H1 Insights Alternatives: 6 Options by Use Case (2027)

Last updated on October 30th, 2026

The right H1 Insights alternatives depends on which job you used H1 for. For medical affairs and KOL work, the closest alternatives are Veeva Link Key People and IQVIA OneKey. For real-world patient data, look at Komodo Health. For US provider market intelligence, compare Definitive Healthcare and Alpha Sophia. For reaching US providers and healthcare executives with verified contact data, consider Ampliz.

This guide explains what H1 does today, compares six alternatives on the same criteria, and gives you a checklist for building a shortlist.

Key Takeaways

• H1 now serves four buyer groups: medical affairs, clinical operations, health plans and commercial teams. Few alternatives replace all four, so start with the job you need done.
• H1 sold Carevoyance, its medtech product, to Definitive Healthcare in January 2024. Medtech sales teams may find a closer fit elsewhere.
• Since 2025, H1 has bought three provider-data companies aimed at health plans, which makes it a stronger option for payers than it used to be.
• Before you sign, test any vendor on a sample of your own target list. Check the match rate, how current the data is and which contact fields are included.

Start with what H1 actually does today, because it has changed quickly.

What does H1 do in 2026?

H1 is a New York-based healthcare data company that profiles healthcare professionals (HCPs) and the research, trials and networks they belong to. It was founded in 2017 as H1 Insights, and “H1 Insights, Inc.” is still the legal name used in SEC filings. Its products cover four areas:

• Medical affairs: HCP and key opinion leader (KOL) profiles built from publications, trials and other professional activity
• Clinical development: trial site and investigator selection
• Health plans and digital health: provider directories, network and roster data
• Commercial: HCP identification and engagement for life sciences teams

H1 says 85% of the top 20 pharma companies and 9 of the top 10 health plans are customers, according to Fierce Healthcare.

Three deals and one sale since 2024 explain most of today’s H1:

Date	Deal	What it changed
Jan 2024	Sold its Carevoyance medtech product line to Definitive Healthcare for $13.7 million (SEC 10-Q)	H1 stepped back from dedicated medtech sales intelligence
Jan 2025	Acquired Ribbon Health, a provider directory API used by health plans and digital health companies (Fierce Healthcare)	Entered the health plan and digital health markets
Jun 2025	Acquired Veda, which automates provider roster and data correction for payers (Fierce Healthcare)	Added provider data management for payers
Sep 2026	Acquired Defacto Health, which analyzes payer networks and directory accuracy (Fierce Healthcare)	Added network benchmarking for health plans

H1 belongs to the broader category of healthcare commercial intelligence platforms. It doesn’t publish pricing.

Why teams look for H1 alternatives

Most teams look for an alternative because H1’s coverage and their own job don’t line up. Common reasons:

• You only need one part of H1. A field sales team that needs physician contacts doesn’t need trial-site or publication data, and the reverse is true for a medical affairs team.
• You sell medical devices. Since the Carevoyance sale, procedure-level medtech targeting sits with Definitive Healthcare, not H1.
• You need outreach-ready contacts. Verified emails, direct dials and executive titles for US hospitals and practices are a different dataset from KOL publication histories.
• You already run a CRM ecosystem. Teams on Veeva Vault CRM often prefer data that is built into that CRM.
• You want a different pricing model. H1, like most vendors here, quotes per contract. Some teams prefer usage-based pricing.

Here is how the six alternatives compare on the same criteria.

H1 Insights alternatives at a glance

Platform	Best for	Primary data	Coverage	Contact data for outreach	Pricing
H1 (baseline)	Medical affairs, clinical, health plans, life sciences commercial	HCP profiles, publications, trials, provider networks	Global	Confirm with vendor	Quote-based
Veeva Link Key People	KOL and expert engagement on Vault CRM	Expert research, trials, congresses, digital activity	90+ countries (vendor-stated)	Not its focus	Quote-based
IQVIA OneKey	HCP and HCO reference data for CRM and master data	Validated HCP and organization records	118 countries, 25M+ HCPs (vendor-stated)	Confirm fields by license	Quote-based
Komodo Health	Real-world evidence, patient journeys	De-identified claims, clinical and lab data	US patient data	Not its focus	Quote-based
Definitive Healthcare	US provider and facility market intelligence	Organizations, clinicians, claims, affiliations	Mainly US	Confirm by module	Subscription, quote-based
Alpha Sophia	Medtech and digital health growth teams	Provider filters by specialty, location, prescribing and payments; built-in CRM	US	Lead lists with CRM export	Not public
Ampliz	Reaching US providers and healthcare executives	6.8M+ providers, 11M+ executives, hospital and physician group profiles	US healthcare market	Verified email, direct dial, fax, LinkedIn; verified monthly	Credit-based

The 6 best H1 competitors and alternatives, by use case

Each profile below covers what the platform is best for, what it covers, when to consider it and what to check before you buy. Vendor figures are as stated by each vendor in October 2026.

For medical affairs and KOL intelligence

1. Veeva Link Key People

Veeva Link Key People is the closest like-for-like alternative to H1’s medical affairs product. It profiles scientific, clinical and digital leaders using their research, trials, collaborations, congress activity and social media.

• Best for: medical affairs and MSL teams that plan KOL engagement inside Veeva Vault CRM
• What it covers: Veeva says it tracks 150,000 congresses and events a year and 58,000+ associations, with curators in 90+ countries. It also offers clinical leader scores based on US claims data.
• Consider it if: your field medical and commercial teams already work in Vault CRM, and you want KOL profiles in account and territory views
• Check before you buy: fit outside the Veeva ecosystem, and whether you also need provider contact data for commercial outreach, which isn’t its focus

2. IQVIA OneKey

IQVIA OneKey is a reference database of healthcare professionals and organizations. Life sciences companies use it as the master record behind their CRM, compliance and analytics systems.

• Best for: global pharma teams that need one validated record for each HCP and organization across countries
• What it covers: IQVIA says OneKey covers 25M+ HCPs and 6M+ organizations in 118 countries. It offers a real-time API and connectors for CRM and MDM.
• Consider it if: you are cleaning or standardizing HCP master data across many markets
• Check before you buy: KOL depth compared with H1’s publication and trial profiles, and which fields your license includes. Ampliz also compares the two in its OneKey data alternative page.

For real-world data and patient journeys

3. Komodo Health

Komodo Health is a real-world data platform built on de-identified patient journeys rather than HCP profiles. It suits teams that used H1 to find treating physicians and now need the patient-level view behind them.

• Best for: HEOR, real-world evidence, medical affairs and commercial analytics teams at life sciences companies
• What it covers: Komodo says its Healthcare Map covers 330M+ de-identified patient journeys, linking claims, clinical, lab and provider data from 60+ sources
• Consider it if: your question is “which physicians treat this patient population, and how do those patients move through care?”
• Check before you buy: it is an analytics platform, so plan for analyst time. It doesn’t replace a contact database for outreach.

For US provider and facility market intelligence

4. Definitive Healthcare

Definitive Healthcare covers US health systems, hospitals, physician groups, surgery centers, imaging centers and long-term care facilities, along with clinician and claims data. It bought H1’s Carevoyance medtech product in January 2024.

• Best for: medtech, life sciences and provider strategy teams that need to size and segment the US market
• What it covers: organizations, clinicians, affiliations, claims, and expert and consumer data
• Consider it if: you sell devices or services to US facilities and need procedure and affiliation data
• Check before you buy: subscription scope and total cost. See how Definitive Healthcare and H1 compare and the Definitive Healthcare alternative page.

5. Alpha Sophia

Alpha Sophia is a healthcare commercial intelligence platform for growth teams at medtech and digital health startups and mid-size companies. It combines provider search with a built-in CRM.

• Best for: small medtech or digital health sales teams that want targeting and a simple CRM in one tool
• What it covers: provider filters by specialty, location, and prescribing or payment history, with lead-list export to HubSpot or Salesforce
• Consider it if: you are building your first US provider pipeline and don’t run a full CRM yet
• Check before you buy: executive and facility contact depth, and verification frequency. See our Alpha Sophia alternatives guide.

For reaching US providers and healthcare executives

6. Ampliz

Ampliz is a healthcare data platform built for sales and marketing outreach in the US healthcare market. It gives you 6.8M+ healthcare providers and 11M+ healthcare executives, with contact data verified every month.

• Best for: healthtech, medtech, pharma commercial, staffing and agency teams that need to reach physicians, practice owners and hospital decision makers
• What it covers:

• HCP Lookup with specialty, sub-specialty, practice ownership, referral, prescribing and procedure-code filters
• Executive Search by title, department, facility type, bed size and EHR vendor
• Hospital database profiles with IDN and GPO affiliations
• Profiles of 200,000+ physician groups
• NPI Lookup and bulk enrichment of your existing lists

• Consider it if: you used H1 to find physicians but your real need is verified emails, direct dials and LinkedIn profiles for campaigns. Ampliz verifies every record monthly, and if you flag a contact as incorrect, you get the credit back.
• Check before you buy: Ampliz isn’t built for KOL publication scoring, clinical trial investigator selection or patient-level real-world data. If those are your core jobs, choose an option above. Ampliz is compliant with HIPAA, CAN-SPAM and GDPR.

See the full Ampliz healthcare data platform.

Comparing H1 alternatives for US provider outreach? See how Ampliz filters physicians by practice ownership and hospital executives by bed size and EHR vendor, using your own target accounts.

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Adjacent tools for jobs H1 also covers

Two of H1’s jobs are better served by specialist tools than by the platforms above:

• Provider directory and network data for health plans. After buying Ribbon Health, Veda and Defacto Health, H1 is itself a strong option here. If you are comparing, look at provider-data API vendors built for payers and benefits platforms, and test address and network accuracy on a sample.
• Clinical trial feasibility and site selection. Dedicated trial-intelligence tools such as TrialHub focus on site and country feasibility rather than HCP profiles.

Some alternatives lists include vendors that don’t replace H1: sales-force automation and pharma revenue management software, general B2B email lists, synthetic-data and web-scraping vendors, and clinical data exchanges between providers and payers. We left them out because none covers an H1 use case.

How to choose the right H1 alternative

Pick the platform that answers your most frequent question, then test it on your own data. Use these six questions with every vendor:

1. What is the job? KOL engagement, trial sites, payer directories, market sizing or outreach. Pick one primary job.
2. Who do you need to reach? Physicians, practice owners, hospital executives or researchers each need different data.
3. Which geography? Global teams need multi-country reference data. US-only teams can choose deeper US data.
4. Which fields come with the license? Ask for a field list: NPI, specialty, affiliation, email, direct dial, LinkedIn.
5. How fresh is the data, and what happens when it is wrong? Ask how often records are verified and whether you get credit for bad records.
6. Where does the data go? Check native CRM delivery, API access and export limits.

Then run a sample test: send each vendor the same list of 200–500 NPIs or account names from your CRM, and compare match rates and contact accuracy. You can check individual providers first with Ampliz’s free NPI Lookup. For a fuller checklist, read what to look for in a healthcare data provider.

FAQs

Is H1 Insights the same company as H1?

Yes. H1 was founded in 2017 as H1 Insights and now uses the brand name H1. “H1 Insights, Inc.” still appears as the company’s legal name, for example in Definitive Healthcare’s SEC filing on the Carevoyance purchase.

How much does H1 cost?

H1 doesn’t publish pricing. Contracts are quoted by H1’s sales team and depend on the products, data access and number of users. When you compare alternatives, ask each vendor for total annual cost at the same scope, including users, exports and API access.

Who are H1’s main competitors?

For medical affairs and KOL intelligence, H1’s closest competitors are Veeva Link Key People and IQVIA OneKey. For market intelligence and real-world data, it competes with Definitive Healthcare and Komodo Health. For health plan provider data, it competes with provider-directory and data-management vendors.

What is the best H1 alternative for medtech sales?

Definitive Healthcare is the closest fit for procedure and facility intelligence, since it bought H1’s Carevoyance medtech product in 2024. Alpha Sophia suits smaller medtech teams that want a built-in CRM. Ampliz fits teams that need verified contacts for surgeons, practice owners and hospital supply chain leaders.

Can Ampliz replace H1?

Ampliz can replace H1 if your main use is finding and contacting US providers and healthcare executives. It doesn’t replace H1’s KOL scoring, clinical trial investigator data or health plan directory products. Many teams use a medical affairs platform alongside a contact-data platform such as Ampliz.

Conclusion

H1 covers four different jobs, so the best H1 Insights alternative is the one built for the job you need most. If that job is reaching US physicians, practice owners and hospital decision makers with contact data verified every month, Ampliz is worth a test on your own target list.

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