Cortellis Alternative: Daily Trial Monitoring Without the Sales Call

Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence by Clarivate is a clinical-trial intelligence product: pricing is not published and access starts with a demo request. DataLookout is self-serve at $49 or $149 a month and does one job: telling you when trials change.

Who actually looks for a Cortellis alternative

Someone who already knows Cortellis is the answer to "where do I search": in an r/biotech thread asking which site shows which company has which drug in which phase, Cortellis was the top-voted answer, with Citeline, Evaluate and GlobalData behind it. The question DataLookout answers is the next one: what changed in those trials since yesterday. (r/biotech thread, June 2024)
A multi-platform user wrote that relying on any single pipeline-intelligence platform misses a share of updates, so they keep two or more accounts and cross-check them by hand. (r/biotech thread, reply from January 2026)
A biotech selecting an intelligence platform found GlobalData, Citeline and IQVIA expensive and overkill for a company with a specific focus. (r/biotech thread, October 2024)

DataLookout is the change-tracking layer for that second question: one seat, free to start, $49/month for Starter, no procurement. It does not replace Cortellis for search by target or indication, and does not try to.

Feature	Cortellis	DataLookout
Pricing	Not published; demo request	$0-149/month, public, self-serve
Contract	Not stated on the product page	Monthly, cancel anytime
Daily change detection	Not mentioned	Automated daily, severity-classified
Change alerts by email	Not mentioned	Built-in on every plan
Endpoint, site-count and enrollment changes	Not mentioned	Detected automatically, 12 tracked fields
Trial data	689,000+ trials, analyst-curated (Cortellis figure)	ClinicalTrials.gov (150,000+ trials)
Deals, regulatory, discovery intelligence	Yes, separate Cortellis modules	No
Site selection and trial-design analytics	Yes	No
Setup	Demo request	2 minutes
Free tier	None mentioned	Yes, free forever

What Cortellis offers

Cortellis is a suite of life-sciences intelligence products from Clarivate. Its Clinical Trials Intelligence product page (checked August 22, 2026) describes analyst-curated trial data covering 689,000+ trials, 220,000+ sites and 46,000+ sponsors (its figures), built for trial design, endpoint selection and site identification. The wider suite lists separate Competitive Intelligence, Deals Intelligence, Drug Discovery Intelligence, Regulatory Intelligence and CMC Intelligence products.

Trial-design and site-selection analytics on analyst-curated trial data
Competitive intelligence as a separate module
Deals, regulatory and CMC intelligence as separate modules
Sold by demo request; no published price and no free tier mentioned

Where DataLookout fits

If the question you ask most often is did anything change in my competitors' trials today?, you do not need all of Cortellis to answer it.

DataLookout monitors the ClinicalTrials.gov records you watch every day and tells you what changed: a trial started recruiting, enrollment increased, a primary endpoint was modified, new sites opened. Each change is classified as critical, notable, or minor so you know what matters.

Cortellis covers deals, regulatory and discovery intelligence and site-selection analytics; DataLookout does not. If the job is daily trial-change monitoring at a price you can see before you start, DataLookout is built for that.

Who DataLookout is built for

Small and mid-size biotech teams that want trial monitoring without a procurement process
BD professionals at larger pharma who need a personal monitoring layer alongside enterprise tools
Investors and analysts who track specific sponsors or therapeutic areas
Teams between enterprise subscriptions who need immediate coverage

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is DataLookout a good alternative to Cortellis?

DataLookout is a focused alternative for teams that need daily clinical trial change detection without a demo request. It monitors ClinicalTrials.gov daily for status changes, endpoint modifications, enrollment shifts, and site expansions. Free forever for 1 sponsor + 1 disease watchlist.

How much does DataLookout cost compared to Cortellis?

DataLookout starts at $0/month (free forever with 1 sponsor + 1 disease watchlist). Paid plans are $49/month (Starter) and $149/month (Pro). Pricing is public and self-serve, with no annual contract and no sales call.

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1 sponsor + 1 disease watchlist with daily change detection. Free forever, no credit card.

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