Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-22
FactSet sells a modular terminal. The filing, ownership, and transcript modules sit on documents we already hold. Estimates, live prices, and StreetAccount stay a license.
The row stays slice. Filings, ownership, insiders, transcripts, and people are the workstation slice already in the graph. Estimates, live prices, StreetAccount, and aftermarket broker research stay a license. No seat price is printed. The FAQ says the cost varies and to contact sales. A marketplace schema price of 0.0 is not a plan.
| Feature | FactSet | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What an analyst opens | The Workstation is the desktop, the web, and Excel and PowerPoint, sold as one modular terminal. JSON-LD on the workstation page names investment research, portfolio analytics and performance, portfolio management and trading, and FactSet Intelligence. The investment-research page adds aftermarket research, company and security data, news, and the Signals API. Catalog modules in that workflow are Estimates, Fundamentals, Ownership, Global Filings, Events and Transcripts, and Transcript Intelligence. | Console is the filing workstation on the graph already in house: as-reported financials, ownership, insiders, people, transcripts, and the agreement file. Portfolio trading and a risk model are a different product. | Match |
| Who they say uses it | The workstation page says 200,000-plus users, 800-plus data sources, and 40-plus years. The quant path says 1,100-plus datasets and 120-plus risk models. The FAQ says over 9,100 firms. | The buyer for the filing slice is the same analyst. The seat we can sell is the graph, with a citation back to the filing. | Match |
| Feature | FactSet | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filings | The global filings API, added 2025-05-16, names EDGAR, SEDAR and SEDAR Plus, EDINET, ASX, HKEX, and TDNet, plus FactSet Annuals and Interims and a FactSet blackline report. | US filings are extracted and joined. SEDAR company filings continue through QuoteMedia: 1,677,842 filings across 3,640 companies as of 2026-10-08. EDINET, ASX, HKEX, and TDNet are public filings, one regime at a time. | Partial |
| Ownership | The ownership page, current as of January 2026, counts mutual funds 193,822, institutions 41,741, managing institutions 13,800, insiders 387,562, and stakeholders 1,177,479, across 17-plus years and 120 countries. The source line is company and institutional filings, investor reports, and press releases. | US 13F is 196,788 amendment-resolved filings and 11,646 managers. N-PORT is 84.4 million raw holding rows from 2019-09-30. 13D and 13G are 58,487 filings. Form 4 and Form 5 are 11.28 million classified transactions across 19,910 issuers and 209,003 people, insider note of 2026-09-19. Their insider count and ours are different objects. | Ahead |
| Fundamentals | The fundamentals feed says 750-plus items. The fundamentals API, indexed 2026-10-13, says 1,400-plus items, 116 countries, and 86,000-plus companies. Officers and directors on the feed are 500,000-plus. The region table of entities starts in 1979 to 1981. | As-reported face statements are about 473,000 filing-rows, KPI note of 2026-09-19. A standardized item list across 86,000 companies is a model on filings, and the non-US collection is still a parser per regime. | Partial |
| Events and transcripts | The XML transcripts feed says 1.7 million-plus corporate events. The events API, added 2025-05-28, names CallStreet as the proprietary events and transcripts provider. Entity counts on the 2018 XML page and the May 2025 API do not match. Transcript Intelligence is a summary reviewed by StreetAccount industry experts. | The call file as of 2026-10-14 holds 264,816 pointers, 189,500 joined to a company. A summary on that text is a model. StreetAccount's review step stays their desk. | Partial |
| Feature | FactSet | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates | Estimates and consensus, page added 2018-02-16, says 19,000-plus active companies in 90-plus countries, 800-plus contributors in 55 countries, 200-plus items, and 20-plus years, collected from contributor reports and flat files. The same page's region table is unlabeled and much larger: Asia 21,650 entities, North America 16,540, Europe 15,120, and smaller regions. | An estimate we train on filings and transcripts is our number. Their contributor consensus stays a license. The two company counts are left as printed. | Beside |
| Prices, broker research, and the seat | Pricing and reference data covers end-of-day and real-time prices, 40-plus years. Aftermarket research is millions of reports from over 1,800 brokerages, more than 20 years. The FAQ says the cost varies by use case and to contact sales. Marketplace JSON-LD offers.price of 0.0 is schema markup. | A live price, a contributor research report, and StreetAccount stay a license. The filing workstation can be priced on its own. | Gap |
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 Estimates, live prices, StreetAccount, and aftermarket broker research stay a license. A model on the filings we hold is our number.