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Monday, October 6, 2025

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Macrotrends vs Perplexity Finance comparison

Compare pricing, supported platforms, categories, and standout capabilities to decide which tool fits your workflow.

Quick takeaways

Macrotrends adds Inflation Rates, Unemployment Rates, GDP, Interest Rates, Housing & Construction, Retail Sales, and Consumer Sentiment coverage that Perplexity Finance skips.

Perplexity Finance includes News, Watchlist, Transcripts, ETF Overview, Analyst Forecasts, Analyst Recommendations, and Analyst Price Targets categories that Macrotrends omits.

Macrotrends highlights: Interactive charts for stocks, commodities, indices, currencies, crypto, and macroeconomic data, often with history spanning back 50–100 years., Free stock screener with 50+ filters covering fundamentals, technicals, and performance; includes U.S. and international equities., and Company profile pages combine daily prices, dividends, and full annual/quarterly financial statements, with fundamentals sourced from Zacks..

Perplexity Finance is known for: Ticker pages with detailed Overview, Financials, Historical Data, and Earnings tabs, including analyst ratings and 12-month price targets., Watchlist feature and a Screener tab available directly in the Finance hub., and AI-curated news feeds on instrument pages with linked sources..

Perplexity Finance offers mobile access, which Macrotrends skips.

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Macrotrends

macrotrends.net

Free web-based portal for long-run charts and datasets across stocks, commodities, indices, FX, and macro indicators. Many series span 50–100+ years. Features include a stock screener and CSV downloads. Some content is gated by registration, and Terms mention fee-based premium products. No public API is advertised.

Platforms

Web

Pricing

Free
Other

Quick highlights

  • Interactive charts for stocks, commodities, indices, currencies, crypto, and macroeconomic data, often with history spanning back 50–100 years.
  • Free stock screener with 50+ filters covering fundamentals, technicals, and performance; includes U.S. and international equities.
  • Company profile pages combine daily prices, dividends, and full annual/quarterly financial statements, with fundamentals sourced from Zacks.
  • Macro indicator pages cite primary data sources such as BEA (GDP), University of Michigan (consumer sentiment), and Optimal Blue (mortgage rates).
  • CSV downloads available for many “Global Metrics” datasets via a dedicated download link.

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Perplexity Finance

perplexity.ai

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AI-assisted finance hub with quote and overview pages for stocks, ETFs, funds, and crypto. Free to use with search limits; Pro lifts caps and unlocks Pro/Deep Research. Enterprise Pro connects to data subscriptions like FactSet and Crunchbase and adds SSO/SCIM. Data providers are disclosed on each page. Not designed for trading execution.

Platforms

Web
Mobile
Desktop

Pricing

Free
Subscription

Quick highlights

  • Ticker pages with detailed Overview, Financials, Historical Data, and Earnings tabs, including analyst ratings and 12-month price targets.
  • Watchlist feature and a Screener tab available directly in the Finance hub.
  • AI-curated news feeds on instrument pages with linked sources.
  • Data providers include Financial Modeling Prep (fundamentals), Unusual Whales (options), Quartr (transcripts), and FinChat/Fiscal.ai (earnings).
  • Crypto section with Historical Data downloads and Coinbase COIN50 index charts on the Finance homepage.

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Overlap

Shared focus areas

3 overlaps

Mutual strengths include Screeners, Data Visualizations, and Financials.

Where they differ

Macrotrends

Distinct strengths include:

Inflation Rates
Unemployment Rates
GDP
Interest Rates
Housing & Construction
Retail Sales
Consumer Sentiment
  • Interactive charts for stocks, commodities, indices, currencies, crypto, and macroeconomic data, often with history spanning back 50–100 years.
  • Free stock screener with 50+ filters covering fundamentals, technicals, and performance; includes U.S. and international equities.
  • Company profile pages combine daily prices, dividends, and full annual/quarterly financial statements, with fundamentals sourced from Zacks.
  • Macro indicator pages cite primary data sources such as BEA (GDP), University of Michigan (consumer sentiment), and Optimal Blue (mortgage rates).

Perplexity Finance

Distinct strengths include:

News
Watchlist
Transcripts
ETF Overview
Analyst Forecasts
Analyst Recommendations
Analyst Price Targets
  • Ticker pages with detailed Overview, Financials, Historical Data, and Earnings tabs, including analyst ratings and 12-month price targets.
  • Watchlist feature and a Screener tab available directly in the Finance hub.
  • AI-curated news feeds on instrument pages with linked sources.
  • Data providers include Financial Modeling Prep (fundamentals), Unusual Whales (options), Quartr (transcripts), and FinChat/Fiscal.ai (earnings).

Feature-by-feature breakdown

AttributeMacrotrendsPerplexity Finance
Categories

Which research workflows each platform targets

Shared: Screeners, Data Visualizations, Financials

Unique: Inflation Rates, Unemployment Rates, GDP, Interest Rates, Housing & Construction, Retail Sales, Consumer Sentiment

Shared: Screeners, Data Visualizations, Financials

Unique: News, Watchlist, Transcripts, ETF Overview, Analyst Forecasts, Analyst Recommendations, Analyst Price Targets

Asset types

Supported asset classes and universes

Stocks, ETFs, Commodities, Currencies, Cryptos

Stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, Cryptos

Experience levels

Who each product is built for

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Platforms

Where you can access the product

Web

Web, Mobile, Desktop

Pricing

High-level pricing models

Free, Other

Free, Subscription

Key features

Core capabilities called out by each vendor

Unique

  • Interactive charts for stocks, commodities, indices, currencies, crypto, and macroeconomic data, often with history spanning back 50–100 years.
  • Free stock screener with 50+ filters covering fundamentals, technicals, and performance; includes U.S. and international equities.
  • Company profile pages combine daily prices, dividends, and full annual/quarterly financial statements, with fundamentals sourced from Zacks.
  • Macro indicator pages cite primary data sources such as BEA (GDP), University of Michigan (consumer sentiment), and Optimal Blue (mortgage rates).
  • CSV downloads available for many “Global Metrics” datasets via a dedicated download link.
  • Certain index charts update intramonth, with hourly refreshes for the current month.

Unique

  • Ticker pages with detailed Overview, Financials, Historical Data, and Earnings tabs, including analyst ratings and 12-month price targets.
  • Watchlist feature and a Screener tab available directly in the Finance hub.
  • AI-curated news feeds on instrument pages with linked sources.
  • Data providers include Financial Modeling Prep (fundamentals), Unusual Whales (options), Quartr (transcripts), and FinChat/Fiscal.ai (earnings).
  • Crypto section with Historical Data downloads and Coinbase COIN50 index charts on the Finance homepage.
  • Global market coverage spanning US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Thailand.
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Editor pick

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which workflows do Macrotrends and Perplexity Finance both support?

Both platforms cover Screeners, Data Visualizations, and Financials workflows, so you can research those use cases in either tool before digging into the feature differences below.

Do Macrotrends and Perplexity Finance require subscriptions?

Both Macrotrends and Perplexity Finance keep freemium access with optional paid upgrades, so you can trial each platform before committing.

Which tool has mobile access?

Perplexity Finance ships a dedicated mobile experience, while Macrotrends focuses on web or desktop access.

What unique strengths set the two platforms apart?

Macrotrends differentiates itself with Interactive charts for stocks, commodities, indices, currencies, crypto, and macroeconomic data, often with history spanning back 50–100 years., Free stock screener with 50+ filters covering fundamentals, technicals, and performance; includes U.S. and international equities., and Company profile pages combine daily prices, dividends, and full annual/quarterly financial statements, with fundamentals sourced from Zacks., whereas Perplexity Finance stands out for Ticker pages with detailed Overview, Financials, Historical Data, and Earnings tabs, including analyst ratings and 12-month price targets., Watchlist feature and a Screener tab available directly in the Finance hub., and AI-curated news feeds on instrument pages with linked sources..

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