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QFI Terminal is the Seeking Alpha alternative
Seeking Alpha publishes more written investment analysis than anyone: five thousand articles a month across eight to ten thousand tickers, including names no bank covers, with the author’s own record attached to every call. A data terminal cannot replace that, and we are not trying to. What it is not is a market desk — it is US-traded stocks and ETFs by their own definition, with no economic calendar, no macro series and no derivatives analytics of any kind.
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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.
Seeking Alpha
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
We both have a free plan, and comparing two zeroes tells you nothing. Seeking Alpha bills by the year only, so every price below is the monthly cost when billed annually.
The plan most people actually buy
Premium is the Seeking Alpha subscription — the ratings, the ten years of statements and the transcripts. Plus is our cheapest plan. Two dollars separate them, and the table above is what each one covers.
Seeking AlphaPremium
$24.92/moBilled annually at $299; there is no monthly plan. Alpha Picks is a separate $499 a year on top, and the two together are $798.
seekingalpha.com/subscriptions and their help centre, 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.
The most either of us can charge you
PRO is their ceiling and Ultimate is ours. Theirs buys deeper screening and the PRO content tier. Ours buys the options book, the derivatives market, the macro desk, the map and the API.
Seeking AlphaPRO
$200/moBilled annually at $2,400. It is four and a half times our top plan, and it is still US-traded equities and ETFs.
seekingalpha.com/subscriptions and their help centre, read 5 Sep 2026
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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