Grata
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're a funded PE, banking, or corp-dev team sourcing private companies at scale . coverage and ratings are strong.
Comparison
Grata vs PitchBook
Grata and PitchBook both land on Depends.
PitchBook
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy only if you're a VC, PE, or M&A team pulling private-market deal data daily.
| Compare | Grata | PitchBook |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Lower-middle-market PE teams | VC and PE deal teams |
| Who it's not for | Solo searchers and SMB buyers . priced out | Startups fundraising on a budget |
| Privacy | SOC 2-compliant with end-to-end encryption and a public trust center; no public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.12 | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No direct evidence in sources | Full-service onboarding advertised; thin independent data |
| Public sentiment | Reviewers praise the search power and interface; the loudest complaints are data accuracy and opaque, expensive pricing.² | Users praise the data depth and feature set but repeatedly call the pricing exorbitant and flag a buggy Excel plugin.16 |
| Biggest gotcha | No published pricing; every quote is sales-negotiated and varies by use case⁵ | Opaque, negotiated pricing; expect five-figure annual contracts per seat |
Pick Grata when
- Lower-middle-market PE teams
- Bankers sourcing founder-owned companies
- Corp dev with real budgets
When Grata is not a fit
- Solo searchers and SMB buyers . priced out
- Anyone needing a simple contact list
- Teams wanting published, predictable pricing
- Budget buyers (rivals claim 80% cheaper)
Pick PitchBook when
- VC and PE deal teams
- Investment banks and M&A advisors
- Analysts benchmarking private companies
- Firms needing fund and LP performance data
When PitchBook is not a fit
- Startups fundraising on a budget
- Small teams that just need a contact list
- Solo founders doing occasional research
- Sales teams . buy sales-intelligence software instead
Sources
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- G2 . Grata Reviewsg2.comreview
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- Capterra . Grata Pricing 2026capterra.comreview
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- DealPotential vs Grata and Sourcescrubdealpotential.comreview
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- Searchfunder . Alternatives to Gratasearchfunder.comreview
- Datasite . Grata product pagedatasite.comofficial
- Orrick . Datasite acquires Grataorrick.comnews
- PRNewswire . $25M round led by Craft Venturesprnewswire.comnews
- Grata security pagegrata.comsecurity
- Grata trust center controlstrust.grata.comsecurity
- Walder Capital . Grata alternativeswaldercapital.chreview
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