ShareScope vs Stockopedia: one price for four markets, or a price per region

Both cards above describe the same product for the same reader. Each is a browser screener with company financials, charts, alerts and a portfolio tool, built in London for UK private investors, licensed for personal use only, with no API and no free plan. Neither places orders, and neither lets you backtest your own rules. Reading the feature lists side by side settles very little.

Two things do settle it. The first is the unit each company sells: ShareScope sells one subscription that covers four markets, and Stockopedia sells regions one at a time. The second is the one thing only Stockopedia computes, a rank on every share. The rest of the difference is portfolio and price detail that matters to some readers and not at all to others.

Count your markets before comparing prices

ShareScope's plan includes UK, US, Canadian and European shares with no regional add-on, at £36 a month or £393 a year. Stockopedia charges by how many regions you pick, and every tool comes with every plan. Its plans page, read on 24 October 2026, gave the same figures as its card: one region £32 a month or £295 a year, two £50 or £450, three £65 or £600, four £80 or £750, all six £105 or £975. Europe including the UK is priced as two regions on its own.

The same portfolio, priced on both annual plans:

• UK shares only. Stockopedia £295, ShareScope £393. Stockopedia is £98 a year cheaper.
• UK and US shares. Stockopedia's UK and US plan is two regions, £450 against ShareScope's £393.
• UK and European shares. Europe including the UK is two regions, also £450.
• UK, Europe and the US. Three regions, £600.
• Everything ShareScope covers, the UK, Europe, the US and Canada. Four regions, £750, nearly twice ShareScope's price.
• Asian, Australasian or Indian shares. Only Stockopedia covers them. Its card lists Developed Asia, Australasia and India as regions; ShareScope's markets stop at the UK, the US, Canada and Europe.

So the crossover is the second market. Monthly billing moves it nowhere: £32 against £36 for one region, £50 against £36 for two. One unit question remains. ShareScope says its prices include VAT, and Stockopedia's plans page does not say either way.

The rank, and what it costs to want it

Stockopedia's StockRank is what the product is built around. Every qualifying share gets a 0–100 rank built from three factor scores, Quality, Value and Momentum. Stockopedia's methodology pages describe it as arithmetic over published ratios, not an analyst's view. It is also fixed: you cannot reweight the three scores or build your own. A share with no broker coverage is ranked on price momentum alone, and investment trusts are left out of the ranking universe altogether.

ShareScope has no rank. What it has instead is a screener with custom calculations, ready-made screens you copy and change, and valuation tools for discounted cash flow, earnings power value and dividend-based value. You can screen on the same ratios that make up a factor score, but you are writing the screen, not reading a number someone else computed.

That is the one axis where Stockopedia has no substitute here. If the rank is the reason you are choosing, the price comparison above does not apply. If you were going to screen on your own filters anyway, the rank is a column you are paying for and not using.

What a portfolio holder notices first

• Capital gains tax. ShareScope's portfolios calculate it. Stockopedia's Folios do not.
• Investment trusts, funds and bonds. ShareScope covers funds, investment trusts, ETFs, gilts and corporate bonds, and portfolios take all of them. Stockopedia excludes investment trusts from its ranks, and gives ETFs quotes and price history only in the UK and the US.
• Live prices. Stockopedia has none at any price. Its quotes are delayed and every ratio and rank is recomputed overnight. ShareScope is 15 minutes delayed on the base plan and real-time for London, Aquis and US shares, with LSE and Aquis Level 2, on Pro at £84 a month or £909 a year. European and Canadian prices stay delayed on both plans.
• What leaves the browser. Stockopedia exports screen and Folio tables to Excel or CSV and will not export price histories at all, which it puts down to licensing. ShareScope's comparison table lists export of tables, charts, price series and trade data.
• Editorial in the bundle. Every Stockopedia plan includes daily UK results commentary, weekly share ideas and a model portfolio. ShareScope's FAQ says it gives no tips. The one exception on its site, a stock-picking edition sold as an add-on, is open only to Legacy ShareScope subscribers.

Different suppliers, different numbers

Stockopedia takes its fundamentals, estimates and prices mostly from Refinitiv (LSEG) and puts StockReports 48 to 96 hours behind a results announcement. ShareScope names the London Stock Exchange, FTSE, Morningstar, S&P and others, and loads company results and broker forecasts once a day, usually around noon. Two suppliers standardise the same accounts differently, so a margin or an ROCE can differ between the two screens without either being wrong. Why two screeners disagree explains the definitions. If you move between them, line up one company you know before trusting a screen.

The recommendation

Choose Stockopedia if the StockRank is the reason you are looking, or if you hold Asian, Australasian or Indian shares. ShareScope has neither the rank nor those markets. Choose it as well if you screen UK shares only, where one region at £295 a year undercuts ShareScope by £98.

Choose ShareScope the moment you need a second market. UK and US shares, or UK and European, already cost £450 on Stockopedia against £393, and the four markets ShareScope includes cost £750. Choose it regardless of market if you want the portfolio to work out capital gains tax, hold investment trusts, or need live London prices and Level 2, which only its Pro plan sells.

Neither has a free plan. Stockopedia's 14-day trial takes a card and its 30-day money-back guarantee covers the first payment. ShareScope has no trial, only a 30-day refund once per household, so Stockopedia is the only one of the two you can try before paying. The rest of the category is on the stock charting platforms and screeners page.