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

Two UK screeners for private investors. Stockopedia costs less for UK shares alone; from a second market ShareScope's flat price wins, unless you want the rank.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/compare/sharescope-vs-stockopedia*

- https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sharescope.md
- https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/stockopedia.md

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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sharescope)
sells one subscription that covers four markets, and [Stockopedia](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/guides/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/categories/charting-screeners) page.

## FAQ

### Which is cheaper, ShareScope or Stockopedia?

For UK shares alone, Stockopedia, at £295 a year or £32 a month against ShareScope's £393 or £36. Add a second market and the order flips. Stockopedia's UK and US plan is £450 a year, Europe including the UK counts as two regions at the same price, and the UK, US, Canada and Europe together cost £750. ShareScope includes all four for £393.

### Does ShareScope have something like the StockRank?

No. ShareScope has screens with custom calculations, a library of ready-made filters and valuation tools for discounted cash flow, earnings power value and dividends, but no single score computed for every share. Stockopedia's StockRank is a fixed blend of Quality, Value and Momentum ranks from 0 to 100 that you cannot reweight. If that rank is why you are looking, only Stockopedia has it.

### Which one works out capital gains tax on my portfolio?

ShareScope. Its portfolios take shares, funds, investment trusts, ETFs and bonds, record dividends automatically and calculate capital gains tax. Stockopedia's Folios track holdings imported from a CSV, but its card records no tax reporting.

### Do the two show the same numbers for a company?

Not necessarily. Stockopedia takes its fundamentals, estimates and prices mostly from Refinitiv, now LSEG, and computes its ratios overnight. ShareScope names the London Stock Exchange, FTSE, Morningstar, S&P and others as suppliers. Different suppliers standardise accounts differently, so a ratio can differ between the two screens without either being wrong.