How much does Grata cost?

Grata does not publish a price. Its pricing page names three tiers and gates every one behind a demo request. The only dollar figures Grata publishes anywhere on its own site are on its referral page, which uses $20,000 and $30,000 contracts as worked examples. Third-party review sites report roughly $25,000 to $50,000 per year depending on seat count, which Grata has not confirmed.

What are the real alternatives to Grata?

Not other databases, in most cases. People shopping for an alternative are usually short of outreach capacity rather than data. The genuine alternatives are a self-directed deal marketplace, an outsourced outbound retainer, a buy-side broker or retained search, and a platform paired with an origination team. They differ in who does the calling, not in how many companies they hold.

Does Grata cover the lower middle market?

Grata states it covers bootstrapped and founder-owned companies among its 22M+ records. It publishes no breakdown by revenue or EBITDA band, so there is no figure to check that against, and its published accuracy claims for Seller Intent are scoped to mid-market and large-cap deals. Take the coverage claim at face value and test it against your own sector before buying.

Is a data platform worth it for a two-person deal team?

It depends which half of the job you are short of. A platform turns a universe into a short list, which is real value for a small team. It does not make the calls, and a two-person team usually runs out of hours before it runs out of names. If that is your situation, capacity is the purchase, not coverage.

What does a sourcing service do that a data platform does not?

It runs the outreach and the process. Approaching owners who have not started a process, confirming that a listed deal is actually available rather than under LOI, assessing the match against your mandate, qualifying the opportunity and handing over a deal with its file assembled so you enter the process with a foothold. None of that is a database function, and no database vendor claims it.

What happened to Sourcescrub?

Datasite acquired Grata in June 2025 with a stated $500M investment commitment, then acquired Sourcescrub in August 2025 and is folding its data into Grata. Grata's site carried a joining-forces banner when we last reviewed it.

Comparison

Grata alternatives, compared honestly

Grata is a private-company data platform: it finds, enriches and scores companies. If what you are short of is the list, it is very good at supplying it. If what you are short of is the conversation — someone reaching the owner, confirming a deal is live, getting to an NDA — no data seat supplies that, and that is what most people shopping for an alternative are actually missing.

Last reviewed 2026-09-20

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Side by side

Four different things people mean by “a Grata alternative”

	Grata (private-company data platform)	Self-directed deal marketplace	Outsourced outbound retainer	OmniSource (platform plus origination team)
What you buy	Seats on a searchable database of private companies, with enrichment, scoring and CRM sync.	Access to a curated set of deals other members have listed, which you work yourself.	Capacity: a team that maps a universe and cold-calls owners on your behalf.	A sourcing platform and a human origination team on the same pipeline.
Who does the outreach	You. The platform produces the list and the contacts.	You. The provider states it does not act as a hands-on matchmaker.	The provider, using its own sending domains and calling team.	Our origination team. We approach the owner or the intermediary, qualify the opportunity and run the outreach, so you enter the process with a foothold.
Market coverage	22M+ private companies including bootstrapped and founder-owned. No published breakdown by revenue or EBITDA band.	Listed deals only, under $150M, from members who chose to post them.	Off-market only. The published stance of this model is to avoid brokered processes.	Off-Market, Pre-Market and On-Market in one pipeline, scored against a documented mandate.
Where it stops	At a scored list and a contact record. Nothing on the surface addresses who calls the owner or how you get to a CIM.	At an introduction. Everything after that is yours.	At a qualified founder meeting with a memo.	It does not stop at a list or a meeting. We hand over a verified deal with its file assembled, and we do not negotiate, structure or represent sellers.
Published price	None. Three tiers, all demo-gated. The only dollar figures Grata publishes are $20,000 and $30,000 worked examples on its referral page.	$299 per month, $149 for the first month, no success fee.	$4,000–$8,000 per month plus a success fee the provider describes as 1–2% on close. A flat-retainer variant runs $1,000–$3,000 per month with no success fee.	No price table on this site. What OmniSource costs is published on biznexus.com as part of membership and retained search.
Contract shape	Annual, reported by third parties as auto-renewing. Not published by Grata.	Month to month.	Month to month, exclusive to one client per sector and geography.	An engagement rather than a subscription. Terms on biznexus.com.

A note on what we have not put in the table. Grata is the strongest product in its category on database breadth and on tooling, and we do not claim otherwise — we do not publish a company count to compare against theirs, because we have not published one. The distinction that matters here is not size, it is where each model stops.

We have also left out the aggregator “median contract value” figures that circulate for Grata. The one most often quoted rests on a sample of six purchases at a stated confidence of 30%, which is not a number anyone should plan a budget around.

Our read

Who each one is right for

The table above is fact, sourced and dated. This section is judgment — ours, and we have an interest in it. Read it that way.

A team whose constraint is the list

If you have people who will make the calls and what you lack is a clean universe to call into, a data platform is the right purchase and the cheapest way to fix that problem. Buy the seats.

A team whose constraint is hours

If the list already exists and nobody has time to work it, another database makes the problem worse. What is missing is capacity, and that is either a hire or an outside team.

A self-directed buyer with time and a narrow thesis

A marketplace at a few hundred a month is a rational first purchase. You see listed deals and work them yourself. The ceiling is that you only see what somebody chose to list.

An off-market-only program

An outbound retainer does the volume work you cannot staff. Understand what you are buying: proprietary conversations, no coverage of the intermediated market, and a deliverable that ends at a meeting.

A mandate that needs all three channels

Most workable deals below $10M of EBITDA are intermediated, and the off-market ones take months. A program that covers only one of those is covered on a lag. That is the case for one pipeline across all three.

Anyone below the demo-gate

Grata's entry tier is named for family offices and independent sponsors, and its own referral examples are $20,000 and $30,000 contracts. If that is above your line, the honest answer is that the category was not priced for you.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask about this

How much does Grata cost?: Grata does not publish a price. Its pricing page names three tiers and gates every one behind a demo request. The only dollar figures Grata publishes anywhere on its own site are on its referral page, which uses $20,000 and $30,000 contracts as worked examples. Third-party review sites report roughly $25,000 to $50,000 per year depending on seat count, which Grata has not confirmed.
What are the real alternatives to Grata?: Not other databases, in most cases. People shopping for an alternative are usually short of outreach capacity rather than data. The genuine alternatives are a self-directed deal marketplace, an outsourced outbound retainer, a buy-side broker or retained search, and a platform paired with an origination team. They differ in who does the calling, not in how many companies they hold.
Does Grata cover the lower middle market?: Grata states it covers bootstrapped and founder-owned companies among its 22M+ records. It publishes no breakdown by revenue or EBITDA band, so there is no figure to check that against, and its published accuracy claims for Seller Intent are scoped to mid-market and large-cap deals. Take the coverage claim at face value and test it against your own sector before buying.
Is a data platform worth it for a two-person deal team?: It depends which half of the job you are short of. A platform turns a universe into a short list, which is real value for a small team. It does not make the calls, and a two-person team usually runs out of hours before it runs out of names. If that is your situation, capacity is the purchase, not coverage.
What does a sourcing service do that a data platform does not?: It runs the outreach and the process. Approaching owners who have not started a process, confirming that a listed deal is actually available rather than under LOI, assessing the match against your mandate, qualifying the opportunity and handing over a deal with its file assembled so you enter the process with a foothold. None of that is a database function, and no database vendor claims it.
What happened to Sourcescrub?: Datasite acquired Grata in June 2025 with a stated $500M investment commitment, then acquired Sourcescrub in August 2025 and is folding its data into Grata. Grata's site carried a joining-forces banner when we last reviewed it.

Sources

Every figure on this page, and where it came from

Competitor pricing changes without announcement. Each line records what the claim supports, the page it came from, the date we read it, and whether it is the vendor’s own published claim or a third-party report we could not confirm with the vendor. Two providers are described by category rather than named, and their links are withheld for that reason — we do not put a named comparison page in front of a smaller competitor. Their prices are their own published ones.

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Grata does not publish prices. Its pricing page names three tiers — Growth, Scale and Alpha — with no dollar figures; every button is a demo request. The Growth tier is named for family offices and independent sponsors, and lists access to a network of active advisor mandates.
https://grata.com/pricing · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page
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The only dollar figures Grata publishes anywhere on its own site are on its referral page, whose worked examples use a $20,000 contract and a $30,000 contract.
https://grata.com/referral · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page
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A third-party review site reports Grata at roughly $25,000 to $50,000 per year depending on seat count. Grata has not confirmed this and does not publish a price.
https://praxisrock.com/insights/pitchbook-alternatives · observed 2026-09-20 · Third party, not vendor-confirmed
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Grata states it covers 22M+ private companies including bootstrapped and founder-owned businesses, and reports 2,000+ customers. It publishes no breakdown by revenue or EBITDA band, so there is no published count of lower middle market companies to compare against.
https://grata.com · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page
05
Grata's Seller Intent scores flag companies it expects to enter a process in 6–12 months. Its published recall figures — 98% in the US and 89% in EMEA on back-tested 2025 transactions — are scoped by Grata to mid-market and large-cap deals.
https://grata.com · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page
06
Datasite acquired Grata in June 2025 with a stated $500M investment commitment, and acquired Sourcescrub in August 2025, folding its data into Grata.
https://www.datasite.com/en/company/news/datasite-acquires-leading-private-market-intelligence-company-grata-with--500-million-investment-commitment · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page
07
A self-directed private deal marketplace serving this market publishes buy-side access at $299 per month, $149 for the first month, month-to-month with no success fee, covering deals under $150M, with a monthly credit allowance rather than a deal cap. Named here by category only.
Observed 2026-08-21 · Provider's own published pricing page, not linked (see note)
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An outsourced outbound origination firm serving this market publishes a retainer of $4,000 to $8,000 per month plus a success fee it describes elsewhere as 1–2% on close, month-to-month, targeting companies at $1M to $10M of EBITDA, exclusive to one client per sector and geography, with a first qualified conversation typically 40 to 65 days after signing. Its published deliverable is a qualified founder meeting with a memo. A flat-retainer lead-generation model in the same group is published at $1,000 to $3,000 per month with no success fee on the standard tier and a first conversation at 60 to 90 days. Named here by category only.
Observed 2026-09-20 · Provider's own published pricing page, not linked (see note)
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BizNexus publishes what OmniSource costs as part of its membership and retained search offerings on biznexus.com. This site carries no price table; the figures live on one page so they cannot drift apart.
https://www.biznexus.com/compare · observed 2026-09-20 · Vendor's own page

The five sourcing models, on biznexus.com

BizNexus maintains the broader model-by-model comparison, including where each model fits a seller-side or advisor-side reader. This page is the buyer-side, price-anchored version of the same question.

https://www.biznexus.com/compare/deal-sourcing-platforms

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