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Trading And Investing

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active marketmarket pulse 43/100commercial money present0 new builders in 30d36 listings
basis: all observed monthly plans · commercial-form-v2
Agents · median
$24/mo
3 providers
MCP servers · median
$10/mo
3 providers
2.4×

Agents cost 2.4× MCPs across all tiers — median $24 vs $10. Two different markets; a blended figure would mislead either buyer.

All plansAgents vs MCPs

each dot = one provider · log scale
Agents $24
stokhold · $15
tradeanchor · $24
trendspider · $119
MCP servers $10
blinkxmcp · $10
tradeit · $10
Edgelock Journal · $15
$10
$25
$50
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AgentsMCP serversshaded = middle half · line = median

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6 priced
Providervs its cohort medianMonthly
blinkxmcpmcp
$10 ~median
tradeitmcp
$10 ~median
stokholdagent
$15 below
Edgelock Journalmcp
$15 above
tradeanchoragent
$24 ~median
trendspideragent
$119 above
Position is relative to the provider's own delivery-type median at this tier — never a blended one.
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        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public pricing was found; the homepage only states that Sorin is free to start."
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    {
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      "short_summary": "analyzes physical commodities markets including balances, market structure and unscheduled events; runs regressions and generates market intelligence/briefs fo…",
      "price": {
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        "billing": "not_found",
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        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
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    },
    {
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      "name": "Co-Invest",
      "url": "https://liquid.trade/coinvest",
      "short_summary": "provides market data, analysis, and trade execution through conversational AI interfaces",
      "price": {
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        "billing": "free",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Free",
        "summary": "The homepage contains a structured $0 USD offer, but does not state a billing period or provide plan details."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
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    },
    {
      "agent_id": "poshkan",
      "name": "Poshkan",
      "url": "https://www.poshkan.com/mcp",
      "short_summary": "Paper trading for AI: live quotes, technical indicators, and virtual trades on US stocks, crypto, and leveraged forex. Free accounts, 100% virtual money. Get a…",
      "price": {
        "observed": true,
        "billing": "free",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Free",
        "summary": "Poshkan publicly states that users can create a free account with no card required for paper trading."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
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      "name": "Public AI Agents",
      "url": "https://public.com/ai-agents",
      "short_summary": "builds AI investing agents that monitor markets, automate cash workflows, and execute trades according to user-defined instructions",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
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        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No reliable public pricing for the AI agents was observed on the supplied homepage context."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
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      "name": "Stokhold",
      "url": "https://stokhold.com/",
      "short_summary": "Builds and manages virtual stock investment portfolios, picking stocks and sending trade-by-trade guidance to outperform the stock market",
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        "observed": true,
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        "summary": "Free tier, then from $14.99/mo. Freemium model with a free tier (up to +5% portfolio return) and a $14.99/month premium plan with unlimited returns and additional features."
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      "evidence_quality": "medium",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "tiger",
      "name": "Tiger",
      "url": "https://developer.tigerbrokers.com.sg/",
      "short_summary": "provides programmatic trading API for stocks, options, and futures across global markets",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
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    {
      "agent_id": "alpaca",
      "name": "Alpaca Trading API",
      "url": "https://alpaca.markets/",
      "short_summary": "Provides APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading; enables building trading algorithms, apps, and embedded investing; MCP Server allows trading via natural…",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
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        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public subscription or usage pricing was found; the supplied pricing URL returns a 404 page."
      },
      "home_niche": "algorithmic-trading-bot",
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      "upvotes": 0
    },
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      "short_summary": "lets AI agents place trades, manage positions, run technical analysis, and control charts on the cTrader platform via natural-language prompts",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No reliable public pricing for the product is shown in the supplied pages."
      },
      "home_niche": "algorithmic-trading-bot",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "franklin_vscode",
      "name": "Franklin Vscode",
      "url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=blockrun.franklin-vscode",
      "short_summary": "Autonomous AI agent for VS Code with integrated wallet functionality. Executes real work including coding, trading signals, and content generation using USDC m…",
      "price": {
        "observed": true,
        "billing": "freemium",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Free tier + paid plans (price not published)",
        "summary": "Franklin is listed as a free VS Code extension with free models, while paid models consume wallet-funded usage at observed prices of $0.25, $1.00, and $2.00."
      },
      "home_niche": "ide-coding-agent",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "lingtrade",
      "name": "Lingtrade",
      "url": "https://github.com/novalgo-x/LingTrade",
      "short_summary": "Open-source multi-agent AI research workstation for A-share stock analysis. Features collaborative agent-based research, simulated trading loop, custom knowled…",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public pricing is shown for LingTrade, which is described as an open-source locally deployable AI investment research workstation."
      },
      "home_niche": "quantitative-analysis-agent",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "marketbot",
      "name": "Marketbot",
      "url": "https://github.com/EthanAlgoX/MarketBot",
      "short_summary": "Finance-customized AI agent for market intelligence, trading analysis, and decision support. Skill-based runtime for financial analysis with market domain serv…",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public pricing for MarketBot is shown in the supplied repository context."
      },
      "home_niche": "market-intelligence-research",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "panwatch",
      "name": "Panwatch",
      "url": "https://github.com/TNT-Likely/PanWatch",
      "short_summary": "Self-hosted AI stock monitoring assistant integrating TradingAgents multi-agent framework for real-time portfolio tracking, technical analysis, and investment…",
      "price": {
        "observed": true,
        "billing": "usage",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Paid (price not published)",
        "summary": "PanWatch is an open-source self-hosted tool with no subscription plans shown; its default DeepSeek Chat analysis costs approximately $0.05 per use."
      },
      "home_niche": "portfolio-rebalancing-agent",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "reich_tools_mcp",
      "name": "Reich Tools",
      "url": "https://github.com/sreichsbb-stack/reich-tools-mcp",
      "short_summary": "Remote MCP server providing structured trademark name-clearance verdicts and US stock trading signals for AI agents, with deterministic JSON responses, failure…",
      "price": {
        "observed": true,
        "billing": "usage",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Paid (price not published)",
        "summary": "The MCP server publicly lists usage-based pricing of $0.10 per name-clearance verdict and $0.015 per stock signal."
      },
      "home_niche": "trademark-search",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "spraay_x402_mcp",
      "name": "Spraay",
      "url": "https://spraay.app",
      "short_summary": "batch crypto payments and multi-chain DeFi operations",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
      },
      "home_niche": "agent-wallet-payments",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    }
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        }
      ],
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        },
        "note": "add provider_type + buyer_tier for a specific cohort"
      }
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    "page_url": "https://agentery.com/market/trading-and-investing",
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        "held_reason": null
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      },
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      }
    },
    "pricing_version": "cohorts-1",
    "pricing_status": "ok",
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          },
          {
            "provider": "tradeit",
            "usd": 10
          },
          {
            "provider": "edgelock_journal",
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          }
        ]
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      {
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          },
          {
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          },
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          }
        ]
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    ],
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      }
    },
    "pricing_note": "Provider-deduped, FX-normalized monthly medians, separated by buyer tier AND billing unit (flat/per_seat/per_user/per_agent) — incompatible units are never blended. Ranges (p25/p75) only at >=5 providers; data_confidence is provider-count-weighted. Usage-metered, promo, range, one-time and ambiguous-cadence plans are excluded.",
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    },
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        "name": "Alpaca MCP Server",
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          "headline": "No public price found",
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        },
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      },
      {
        "agent_id": "edgelock_journal",
        "name": "EdgeLock Trading Journal",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
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          "monthly_usd": 14.99,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $14.99/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $14.99/mo. EdgeLock offers a permanent free plan with full MCP access and an Edge AI plan priced at $14.99 per month."
        },
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      },
      {
        "agent_id": "longbridge",
        "name": "Longbridge",
        "price": {
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          "billing": "usage",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Paid (price not published)",
          "summary": "Longbridge advertises $0 commissions for stocks and US options, plus no mutual-fund subscription or redemption fee, while noting that other fees may apply."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "saharaai",
        "name": "Sahara AI",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public pricing was found; the homepage only states that Sorin is free to start."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "axis_commodities_ai",
        "name": "Axis Commodities Ai",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
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        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "trading-and-investing",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "alpaca_markets"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
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          "agent_id": "alpaca_markets"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Full market

9 providers, one sortable view

Dense enough for many listings; progressive disclosure keeps mobile usable.

ProviderTypeFromVs niche medianLiveness
EdgeLock Trading JournalConnects AI assistants to trading journal data for analysis, trade logging, and performance coaching
mcp$14.99from / mo37.5% below100% livemcp37.5% below median100% live
Co-Investprovides market data, analysis, and trade execution through conversational AI interfaces
mcpFreefree to use100% livemcp100% live
PoshkanPaper trading for AI: live quotes, technical indicators, and virtual trades on US stocks, crypto, and leveraged forex. Free accounts, 100% virtual money. Get a…
mcpFreefree to use100% livemcp100% live
StokholdBuilds and manages virtual stock investment portfolios, picking stocks and sending trade-by-trade guidance to outperform the stock market
agent$14.99from / mo37.5% below100% liveagent37.5% below median100% live
TrendspiderProvides trading and investing analysis including charting, backtesting, market scanning, pattern recognition, AI-based market research, and automated order ex…
agent$89from / mo270.8% above100% liveagent270.8% above median100% live
blinkxmcpConnect your BlinkX account to view holdings, margins, and profile. Monitor markets with quotes, instrument search, and historical candles. Place and track ord…
mcp$10from / mo58.3% below100% livemcp58.3% below median100% live
tradeitTrade It is an MCP server for brokerage-aware investing workflows. It lets AI assistants search stocks and crypto, list and link supported brokerage accounts,…
mcp$10from / mo58.3% below100% livemcp58.3% below median100% live
Smart Stock AgentAI-powered US stock and ETF analysis platform for NYSE and Nasdaq traders, providing trade strategies, technical indicators, earnings forecasts, news sentiment…
agentFreefree to use100% liveagent100% live
TradeanchorAI-powered trading journal SaaS for forex, crypto, and stock traders. Imports MT4/MT5 and exchange data, provides AI confidence scores, generates performance r…
agent$19from / mo20.8% below100% liveagent20.8% below median100% live
Showing only providers with a published price or a free plan. $29 = lowest observed monthly · Free = free to use · Free tier = free plan + paid options.