IBISWorld vs Statista
A side-by-side comparison of IBISWorld and Statista — two options for due diligence. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
Due Diligence
Data & Market Intelligence
Rating
4.1 / 5
4.1 / 5
Pricing
Subscription / Custom
From ~$199/mo
Best for
First-pass market checks before expert-call spend
Market sizing and citations for memos and LP materials
Key features
- 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
- 1M+ statistics across 80,000+ topics
- Market Insights forecasts and models
- Consumer Insights survey data
- Industry and company reports
- Download-ready charts with citations
Pros
- Fastest way to frame an unfamiliar industry
- Covers boring offline sectors nobody else touches
- Uniform format makes cross-industry comparison easy
- Citable sources speed up memo and deck production
- Breadth covers almost any market you'll underwrite
- Far cheaper than bespoke market research
Cons
- Shallow on nascent tech categories
- Estimates can lag fast-changing markets by a year or more
- Aggregated forecasts vary in quality by underlying source
- Niche and emerging categories can be thin