//COMPARISON · UPDATED JUNE 2025
Three tools, wildly different prices. Here’s what you actually get — including the features nobody talks about, like who has SEC filings, who has a backtester on the free tier, and who requires an account just to see a chart. If you’re looking for a free TradingView alternative or a Koyfin alternative, read this first.
TradingView’s free tier is genuinely useful but gated: 3 indicators per chart, 1 price alert, ads everywhere. Koyfin’s free tier withholds most fundamental data. Finterm has no paywalled features — it’s the only truly free financial terminal in this comparison.
Finterm pulls raw SEC EDGAR data — full quarterly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and synthesized Q4 figures for every US-listed company. Free cash flow is calculated automatically (CFO − CapEx). TradingView shows almost no fundamental data outside of a few headline metrics. Koyfin has solid fundamentals but locks most of it behind paid plans. See the SEC filings tool →
There is no “free tier with limits.” Every feature in Finterm — charts, SEC filings, backtester, spreadsheet, indicators, news — is free. You don’t even need an account. The optional account only adds cross-device workspace sync. TradingView’s free tier limits you to 3 indicators and 1 alert. Koyfin restricts most fundamental data behind a paywall.
Finterm’s backtester runs in an isolated Web Worker sandbox. You write plain JavaScript: OHLCV data comes in, signals come out. No new language to learn. TradingView uses Pine Script, which is proprietary and requires a paid plan for strategy testing beyond basic limits. Koyfin has no backtester at all. Try the backtester →
TradingView’s chart ecosystem is unmatched — thousands of community indicators, drawing tools, multi-timeframe analysis, and Pine Script for custom studies. The social “ideas” community is also genuinely useful for trade setups. If charts are your primary tool and you don’t need fundamentals, TradingView’s paid tiers are worth the money. Finterm doesn’t try to replicate the social/ideas layer.
Koyfin has invested heavily in UX for equity analysts — clean watchlists, structured fundamental views, earnings estimates, and dividend data. If you’re doing long-form equity research and don’t need crypto or backtesting, Koyfin’s Pro plan is a reasonable Bloomberg-lite. Their mobile app is also better than anything Finterm or TradingView ships for fundamentals on the go.
Finterm ships a full spreadsheet with live market formulas: =PRICE(“BTC”) for crypto, =STOCK(“AAPL”) for equities, and VOL(range) for realised volatility. Cells update live. Neither TradingView nor Koyfin has anything like this. Open the spreadsheet →
//NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
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