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AlphaSense vs Trade Ideas
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AlphaSense if…
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: hedge funds and asset managers, private equity and investment banks
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Choose Trade Ideas if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on Windows
- you're in its core audience: day traders, swing traders
Side by side
Feature AlphaSense Trade Ideas
Pricing modelContact for pricingPaid
Starting price—$89/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, Windows
CategoryAI Investing & Stock ResearchAI Investing & Stock Research
CompanyAlphaSenseTrade Ideas
Based in——
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
A AlphaSense
- Search across 500M+ financial and business documents
- SuperAnalyst agent for topic monitoring with cited outputs
- Deep Research for synthesized answers to complex questions
- Tegus expert call transcripts and Wall Street broker research
- PowerPoint and Excel add-ins for decks and models
- Connectors that link other apps to the platform
- AI search over internal company content (Enterprise plan)
- Sentiment indices and financial data
T Trade Ideas
- Streaming stock alerts that fire on each trade
- Top Lists screener refreshing every 15 seconds
- Holly AI signals with entry, stop and re-entry points
- OddsMaker strategy backtesting
- Automated trading through partner brokers
- Paper trading
- AI Assistant and AI Strategy Lab
- 308+ alerts and 249 screener filters
Plans and prices
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AlphaSense
Market IntelligenceCustom
Enterprise IntelligenceCustom
Trade Ideas
TI Standard$127/mo, or $89/mo billed yearly ($1,068/yr)
TI Premium$254/mo, or $178/mo billed yearly ($2,136/yr)
Strengths and limitations
AlphaSense
- Library of 500M+ premium documents, including expert call transcripts and broker research
- Agent outputs come with citations
- iOS and Android apps plus Office add-ins
- Enterprise plan adds search over internal content and extra hosting options
- No public prices; you have to contact sales
- Sold as annual subscriptions
- Expert calls and Canalyst financial models are paid add-ons
Trade Ideas
- Alerts fire on every trade, not only at candle close
- Integrates with brokers including Interactive Brokers, TradeStation and E*TRADE
- A free account gives limited-time access to the Web Dashboard without a card
- Annual billing cuts the price from $127/mo to $89/mo
- Holly AI signals and backtesting require the $178–$254/mo Premium plan
- The desktop app is Windows-only; Mac users need Parallels
- No public API is listed
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