Barchart.com

What it is

Barchart.com is the consumer half of Barchart: quote pages, interactive charts, watchlists, hand-kept portfolios, email alerts and — the reason most people pay — screeners. Over 150 filters across stocks, ETFs, funds and options, saved and re-run on demand, or run for you at midday and the close with the matches emailed as CSV.

The options tooling is the part with no cheap equivalent: unusual options activity, options flow, options time and sales, IV rank and percentile, and pre-built covered call, naked put and vertical spread screeners. All of it is Premier-only.

Barchart also sells a market data API — Barchart OnDemand — and a desktop terminal under the same name. Different products, different buyers; this card is the website membership.

Pricing

Three tiers, read from the membership comparison page on 13 September 2026. Free is $0 and never expires. Plus is $9.99 a month, $99 a year or $179 for two years. Premier is $29.95 a month, $239.95 a year or $419.95 for two years. Both paid tiers advertise the first 30 days free.

The tiers sell quota, not data. Free allows 20 page views a day and one each of watchlist, portfolio and saved screener; Plus lifts the page-view cap and gives ten of each; Premier makes them unlimited, raises CSV downloads to 250 a day, and unlocks the options suite and the advanced alerts. Unusually for this category, there is no exchange-data line item on top.

Data & coverage

Equities for the US, Canada (TSX and TSX-V), the UK, Australia and Europe, switched with a market flag that re-points the symbol search and the screeners. Futures, forex, crypto, indices and funds throughout. Quotes are delayed — 15 minutes for stocks, 10-15 for futures and forex — except Cboe BZX, which streams live. Equity options price history runs back to 3 January 2017 daily, minute data from March 2023; symbol history downloads reach 1 January 2000.

Integrations

Data comes out as .csv and nothing else: 1 download a day free, 10 on Plus, 250 on Premier, each capped at 20,000 records — about six years of 30-minute bars. A Custom View of up to 25 columns drawn from more than 400 fields downloads the same way, and the interactive chart exports intraday bars and study values as well as prices. Scheduling is the whole automation story: saved screeners run up to four times a day and email their matches, and Premier watchlist and portfolio emails go out up to five times a day, optionally with that .csv attached.

Going the other way there is one real connection. The Investor Portfolio — beta — links a live brokerage account through SnapTrade read-only, refreshed overnight or manually, and will also take a .csv of transactions; a watchlist accepts a paste of up to 1,000 symbols. A membership has no API and no keys, which is what the sibling Barchart OnDemand card is for. Barchart's Excel add-in is a further product again, licensed on its own and absent from the membership comparison.

Limitations

• Twenty page views a day on the free tier, counted across quotes, charts and tools. That is not a plan you can evaluate the screener on; it is a trailer.
• No consolidated real-time tape at any price. Premier does not buy you the SIP. Single-venue BZX prices are fine for triage and wrong for anything timed to the second.
• Free screener results stop at the first 20 rows, hiding the long tail a screen is run to find.
• No strategy backtesting. What carries that label is a fixed five-year hypothetical for the 13 indicators behind the Barchart Opinion, not a rule set you write.
• A linked broker account is a read-only mirror, and a slow one. Holdings refresh once overnight, changes can take 24 hours to show, and cash and anything that is not a US-listed stock, US fund, ETF or US equity option may not import at all. No order routing, no paper trading.
• Fundamental data is not licensed for download outside US equities — a .csv pulled from a Canadian, UK, Australian or European stocks page prints N/L in those columns.
• No scripting, webhooks or API.

Alternatives

Finviz for a faster free screener with a weaker options side; Stock Rover for fundamentals-first screening and real portfolio analytics; TradingView when the chart matters more than the scan.

The rest of the field is in charting platforms and screeners.