★ A CURATED DIRECTORY OF FINANCIAL TOOLS AND RESOURCES ★
VOL. XCIV, NO. 247
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Best Free SEC Filing Search Tools
Community-ranked free SEC filing search tools ordered by net upvotes with starred picks breaking close calls.
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Top 10 picks
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Perplexity Finance is an AI-assisted finance research experience that combines cited answers with stock, ETF, fund, crypto, options, news, charts, screeners, earnings documents, ownership data, government trading views, and a developer finance_search tool. It is strongest for quick cited research and agentic finance data access, but AI answers still need verification and consumer plans are separate from Agent API billing.
List votesPricing: Free • From $20/moPlatforms: Web, Mobile, API - 2
CapEdge is a free SEC filings, transcripts, IPO, ownership, ETF exposure, and short-interest research platform from Finsight for US equity-capital-markets work. It is strongest for investors who want a registered, no-cost workflow around EDGAR search, filing diffs, filing alerts, XBRL financial charts, holdings, and IPO calendars without paying for a filings terminal.
List votesPricing: FreePlatforms: Web, Mobile - 3
Fiscal.ai is an AI-assisted public-company research terminal and financial data API platform for investors, analysts, developers, and AI-agent builders. It combines global fundamentals, segments and KPIs, transcripts, filings, estimates, dashboards, screeners, valuation workflows, AI Copilot, REST APIs, webhooks, and MCP access.
List votesPricing: Free • From $468/yrPlatforms: Web, API - 4
FinancialReports.eu is a public-company filings database, filings API, and hosted MCP server for analysts, AI-agent builders, and data teams that need fast document ingestion, Markdown extraction, watchlist alerts, webhooks, and filing Q&A across global markets. It is strongest when the workflow starts with filings rather than price charts: company documents, insider trades, IPO references, filing feeds, and programmatic document access are the center of the product. Free access is mainly for testing; Analyst or Enterprise is needed for serious API, MCP, AI chat, and production workflows.
List votesPricing: Free • From $379/yrPlatforms: Web, API - 5
Quartr is a qualitative public-market research platform for earnings calls, real-time transcripts, filings, reports, slide decks, analyst estimates, AI chat, and investor-relations data. The mobile app is useful for free earnings-call and transcript access, while Quartr Pro and Quartr API serve professional research, MCP, webhook, and data-integration workflows.
List votesPricing: Free • Contact for pricingPlatforms: Web, Mobile, API - 6
AUM 13F is a due-diligence web app for researching asset managers, institutional holdings, private funds, real estate managers, and limited-partner relationships from public filing sources. It is strongest for analysts who want a low-cost way to browse manager AUM, 13F holdings, EDGAR filings, IAPD records, CAFR-sourced LP portfolios, source links, portfolios, and alerts, but 13F data remains delayed and incomplete by design.
List votesPricing: Free • From $29/moPlatforms: Web - 7
SEC EDGAR Search is the official free source for U.S. public company, fund, insider, ownership, prospectus, and XBRL filing research. It is strongest as the source of truth for SEC filings, full-text search, latest filings, RSS feeds, CIK lookup, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs, but raw filings still require parsing and automated access must follow SEC fair-access rules.
List votesPricing: FreePlatforms: Web, API - 8
SecForm4.com is a U.S. insider trading and ownership monitoring site for Form 4, Forms 3 and 5, 13D/13G, and 13F filings from EDGAR. It fits users searching for SecForm4, insider trading trackers, Form 4 alerts, and 13D/13G monitoring, with free access for basic research and paid tiers for alerts, screeners, CSV downloads, and user-defined triggers. The right use case is monitoring SEC filing signals before checking transaction context, issuer fundamentals, and current ownership. It is not a broker, global insider-disclosure database, portfolio tracker, public API, or standalone buy/sell signal.
List votesPricing: Free • From $44.95/moPlatforms: Web - 9
13F Insight is an SEC-filings intelligence platform for investors who want to track institutional 13F holdings, Form 4 insider trades, 13D/G ownership, watchlists, smart-money alerts, and AI answers grounded in filing citations. It is strongest for hedge-fund and institutional-ownership research, but 13F filings are delayed by design and AI summaries should be checked against the underlying SEC documents.
List votesPricing: Free • Contact for pricingPlatforms: Web, API - 10
Calcbench is a professional SEC filing, XBRL, financial statement, disclosure, and Excel research platform for analysts who need traceable as-filed numbers, standardized accounting metrics, footnotes, redlines, proxy data, compensation data, M&A details, and API access. It is strongest for accounting-heavy U.S. equity research and data workflows, but meaningful access is priced for professional users and API access is sold separately from standard subscriptions.
List votesPricing: Free • From $6000/yrPlatforms: Web, Desktop, API
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Changeflow, formerly reached through Trackly, is an AI website-change intelligence platform for monitoring filings, regulator pages, IR pages, competitor pages, PDFs, feeds, and other online sources. It is useful for investment and compliance teams that want relevant briefings rather than raw page diffs, but it is not market data, trade execution, or a substitute for human review.
List votesPricing: Free • From $1188/yrPlatforms: Web, API, Other - 12
SEC API is a commercial SEC/EDGAR API suite for developers, quants, compliance teams, and AI products that need fast filing search, real-time feeds, XBRL-to-JSON conversion, section extraction, insider filings, 13F data, and other structured regulatory datasets. It is strongest when you want production-ready normalized SEC data instead of building your own EDGAR ingestion stack, but the free tier is only a small starter allowance and redistribution requires enterprise terms.
List votesPricing: Free • From $55/moPlatforms: Web, API - 13
BamSEC is a web-based SEC filings and transcripts research platform for investors and analysts who need faster EDGAR workflows. It is strongest for document search, filing redlines, table extraction, transcripts, insider and institutional ownership, watchlists, alerts, highlights, and source-link sharing, with most professional workflows gated behind Pro or Enterprise.
List votesPricing: Free • From $69/moPlatforms: Web
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See all SEC filing search toolsBest Free SEC Filing Search Tools FAQ
What belongs on this SEC filing search page?
This page is for tools that search, extract, monitor, compare, or analyze SEC filings such as 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, proxies, exhibits, and EDGAR documents.
How is this different from diff view or filing categories?
Diff view and filing category pages remain broader taxonomies. This page is a manually curated shortlist for high-intent SEC filing search and EDGAR workflow tools.
Are transcript tools included?
Only when SEC filings are a strong part of the workflow. Earnings-call transcript tools without filing search or document workflows belong on transcript-focused pages.
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Starred Tools
These are my top picks. Tools I've tested thoroughly and found to be excellent. They do their job really well, and I use them a lot. If you're not already familiar with them, I highly recommend checking them out.
Tested Tools
These are tools I've tried and found to be solid, but not standout. Think of them as passing an initial quality screen: worth exploring, though not all will be exceptional.
Curation & Accuracy
This directory blends AI‑assisted discovery with human curation. Entries are reviewed, edited, and organized with the goal of expanding coverage and sharpening quality over time. Your feedback helps steer improvements (because no single human can capture everything all at once).
Details change. Pricing, features, and availability may be incomplete or out of date. Treat listings as a starting point and verify on the provider’s site before making decisions. If you spot an error or a gap, send a quick note and I’ll adjust.