Seeking Alpha vs Unusual Whales comparison

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

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

Both Seeking Alpha and Unusual Whales support web and mobile access, making it easy to keep tabs on research away from the desk.

Seeking Alpha differentiates itself with Quant Ratings for stocks with five Factor Grades (Value, Growth, Profitability, Momentum, EPS Revisions), plus ETF Factor Grades (Momentum, Expenses, Dividends, Risk, Liquidity)., Stock and ETF screeners with ratings, grades, and advanced filters. Premium members can save screens for reuse., and Side-by-side comparison of up to 20 stocks, with export to Excel or PDF., whereas Unusual Whales stands out for Options flow tool: tracks options trades (docs: “every options trade placed across the entire US stock exchange”) and displays trade details across options exchanges; includes filters, configurable columns, sorting, and saved trades., Multi-leg tagging in the flow feed; multileg icon can open a pop-up that preloads the Options Profit Calculator with a P/L profile for the trade., and Mobile apps (iOS/Android) provide abridged access to Alerts, Flow (incl. Events feed for trading halts/unhalts + IPOs), Stocks (volume deviation alerts), News, and Dark Pools..