Best Stock Screeners: 8 Screeners Compared on Free Plans and Prices

For a free screener, start with Finviz, free with registration on delayed quotes, or TradingView's free Basic plan. Fundamental investors get the deepest filters per dollar from Stock Rover, whose Premium plan screens on more than 300 metrics for $29 a month billed annually. Day traders who need real-time scans pay more: TC2000's real-time scanning starts with its $49.99 Premium plan, and Trade Ideas Standard costs $127 a month. All prices were read on the official pages between October 30 and November 2, 2026.

A stock screener filters thousands of listed stocks down to the few that match rules you set: price, volume, valuation, sector or an indicator signal. The eight below are the ones our old list covered, minus TD Ameritrade's screener, which went away when the firm moved its clients to Schwab.

What a year of each screener costs

Monthly prices hide how far apart these tools are. Counted over twelve months, the first paid plan with a screener ranges from about $155 to almost $2,000.

The two ends of the chart are not the same product. TradingView Essential is a charting platform with screeners next to the charts; Benzinga Pro Essential is a real-time news terminal with a scanner built in. Discovering or creating screeners on Yahoo Finance is free, but its Smart Money Screener comes only with Gold, a research plan that also includes up to 40 years of historical financial data. Compare tools within the same job: a daily screen after the close, a fundamental database, or an intraday scanner.

What the free plans leave out

Finviz spells out the limits of its free plan on its Elite page, and they are the usual ones for a free screener:

The Elite trial needs a credit card and renews as a paid plan unless you cancel.

That list tells you whether you need to pay. If you screen once a day after the close, delayed data and basic filters lose you nothing. If you trade the open, a three-minute refresh on delayed quotes is the wrong tool.

Which screener fits which trader

You want a free screener

Try Finviz's free screener first if you filter on fundamentals and chart patterns. TradingView's Basic plan is free, with stock, ETF and crypto screeners next to the charts, and paid plans start with Essential at $12.95 a month billed annually; you can open a free TradingView account to try it. Yahoo Finance lets you discover or create screeners for free, and the Nasdaq stock screener is open to anyone on nasdaq.com.

You invest on fundamentals

Stock Rover's Premium plan costs $29 a month billed annually ($348 a year) or $34 month to month, covers more than 8,500 stocks and screens on over 300 metrics; Premium Plus, at $49 a month billed annually, covers more than 700 metrics in all (against 400 for Premium) and adds equation-based and historical screening, and every plan can be tried free for 14 days. See why Stock Rover suits fundamental screening. Zacks Premium, at $249 a year after a 30-day free trial, adds premium screens built around the Zacks Rank.

You day trade and need real-time scans

Real-time scanning is where prices jump: a year of the cheapest plan that includes it, about $600 at TC2000 Premium (12 x $49.99), costs more than a year of any daily screener in our comparison.

Trade Ideas Standard costs $127 a month, or $1,068 a year ($89 a month), with real-time data and customizable scans; Premium, at $254 a month or $2,136 a year, adds the Holly AI buy and sell signals. Both plans include an assistant that builds a scan from a plain-English description. Trade Ideas' scanners are built for intraday momentum. TC2000 lists three plans at $24.99, $49.99 and $99.99 a month; real-time scanning and sorting start with the second, Premium. You can download TC2000 or compare TC2000's plans.

You trade the news

Benzinga Pro's real-time scanner, covering more than 3,000 stocks, comes with its Essential plan at $197 a month, or $1,997 a year; the Basic plan, at $37 a month, includes the newsfeed but not the scanner. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial (prices read on October 30, 2026). Benzinga describes its screener feature on its own site.

Related tools

For low priced stocks, see our comparison of penny stock screeners. For charting platforms that include scanners, see our technical analysis software comparison, our TrendSpider overview and what replaced the discontinued MarketClub. All our trading reviews cover software, courses and books.