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Koyfin vs TIKR
Both are affordable, self-serve alternatives to institutional terminals. Koyfin leans into dashboards; TIKR leans into deep global financial history.
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| Koyfin | TIKR | |||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Koyfin Inc. | TIKR Terminal | ||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Subscription | Subscription | ||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | ||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Individual investors and small RIAs who want Bloomberg-style dashboards without a terminal-sized budget. | Individual investors and students who want institutional-style global data at a fraction of a terminal's cost. | ||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Free tier plus five paid monthly tiers scaling from individual research up to advisor workflows, with an annual discount.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free U.S.-only tier plus three paid monthly tiers that expand global coverage, history depth and screener limits.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||||||||||
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Verdict
Koyfin and TIKR were both built to give individual investors, students and small funds a lighter-weight, self-serve alternative to institutional terminals, and both run entirely in the browser with published, affordable pricing. The emphasis differs. Koyfin is positioned closer to a Bloomberg-style customizable dashboard experience, covering equities, macro and fixed income with model portfolios and, on its higher tiers, advisor-facing tools like client proposals and custodian integrations. TIKR is built more narrowly and more cheaply around deep financial history — company financials, earnings-call transcripts and institutional 13F ownership data across global markets, including coverage outside the US that free tools often skip.
Choose Koyfin if
- You want customizable, Bloomberg-style dashboards spanning equities, macro and fixed income in one workspace.
- You're an RIA or advisor who might grow into Koyfin's Advisor Pro tier, with client proposals and custodian integrations.
- You want unlimited watchlists, screeners and dashboards without hitting a hard content-history wall.
Choose TIKR if
- Your priority is deep financial and transcript history at the lowest price point in the tier — TIKR's paid plans start under $25/month against Koyfin's $39/month entry paid tier.
- You need non-US market coverage, which TIKR's paid tiers add explicitly and which free tools commonly lack.
- You want institutional 13F fund-holdings data as part of your research, available at TIKR's top tier.
The honest caveat
Both publish real tiered pricing, which makes them easy to trial directly rather than guess about — the comparison worth doing is a side-by-side trial against the specific tickers, markets and history depth you actually need, since both offer a genuine free plan to start from. Neither replaces an institutional terminal's real-time trading and execution features; for that tier, see Bloomberg Terminal and FactSet in choosing a market data terminal.
Last reviewed September 22, 2026