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QFI Terminal is the MarketBeat alternative
MarketBeat is a signal machine with six million newsletter subscribers, and it is better at reaching people than any terminal. It also carries more than its reputation suggests: a full options chain with open interest and greeks, 13F filings, congressional trades, broker sync through Plaid and SMS alerts — the last two being things we do not have. Where it stops is analysis derived from that data: no gamma, no volatility surface, no derivatives book, no macro series, and no economic calendar at all.
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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.
MarketBeat
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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
We both have a free plan, and comparing two zeroes tells you nothing — though theirs is a good one, a daily newsletter and a ten-stock watchlist that never expires. MarketBeat sells exactly one paid tier. Both prices below are the monthly cost when billed annually.
Their only paid plan against our cheapest
All Access is the whole of what MarketBeat sells, and it is inexpensive. Plus is the first of our three tiers and costs about the same. This is not a page about price — it is about what the two of them cover, which is the table above.
MarketBeatAll Access
$20.75/moBilled annually at $249, or $29 month to month, with a 30-day trial. There is no tier above it. Coverage is the US, Canada and the UK, by their own statement.
marketbeat.com/subscribe/all-access, read 5 Sep 2026
QFI TerminalPlus
$22.50/moBilled annually, or $29.95 month to month. Global fundamentals, the screener, valuation, portfolio tracking, correlation, the world map and the macro desk.
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