Insider Screener

What it is

A screener over corporate insider transactions in seventeen jurisdictions, joined into one schema. The US half is SEC Form 4 back to 30 June 2003; the other sixteen are the equivalent directors'-dealings regimes, each read from its own regulator — the AMF in France, BaFin in Germany, the FCA's National Storage Mechanism in the UK, Consob in Italy, SEDI in Canada, OpenDART in South Korea, NSE and BSE in India.

That is the whole product and the reason to consider it. Free insider tools are US-only, because Form 4 is a single machine-readable feed and nobody has to do any work; every one of the sixteen other regimes is a separate ingestion problem, and this vendor has solved fourteen of them well enough to show a timestamp for each on a public status page.

What it is not is an ownership database. There is no 13F, no Schedule 13D or 13G, no fund holdings and no congressional disclosure. One filing type, many countries — the opposite trade from Quiver Quantitative, which sells many filing types in one country.

Pricing

Two separate products with separate bills. The platform runs $19, $39 and $69 a month, or $169, $349 and $619 a year, and what the tiers ration is tracking and exports rather than data: 25, 50 or 500 watched stocks; 5, 15 or 50 saved screens; 1,000, 10,000 or 50,000 exported transactions a month. Real-time email alerts and the insider-performance history appear only at $69.

The API is priced independently at $49, $149 and $499 a month for 1,000, 5,000 and 20,000 credits, rate-limited to 1, 2 and 5 requests a second. Credits are weighted by scope — a raw transaction list costs 2 credits US-only, 5 for a single non-US market and 10 for global — and raw endpoints bill in blocks of 100 rows, so the monthly credit figure is not a row budget and cannot be read as one. A successful empty response still costs at least one credit; a validation error costs nothing. Identifier resolution is free.

There is no free tier and no free trial. The nearest thing is a $99 one-time pass giving 2,500 credits for fourteen days with the Research endpoints included, which does not auto-renew. A 30% launch discount was posted against the API list prices when this card was checked; the numbers above are the list.

Data & coverage

Seventeen markets are claimed and roughly fourteen were demonstrably flowing on 21 September 2026, which the vendor's own coverage page makes checkable: it prints a per-country source, a start date, an ingestion cadence and the timestamp of the last processed filing. Australia is marked paused. Italy and Greece show no last-processed filing at all, despite hourly cadence and coverage claimed from 2019 and 2005.

Cadence varies by regulator and is the honest limit on how fresh any of it is: the US is near real time, most European regulators hourly, India twice daily, Canada and South Korea several times a day. The vendor states filings generally appear within fifteen minutes of becoming public.

Adjacent to the filings sit earnings dates and beat-or-miss flags from the Pro tier, which exist so an insider purchase can be placed against the calendar rather than as a dataset of their own.

Integrations

REST v1 at www.insiderscreener.com/api/v1/, authenticated with X-API-Key. The docs are explicit that a bearer token is rejected with a 401, which is the sort of detail that costs an afternoon when it is undocumented. Swagger docs are public without a key, and there is a plain-Markdown dump of the whole API at /api/v1/docs.md that the vendor labels as being for AI agents.

No websocket, no webhooks, no MCP server — the string does not appear anywhere in the API docs — and no spreadsheet add-in, although the vendor pitches the Starter tier as the one to call from a sheet.

Limitations

• No free tier at all. Anonymous browsing is not a plan; it has no documented cap, no stated delay and can be narrowed without notice. Every dependable use of this product starts at $19.
• One filing type. No 13F, no 13D/G, no congressional data. If the question is what a fund owns, this is the wrong tool at any tier.
• Two markets are not moving and one is paused. Italy and Greece showed no processed filing on the status page, and Australia is flagged paused. The page is to the vendor's credit; the gaps are still gaps.
• No legal entity is disclosed anywhere, and /terms returns a 404. For a paid product that sells a redistribution tier, there is no published contract to read before buying.
• Redistribution needs the contact-us tier. The Research licence is internal use only, which rules out building anything customer-facing on the three published API prices.
• The export format is not stated. Exports are metered per month on every platform tier, but nothing on the pricing page says what file comes out.

Alternatives

OpenInsider is free, faster on US filings and has a deeper filter set, and stops at the US border with no API. Fintel covers thirty-odd markets and adds ownership, short interest and options flow, from $7.95 a month billed annually — the closer comparison on breadth, and a different shape of product. Quiver Quantitative is the one to take if the requirement is several US filing types over one key rather than one type across many countries. For the raw filings themselves rather than a screen over them, sec-api.io returns EDGAR as JSON. The rest of the category is at insider, 13F and congressional trade trackers.