Alpha Vantage vs TradingView comparison

Both platforms cover News, Calendar, Dividends, Inflation Rates, Yield Curves, Options & Derivatives, ETF Overview, ETF Fundamentals, Financials, APIs & SDKs, and Education workflows, so you can research those use cases in either tool before digging into the feature differences below.

Both Alpha Vantage and TradingView keep freemium access with optional paid upgrades, so you can trial each platform before committing.

TradingView ships a dedicated mobile experience, while Alpha Vantage focuses on web or desktop access.

Alpha Vantage differentiates itself with Cloud-native REST APIs for realtime and historical financial data across global stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, FX, cryptocurrencies, commodities, technical indicators and macroeconomic indicators in a single unified portfolio of endpoints., Global equity time series APIs (daily, weekly, monthly and intraday 1–60 minute bars) with 20+ years of history, optional split/dividend-adjusted prices, and support for extended trading hours where available., and US options data APIs providing realtime and historical option chains with 15+ years of history, full market/volume coverage, and optional Greeks and implied volatility fields in JSON or CSV., whereas TradingView stands out for Advanced multi‑asset charting with 20+ chart types, minute‑ and second‑level history, 400+ built‑in indicators, 100K+ community indicators, and 110+ smart drawing tools across web, desktop, and mobile., Comprehensive technical toolset including volume profile and footprint, candlestick pattern recognition, auto chart patterns, Seasonals, and intraday charts based on custom spread formulas., and Cloud‑based alerts for prices, indicators, strategies, drawings, and watchlists, with multi‑condition logic, second‑based triggers, and delivery via browser pop‑ups, email, TradingView apps, and webhooks..