# How to compare stock news services

> The questions worth asking any real-time stock news service before you pay, from the price of real-time to how alerts reach you, with Quantisnow's answer to each and the places where other services can be the better pick.

Source: https://www.quantisnow.com/compare-news-services
Last updated: 2026-11-07

## What does real time cost?

Many services put the delay on their cheaper tiers, so the plan you actually need can be the second or third one.

Quantisnow: Core $19 a month or $14.25 a month billed yearly; Plus $69 a month or $51.75 a month billed yearly; Premium $420 a month or $315 a month billed yearly. Yearly saves 25%. Plus is the first real-time plan.

## Can you try the real-time plan first?

A free tier on a delay tells you little about the live product.

Quantisnow: Yes. New accounts get 3 days of Plus free. A card is required and the first charge comes when the trial ends unless you cancel. Payments are non-refundable.

## What does the free plan show, and how late?

Check the delay on each feed, not only the headline one, and whether there are ads.

Quantisnow: Every feed 55 seconds late, 5 followed tickers, email alerts on the same delay. It never expires.

## How fast do alerts go out, and who measured it?

Speed claims are almost always the vendor's own numbers. Ask from what moment they start the clock.

Quantisnow: About 35ms from the source publishing to the alert leaving our servers, by our own measurement.

## Which kinds of news are covered?

Press releases are common. Analyst rating changes, FDA decisions and insider filings are where services differ.

Quantisnow: Press release wires, SEC filings, analyst upgrades, downgrades and targets, FDA decisions, Form 4 insider trades, earnings, trading halts and dividend declarations, each tagged to tickers.

## Is there an AI read on each item, and can you check the source?

A summary is only useful if the original document is one click away.

Quantisnow: Each filing and release gets an AI summary, impact score and sentiment, with a link to the original. An AI agent on every page answers questions from the same data.

## Is the phone app a native app or a home-screen web app?

Some services offer a web page you add to your home screen instead of an app from the store. Both can push; ask which one you get.

Quantisnow: Native apps. iPhone: Public beta on Apple's TestFlight: anyone can install it from https://testflight.apple.com/join/fGjJ88p9, no waitlist. Needs iOS 16.4 or later. The App Store version is submitted and waiting for Apple's review. Android: Early access on Google Play: anyone can join the tester group with a Google account and install it from Play right away, no waitlist. A public Play listing follows Google's testing period.

## How many tickers can you follow?

Watchlist caps on mid tiers are often lower than an active trader's list.

Quantisnow: 5 free, 250 on Plus, 500 on Premium, each with its own alert types.

## Can alerts reach your own tools?

Retail plans rarely include webhooks or an API, and data licenses sold separately can cost far more.

Quantisnow: Premium sends every matching item as JSON to up to 5 URLs of your own, Slack or Discord. RSS is free for every feed, and an MCP server lets AI assistants such as Claude query the wire with your account.

## Is there an audio squawk?

Some services have people reading news live through the session; others use text to speech.

Quantisnow: Squawk reads new headlines aloud with text to speech while a feed is open. We do not have a live human squawk.

## Where another service can be the better pick

- Price to start. Some services sell a cheaper first tier, with news a little delayed, and some put real time below our Plus price.
- Free delay. Ours runs 55 seconds behind. Some free plans run about that far behind too, so compare the exact figure.
- A live human squawk and a newsroom that breaks its own stories.
- Breadth: options, futures, crypto, charting and trading chat rooms in one place.
- Longer trials, up to two weeks.
- Store-listed apps with thousands of ratings. Ours are in public beta today.
- Years of public reviews. We do not have many yet.

Quantisnow pricing: https://www.quantisnow.com/pricing