FactSet vs MioTech (2026)
These two solve coverage problems of opposite kinds. FactSet licenses what has already been reported across global markets. MioTech exists because across Asian markets the sustainability data is largely not reported at all, so its models infer signals from more than 12,000 sources across over 800,000 companies. The regulatory positions then invert what the size difference would predict. MioTech names five disclosure regimes across two continents that its software produces compliance output against, from the Hong Kong exchange's disclosure guide to European product carbon footprint standards from 2026, and roughly half its clients are listed companies using it for their own reporting. FactSet names none, because a listed issuer is a company registered with a securities regulator rather than a supervised product. Where they separate hardest is residency. FactSet describes in detail how its generative models run: private instances or private endpoints, public endpoints ruled out, and confidential data purged sixty days after termination. It names none of the models. MioTech publishes no hosting provider, region or commitment at all, across mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
- You are buying the reference estate itself. More than 8,200 institutional clients and over 218,000 users across the buy side, sell side, wealth management, private equity and corporates, with fundamentals, pricing and regulatory data reachable through one conversational interface, FactSet Mercury.
- You want the generative deployment terms in writing. All models run as private instances in the vendor's own cloud or against private endpoints of commercial providers, with public endpoints ruled out. Zero data retention is stated with hosting platforms. Logs are held twenty four months and confidential data is purged within sixty days of termination.
- The output has to land in the deck and the spreadsheet. Pitch Creator assembles pitchbooks with semantic search across news, transcripts and filings. It adds charting in more than twenty formats, branded slide assembly and a tombstone generator, all wired directly into Microsoft Office.
- Your coverage problem is Asian and the data is not reported. Natural language processing mines more than 12,000 public sources across over 800,000 companies and a knowledge graph cross references supply chain, shareholding and investment data so correlations surface what disclosure does not state.
- You need output built against named disclosure regimes. MioTech's software produces compliance output against the Hong Kong exchange's disclosure guide, Chinese green investment guidelines, the securities regulator's shift to mandatory disclosure, European deforestation free requirements and European product carbon footprint standards from 2026.
- Half the value is that your own company has to report too. Around 2,000 clients are served and roughly half are listed companies using the platform for their own regulatory disclosure, carbon accounting and climate analytics rather than only for investment research.
This comparison is published by AI FinTech Index, an independent research platform that publishes independent ratings of AI vendors for financial services. FactSet and MioTech are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI FinTech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| FactSet | MioTech | |
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| Primary category | Capital Markets & Research AI | Capital Markets & Research AI |
| Founded | 1978 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Norwalk, Connecticut, United States | Hong Kong |
| Website | www.factset.com | www.miotech.com |
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Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
FactSet
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Acquisition / corporate
FactSet acquired BCC Group International (bccg), a Germany based developer of cloud native and hybrid market data distribution software, and is bringing bccg's ONE Platform into its Real-Time Solution Suite.
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Integration / interoperability
FactSet added InSync Analytics' Excel based company models, which combine InSync reported Actuals and Guidance with FactSet broker consensus estimates, to the FactSet Workstation Company Snapshot report and StreetAccount News stories.
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MioTech
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Acquisition / corporate
MioTech signed definitive agreements to combine with the green finance and ESG business of CCX Group, forming CCX-MioTech.
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The short version of each
FactSet
FactSet is a Norwalk based financial data and analytics platform serving more than 8,200 institutional clients and over 218,000 users across the buy side, sell side, wealth management, private equity and corporates. Its shipped generative layer covers a conversational knowledge agent (FactSet Mercury), a pitchbook builder (Pitch Creator), an embeddable conversational interface (Conversational API) and packaged data feeds (GenAI Data Packages). According to the AI FinTech Index, it documents in part where its models run, its privacy terms, its accuracy checks and its integrations. Its deployment disclosure is precise. All models run as private instances or private endpoints with public endpoints ruled out, there is zero data retention with hosting platforms, and confidential data is purged sixty days after termination. No model or provider is named. It says little about licenses and regulators, bias and fairness, or security certifications.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
MioTech
MioTech builds sustainability and ESG data infrastructure for Asian capital markets, using natural language processing and a knowledge graph to mine more than 12,000 public sources across over 800,000 companies, then combining that with supply chain, shareholding and investment data to produce ratings, indexes, real time risk monitoring and research. According to the AI FinTech Index, its customer evidence and results are documented in detail, and its regulators, accuracy checks, oversight and integrations are documented in part. It names five disclosure regimes across two continents that its software produces compliance output against, and roughly half its 2,000 clients are listed companies using the platform for their own regulatory reporting. It says little about bias and fairness, privacy terms, what happens when it is wrong, security certifications or where its data sits.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Common questions
Is FactSet better than MioTech?
They solve coverage problems of opposite kinds. FactSet collects and licenses what is already reported across global markets and sells access to it with a generative layer on top. MioTech exists because in Asian markets the sustainability data is largely not reported at all, so its models infer signals from more than 12,000 public sources across over 800,000 companies. A global institution with Asian exposure could plausibly run both, using FactSet for the reference estate and MioTech for the layer FactSet cannot collect because nobody filed it. The question is whether your gap is access to reported data or the absence of it. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified August 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which one engages with named regulatory regimes?
MioTech names five and FactSet names none, which inverts what the size difference would suggest. MioTech's software produces compliance output against the Hong Kong exchange's disclosure guide, the Chinese asset management association's green investment guidelines, the securities regulator's shift from voluntary to mandatory disclosure for listed companies, European deforestation free product requirements and European product carbon footprint standards taking effect from 2026, and roughly half its clients use the platform for their own regulatory disclosure. FactSet is a listed issuer, which is securities registration as a company rather than supervision of what it sells. Neither has a license for these products. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified August 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Where does our data actually sit?
FactSet tells you how and not whose; MioTech tells you neither. FactSet states that all models run as private instances in its own cloud or against private endpoints of commercial providers with public endpoints ruled out, zero data retention agreed with hosting platforms, logs held twenty four months and confidential data purged within sixty days of termination, while never naming which foundational models or which providers those endpoints belong to, and geographic residency is not addressed. MioTech publishes no hosting provider, region or residency commitment, which is a live question given it operates across mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore, jurisdictions with materially different and in China's case strict data export rules. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified August 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Where does each publish the most, and the least?
FactSet publishes most on how its models are hosted, its privacy terms, its accuracy checks and its integrations. It says little about licenses and regulators, bias and fairness, or security certifications. MioTech publishes most on its customer evidence and results. It says little about bias and fairness, privacy terms, liability, security certifications or where its data sits. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified August 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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The residency question separates these two more sharply than any feature. FactSet describes where and how its generative models run in detail while naming none of them, so a buyer knows the deployment terms and not the counterparties. MioTech publishes no hosting provider, region or residency commitment while operating across mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Those jurisdictions have materially different data export rules, strict in China's case, and MioTech holds extensive mainland company information for a client base that is mostly outside the mainland. On evidence, FactSet's scale figures come from investor communications from a listed company, which carries legal exposure a marketing claim does not. None of it evidences the generative products specifically. Neither publishes a security attestation or certification.