Seven tools for stock research, with each one's price list open
Almost every list in this category is written by someone who sells one of the tools, and this one is no exception: Celsmar wrote it. What can be done is not to hide that, and to use figures anyone can check. Every figure below comes from each product's own pricing page, consulted on 18 September 2026, and each one carries its link.
| Tool | Cheapest paid plan | Free plan | Financials history |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celsmar | Pro, €9.99/month | Yes, no card | 3 years (Free) · 10 (Pro) |
| TIKR | Plus, $24.95/month | Yes, US only | 5 years (Free) · up to 30 (Ultimate) |
| Koyfin | Plus, $39/month | Yes, 2 watchlists and 2 screens | 2 years (Free) · 10 (Plus) |
| Finviz Elite | $39.50/month or $299.50/year | Yes, with delayed data | 3 years on the free tier |
| Seeking Alpha | Premium, $29.99/month or $299/year | Yes, with limited articles | Not what it sells |
| Simply Wall St | No price on their plan table | Yes, 5 reports a month | Not stated on the table |
| Bloomberg Terminal | No public price to link to | No | Not published |
Figures from 18 September 2026. Every row links to its source.
Two cells say “does not publish” instead of a figure, and that is deliberate. Prices for Simply Wall St and the Bloomberg Terminal circulate on third-party sites; none come from the product's own site, so they do not go in here. A price sourced through someone else's blog is not a fact, it is a rumour with a table.
Celsmar
Financial terminal with a Spanish and an English interface. It covers eight indices —S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones, Russell 2000, IBEX 35, DAX 40, STOXX Europe 600 and FTSE 350—, crypto, ETFs and 389 funds, with 150 rows of fundamentals and 58 ratios per company. European fundamentals come from statements filed with CNMV, ESEF and EDGAR back to 2005, and every figure shows the line it comes from.
The limit is coverage: eight indices, not every exchange in the world. If the stock you follow is not in them, it does not appear.
TIKR
Four plans —Free, Plus at $24.95, Pro at $54.95 and Ultimate at $119.95 a month— that scale by depth: 5, 10, 10 and 30 years of financials, and 1 to 5 years of analyst estimates. The screener is in all four.
The free plan is limited to US stocks; full global data starts on the $24.95 plan.
Koyfin
Five plans: Free, Plus at $39, Premium at $79, Advisor Core at $209 and Advisor Pro at $299 a month. It declares more than 100,000 global company snapshots and 10 years of estimates from the Plus plan, and has a whole product line for financial advisors: model portfolios, client reports and custodian integration.
The free plan stops at 2 years of financials, 2 watchlists and 2 screens; the jump to the next one is $39 a month.
Finviz Elite
US-market screener with a widely used free version. Elite costs $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year, and what it adds is real-time data, interactive charts and no ads. The free version gives delayed quotes, basic filters, 3 years of financial statements and limited ETF data.
It is a screener, not a company workspace: fundamental depth is short and coverage is US.
Seeking Alpha
It is not a screener: it is a research house with thousands of contributors publishing investment theses on specific stocks, plus the house’s own quantitative ratings. Premium costs $29.99 a month or $299 a year on renewal, per their own site.
What you buy is third-party opinion, not a spreadsheet: there is no interactive DCF and no fundamentals catalogue to audit line by line. And the quality depends on who signs each article.
Simply Wall St
It summarises each company in a visual figure and a checklist, and covers practically every exchange in the world. Its plan table publishes the limits of Free, Premium and Unlimited: 5, 30 and unlimited reports a month; 1, 3 and unlimited portfolios; and on all three, 3 watchlists of 50 stocks and at most 1 saved screener.
It publishes no price for any plan on that table, so it cannot be compared on price without signing up.
Their pricing page · Full comparison: Celsmar / Simply Wall St
Bloomberg Terminal
It is the category's reference point and the reason the search “Bloomberg terminal alternative” exists at all. It covers fixed income, derivatives, professional messaging and data none of the other five touch.
We could not find a public price to link to, so this list puts no figure on it. What can be said without figures: it has no free plan, and none of the other five tools on this list replaces it for fixed income or derivatives.
When Celsmar is not the answer
- If you invest outside the eight indices it covers. Koyfin declares more than 100,000 companies and Simply Wall St covers practically every exchange; Celsmar, eight indices.
- If you need more than ten years of financials. TIKR reaches 30 on its Ultimate plan.
- If you work with multi-year analyst estimates. Koyfin publishes 10 years of estimates and TIKR up to 5; Celsmar gives consensus and revisions, not that series.
- If what you want is someone handing you a written investment thesis on a stock. That is what Seeking Alpha sells; Celsmar gives you the figures and the AI report, not a human analyst’s opinion.
- If you are an advisor and need model portfolios or client reports. That is Koyfin's product line, and Celsmar does not have it.
- If what you need is fixed income, derivatives or industry messaging. None of the five alternatives on this list, Celsmar included, replaces the Terminal there.
How to read a table like this one
A price on its own compares nothing. What has to be matched is the plan, because “10 years of history” costs €9.99 in one place, $24.95 in another and $39 in a third, and all three sentences are true.
The second trap is coverage. “More than 100,000 companies” and “eight indices” are not the same unit of measurement: one counts breadth and the other states what it works inside. Check first whether your stock is there, and compare afterwards.
And the third: the figures in this table expire. They were taken on 18 September 2026 and every row links to its source precisely so you can check whether they have changed.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest stock screener with fundamental data?
Of the seven tools on this list, and with the prices each one publishes on 18 September 2026, the cheapest paid plan is Celsmar’s Pro, at €9.99 a month or €95.90 a year. Then come TIKR Plus at $24.95, Seeking Alpha Premium at $29.99, Koyfin Plus at $39 and Finviz Elite at $39.50 a month. Simply Wall St publishes no price on its plan table. Five of the seven also have a free plan.
Is there an alternative to the Bloomberg Terminal?
For researching listed equities, yes: Koyfin, TIKR, Celsmar, Simply Wall St, Seeking Alpha and Finviz cover financials, ratios, charts and screening for between $0 and $40 a month. For fixed income, derivatives and professional messaging, no: none of the six does that. It is worth separating the two questions before comparing prices, because almost every list in the category mixes them.
Which research tools have a free plan with no card?
Celsmar, TIKR, Koyfin, Finviz, Seeking Alpha and Simply Wall St have free plans. What changes is where the limit sits: TIKR restricts its free tier to US stocks, Koyfin stops at 2 years of financials and 2 screens, Finviz gives delayed data, Simply Wall St allows 5 reports a month and 1 portfolio of 10 holdings, and Celsmar gives 3 years of fundamentals, 5 AI reports a month and unlimited watchlists. The Bloomberg Terminal has no free plan.
Can you trust a comparison written by one of the products?
Only if you can check it. This one is written by Celsmar and says so in the first paragraph. What makes it checkable is that every figure comes from the product's own pricing page, carries the date it was taken and a link to see it, and that there is a whole section on when Celsmar is not the answer. If a list in this category does not carry those three things, the prudent move is to treat it as advertising.
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No card required. It covers the eight indices, crypto, ETFs and funds, with 3 years of fundamentals and 5 AI reports a month.
Figures for the other products are taken from their own public pages on the date stated and may have changed since; each one carries its link so you can check. Trademarks cited belong to their owners. This content is informational and is not financial advice.