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InvestingPro
One logged-in session, nineteen original screenshots, fourteen valuation models counted by hand, and the refund policy as written in the official terms.
Deep dive
WarrenAI
Four companies, two dates. The underlying data checked out every time, while the summary paragraph disagreed with the platform's own display in two clear cases and one probable.
Deep dive
ProPicks AI
Eighty-eight strategies counted by hand, ten of them American, and the backtested figure separated from the live one before anything else.
Comparison
Stock analysis tools, counted
Finviz, Stock Analysis and Simply Wall St on the same three companies in the same week. All three are generous. None about the same thing.
Free tier
Stock Analysis, without paying
We counted the screener on a free account: 313 metrics, 14 locked. But financial history stops at five years, which is where the real wall sits.
Evidence
InvestingPro claims, checked
Five marketing figures put against a logged-in session. Two matched, two came out below what we counted, and one is absent from every document the vendor publishes.
Comparison
Six InvestingPro alternatives
Seeking Alpha, Simply Wall St, Koyfin, Morningstar, TIKR and Stock Analysis, priced at source, with the ranking weights published before the ranking.
How this section works
The rest of feequity is about what it costs to hold a portfolio: broker fees, spreads, currency conversion, the settings nobody opens. This section is about the other half of the bill, the part you choose deliberately. A research subscription is a fixed annual cost sitting on a variable portfolio, which means it behaves exactly like a fund expense ratio and gets cheaper in basis points the more you have invested. That framing decides more of the buying question than any feature table, and almost nobody applies it.
Three rules govern everything published here.
Prices come from the vendor
Every figure is read from a page owned by the company selling the product, and stamped with the date. Where a company does not publish its price to a logged-out visitor, we record that as a finding rather than repeating a number from a review site.
Nothing is reviewed unused
No page is written before the product has been used in a logged-in session, and every feature claim carries an original screenshot with its capture date.
Commercial links are named
Where a link earns us a commission, that is disclosed on the same line as the link rather than once in a footer. Products we hold no relationship with are never linked commercially.
What we are paid, plainly
One product in this section currently earns us a commission: InvestingPro, the premium subscription of Investing.com, through an affiliate partnership. Investing.com does not see these pages before publication and has no approval over their contents. The other products covered here pay us nothing.
That creates an obvious pull on any comparison, and the defence against it is published rather than promised. The ranking weights on the alternatives page were fixed while exactly one product paid us anything, and two of the five criteria, worth forty percent between them, are the two on which that product scores worst. Full detail at how we make money.
In progress
Dedicated pages on ProPicks AI and WarrenAI are next, followed by pricing and discount pages covering renewal figures and cancellation paths in detail. Standalone reviews of the free and low-cost alternatives are planned after those, starting with Stock Analysis, whose free tier is a permanent answer for a lot of investors rather than a trial.
Start with the cost, not the features
Before you pay for research, work out what your broker already charges you each year. It is usually the larger number, and no research platform is incentivised to show it to you.
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