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S&P Capital IQ alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of S&P Capital IQ, shown against it.
| S&P Capital IQ | Bloomberg Terminal | FactSet | LSEG Workspace | |
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| Vendor | S&P Global Market Intelligence | Bloomberg L.P. | FactSet Research Systems Inc. | London Stock Exchange Group |
| Pricing model | Quote only | Quote only | Quote only | Quote only |
| Free tier | No | No | No | No |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open source | No | No | No | No |
| Best for | Investment banking, private equity and equity research teams needing standardized comps and private-company data. | Trading desks, portfolio managers and sell-side research teams who need real-time cross-asset data and a counterparty chat network in one terminal. | Buy-side research teams and IB analysts who want deep Excel/API workflows alongside cross-asset data. | Investment banking, sales/trading and wealth management teams already inside the LSEG/Refinitiv data ecosystem. |
| Pricing | Sold per seat under a negotiated enterprise contract; no public price list. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Sold per seat under an annual contract negotiated directly with Bloomberg sales; no public price list. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | Sold per seat/workstation under a negotiated enterprise contract; no public price list. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Sold per seat under a negotiated enterprise contract; no public price list. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. |
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