Finviz vs TradingView

TradingView costs less to start. Its Essential plan is listed at $12.95 per month billed annually on TradingView's pricing page, and a free Basic plan has no time limit but allows one chart per tab and two indicators per chart. Finviz has one paid tier, Elite, at $39.50 per month or $299.50 per year (about $24.96 per month), according to its Elite page. Finviz also has a free plan with delayed data and basic filters, and Elite comes with a 7-day free trial that requires a credit card and converts to a paid plan after day 7. Refunds differ: Finviz issues them during the initial 30 days on written request, while TradingView's Terms of Service allow 14 days for annual plans and 7 days for monthly ones. All figures come from the vendors' own pages and were last checked in October 2026.

Finviz centres on its stock screener, which its Help Center describes as using 60+ fundamental, technical and descriptive criteria; the vendor does not publish an exact count. Elite adds 20+ advanced customizable filters, intraday screening on 1-, 5-, 15-, 30-minute and hourly timeframes, and 100 rows per page against 20 on the free plan. TradingView lists stock, ETF, DEX and crypto screeners covering 150+ exchanges from 50+ countries and 500+ fundamental and technical fields, plus a separate Pine Screener that is checked only for the Premium and Ultimate plans. Finviz's screener covers stocks listed on NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX. These counts come from the vendors' own pages and were last checked in October 2026; the two products count filters and fields differently, so the numbers are not like-for-like. Free Finviz accounts also get basic filters only, and saved presets are capped at 50 against unlimited on Elite.

Finviz no longer offers backtesting: its backtests page states that backtesting ended on March 26, 2026, that saved backtests are not recoverable and that no replacement is planned. Finviz Elite still includes unlimited intraday charts and a 12-chart multi-layout view, which the free plan does not. TradingView lists strategy backtesting with basic report metrics on all plans, advanced metrics and CSV or XLSX export from Essential up, and Deep Backtesting only on Premium and Ultimate, capped at 2 million bars per calculation. Its Essential plan allows 2 charts per tab and 5 indicators per chart. For chart-based strategy testing, TradingView is the only one of the two with a listed backtesting feature, so anyone who needs to test rules on history should plan for that gap. Both vendors' pages were last checked in October 2026.

Finviz data is real-time only on the Elite plan; free accounts see delayed quotes, and the vendor's own pages disagree on how long. Its FAQ says free stock quotes are delayed 1 minute for NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX, while the Help Center says 15 minutes for NASDAQ and 20 minutes for NYSE and AMEX. Futures delay is given as 20 minutes in the FAQ and 15 minutes on the screener help page. Fundamentals are recalculated every hour. TradingView charts show real-time US stock data from Cboe by default with no per-user fee, while real-time NASDAQ and NYSE data must be bought separately; CME Group data is free with a 10-minute delay, or $9.95 per month for real-time for non-professional users. Figures were last checked in October 2026 on the vendors' own pages.

Finviz covers futures, forex and cryptocurrency data in addition to NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX stocks, according to its Help Center. The vendor lists OTC stocks, the TSX and international markets as not covered, with international markets marked as planned. Its crypto page tracks Bitcoin, Ethereum and other major coins with price, market cap and 24-hour volume. Finviz is not a broker, and no broker integration or order routing was found on its Elite, FAQ or platform pages. TradingView's Help Center lists major stock exchanges, global currency pairs, worldwide indexes and 70 crypto exchanges, and trading through selected brokers, paper trading, chart trading and DOM trading are listed on all five plans. All details were last checked in October 2026 on the vendors' own pages; the vendor says it plans to add international markets later.

Finviz has an API, but only Elite subscribers can use it. Requests authenticate with an API key, return screener, quote and portfolio data as CSV, and are limited to 1 request per 5 seconds plus hourly and daily caps. Screener CSV export is also an Elite feature, and the vendor says its data is licensed for personal use only. Finviz is a web application, and no desktop client or native mobile app was found on the pages opened. TradingView is delivered on the web, as iOS and Android apps and as a desktop app with multi-monitor support; its market data is licensed for display-only use, and automated trading and other non-display uses are prohibited. Both vendors' pages were last checked in October 2026; Finviz also states that historical data is viewable in charts but not exportable.