TagniFi vs. Capital IQ

Built for valuation, not the trading floor.

Capital IQ is a broad institutional terminal priced like one. TagniFi covers the datasets valuation and deal teams actually use — public comps, transaction multiples, industry reports, closed-end funds — at a price you can defend.

Keep your models — migration included

Annual cost, 1 analyst

$4,990

TagniFi Pro, published pricing

Contract term

1 year

No multi-year lock-in required

Time to first comp set

Same day

Self-serve trial, no implementation

Side by side

The things that decide a valuation workflow.

TagniFiCapital IQ

U.S. public company fundamentals11,000+ issuers, with tagged footnotesGlobal coverage, broader universe

M&A transaction multiples140,000+ deals, disclosed termsIncluded, enterprise tier

Industry reports and quarterly economic updates1,200+ reports, quarterly updatesNot a core deliverable

PowerCompsMiddle-market industry valuation multiplesNot offered

Closed-end funds500+ funds, with discountsNot packaged for valuation

Banks and thriftsIncluded on every planIncluded, separate entitlement

Corporate bondsIncluded on every planIncluded, separate entitlement

Excel add-in with live functionsIncluded on every planIncluded, separate entitlement

Spreading private financials with AIIncluded on the Power planNot offered

Audit trail to the filing pageRight-click any cellVaries by dataset

API and bulk accessAvailable on the Enterprise planAdd-on, negotiated

Published per-seat pricingListed on the pricing pageQuote-based

Based on publicly available information and customer-reported experience as of August 2026. Capital IQ packaging, coverage and pricing vary by contract — confirm specifics with S&P Global. Capital IQ is a trademark of S&P Global; TagniFi is not affiliated with or endorsed by S&P Global.

What it costs over ten years

Annual pricing, held flat. Move the seat count to match your team.

Users

TagniFi ProPublished

$4,990/yr

10-year cost$49,900

TagniFi PowerPublished

$7,490/yr

10-year cost$74,900

Capital IQEstimated

$25,000*/yr

10-year cost$250,000

10-year difference · Pro

$200,100

less than the Capital IQ estimate for 1 user

10-year difference · Power

$175,100

less than the Capital IQ estimate for 1 user

* Capital IQ estimate assumes $25,000 per year for up to three users and $6,000 for each additional user; actual quotes are negotiated and vary by entitlement. TagniFi figures are published list pricing. Ten-year totals assume no annual escalation on either side.

Switching

Your Capital IQ models keep working

Point the add-in at an existing workbook and every =CIQ() call is rewritten as its TagniFi equivalent — formats, links and formulas intact. Anything without a clean match is flagged rather than guessed.

See how migration works →

Formula equivalents

Capital IQ → TagniFi

=CIQ("GWW","IQ_TOTAL_REV")

=TAGNIFI("GWW","revenue","LTM")

=CIQ("GWW","IQ_EBITDA")

=TAGNIFI("GWW","ebitda","LTM")

=CIQ("GWW","IQ_TEV_EBITDA")

=TAGNIFI("GWW","ev_ebitda","LTM")

Choose TagniFi when

Your work is valuation, transaction advisory, litigation support or fairness opinions.You need transaction multiples and industry reports more than real-time quotes.Excel is where the model lives, and audit trails back to the filing matter.You want published per-seat pricing you can budget for and defend.

Stay with Capital IQ when

You need global equity, credit and fixed-income coverage across every exchange.Sell-side research, credit ratings and estimates feeds are core to the desk.Your team relies on the terminal's screening, chat and news workflow daily.Enterprise-wide entitlements and CRM integrations are already embedded.

Plenty of firms run both — TagniFi for the valuation seats, a terminal for the one analyst who needs the breadth.