways

  1. 1Clarivate sold its Life Sciences & Healthcare business, which includes Cortellis, DRG and BioWorld, to Altaris for $600 million. The sale closed on 6 October 2026 and the business now operates as an independent company.
  2. 2Citeline (Norstella) is the most direct Cortellis alternative: deep drug pipeline and clinical trial databases, with the Ella AI assistant in its "+" products. It does not publish pricing.
  3. 3AlphaSense takes a different approach: generative AI search across 500M+ documents, including equity research and expert call transcripts.
  4. 4GlobalData offers a connected pharma intelligence platform built on over 290 proprietary datasets, plus a separate Sales Intelligence product.
  5. 5Evaluate (Norstella) is the reference for consensus drug-sales forecasting, built for strategy, corp-dev and finance teams.
  6. 6Salesmotion covers the commercial workflow from $85/month: it scans and consolidates clinical trials from ClinicalTrials.gov and public registries alongside 1,000+ other sources, and turns them into signals, cited briefs and outreach drafts.
An honest take

Where Salesmotion isn't the right fit

We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Salesmotion isn't for everyone — here's when another option on this page is the smarter call.

  • You need a built-in email sequencer or dialer. Salesmotion is account intelligence, not a sending tool — it's built to sit alongside Outreach, Salesloft, or Apollo, not replace them.
  • You're buying purely for raw contact volume. Dedicated data vendors like ZoomInfo and Apollo carry larger raw contact databases.
  • You want a free-forever tier. Salesmotion starts at $85/mo for individuals — there's no free plan.
  • Your motion is pure high-volume SMB outbound. The depth pays off most on considered, higher-ACV deals where understanding the account actually changes the conversation.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What changed for Cortellis and DRG customers after the sale?

Clarivate completed the sale of its Life Sciences & Healthcare business to Altaris LLC on 6 October 2026. The business now operates as an independent company; Altaris has not published roadmap or pricing changes. Read our analysis of the sale.

What is the best Clarivate alternative for life sciences sales teams?

It depends on your primary need. If you need a like-for-like alternative to Cortellis with proprietary pipeline and trial databases, Citeline (Norstella) is the closest equivalent. If you need account intelligence, buying signals and meeting prep for BD and sales, Salesmotion is built for that workflow. See how Cytel uses Salesmotion.

How much do Cortellis and its alternatives cost?

None of the research platforms publishes a price. The former Clarivate Life Sciences & Healthcare business (Cortellis, DRG), owned by Altaris since October 2026, does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization. Citeline, AlphaSense and Evaluate also quote per organization. GlobalData does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization for its platform, though it lists prices for individual store reports and offers trials on request. Vendr reports a median of $68,500 a year (observed range $43,000–$73,875), so treat any single figure as approximate. Salesmotion publishes its price: $85/mo for individuals — flexible monthly billing. Custom pricing for teams and enterprise on request.

Can AI platforms replace Cortellis's curated data?

For some jobs. Salesmotion synthesizes clinical trial activity, earnings calls, regulatory news and company announcements from public sources, which covers most of what BD and sales teams need for daily account work. Internally curated datasets, such as curated regulatory intelligence, real-world data and deep drug pipeline records, are a different asset and remain the reason R&D teams keep Cortellis or Citeline. Many teams keep selected curated modules for R&D and use an AI-native tool for commercial workflows.

Can I use Cortellis and Salesmotion together?

Yes. They serve different teams. Cortellis and DRG give R&D, regulatory and market-access teams curated data. Salesmotion gives BD and sales teams signals, cited account briefs, contacts and outreach drafts, with a native Salesforce integration, a HubSpot integration, a REST API and an MCP server. Running both makes sense where the commercial team needs account context for selling and the research teams need the curated data.

Which alternative is best for CROs and CDMOs?

These platforms sell research and data, including to CROs and CDMOs. Salesmotion covers the selling motion itself: signals from earnings calls, SEC filings, hiring and strategic news, with verified contacts and drafted outreach. See sales intelligence for clinical research.

Who are the main competitors to Cortellis?

The Cortellis competitors and alternatives compared on this page are Citeline, Evaluate, GlobalData, AlphaSense and Salesmotion. Citeline (Pharmaprojects, Trialtrove and Sitetrove) is the closest like-for-like for curated pipeline and trial data, and its sister brand Evaluate is the reference for consensus forecasts. GlobalData offers broad market intelligence across pharmaceuticals and other industries, and AlphaSense is an AI market intelligence platform for document research. Salesmotion covers a different job: signals, cited account briefs, contacts and outreach drafts for BD and sales teams.

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