Finviz vs Stock Rover vs TradingView: speed, history or the chart

Three products that happen to share a filter

People type "Finviz vs TradingView" because both have a box where you set P/E under 15 and get a list back. The three cards above say why the comparison is lopsided. The catalogue files Finviz Elite and Stock Rover under screening, the job each is bought for, and TradingView under charting. For TradingView the screener is a tab, not the reason anyone pays. Each one charges for something different: Finviz Elite for the same screen run faster and wider, Stock Rover for how far back the fundamentals reach, TradingView for chart counts, indicators and alerts. The screen comes along with whichever product you buy for that, so the first question is which of those three you are short of.

What each one screens on

Finviz has 87 filters over the NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX list: 11,617 tickers with no filter applied on 14 September 2026, with non-US companies present only as ADRs. Free and Elite see the same 87. What Elite buys is the range: 86 of the filters have a "Custom (Elite only)" entry, so a free account picks from Finviz's buckets and Elite types its own number. The after-hours price and change filters, and the intraday choices inside the performance filters, are Elite-only outright. For options, the screen has one field, yes or no "optionable". The financial statements behind the quote page go back 3 years free and 8 on Elite.

Stock Rover counts metrics rather than filters: 400+ on Premium, 700+ on Premium Plus, 800+ on Ultimate. Fundamentals history goes back 5, 10 and 20 years on those tiers. Equation screening and historical screening (filtering on what a metric used to be) start at Premium Plus. Option and insider metrics start at Ultimate. It ships 150+ prebuilt screens, Piotroski, Altman and Greenblatt among them, and it will rank by weighted metrics or score a portfolio against a screen's criteria. The universe is US and Canada. Premium covers 8,500+ stocks, and the 14,000+ figure includes the ~6,000 OTC tickers that Ultimate adds.

TradingView has two kinds of screen. The built-in screeners cover a 50-plus-country symbol base. Its card does not give a field count for them or say how many years of fundamentals sit behind them. The Pine Screener is the one thing the other two cannot do: it screens on an indicator you wrote. It needs Premium, runs one scan at a time on a fixed set of timeframes, takes one indicator per screen and calculates on the last 500 bars.

In short: a custom technical condition points to TradingView, a filter that needs a past value points to Stock Rover, and a quick cut of current US numbers is what Finviz was built for.

Where the free tier stops

The three free tiers work in three different ways, which is the biggest gap between the products.

The free Finviz screener is the whole product with the speed and the exits taken out: preset ranges, quotes one minute behind on NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX by Finviz's own FAQ, a three-minute refresh, 50 saved presets, 20 rows a page, no export and no alerts. Plenty of people never need more than that.

Stock Rover's free account keeps research on single stocks, the news and brokerage links, and drops screening entirely. The paywall sits in front of the screener, so you evaluate it with the 14-day trial. The trial takes no card, falls back to the free account when it ends and cannot export to CSV.

TradingView Basic has the built-in screeners, but they do not refresh themselves. It also gives you one chart per tab, two indicators and three alerts. The Pine Screener is three plans up.

Real-time, delayed, and who pays the exchange

Finviz Elite is real-time, with premarket from 4:00 AM and after-hours to 8:00 PM ET. The free tier is one minute behind, futures are 20 minutes behind on both tiers and options 15.

Stock Rover is real-time only on Ultimate and Ultimate Pro, if you go by the plan comparison, and the plans page qualifies even that as "where available". The vendor's own pages disagree with each other: a support article says most quotes are real-time and makes no mention of plans. The card follows the plan comparison, so a subscriber below Ultimate should expect delayed quotes.

TradingView is the only card of the three that prices the exchange as a line of its own. US stocks come real-time on every plan, but from Cboe One, which has thinner prints on quiet names. NYSE, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, the NASDAQ indices and OTC come as a $9.95 monthly bundle for a non-professional. A professional buying exchanges one at a time pays $25 to $50 for each. The plan and the data together are added up by the TradingView real cost calculator.

Neither the Finviz card nor the Stock Rover card says whether an exchange fee sits inside the plan or whether a professional subscriber pays more. That is a gap in what this page can compare, not evidence that the fee is zero. The guide to real-time data fees explains why the question exists at all.

Saving, exporting, alerting, backtesting

Saving. Finviz allows 50 saved presets free and unlimited on Elite. Stock Rover's Premium tier lists 15 screeners, and the card gives no figure for the tiers above it. TradingView's card says nothing about saved screens.

Exporting. Finviz Elite exports the screener, portfolios, prices and groups as CSV and Excel. What comes out is a snapshot of the current screen, because Finviz says it may not sell raw history. Stock Rover exports CSV, metered by plan at 10, 90, 500 and 2,500 files a month. TradingView's card records no export of a screener result. What it does record is chart bars to CSV from Plus, watchlist import and export from Essential, and the strategy report as CSV or XLSX.

Alerting. Finviz Elite alerts are unlimited, go out by email and browser push, and include screener triggers. There are none on free. Stock Rover sends price, fundamental, technical and earnings alerts by email and SMS, and the card does not say whether a screen can trigger one. TradingView's alerts run server-side with the tab closed, 3 to 1,000 price alerts by plan with the same number again in technical alerts from Essential up, and they can call a webhook.

Backtesting. None of the three backtests a screen. Finviz ended backtesting on 26 March 2026. Stock Rover never had it. TradingView's strategy tester runs a Pine strategy on one chart over 5,000 to 40,000 bars. If testing the screen is the point, the screener collection files that under Portfolio123.

Prices, and which tab they are on

Finviz Elite: $39.50 month to month, or $299.50 a year, which works out at $24.96 a month. There is one tier. The 7-day trial needs a card and renews into a paid plan, and refunds are only possible within 30 days, on written request.

Stock Rover: $34, $70, $99 and $199 month to month; $29, $49, $79 and $149 a month billed annually; $24, $42, $69 and $129 on a two-year term. It issues no refunds.

TradingView: $12.95, $29.95, $59.95 and $199.95 a month billed annually, and paying monthly costs $24 to $480 a year more. Real-time listing-exchange data is extra, as described above.

On annual billing, a real-time US screen costs $24.96 a month at Finviz and $79 at Stock Rover, because real-time only starts at Ultimate there. At TradingView, US quotes are real-time from Cboe One even on Basic, but the screener refreshes itself only on a paid plan: $12.95 for Essential, or $22.90 with the listing-exchange bundle. The figures look close, but they buy different things.

The Finviz and Stock Rover cards were verified on 14 September 2026. TradingView's pricing, features and coverage were verified on 13 September, and its card was last revised on 4 October for European exchange prices that do not touch a US screen. All three figures were three to four weeks old when this page was written.

Which buyer lands where

The day trader screening intraday lands on Finviz Elite. It is the only card of the three that records real-time quotes in premarket and after-hours together with filters for the extended session and a ten-second refresh. It is still a list that re-runs, not a stream of events. A scan that has to fire on its own on five-minute bars is the job of TrendSpider or Trade Ideas, and the TradingView vs TrendSpider page converts that into plan prices. Stock Rover does no intraday scanning at any tier.

The value investor screening ten years of fundamentals lands on Stock Rover Premium Plus. It is the cheapest tier on these cards that records ten years and filters on past values, and the step up from Premium is the step from five years to ten. Twenty years means Ultimate. Finviz's 8 years of statements are for reading, not for screening.

The reader who mostly wants the chart lands on TradingView. It is the only one of the three on phone and desktop as well as the browser, with listings in 50-plus countries and screens on your own indicators. The built-in screener comes with the product. Basic is enough to find out whether you will use it, although on Basic it will not refresh by itself.

The recommendation

Finviz free, until you need a filter value its buckets do not offer, a refresh faster than three minutes, or the result as a file. At that point, Finviz Elite. Move to Stock Rover Premium Plus once the screen needs ten years of fundamentals or a filter on a past value, or once your universe includes Canada. Take TradingView if you open the screener on the way to a chart, or if anything you trade is listed outside North America. The other screeners in the catalogue are in the stock screeners collection, and the different lists they return for the same screen are explained in why two screeners disagree.