
Relative Insight
Relative Insight is a web-based comparative text analytics platform for finding differences, similarities and patterns across text datasets.
What Relative Insight is
Relative Insight is a web-based comparative text analytics platform for finding differences, similarities and patterns across text datasets. Its linguistic analysis tracks topics, phrases, words, emotions and grammar, then compares how prevalent they are against a benchmark. The Explore product turns open-ended responses, reviews and chat logs into structured intelligence, including theme, sentiment-shift and segment analysis. It supports auditable metrics with real verbatims, works with any text data source and can analyze millions of words in seconds. Organizations use it for customer experience, voice of customer, surveys, people, conversations, market research and competitor analysis. Relative Insight reports a 90% reduction in analyst time per project in a comparison averaging 60 hours against 6 hours. The paid web service offers a free trial, and pricing is available on request. It supports sentiment, entity, intent and topic analysis, with cloud deployment.
Good
- Compares topics, phrases, emotions and grammar
- Supports theme and sentiment-shift analysis
- Works with any text data source
- Offers a free trial
- Provides cloud deployment
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request
- No public ingestion API is offered
Who it suits
Relative Insight suits CX, insights, executive and analytics teams comparing text from surveys, reviews, chats or other data sources.
Verdict
Relative Insight is designed for teams that need to compare text datasets and turn unstructured responses into structured analysis. Its free trial offers a way to explore the paid web platform, while pricing requires an inquiry.
Plans and prices
From Relative Insight's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Tailored pricing | Priced on request | Unlimited words/messages from specified sources · additional data sources incur charge · minimum contract one year · research support max 5 hours/month |
The facts
Each one read from Relative Insight's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analyst-time claim
- Relative Insight reports a 90% reduction in analyst time per project in a comparison of projects averaging 60 hours versus 6 hours.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Automated ingestion
- Relative Flow can schedule data imports and analysis using CSV, XLS and XLSX files on daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly cadences.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Encryption
- Data in transit and at rest is encrypted, with TLS for transfers and HTTP Strict Transport Security enabled.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Evidence and scale
- Explore supports auditable metrics with real verbatims, analyzes millions of words in seconds and is compatible with any text data source.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Explore product
- Explore turns open-ended responses, reviews and chat logs into structured intelligence and supports theme, sentiment-shift and segment analysis.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Relative Insight offers API connectors for data-source imports plus SFTP, cloud-storage and S3 ingestion, but does not offer a public ingestion API.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Linguistic analysis
- The platform records topics, phrases, words, emotions and grammar, then compares their prevalence against a benchmark.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Privacy compliance
- Relative Insight states that it is compliant with GDPR and CCPA as a data processor and has a dedicated Data Protection Officer.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security certification
- Relative Insight Limited is ISO 27001 certified at its Lancaster and London locations and is audited annually.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Single sign-on
- Relative Insight supports SAML single sign-on, configured manually with an account manager or IT administrator.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support and access
- Users access the platform through app.relativeinsight.com, receive a first-login product tour and can use the Help Center.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Use cases
- Organizations use Relative Insight for customer experience, voice of customer, survey, people, conversational, market research and competitor analysis.checked 30 Sep 2026
- What it does
- Relative Insight is a comparative text analytics platform using natural language processing and comparative linguistics to identify differences, frequencies and similarities between datasets.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Lancaster, United Kingdomchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Target teams
- Relative Insight is designed for CX, insights, executive and analytics teams.checked 30 Sep 2026
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