What to use instead of Finviz

The product

Finviz is two products. The free screener is the one everybody knows: 87 filters over the NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX list, a market heatmap, and quotes Finviz's own FAQ puts one minute behind. Finviz Elite is the subscription on top, and it is the card this catalogue lists. That card carries the pricing, coverage and limitations, verified against finviz.com on 14 September 2026, and the Elite pricing page still read $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year when we checked it again on 9 October 2026. Every figure about Finviz below comes from the card.

What Elite sells is not more filters. Both tiers see the same 87. Elite sells the range: 86 of them carry a "Custom (Elite only)" entry, so a free account picks from Finviz's preset buckets and an Elite account types its own number. On top of that come real-time quotes from 4:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET, auto-refresh every 10 seconds instead of every three minutes, 100 rows a page instead of 20, unlimited saved presets instead of 50, 8 years of financial statements instead of 3, unlimited alerts, and CSV and Excel export.

People look for an alternative for one of five reasons, and they lead to different products:

• The free screen is enough, but not quite. Preset buckets instead of a typed value, three minutes between refreshes, nothing you can download.
• Elite's real-time half. The 10-second refresh turns the screen into an intraday tool, but it is still a list that re-runs, not a stream of events.
• Backtesting is gone. Finviz ended it on 26 March 2026. Saved backtests could not be recovered, and the vendor says no replacement is planned. Most reviews still list it.
• No API. The export is an authenticated file download of the current screen. Finviz says it may not sell raw history, and there is no documented endpoint at any price.
• US only. NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX, with foreign companies present only as ADRs, and Finviz says it has no plans to change that.

If none of these is your reason, the free screener is still the default this catalogue would point you to, and the Finviz vs Stock Rover vs TradingView page sets out when Elite is worth paying for.

What to use instead

A free screener that is the whole product. Stock Analysis is the other site in this catalogue with no registration wall at all. Every filter, every page of results, five fiscal years of statements and real-time NASDAQ and NYSE prices are free. Pro at $9.99 a month, or $79 a year, adds history beyond five years, saved screens and one download a day. Its screener pages refresh once a minute. TradingView's built-in screeners are free and cover 50-plus countries, but on the Basic plan they do not refresh on their own.

The real-time half of Elite. TC2000 Premium at $49.99 a month runs real-time scans on US and Canadian stocks with the EasyScan wizard, PCF formulas and 100 alerts. The $24.99 Basic tier has real-time charts but no scanning. Trade Ideas is the step past that: a scanner that streams events as conditions are met, rather than a screen that refreshes, at $127 a month or $1,068 a year, on US stocks and a Windows desktop or the web. Neither has a free tier that scans.

The fundamentals behind the filter. Finviz keeps 8 years of statements on Elite, but you read them and do not screen on them. Stock Rover Premium Plus, at $70 a month or $49 billed annually, screens on 10 years of fundamentals and on what a metric used to be. It covers US and Canada only, and the free account has no screener at all. Koyfin puts a screener over 100,000-plus securities next to consensus estimates and macro data. Free gives you two saved screens. Plus at $39 a month billed annually opens the global universe.

Charts and technical scans. StockCharts is the browser chart with scans, scheduled scans and alerts. Extra at $29.95 is the level where scanning is usable, and Pro at $49.95 adds CSV download and a 5-second refresh. It has no fundamentals depth to speak of; it is the pick for a reader whose Finviz filters were all in the Technical tab.

The backtest that went away. Uncle Stock backtests any saved fundamental screen over 25 years of history, 35 on US stocks. Silver at $35 a month rebalances yearly, and Gold at $60 rebalances quarterly and adds CSV export, an API and an MCP server. Its universe is 100,000-plus listings in 79 countries. Prices are not live, and every plan also shows the vendor's own Strong Buy to Strong Sell verdict beside the data.

Stocks Finviz does not list. Screener.in covers NSE and BSE: a typed query over ten years of financials, free with an account, and ₹4,999 a year for premium. Stockopedia covers UK and European shares with 350-plus ratios and a Quality, Value and Momentum rank on each, priced by region from £32 a month, with a 14-day trial that takes a card. TradingView and Koyfin cover both, less deeply.

The other screeners in the catalogue, including the API-shaped ones, are in the stock screeners collection.

What you give up

The free tier's breadth. No other free screener in this catalogue gives you 87 filters, a heatmap, quote pages and a one-minute delay with no account required. Stock Analysis comes closest, and it is a fundamentals site first. Of the ten picks, four have no free screen at all: Trade Ideas and Stockopedia have no free tier, Stock Rover's free account does not screen, and TC2000's free mode does not scan.

The price of real-time. Elite is $24.96 a month on annual billing for real-time quotes across the extended session. Real-time scanning costs $49.99 a month at TC2000 and $127 at Trade Ideas. At Stock Rover real-time quotes start at Ultimate, $79 a month billed annually. Moving for speed almost always means paying more for it.

One page for everything. Finviz puts the screen, the map, the quote page, the news and the futures, forex and crypto pages on one site. Every pick here is stronger at one of those and missing several. Most readers who leave end up with two products, and the cheaper one is often still the free Finviz screener.

Migration notes

Export your screens and portfolios before an Elite subscription lapses. Export is an Elite feature, so once you are back on the free tier the only way out is copying by hand. What comes out is a snapshot of the current screen, not its history.

Write your filters down as values, not as preset names. "P/E Under 15" is a Finviz bucket. Other screeners compute P/E on different earnings figures, different share counts and different dates, so the same rule returns a different list. The guide to why two screeners disagree covers where the differences come from. Expect them, and do not treat them as errors.

Check the universe before you compare results. Finviz screens about 11,600 tickers on three US exchanges, a figure from 14 September 2026. Stock Rover adds Canada, and about 6,000 OTC tickers on Ultimate. Stock Analysis counts 5,601 US stocks with the country filter set, and Koyfin and Uncle Stock count 100,000-plus listings worldwide. A screen that returned 40 names on Finviz can return 400 elsewhere without anything being wrong.