The honest version of this comparison: the free tier is a genuinely complete product, not a crippled trial. What a subscription actually buys is more volume and a few specific conveniences — not access to better data, more accurate scores, or anything hidden from free accounts.
This is worth stating plainly first, since it's easy to assume otherwise: the underlying scores, the methodology, the accuracy of every ratio and pillar — none of it changes based on subscription status. A free visitor and a subscriber looking at the same stock see the exact same Combined Score, the same pillar breakdown, and the same underlying data, down to the last decimal point. There's no "premium accuracy" tier — the free version isn't a deliberately weaker product.
What differs is entirely about volume and convenience — how many full stock pages you can view in a period, how large your watchlist and comparisons can be, and a small number of features built around tracking many companies at once rather than reading about a handful of them occasionally.
Understanding this distinction changes how you should think about upgrading. If you're deciding whether to subscribe because you believe the data itself is better on a paid plan, that's not the right reason — the reason to subscribe is purely about how much of the site you want to use, and how often, not about getting a more trustworthy answer than a free visitor would see for the same stock, since that answer never actually changes either way.
Neither tier is the "correct" one in general — it depends entirely on how much of the site you actually use in practice, not on wanting more accurate or trustworthy numbers, since those never change based on subscription status at all.
Once someone subscribes, access is granted directly rather than through an automated payment gateway built into the site — this keeps the process simple while the platform is still growing, and means any billing question or plan change is handled by reaching out directly rather than through a self-service dashboard. This is worth knowing upfront so it doesn't come as a surprise: subscribing is a real, manual step on the site's side, not an instant automated checkout.
There's also a distinction worth understanding between browsing without an account and creating a free account. Anonymous visitors get a modest number of full stock page views before being asked to sign up; creating a free account raises that monthly allowance further, without requiring any payment. If you're finding yourself hitting the anonymous limit regularly, a free account — not necessarily a paid subscription — is often the right next step.
This staged approach exists deliberately: it lets someone arriving from a search engine see genuine, real value before being asked for anything at all, rather than hitting a paywall immediately. Only once that free account's own, more generous limit is reached does a paid subscription become the relevant next consideration, not before.
An investor checks two or three specific stocks a week, occasionally runs a preset screen, and keeps a small watchlist of under ten names. A free account comfortably covers this pattern of use without ever bumping against its limits — there's no real reason for this person to pay for a subscription.
An investor actively researches a broad watchlist of 40+ companies, checks stock pages daily as part of a regular screening routine, and wants to build custom screens with specific pillar minimums rather than relying on presets. This pattern of use would repeatedly hit free-tier limits — a subscription removes that friction entirely.
An investor assumes a subscriber sees a more "accurate" Combined Score than what's shown to a free visitor for the same stock, and considers subscribing specifically for this reason. In fact, both would see the identical number, calculated the same way — the actual reason to subscribe would be volume and convenience, not data quality, which is unchanged either way.
No — the exact same Combined Score, pillar breakdown, and underlying data are shown to everyone looking at a given stock, regardless of subscription status. There's no separate, higher-accuracy tier.
These are shown on the Pricing page, since they're tuned periodically as the site grows rather than fixed permanently at one figure.
Yes — the full library of ready-made preset screens is available to every visitor, subscriber or not. Only fully custom pillar-minimum screens require a subscription.
You'll be prompted to create a free account if you're browsing anonymously, or to subscribe if you're already signed in on a free account and continuing to hit that higher monthly limit regularly.
Since access is granted manually rather than through an automated recurring billing system, cancelling or changing a subscription is handled the same way as subscribing — reaching out directly rather than through a self-service account setting.
Subscription status is tied to your account, so it follows you across any device you sign in on, rather than being limited to the browser or device you originally subscribed from.
The free tier itself already provides full access to the same scores and methodology as a subscription — the difference is purely volume and a few convenience features, so there isn't a separate "trial" of subscriber-only data, since the data itself was never restricted in the first place.
Subscriptions can be switched on or off by the site — during any period when they're off, the entire site runs as a single free tier at whatever limit is currently set, with no paid upgrade path shown at all. Check the current state of the site for whether this applies right now.
Yes — like the monthly page limit, watchlist size and how many stocks can be added to a single comparison both differ between tiers. The Pricing page shows the current figures for each, since these are also tuned periodically rather than fixed permanently.
It's meant to be genuinely usable on its own — every score, every pillar breakdown, and the full methodology are available at the free tier. The subscription exists for people who want to research more companies per month than the free limit allows, not to unlock data that was otherwise being withheld.