Gartner vs IBISWorld
A side-by-side comparison of Gartner and IBISWorld — two options for due diligence. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
Due Diligence
Due Diligence
Rating
4.4 / 5
4.1 / 5
Pricing
Enterprise / Custom
Subscription / Custom
Best for
Funds underwriting enterprise software categories
First-pass market checks before expert-call spend
Key features
- Magic Quadrant and Hype Cycle vendor evaluations
- Enterprise IT market sizing and forecasts
- One-on-one analyst inquiry calls
- Peer insights and buyer-review data
- Major conferences across IT domains
- Reports on thousands of industries in identical structure
- Market size, growth and five-year forecasts
- Cost structures, margins and competitive landscapes
- US state-level and international coverage
- Risk-rating scores by industry
Pros
- Moves enterprise buying — placement affects portfolio revenue
- Analyst inquiries compress category learning fast
- Forecast data underpins credible TAM work
- Fastest way to frame an unfamiliar industry
- Covers boring offline sectors nobody else touches
- Uniform format makes cross-industry comparison easy
Cons
- Seats cost tens of thousands per year
- Coverage lags fast-moving early-stage categories
- Vendor-relations dynamics color some research
- Shallow on nascent tech categories
- Estimates can lag fast-changing markets by a year or more