InvestingPro alternatives: six tools, priced and checked at source

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The short version

We spent a logged-in session inside InvestingPro on 10 August 2026 and wrote up what it does in our full InvestingPro review, with its published figures checked against what we counted on the claims checked page. This page answers the next question: if it is not the right tool for you, what is. Six alternatives, each checked against the same criteria, with the criteria published before the products.

There is no single winner, and any page that gives you one is selling something. The tools below do genuinely different jobs, and the correct choice falls out of one question: do you want a platform that hands you a conclusion, or one that hands you the data and expects you to reach your own.

How we rank these, decided in advance

A comparison page that earns commission on one product has an obvious problem, and the usual solution is a disclosure line at the bottom that nobody reads. Here is a better one. These are the criteria and the weights, fixed now, while exactly one product on this page pays us anything. When a second one does, the weights do not move.

Criterion	Weight	What it measures
Cost transparency	25%	Can you see the price, and the renewal price, before you enter a card
Data depth	25%	Years of history, breadth of metrics, quality of the underlying source
Coverage	20%	How much of the world outside the United States is treated properly
Checkable evidence	15%	Does the vendor publish its own method and disclose its own limits
Getting out	15%	Refund terms, cancellation path, and how clearly renewal is explained

What each one costs

Read at source on 10 August 2026. Where a company does not publish a price to a logged-out visitor, we say so rather than repeating a figure from somewhere else.

Tool	Published price	Free tier
InvestingPro Subscribe	Not published to logged-out visitors · priced by country	Limited
Stock Analysis Pro	$79 a year or $9.99 a month	Substantial
TIKR Plus	$24.95 a month	US stocks only
Koyfin Plus	$39 a month billed annually	Yes
Morningstar Investor	$249 a year or $34.95 a month	None
Seeking Alpha Premium	$299 a year	Basic
Simply Wall St	Not published to logged-out visitors	Yes

Only the InvestingPro row carries a commercial link, because that is the only product on this page we have a relationship with. The others are not linked commercially and never will be without a disclosure like this one.

Stock Analysis

The one most people should try before paying anyone anything. Its own Pro page lists $79 a year or $9.99 a month, which is the lowest paid price on this table by a wide margin, and the free tier is unusually complete: core financial data and the screener are reachable without an account at all. Pro removes ads, extends history, opens the full filter set and enables exports, with a limit of one download a day and a hundred stocks per watchlist before you need the Unlimited tier. Cancellation is a button in the account area, stated plainly on the same page as the price.

We counted that free tier metric by metric on 14 August 2026, on a page devoted to what it actually gives you, and put it beside two more free tiers on the stock analysis tools comparison. The headline figures: 313 screener metrics of which 14 are locked, and financial history that stops at five years rather than the ten the interface appears to offer.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: no valuation output. There is no Fair Value panel, no composite health score, no AI research assistant and no picks service. It gives you clean, fast, well sourced data and expects you to do the interpreting.

Choose it if your process starts with the income statement, or if you are not yet sure a paid research tool earns its place in your year.

TIKR

The deepest financial history on this page. TIKR's own pricing page lists four tiers: a free plan restricted to US equities with five years of annual history, Plus at $24.95 a month adding full global coverage and ten years, Pro at $54.95 a month adding forty quarters, twenty years of charting and holdings for more than ten thousand funds, and Ultimate at $119.95 a month reaching thirty years. Data comes from S&P Capital IQ, the same source behind institutional terminals. A promotional discount and an extended money-back window were running when we checked, both dated on the page itself.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: no opinion of any kind. TIKR shows you twenty years of segment revenue and analyst estimates and stops. There is no Fair Value average, no health score, no ProTips, no strategy catalogue. It is also the more expensive of the two at the tiers that matter, once InvestingPro's annual discounting is taken into account.

Choose it if you build your own models and the thing you keep running out of is history.

Koyfin

The closest thing to a terminal at a consumer price. Koyfin's own pricing guide, updated 27 July 2026, lists Free at nothing, Plus at $39 a month and Premium at $79 a month, both billed annually, which comes to $468 and $948 across a year. Plus covers a decade of financials, analyst estimates, filings and transcripts; Premium adds unlimited custom formulas and portfolio risk statistics. Koyfin also retired its Pro plan and is moving existing Pro subscribers onto Premium at the price they already pay, which is a repricing that raises nobody's bill. There is a thirty day satisfaction guarantee, published on its pricing page.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: the same gap as TIKR. Koyfin assumes you build the analysis. It is also the highest recurring cost here for an individual investor.

Choose it if you want dashboards and charting you control, and you will actually use custom formulas rather than admiring that they exist.

Morningstar Investor

The analyst-led option, and the only name on this page whose ratings carry weight with financial advisers. Morningstar's own page lists $249 a year or $34.95 a month, with a free trial and, per its help centre, no free tier once the trial ends. What you buy is human judgement: fair value estimates and economic moat ratings written by analysts, on top of decades of fund and ETF data that nothing else here matches.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: no model panel, no screener across a hundred and fifty thousand instruments, no AI assistant, and considerably thinner treatment of individual global equities. It is also the only tool here with no way to keep using it for free.

Choose it if your portfolio is mostly funds and ETFs. In that case it is not a close call, and you can stop reading.

Seeking Alpha

The competitor most readers are genuinely deciding between. Seeking Alpha's own subscription page lists Premium at $299 a year and the Alpha Picks service at $499, with both together carrying a list price of $798 discounted to $718 for a first year, after which each renews at the annual list price in force at that time. That renewal wording is unusually plain and worth reading before you subscribe to anything, here or elsewhere. What you get is volume and variety of long-form analysis on US companies, plus quantitative scoring across that universe.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: it is heavily US weighted, Premium is sold annually with no monthly option, and the full picture costs several times more once Alpha Picks is added. InvestingPro is the global and lower priced route to a similar job, and ProPicks AI is the nearest equivalent to Alpha Picks, with the same caution about reading live figures rather than backtests, which we set out in full in our ProPicks AI review.

Choose it if you invest almost entirely in US companies and you read.

Simply Wall St

The friendliest of the six to a newer investor, and the fastest way to form a first impression of a company you have never looked at. Its own plans page sets out three tiers: a free plan with five company reports a month, one portfolio of up to ten holdings and limited screeners; Premium with thirty reports a month, three portfolios of up to thirty holdings, three saved screeners and brokerage linking; and Unlimited with unlimited reports, five portfolios, unlimited holdings, ten screeners and export to Excel and PDF. Financial data comes from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Where it loses to InvestingPro: depth, and price visibility. No price appears on the plans page to a logged-out visitor, which is the same failing we mark InvestingPro down for. Its terms also state that a discounted rate applies only for the discounted period before reverting to standard pricing, so the second year costs more than the first.

Choose it if you want the conclusion in ten seconds rather than the arithmetic in ten minutes.

What none of them does

Two gaps run across all seven products including InvestingPro, and no amount of comparison shopping closes either.

None of them totals what your broker charges you. Every tool here is built to analyse what you might buy, not what holding it costs you each year in commissions, spreads, currency conversion and cash drag. That number is usually larger than the subscription, and none of these platforms is incentivised to show it to you. Our breakdown of where broker costs actually hide covers it, and our expense ratio calculator does the arithmetic.

None of them prices itself against your portfolio. A subscription is a fixed annual cost sitting on a variable portfolio, which means it behaves like an expense ratio and gets cheaper in basis points the more you have invested. On a ten thousand dollar portfolio, a hundred dollar subscription costs a hundred basis points a year, which is several times what a mainstream index fund charges. On a hundred thousand it is ten. That single calculation decides more of this question than any feature table, and we run it across five portfolio sizes on the main review.

Why you might still choose InvestingPro

Having spent this page listing alternatives, the honest summary is that it wins on two things and loses on two, and the two it wins are the ones most people are actually shopping for.

It gives you the conclusion and shows the working. On the company we tested, the Fair Value panel ran fourteen separate valuation models and displayed each output individually, from $204.85 to $293.22, rather than a single number with no provenance. The health score ran against more than a hundred factors relative to sector. Neither TIKR nor Koyfin nor Stock Analysis will do that at any price, and the tools that will are the ones that give you an opinion without the arithmetic underneath it.

It is genuinely global. Seeking Alpha and Morningstar are strongest on US companies and US funds respectively. If you hold European or Asian equities, half this table thins out and InvestingPro does not.

What it loses on is exactly what our weighting punishes: you cannot see the price before you get to a checkout, and the published terms state that fees are non-refundable once the subscription starts. Koyfin publishes a thirty day guarantee and its prices. Stock Analysis publishes both and a cancel button. That gap is real, and it is why this page exists in the shape it does rather than as a list of reasons to subscribe.

Common questions

What is the closest free alternative to InvestingPro?

Stock Analysis. Its free tier reaches core financial data and the screener without an account, and it is the only product on this page whose free version is a permanent answer rather than a trial. What you give up is the valuation output: no Fair Value average, no health score, no picks. For a lot of investors that trade is worth making before paying anyone.

Which alternative has the deepest financial history?

TIKR. Its own pricing page lists up to thirty years of annual history and forty quarters on the Ultimate tier, against ten years on InvestingPro including its higher tier. If the constraint you keep hitting is that the record stops too early, that is the specific problem TIKR solves.

Is Seeking Alpha better than InvestingPro?

For US companies and for volume of written analysis, Seeking Alpha is stronger. For coverage outside the United States, for valuation models shown individually, and for price, InvestingPro is. They are close enough that the honest answer depends on where you invest rather than which is the better product.

Do any of these have a money-back guarantee?

Koyfin publishes a thirty day satisfaction guarantee on its pricing page. TIKR was advertising an extended money-back window as part of a dated promotion when we checked. Investing.com's own terms and its support article both state that fees are non-refundable, though several affiliate pages describe a seven day guarantee that we could not find in either document. Read the checkout screen before you pay, whichever you choose.

Which one covers markets outside the United States?

InvestingPro, TIKR, Simply Wall St and Koyfin all treat global equities properly. Seeking Alpha is heavily US weighted, and Morningstar is strongest on US funds and ETFs. If you hold European or Asian companies, that narrows the field before any other criterion applies.

How do you rank these when one of them pays you?

The weights above were fixed while exactly one product on this page earned us anything, and they are published so that you can check them against the conclusions. Two of the five criteria, worth forty percent between them, are the two on which the paying product performs worst. If a second product on this page ever pays us, the weights stay as they are and the disclosure appears beside its name.

How we reviewed this

Written by Jacob Shasha, who builds and maintains feequity and invests his own money. Not a licensed financial adviser · how we are paid is set out at how we make money · methodology at how we test · last checked 10 August 2026