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Unusual Whales Review, Pricing, and Features
Unusual Whales
Unusual Whales tracks options flow, dark pools, congressional trades, insider activity, market data, alerts, screeners, and social sentiment. It is built for active traders and alternative-data research, not a broker, portfolio ledger, or guarantee that unusual activity predicts returns.
Best for
- Options traders looking for real-time options flow, dark pool/off-exchange activity, alerts, and screeners.
- Developers needing US options, market activity, insider, congressional, ETF, and related datasets through REST, WebSocket, OpenAPI, MCP, or AI skills.
- Traders comparing options-flow services with mobile alerts, Discord access, and APIs.
Watch out
- The current pricing page says free accounts receive data with a 15-minute delay.
- API access starts separately, and WebSocket streaming requires the API Advanced plan.
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Pricing
Free • From $504/yr · 7-day trial · 8 plans
Free Limited
Retail Basic
Retail Pro Monthly
Retail Max Monthly
API Access
API Trial Basic
API Advanced (WebSocket streaming)
API plan that enables WebSocket streaming (option trades/news) per OpenAPI docs.
Historical Option Trades
Separate full-market historical option-trades dataset described in the official API documentation.
Key features
- Tracking U.S. options flow with trade details, exchange data, filters, configurable columns, sorting, and saved trades.
- Multi-leg tagging in the flow feed and open trades in an options profit calculator for payoff and P/L context.
- Monitor dark pool and off-exchange activity, with market-tide, lit/off-lit, and related flow feeds available where the plan supports them.
- Tools for building alerts across the website, mobile apps, and Discord; free alerts are delayed and limited, while premium alerts are faster and broader.
- Stock and options screeners for unusual volume, options activity, premium, volume, open interest, implied volatility, greeks, and related filters.
- Monitor congressional trading, insider data, market news, trading halts and unhalts, IPO events, and market activity from the app or website.
- The iOS and Android apps to check alerts, options flow, stock activity, news, events, and dark pool activity away from the desktop site.
- REST and OpenAPI endpoints for options chains and greeks, stock candles, insider transactions, congressional disclosures, ETFs, private markets, prediction markets, short interest, and more.
- WebSocket, Kafka, MCP, and AI skills for real-time or agent-oriented integrations when the relevant paid API plan allows it.
- Dashboard plans, API access, the API trial, Advanced WebSocket access, and business data products have separate prices.
- The service does not provide fundamental valuation, portfolio accounting, or broad global equity coverage.
FAQ
Is Unusual Whales free?
Not entirely. Unusual Whales includes a free tier, but its paid subscription options unlock more capacity. Visit the vendor site for current limits and pricing. A 7-day free trial is available on select plans.
Who is Unusual Whales best for?
Unusual Whales is built for Retail Traders, Pro Retail, Day Traders, Swing Traders, and Algo Traders. It suits intermediate and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does Unusual Whales support?
You can use Unusual Whales on Web and Mobile. Unusual Whales offers an API (REST and WebSocket) with APIKey authentication. Integrations include Discord, X (Twitter), MCP Server, OpenAPI, and AI Skills.
Which markets does Unusual Whales cover?
Unusual Whales covers North America. Examples include US. It tracks Stocks, ETFs, Options, and Cryptos. Identifiers include Ticker.
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