| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| Advan Research Mobile location and foot-traffic data provider estimating store visits and consumer behaviour for investors. | Quote only | No | No |
| Bloomberg Second Measure Consumer credit and debit card transaction panel data for tracking company and sector-level spending trends. | Quote only | No | No |
| Earnest Analytics Consumer transaction data provider estimating company sales, market share and customer overlap from card-panel data. | Quote only | No | No |
| Quiver Quantitative Alternative data platform tracking congressional trading, lobbying, government contracts and social sentiment for investors. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| RS Metrics Satellite and geospatial imagery data provider tracking physical assets like retail parking lots, mines and metal stockpiles. | Quote only | No | No |
| Thinknum Web-scraped alternative data platform tracking company job postings, product listings, app usage and web traffic. | Quote only | No | No |
| YipitData Alternative data provider selling web-scraped and transaction-panel data products for investment research on public and private companies. | Quote only | No | No |
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| MetaStock Desktop technical analysis software for system testing, charting and end-of-day or real-time trading signals. | Subscription | No | No |
| MotiveWave Desktop charting and strategy-development platform known for built-in Elliott Wave analysis and custom study scripting. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Optuma Technical analysis platform for professional analysts and wealth managers, built for point-and-figure, cycle and intermarket work. | Quote only | No | No |
| StockCharts.com Long-running web charting service known for its technical scan engine, ChartSchool education and public chart sharing. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| thinkorswim Schwab's professional-grade trading and charting platform, free to use with a funded Schwab brokerage account. | Free | Yes | No |
| TradingView Browser-based charting platform with a large indicator library, social trading ideas and broker execution links. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| TrendSpider Automated technical analysis platform that detects chart patterns, trendlines and support/resistance without manual drawing. | Subscription | No | No |
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| Arkham Blockchain deanonymization platform mapping on-chain activity to real-world entities, with a bounty-based intel exchange. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Chainalysis Blockchain compliance and investigations platform used by law enforcement, exchanges and regulators, not an investing tool. | Quote only | No | No |
| CoinGecko Widely used crypto price and market-data reference site, with a paid API for programmatic access to its dataset. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| DappRadar Dapp and NFT discovery platform tracking usage, volume and rankings across decentralized applications and marketplaces. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Dune SQL query layer over decoded blockchain data, letting anyone query on-chain activity and publish public dashboards. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Glassnode On-chain data provider selling derived network and market metrics (flows, holder behavior, valuation models) via charts and API. | Subscription | No | No |
| Kaiko Institutional-grade crypto market data vendor selling feeds, indices and risk analytics to banks, funds and regulators. | Quote only | No | No |
| Messari Crypto research and data platform combining written analyst research with token, protocol and market datasets. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Nansen On-chain analytics platform that labels millions of wallets to show smart-money flows, token holders and exchange activity. | Subscription | No | No |
| Santiment Crypto data platform blending on-chain metrics with social-sentiment and development-activity signals for market research. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| AlphaSense AI-powered search platform over broker research, transcripts, filings and expert calls for market intelligence. | Quote only | No | No |
| Bloomberg Terminal The dominant institutional terminal for real-time market data, news, analytics, execution and messaging. | Quote only | No | No |
| FactSet Integrated financial data, analytics and portfolio platform for buy-side, sell-side and wealth management teams. | Quote only | No | No |
| Fiscal.ai AI-assisted equity research platform for exploring company financials, filings and earnings calls via chat and dashboards. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Koyfin Web-based markets and fundamentals platform positioned as an affordable Bloomberg alternative for investors. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| LSEG Workspace LSEG's cross-asset data and analytics desktop, the successor to Refinitiv Eikon, built around Reuters News. | Quote only | No | No |
| Morningstar Direct Institutional research and analytics platform for fund and portfolio data built on Morningstar's ratings and datasets. | Quote only | No | No |
| S&P Capital IQ S&P Global's research platform for company financials, private-company data, screening and comparable analysis. | Quote only | No | No |
| Simply Wall St Visual stock research platform that turns fundamentals into plain-language snapshots and infographic-style reports. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| TIKR Web platform giving retail and professional investors global company financials, transcripts and 13F filings at low cost. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| YCharts Charting and fundamentals platform built for financial advisors to research, screen and build client-facing reports. | Quote only | No | No |
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| Addepar Data aggregation and portfolio reporting platform for wealth managers and family offices handling complex, multi-custodian holdings. | Quote only | No | No |
| MSCI Barra Institutional multi-factor risk models used to decompose portfolio risk and build optimized portfolios against benchmarks. | Quote only | No | No |
| Nitrogen Advisor risk-tolerance and portfolio analytics platform, rebranded from Riskalyze, centered on its Risk Number methodology. | Subscription | No | No |
| Orion Wealthtech platform bundling portfolio accounting, CRM, trading, planning and compliance for financial advisory firms. | Quote only | No | No |
| Portfolio Visualizer Web-based portfolio backtesting, Monte Carlo simulation and factor analysis tool used by individual investors and advisors. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| SimCorp Axioma Portfolio construction, risk and attribution tools built on Axioma's factor models, now integrated into SimCorp One. | Quote only | No | No |
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
| AmiBroker Desktop technical analysis and system-backtesting software sold as a one-time license rather than a subscription. | Subscription | No | No |
| Backtrader Open-source Python backtesting and live-trading framework for building and evaluating trading strategies. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| NautilusTrader Open-source, event-driven algorithmic trading platform in Python/Rust for high-performance backtesting and live deployment. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Portfolio123 Web platform for building, screening and backtesting rules-based equity strategies on fundamental and technical factors. | Subscription | No | No |
| QuantConnect Cloud algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with research notebooks and live deployment. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| QuantLib Open-source C++ library for quantitative finance, providing pricing, curve-building and risk models used across many pricing tools. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| vectorbt Open-source Python library for vectorized backtesting, using NumPy/pandas array operations to test thousands of parameter combinations fast. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Zipline Python backtesting library originally built by Quantopian; still usable but largely unmaintained since Quantopian shut down. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |