InvestingPro at half price, and what the sale does not tell you

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Recorded by Jacob Shasha, private investor · Session 18 August 2026 · How we test · Verification record

What four countries saw on the same day

One browser session, one partner link, four exit locations, roughly forty minutes apart. Cookies and cache were cleared between each one and the exit location was confirmed on an IP lookup before each capture. The screens below are the plan selection screen, reached from the sale landing page, before any checkout.

All figures are monthly, on the billing cycle named in the column. The product states underneath every plan that the price does not include sales tax or VAT where applicable. Blank cells are combinations we did not capture, not combinations that do not exist.

The finding: India is not priced in rupees

The United States saw dollars. The United Kingdom saw pounds. Germany saw euros. India saw Singapore dollars.

We confirmed the exit location before the capture: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The plan screen returned S$11.88 and S$28.88. Not rupees, and not the US dollar either.

It also matters because the standard advice in this category is that prices are localised. That is true for the three Western markets we checked and it was not true for the fourth.

What the discount actually is

Three separate things get described as "the InvestingPro discount" and they are not the same.

The sale, and the number that depends on your commitment

The landing page headline reads up to 55% off. On the plan screen the toggle separates them: annual billing shows 50%, two year billing shows 55%. The extra five points cost you a second year of commitment, and the two year option is the one labelled Best offer.

In Germany the gap between the two cycles was one euro a month, €8.49 against €7.49. That is the price of doubling the term.

The extra discount at checkout

The landing page says a special discount is applied at checkout, on top of the sale. Our partner link carries a coupon code in its URL. We have not seen what it does. Reaching a checkout screen requires entering payment details, and the plan screen showed only the 50% and 55% sale figures with no further reduction visible.

So we do not publish an amount for it. If it turns out to be nothing, that is worth knowing too, and we will say so here.

The sale is dated, not permanent

The page is branded the August Sale and carries a countdown. Whatever you read on this page is a promotional price captured on one day. The standard price is the number that matters for year two, and Investing.com does not display it.

What it renews at, derived

Investing.com does not print a renewal price. It does print a SAVE figure next to each plan, and that is enough to work backwards: what you pay, plus what you save, is what you would otherwise have paid.

The practical version: in Germany, a Pro+ subscriber pays about €252 for the first year and would pay about €510 for the second, unless another sale is running. The checkout screen is still the only authority, and we have not seen one.

Pro against Pro+, from the product's own comparison

This is the table Investing.com publishes on the plan screen, reproduced with nothing added.

The short version: Pro+ is where the valuation output and the long history live. If you want ten years of financials, exportable Fair Value models, or the full screener, Pro does not have them. Our own InvestingPro review was run on a Pro+ account, which is why the counts in it match the right hand column.

Which tier you actually need

Most of the money question comes down to this, so here it is plainly.

Pro is enough if you want the AI stock picks, the Fair Value estimate, the health score and ProTips on any company, and five years of financials is as far back as you look. That is the majority of people who buy this.

Pro+ is worth the step up if you build your own valuations, need ten years of statements, want the screener with the full metric set, or want to export anything. The exportable Fair Value models and the ten year history are the two things you cannot get on Pro at any price.

In euros on the annual plan the gap is about €12.50 a month. If you are not sure, Pro is the safer start, and the tier can be changed later.

Four numbers that disagree with each other

All four were on screen at the same time, on the same day, on the same product.

1. Research reports: 1,400 or unlimited. The Pro card lists 1,400 ProResearch PDF reports. The comparison table below it lists ProResearch PDF reports as Unlimited for both tiers.
2. Metrics: 167 in two different meanings. The table gives 167 as watchlist metrics and 167 again as total metrics across all analysis tools. The pricing page elsewhere uses 167 as the number of screener filters, while this table gives screener filters as 100.
3. US strategies: 5 or 11. The Pro+ card says all 88 strategies including 5 premium US. The table says 11 for US markets against 6 on Pro. The card appears to be counting the increment and the table the total, which is a reasonable reading rather than an error, but a reader comparing the two has no way to know that.
4. Models: 14, 17 or 19. The Pro+ card says 14+ proven financial models. The table says 17 Fair Value models with export. When we counted inside the product on one company we found 14 active out of 19 available.

None of these makes the product worse than it is. They make the published figures hard to rely on, which is the reason we count things ourselves and record the date.

What we deliberately do not publish

• A single price. There is not one. Any page that gives you one number is telling you about its own location, not yours.
• The size of the checkout discount. We have not seen a checkout screen.
• A 7 day money-back guarantee. It appears on affiliate pages. It does not appear in Investing.com's terms or its support article, both read on 10 August 2026, which say the subscription is non-refundable and that subscribing waives the right of withdrawal. Until we see a guarantee on a checkout screen, we treat the non-refundable statement as governing.
• The 4.7 out of 5 from 1.2 million reviews that appears on the sale page. We cannot trace it to a source that shows the underlying reviews.

How this was recorded

One Chrome profile, one partner link, four exit locations reached through a commercial VPN, all within about two hours on 18 August 2026. Cookies and cache cleared between each capture so no earlier price could persist. Exit location confirmed on an IP lookup immediately before each capture. Full page screenshots retained, including the address bar. No purchase was completed and no checkout was reached.

The honest limit of this method: what a VPN exit shows is not guaranteed to be identical to what a resident of that country sees. Card currency, account history and local tax can all change the final figure. The correct reading of every row above is "the price shown to a connection from this country on this date", not "the price in this country".

Frequently asked questions

How much does InvestingPro cost?

It depends on the country you are browsing from. On 18 August 2026 the annual Pro plan showed $8.95 a month in the United States, GBP 7.49 in the United Kingdom, EUR 8.49 in Germany and S$11.88 in India. Pro+ showed GBP 17.49, EUR 20.99 and S$28.88 in those same three markets. All figures are the discounted August sale price, not the standard price, and none of them include sales tax or VAT.

Is the 55% discount real?

The 55% figure applies only to the two year billing cycle. Annual billing shows 50%. The headline on the landing page says up to 55% off, and the toggle on the plan screen is where the difference becomes visible. Both were displayed on 18 August 2026 as part of a sale branded the August Sale, so neither is a permanent price.

What does the extra checkout discount do?

The landing page states that a special discount is applied at checkout on top of the sale price. We could not reach a checkout screen without entering payment details, so we have not seen the amount and do not publish one. The plan screen showed only the 50% and 55% sale figures.

What does InvestingPro renew at?

Investing.com does not display a renewal price on the plan screen. It can be derived from the SAVE figure the product prints next to each plan. In Germany that derivation gives EUR 203.88 a year for Pro and EUR 509.88 a year for Pro+, and the same two numbers come out of both the annual and the two year cycle independently. These are our calculations from displayed figures, not prices Investing.com showed us, and the checkout screen remains the only authority.

Why does India see prices in Singapore dollars?

We do not know. We recorded it rather than explained it. Browsing from a Mumbai address on 18 August 2026, the plan screen returned S$, the Singapore dollar. The United States, the United Kingdom and Germany each returned their own currency in the same session. We have not asked Investing.com about it and will record the answer here if we get one.

Is there a 7 day money-back guarantee?

Several affiliate pages say there is. Investing.com's own support article and terms, both read on 10 August 2026, state that InvestingPro is non-refundable and that subscribing waives the right of withdrawal. Until we see a guarantee on a checkout screen, the non-refundable statement is the one we treat as governing.

Related

The full test of the product is in our InvestingPro review, and every figure in it traces to the verification record. If you want to know whether a paid tool is needed at all, start with the free tier of Stock Analysis, which pays us nothing and is recorded the same way. Corrections to anything on this page are logged at corrections.

Captured 18 August 2026 · next price recheck 8 November 2026 · sale prices change without notice