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 a month or $490 a year 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 Pro, 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, or $49/month, public, self-serve |
| Contract | Not stated on the product page | Monthly or yearly, cancel anytime |
| Daily change detection | Not mentioned | Automated daily, each change marked Stopped, Notable or Minor |
| Change digest by email | Not mentioned | Built-in on every plan |
| Endpoint, site-count and enrollment changes | Not mentioned | Detected automatically, 13 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 does Cortellis offer?
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 does DataLookout fit?
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 marked Stopped, Notable or Minor, so you can see what matters first.
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 is DataLookout 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
Frequently asked questions
Try DataLookout free
1 sponsor + 1 disease watchlist with daily change detection. Free forever, no credit card.
Get started freeDataLookout checks ClinicalTrials.gov every day and records what changed on each trial: status, enrollment, phase, primary endpoint, completion dates, sites, sponsor, and the stated reason a trial stopped. Add a sponsor or a disease to your watchlist, or save any search, and the changes arrive in a daily or weekly email digest.
Free, $0 forever: 1 sponsor + 1 disease watchlist, 1 saved search in your email digest, track up to 5 individual trials, daily change detection, Trials at Risk (top 2 trials), the weekly report (top 3 trials). No credit card.
Pro, $49/month or $490/year: 10 sponsor + 10 disease watchlists, 10 saved searches in your email digest, track up to 25 individual trials, full Trials at Risk list, Completions calendar, the full weekly report, landscape reports, CSV export.