Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-22
Calcbench sells as-reported XBRL and the earnings release, traced to the document. That book is live. Nothing material in the core sits outside EDGAR.
The row stays now. As-reported XBRL and earnings-release fundamentals are the product, and that book is live. Nothing material in the core is outside EDGAR. Professional is 12,000 dollars per year per user. Premium is 6,000. Basic is free. The feature grid's checkmarks did not come through as text.
| Feature | Calcbench | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What an analyst opens | Calcbench is an SEC filing workstation. As-filed 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and earnings releases, footnote and disclosure search, peer comparison, point-in-time data, an Excel add-in, an API, and a web platform. The line is trace every value back to the source document. Founded 2011. Aimed at buy-side and sell-side analysts, quants, auditors, academics, and corporate finance. CFA charterholders get free personal use through the CFA Institute Investment Data Alliance. A two-week Premium trial is offered. | As-reported XBRL and earnings-release fundamentals are the product, and that book is live. A citation back to the filing is the same promise. | Ahead |
| The price | The pricing page says Professional is 12,000 dollars per year per user, Premium is 6,000 dollars per year per user, and Basic is free with sign-up. API and multi-user are contact us, with no public dollar figure. Academic Premium for a whole school is 6,000 dollars a year, Professional is 12,000 dollars per year, and the API is an additional 6,000 dollars. The feature-grid checkmarks did not come through as text, so which tier includes which tool is not assigned here. | The same EDGAR book can be priced as a seat. Their grid is their packaging. | Match |
| Feature | Calcbench | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companies and documents | The data page says over 12,000 listed public companies. Every number from the financials and footnotes of every 10-K, 10-Q, and earnings release, plus proxies, 8-Ks, and SEC comment letters. Filings are processed five minutes after leaving the CFO's desk. | Face statements are about 473,000 filing-rows. Sections are 17,871,301 across eight form families, 2016 through 2026. New filings land in the section index within about 30 minutes. Comment-letter examiner threads are the piece still to structure. The documents themselves are in EDGAR. | Ahead |
| As-reported, point in time | The product is the number as filed, with the period it belonged to. No estimates vendor is named. No S&P, FactSet, or Morningstar feed is named. The stated source is SEC XBRL and earnings press releases. | The face statement is the as-reported number. A standardized peer template on that XBRL is a model. Nothing material in the core sits outside EDGAR. | Ahead |
| Footnotes and peers | Footnote and disclosure search, and a peer comparison, are the tools around the filing. | The clause index is about 30.8 million typed SEC clauses, 1994 through 2026. A peer set on shared tags is a screen on the same XBRL. | Ahead |
Ahead The feature is data we already hold, in a form an investor can use.
Match Both products do this.
Partial We hold the filing or the extract, and not their finished screen.
Gap They ship it. We do not.
Beside A comment-letter examiner database, if they sell one beyond the filed letter, is a writing layer. The letter itself is in EDGAR.