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Cost comparison

What Tapeboard includes and what the same tools cost elsewhere

Tapeboard Free matches about $82 a month of paid tools. Tapeboard Pro, $39 a month, matches about $296. Every price below is a list price with a date and a source link.

The short answer

The $82 figure adds the cheapest comparable paid plan for two things the free tier covers: a replay simulator and short interest data. The $296 figure adds four more lines that Pro covers: filings, a full scanner, a trade journal and charts. Pro costs $39 a month, so the stack is about 7.6 times the price. Adding three lines that are priced from a third-party review or are only a partial match brings the total to about $446.

Tapeboard is narrower than most of these tools in at least one way. Those gaps are listed on this page, next to the prices. Terminal, at $79 a month, lifts limits. It adds no new paid-tool line, so it is not stacked.

Free tier

Subtotal $82 a month. Free needs an account and no card.

Pro at $39 a month

These four lines add $213.95 a month to the free subtotal, for a core total of $295.95. Pro includes everything in Free.

Also included, not in the headline total

These lines are shown because Pro covers them. They are left out of the $296 figure because the price comes from a third-party source or the match is partial. With them the total is $445.95.

Where Tapeboard is narrower

• Paper-trading simulator with replay. Replay covers about the last five trading days (Tradingsim: 2 to 5 years) and US equities only. Ours enforces SSR and LULD halts and fills by walking the Level 2 book. Tradingsim Premium is $37/mo billed annually ($449/yr) with tick charts.
• Short interest, squeeze score, borrow fee, threshold list. FINRA short interest is about 10 business days behind (stated as such on the site); Ortex Advanced models it intraday from lending data at $149/mo. Ours adds a daily 0-100 squeeze score with published weights and a top-25 borrow-fee list.
• SEC filings reader with AI summaries, plus transcripts. EDGAR list with form filters, in-app reader, AI summary and share link. No tables-to-Excel, document compare, highlighting or live-event transcripts (BamSEC has them). Filings search is unlimited on Pro and 5 searches a day on Free. Transcripts: past earnings calls for many US companies, coverage varies by ticker. BamSEC is now part of AlphaSense; Enterprise is quote-only. BamSEC also lists a Free plan with limited search and screening.
• Full scanner (44 presets, up to 8 panels, live). Same price as Trade Ideas Standard billed yearly. No Holly-AI-style backtested signal engine (Trade Ideas Premium is $254/mo monthly). Scanz Pro is $199/mo, Ultra $999/mo; 7-day trial, card required. Scanz Starter saves 1 scan of each type, 1 watchlist of 20 symbols and runs 1 scan at a time.
• Journal: unlimited trades, reports, Tape Score, AI coach. CSV import and IBKR Flex sync; TradeZella and TraderSync sync 500+ brokers directly. The free journal view caps at 20 trades a month with a 10-trade analytics sample. Month-to-month pricing is higher (Essential $35/mo, Pro $59/mo, Ultra $99/mo; re-verified 2026-10-05).
• Charts: 4-up layout, all 134 indicators, live candles, alerts. Live US charts with all indicators in Pro, not a TradingView replacement: no global markets, Pine Script library or community. Plus allows 4 charts per layout (matches our multi-chart grid). Premium is $59.95/mo billed annually; re-verified 2026-10-05.
• Dilution and offering tracking. Tracks offering filings and share-count history: last 7 days of S-1, S-3, F-1, F-3 and 424B filings, shelf chips on scanner rows, ATM cap facts on filings, shares-outstanding history. No per-company warrant, convertible or cash-runway registry; warrant terms show on filings that have them. Price from a third-party review (vendor page blocked automated fetch); free Casual plan also exists per the same review. Confirm the price on the vendor site.
• Full news history and AI digest. Aggregated headlines plus an AI digest, not Benzinga's proprietary wire. Streamlined adds audio squawk at $147/mo and Essential adds scanner and AI at $197/mo; our radio is a synthetic voice reading headlines, not a human desk. Vendor page blocked automated fetch. Confirm the price on the vendor site.
• Fundamentals (20 quarters), macro data, full calendar. US-listed equities; not Koyfin's global macro dashboards or international-equities depth. Koyfin's free plan has 2 years of financials; Premium is $79/mo. Plan names re-verified on the vendor page 2026-10-05.

Compared, not counted

Prices we checked and left out of every total, either because a free option covers the same ground, the product is a different kind of tool.

Also free in Tapeboard with no paid line to compare: halt feed and history, movers and premarket boards, nasdaq delisting watch, the tapeboard daily market newspaper, economic, crypto and forex data, options chain with iv and greeks.

How the totals are built

• One comparable paid tool per capability, the lowest-priced credible one.
• List prices only, no promotions. Where a vendor shows a price only for annual billing, the annual-billed monthly price is used, which makes the total smaller.
• A line counts only when Tapeboard is at least a partial match and no credible free tool covers the same ground.
• A price read from the vendor page counts in the headline total. A third-party sourced price never does.
• The totals are computed from the rows on this page by the same code that checks the data before each release.

Compare one tool at a time

Tapeboard vs BamSEC, Tapeboard vs DilutionTracker, Tapeboard vs Tradingsim, Tapeboard vs Scanz, Tapeboard vs TradeZella, Tapeboard vs Ortex, Tapeboard vs Trade Ideas. All comparisons are indexed at alternatives.

Questions

Is the Tapeboard free tier really free?

Yes. Free costs $0 with no card. Every new account also starts with 7 days of Pro. After that the free tier keeps the paper-trading simulator with replay, the short squeeze leaderboard with borrow fees and the threshold list, the SEC filings reader for the latest 10 filings per company, 5 new filings searches a day, the trade journal with a capped view, halts, movers and the Morning Tape.

What is the catch with the free tier?

Caps. The free scanner is one panel with one preset, on 15-minute delayed data. The free journal shows 20 trades a month and analyzes a 10-trade sample. Filings search is 5 new searches a day. Live streaming candles, Level 2, the AI scanner and AI filing summaries are Pro.

What do Free, Pro and Terminal each add?

Free is $0. Pro is $39 a month ($374 a year) and adds the full scanner, live candles with all indicators, Level 2, the journal without caps, AI summaries and unlimited filings search. Terminal is $79 a month and lifts the remaining limits: unlimited AI, formula alerts, bulk export and CSV export of filings search results. Terminal adds nothing to the dollar total on this page, so it is not stacked.

How current are the competitor prices?

Each row shows the date it was checked and links to the vendor's own page. The newest check on this page is 2026-10-07. A price read from the vendor page is marked as verified. A price taken from a third-party review, because the vendor page blocks automated checks, is marked as third-party sourced and is left out of the headline total. A scheduled check fails the Tapeboard build if a verified price goes more than 35 days without a re-check.

Why does Tapeboard publish a comparison against its own competitors?

Because the price of the tools you would otherwise buy is the honest way to judge a bundle. The page names where Tapeboard is narrower, shows the arithmetic, and lists the lines that were left out. If a price here is wrong, send a note to the corrections page and it will be fixed and re-dated.

Spot a wrong price or a changed plan? Tell us on the corrections page. Vendors change plans independently, so check their page before you buy.