QuantGPT vs Trade Ideas
Updated November 2026 · Written by QuantGPT, the maker of one of the two, so read it knowing that
// THE SHORT VERSION
Trade Ideas is a real-time stock scanner for active traders. Its alerts fire as trades print, Holly, its AI, gives buy signals with an entry and a stop on the Premium plan, and its OddsMaker backtests an alert into a trading system that can trade automatically at a supported broker.
QuantGPT is the data and trading platform for AI. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client runs backtests in seconds over one URL, with no code to write, on decades of US stock history. QuantGPT never manages a trade: you trade at your own broker, or your own code does through QuantGPT Cloud on QuantGPT Pro.
If you trade intraday and want the market scanned as it moves, with signals and auto trading, Trade Ideas is built for that. If you want to test a rule across the whole US stock market from the AI you already use, that is what QuantGPT is for.
// WHERE TRADE IDEAS IS STRONG
First, what Trade Ideas does well, from its own pages, checked 2026-11-13 (every source is listed at the end).
- Real timeStreaming alerts fire as trades print, on every trade, not on the candle close, and Top Lists rank the market by your filters every 15 seconds: 310 stock alerts and 249 screener filters.
- AI signalsOn TI Premium, Holly AI gives buy signals on the big movers, each with an entry and a stop, usually about 3% from entry, and a re-entry point if a stock stops out and turns back. You choose which to take.
- AI AssistantOn both plans, describe a scan in plain English and the AI Assistant builds the window.
- BacktestingOddsMaker, on TI Premium, backtests any alert into a trading system.
- TradingBrokerage Plus connects to TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE and Alpaca by API, with chart and one-click trading, and TI Premium adds auto trading of your own strategies at supported brokers, on rules you set. Paper trading and a real-time trade simulator are on both plans.
- Track recordFounded in 2002, self-funded, on the Inc. 5000 six years in a row (2017 to 2022), and named Best Short Term Stock Screener by Investopedia in 2024, in its words.
// SIDE BY SIDE
| TRADE IDEAS | QUANTGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| Code required | No. Ready-made scans from the Channel Bar, your own Top Lists and alert windows, a Formula Editor, or a scan described to the AI Assistant. | No. Pick a documented strategy and set its parameters, build criteria in the terminal, or ask Claude or ChatGPT in plain English once it is connected. |
| AI integration | Holly AI's buy signals with an entry and a stop (TI Premium), and the AI Assistant that builds scans from plain English (both plans), inside Trade Ideas. | One MCP URL, https://terminal.quantgpt.co/mcp: claude.ai, Claude Desktop and ChatGPT sign in over OAuth with no key to paste, and Cursor or any other MCP client uses a key. Your AI grades stocks, searches the library, runs backtests in seconds and queries the data, and nothing it can call places, modifies or cancels an order. AI calls: 500 a day on QuantGPT, 1,500 a day on QuantGPT Pro. Ask AI in the terminal on both plans. |
| Market data | Real time on TI Standard and TI Premium, with premarket (4:00 to 9:30 am ET) and after-hours (4:00 to 8:00 pm ET) data: NYSE, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTC and pink sheets, ETFs, SPACs and warrants, TSX in part. 15-minute delayed on the $0 tier. | End-of-day US stocks and ETFs, refreshed every night. The S&P 500 index from 1928; single stocks thin before 1980. Fundamentals are joined by filing date. No intraday prices. |
| Backtesting | OddsMaker, on TI Premium: backtest any alert into a trading system. How far back it reaches is not stated on the pages we read. | Criteria portfolios (up to 8 filters and a ranking, monthly, weekly or daily) and single tickers, from 1998 unless you pick another year, with every calendar year beside the benchmark, a split at a cut year and the results after costs at 5, 10, 25 and 50 basis points a side. |
| Strategy library | 20+ curated trading templates on the Channel Bar and a scan and screener library, on both plans. | 175 documented strategies from research papers, famous investors and their letters, 55 of them runnable as one-click backtests with your parameters. |
| Trading | In-app trading through Brokerage Plus at TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE and Alpaca; auto trading of your own strategies on TI Premium. | QuantGPT never manages a trade. On QuantGPT Pro, QuantGPT Cloud hosts code you write or compile from your own backtest and sends its orders to your own brokerage account under your own keys (Alpaca today, paper and live accounts), using only the broker's own order types. Or trade at your own broker. |
| Pricing | TI Standard: $127 a month, or $89 a month billed yearly ($1,068 a year). TI Premium: $254 a month, or $178 a month billed yearly ($2,136 a year). A $0 tier opens the Market Dashboards on 15-minute delayed data. | QuantGPT: $49 a month, 200 backtests a day. QuantGPT Pro: $149 a month, adding three times the AI calls and QuantGPT Cloud. Both start with a 3-day trial, card up front, cancel any time. Business from $1,499 a month, by call. |
// WHERE QUANTGPT DIFFERS
Your AI runs the research, in the chat you already use
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client once, at one URL, and your AI grades a stock on six dimensions, screens the market, runs a backtest in seconds and reads the result mid-conversation. The computation runs on our side, and the answer comes back with the numbers that produced it. Guides: connect Claude, connect ChatGPT, the best AI for stock research, by the job.
Decades of US stock history
A QuantGPT backtest can run a rule across the whole US stock market from 1998, with companies that later delisted in the universe, and each result shows every calendar year beside the benchmark. Every backtest is also split at a year (2015 by default) and judged on the years after it. Our daily bars can be checked one at a time against any independent source on the public verify page.
Your own code, on QuantGPT Cloud
On QuantGPT Pro, a backtest in your Journal compiles into a Python bot you can read line by line, and QuantGPT Cloud runs it on the schedule you set at your own Alpaca account, paper or live. Run a trading bot in the cloud.
// WHO SHOULD USE WHICH
Trade Ideas, if you
- trade intraday and want the market scanned in real time, premarket and after hours included;
- want AI buy signals with an entry and a stop to choose from;
- want an alert backtested and traded automatically at a supported broker;
- work on Windows or in the browser.
QuantGPT, if you
- want to test an idea on US stocks across decades and market regimes, without code;
- already use Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and want it to grade stocks and run backtests mid-conversation;
- want a rule run across the whole market, companies that later delisted included from 1998;
- place your own trades at your own broker, by hand or, on QuantGPT Pro, with your own code on QuantGPT Cloud.
Both, if you
want to see whether a rule held up across the US stock market for decades, then watch for it in real time with a Trade Ideas scan.
// HOW THE FIELD SPLITS
If you build technical strategies and bots, read QuantGPT vs TrendSpider. If you chart and write Pine Script, read QuantGPT vs TradingView. If you want the platform to trade a no-code strategy for you, read QuantGPT vs Composer. Seven platforms side by side: backtesting platforms compared, 2026.
// QUESTIONS
What are the best Trade Ideas alternatives?
It depends on what you use Trade Ideas for. For backtests on US stocks across decades, run from Claude, ChatGPT or another AI client in plain English, QuantGPT is built for that. For technical strategies built in a visual editor or by its AI, with bots, TrendSpider. For charting and Pine Script strategies, TradingView. For no-code strategies that the platform trades for you as your broker, Composer. For Python or C# algorithms with live trading, QuantConnect.
What is the best AI trading platform for retail traders?
The one built for how you trade. For real-time intraday scanning, with Holly AI's buy signals and auto trading on rules you set at a supported broker, Trade Ideas. For technical strategies and bots built with an AI that operates the platform, TrendSpider. For testing a rule on decades of US stock history from Claude or ChatGPT, then running your own code at your own Alpaca account on QuantGPT Pro, QuantGPT. Each from its maker's pages, read 2026-11-13.
Can Trade Ideas or QuantGPT trade for me?
Trade Ideas' TI Premium lists auto trading of your own strategies at supported brokers, on rules you set, and Holly AI gives buy signals with an entry and a stop that you choose whether to take. QuantGPT never decides, sizes or manages a trade: on QuantGPT Pro, QuantGPT Cloud runs your own code and sends its orders to your own Alpaca account, paper or live, under your own keys, and no QuantGPT AI tool can place an order.
How does backtesting differ between Trade Ideas and QuantGPT?
Trade Ideas' OddsMaker, on TI Premium, backtests any of its alerts into a trading system. QuantGPT backtests criteria portfolios (up to 8 filters and a ranking) and single tickers on decades of US stock history, from 1998 by default and the S&P 500 index from 1928, with every calendar year, a split at a cut year and the results after costs at 5, 10, 25 and 50 basis points a side.
What does each one cost?
Trade Ideas, as of 2026-11-13: TI Standard $127 a month or $89 a month billed yearly, TI Premium $254 a month or $178 a month billed yearly, and a $0 tier on 15-minute delayed data. QuantGPT is $49 a month and QuantGPT Pro $149 a month, each starting with a 3-day trial with a card up front; Business starts at $1,499 a month.
// PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE
QuantGPT LLC publishes this page and makes QuantGPT, so we are not a neutral party. We are not affiliated with Trade Ideas, it did not review or endorse this page, and the links to its pages have no affiliate code: we earn nothing if you choose Trade Ideas. We compared public product pages; we did not run the same strategy on both platforms. Every fact about Trade Ideas comes from its own public pages checked 2026-11-13, listed below, and plans and features change, so check there before you decide. Every QuantGPT number comes from our own plans and product. If something here is wrong, write to desk@quantgpt.co and we will correct it.
// SOURCES: TRADE IDEAS' OWN PAGES, CHECKED 2026-11-13
- trade-ideas.comThe real-time scanner, alerts on every trade, Top Lists every 15 seconds, Holly AI signals with an entry and a stop, Brokerage Plus at TradeStation, founded in 2002, Inc. 5000 and Investopedia.
- trade-ideas.com/pricingTI Standard and TI Premium, monthly and yearly prices, the feature table (data, scans, charts, trading, Holly AI, OddsMaker, auto trading), the $0 tier on delayed data, alert and filter counts.
- trade-ideas.com/brokersAPI integrations with TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE and Alpaca; partner access at CenterPoint Securities and Cobra Trading.
QuantGPT's numbers come from its own plans and product: the plans on the pricing page, the strategy library, and the data limits on the disclosures page.
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