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ClinicalEvidence

Competitor clinical trial tracking software with alerts and citations

ClinicalEvidence is competitor clinical trial tracking software for teams that need to know what rivals register, change or close. Save a question about an indication or a rival drug and it watches ClinicalTrials.gov, the EU Clinical Trials Register and WHO ICTRP, then emails an alert when a new trial or status change matches. Every answer carries an NCT number or PMID, and plans start at 49 USD per month.

Every sentence cited to an NCT number or PMID. Professional use, no patient data needed.

Tracking competitors in a spreadsheet works until the first missed amendment

Most teams start the same way. Someone searches ClinicalTrials.gov for the indication, pastes twenty rows into a spreadsheet and promises to refresh it monthly. Three months later the sheet is stale, nobody remembers which filters were used, and a rival has opened two new sites in Europe that were never captured because the EU register was never checked.

Competitor trial tracking breaks down in predictable places:

  • Each registry is its own website with its own fields, so a full view means three searches and manual merging.
  • Status changes, enrollment updates and new countries are quiet edits. Nothing tells you they happened.
  • A rival's press release describes results in its own words, while the registered primary endpoint may say something else.
  • The person who built the sheet moves on, and the method leaves with them.

Software fixes the repeatable part: the search, the merge, the schedule and the notification. Judgment about what a rival's move means stays with your team.

Ways to track competitor trials and what each costs your team

Categories are described from general knowledge of the market. Enterprise vendors quote prices individually, so confirm current terms before you decide.

Setup

Spreadsheet and registry sites
Manual searches per registry
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Contract, onboarding, analyst support
ClinicalEvidence
Create an account and ask a question

Registries covered

Spreadsheet and registry sites
Whatever someone remembers to check
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Curated multi source records
ClinicalEvidence
ClinicalTrials.gov, EU CTR and WHO ICTRP, plus PubMed

Alerts on new trials or status changes

Spreadsheet and registry sites
None unless you diff the sheet yourself
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Yes, by contract tier
ClinicalEvidence
Alerts on any saved question

Citations

Spreadsheet and registry sites
The record itself
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Source links per record
ClinicalEvidence
Every sentence cited to an NCT number or PMID and checked

Trial table with filters

Spreadsheet and registry sites
Build it yourself
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Yes
ClinicalEvidence
Filter by phase, status, sponsor type, country, enrollment

Export

Spreadsheet and registry sites
Copy and paste
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Yes
ClinicalEvidence
CSV, XLSX, DOCX, RIS, BibTeX by plan

Price

Spreadsheet and registry sites
Free, but analyst hours
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Contract, not published
ClinicalEvidence
Clinician 49 USD monthly (24 billed yearly); Research Team 199 USD monthly (99 billed yearly)

Best for

Spreadsheet and registry sites
A single known trial
Enterprise trial intelligence platforms
Dedicated competitive intelligence departments
ClinicalEvidence
Sponsor, CRO and medical teams that need rival trial evidence on demand

If you already pay for an enterprise platform and use all of it, keep it. If you pay mostly for the trial layer, see the Trialtrove alternative comparison.

From a rival question to a standing watchlist

Type the question the way a colleague would ask it. ClinicalEvidence reads the registries and papers and shows its sources.

  1. Ask about an indication, a mechanism or a rival drug. The clinical trial search covers three registries and PubMed in one pass.

  2. Read the cited answer. Each sentence carries an NCT number or PMID, and the citation is checked against its source before display.

  3. Open the trial table and sort rivals by phase, sponsor, enrollment target and country.

  4. Save the question and switch on alerts. New trials and status changes reach your inbox without another search.

  5. Export the table and references into the quarterly landscape slide or the bid response.

What a tracked competitor looks like in practice

Changes you would have missed

A rival moves a Phase 2 from recruiting to active, not recruiting, or adds a country. Those are the signals a feasibility lead or a BD analyst wants the same week, and the alert carries the trial identifier so the check takes a minute.

Registered versus reported

Open the citation behind a claim and compare the registered primary endpoint with the one in the announcement. Verification proves the reference exists and supports the sentence. Your scientists still judge relevance and quality.

Shared, not personal

Research Team adds shared workspaces, comments and roles, so clinical development, BD and medical affairs watch the same list. Organization adds an audit log and invoicing for larger groups.

Who gets value fastest

Teams weighing broader options can compare pharma competitive intelligence tools and the clinical trial feasibility software page.

What competitor trial tracking costs with published prices

ClinicalEvidence carries no advertising. Plans are billed monthly or yearly and answers are pooled across the seats on the plan.

  • Clinician costs 49 USD per month or 24 USD per month billed yearly (288 USD). It includes 200 answers, 1 seat, up to 50 studies per answer, 5 alerts, CSV, RIS and BibTeX.
  • Research Team costs 199 USD per month or 99 USD per month billed yearly (1 188 USD). It includes 800 pooled answers, 3 seats, up to 200 studies per answer, 25 alerts, shared workspaces, comments, roles and CSV, XLSX, DOCX, RIS and BibTeX.
  • Organization costs 499 USD per month or 249 USD per month billed yearly (2 988 USD). It includes 2 000 pooled answers, 10 seats, up to 500 studies per answer, 100 alerts, bulk CSV, an audit log and invoicing.
  • Enterprise costs 1 490 USD per month or 745 USD per month billed yearly (8 940 USD). It includes 6 000 pooled answers, up to 50 seats, up to 1 000 studies per answer, 500 alerts and SAML SSO.

Full limits are on the pricing page.

Questions teams ask about competitor clinical trial tracking

What is the best software to track competitor clinical trials?

It depends on the scope. Enterprise platforms track pipelines, deals and trials under one contract. For the trial layer alone, ClinicalEvidence watches three registries and PubMed, gives cited answers, a filterable trial table and alerts on saved questions, from 49 USD per month.

How do you monitor a competitor's clinical trials?

Search the registries for the indication and the rival drug, record phase, sponsor, endpoints, status and countries, then repeat on a fixed schedule. ClinicalEvidence runs that search from one question and emails an alert when a new trial or a status change matches the saved question.

Does it track trials outside ClinicalTrials.gov?

Yes. It covers the EU Clinical Trials Register and WHO ICTRP alongside ClinicalTrials.gov, and adds PubMed for published results. That matters for rivals running European or Asian studies that never appear in the US registry.

Does it use our confidential pipeline data?

No. ClinicalEvidence works on public registries and published literature. You do not upload internal documents or patient data to use it.

Can several people share one watchlist?

Yes. Research Team includes 3 seats and 800 pooled answers with shared workspaces, Organization includes 10 seats, and Enterprise supports up to 50 seats with SAML SSO.

Put your closest rivals on a watchlist today

Bring a real indication, save the question and let the alerts do the monitoring from here.