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QFI Terminal is the Bloomberg alternative
This is the one table on this site we lose, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The Bloomberg Terminal covers asset classes we do not touch, carries its own newsroom and research desk, and sits inside a network of more than 350,000 people talking to each other — which is half of what the money actually buys. What it does not do is let you find out what it costs, or try it, or run it without a salesperson. That is the comparison worth making.
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Every row below is a feature one of us has and the other may not. These are the same thirty-six rows, in the same order, on every comparison page we publish — including the ones we lose. Hover a row for what it means.
Bloomberg
QFITERMINAL
Core tools & analytics
Global stock coverageListed equities outside the US, not just S&P names.
Company snapshotsOne screen per company: profile, price, key figures.
Financial statements and ratiosIncome statement, balance sheet, cash flow and the ratios built from them.
Wall St estimates and price targetsSell-side consensus forecasts and analyst targets.
Advanced chartingMulti-series charts with indicators and saved layouts.
Comprehensive screenerFilter the universe on fundamentals, not just price and volume.
WatchlistsYour own lists, with the columns you choose.
Filings and transcriptsRegulatory filings and earnings call transcripts, searchable.
Economic calendarScheduled releases with consensus, previous and actual.
Macro dashboards by countryA browser of national series: prices, labour, activity, rates.
Options analytics
Full options chainEvery strike and expiry with open interest and volume.
Gamma exposure (GEX)Dealer gamma by strike, with the call and put walls marked.
Implied volatility surfaceIV across strikes and expiries as one surface you can turn.
Gamma heatmap by expirationGamma across strikes and expiries in one grid.
Max pain and gamma flip levelsThe printed levels: zero gamma, max pain, peak GEX.
Crypto
Crypto market dataPrices and market structure for digital assets.
Funding, open interest, liquidationsThe derivatives book across exchanges, not a single indicator.
Exchange and on-chain flowsWhat moves in and out of exchanges and wallets.
Crypto ETF flowsDaily creations and redemptions by fund.
Institutional and political money
13F fund holdingsWhat institutions reported holding, quarter by quarter.
Superinvestor portfoliosA page per manager with the whole book and every change.
Insider transactionsOfficer and director buying and selling.
Congressional tradingDisclosed trades by members of Congress.
Sector rotation of 13F moneyWhere institutional money moved between two quarters, by sector.
The physical world
Interactive world mapThirty-five data layers on one globe.
Pipelines, ports and shipping routesThe infrastructure the economy actually runs on.
Prediction markets and Fed oddsImplied odds from more than one book, side by side.
Platform and plans
Web-based platformRuns in a browser. Nothing to install.
Free planA plan you can stay on, not a trial.
Transparent public pricingEvery price on the site, without booking a call.
Price and event alertsBe told when something happens instead of watching for it.
BacktestingRun a rule over history and see what it would have done.
Excel add-inA live link into a spreadsheet that refreshes, not a one-off export of a table.
Broker or custodian syncPositions arrive from your account instead of being typed.
Client-ready reportsBranded PDFs to hand to a client.
Public APIQuery the data from your own code.
Pricing
There is only one pair to make here, and one side of it is empty. Bloomberg publishes no price at all: the page called Order the Bloomberg Terminal is a form that asks you to describe your business problem. We checked all 161 pages in their sitemap — there is no pricing page.
One of these numbers is on a website
You cannot compare two prices when only one of them exists. Ours is on the pricing page, payable by card, cancellable in an afternoon. Theirs arrives after a qualification call, on a contract, and the only public figures come from customers reporting what they were charged.
BloombergTerminal
Not publishedNo published price, no free plan, and a trial that reaches you through an account manager. Independently reported at $31,980 a year for one terminal and $28,320 per seat above one — roughly $2,665 a month, on a multi-year contract.
professional.bloomberg.com/order-now, read 5 Sep 2026; price reported by NeuGroup, Oct 2024
QFI TerminalUltimate
$45/moBilled annually, or $59.95 month to month. Options analytics and gamma exposure, crypto derivatives, 13F and congressional filings, the world map and the public API.
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