The Honest Comparison
Data Tables, or a Research Workspace?
Most services in this space are good at collecting data. They show you every filing and every trade, and leave the context to you. InsiderWatch reads 21 live government and market feeds every minute and brings what matters into one workspace: the original record, the company around it, and AI analysis that links back to the source. Email and Telegram alerts tell you when something happens, and a read-only MCP server, API and webhooks connect your own AI. The Congress tracker, hedge-fund stakes, the insider-buying feed and an earnings calendar are all part of it. See everything we watch.
| InsiderWatch | Paid dashboards | Free screeners | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $15 a month for the whole workspace | $25 to $167 a month | Free |
| What you get | A research workspace: company pages, source-linked AI analysis, alerts | Data terminals: everything shown, you do the digging | Raw filing tables you check yourself |
| Alerts by Email and Telegram | Email and Telegram, usually within minutes | Feeds and add-ons, mostly unfiltered | None |
Based on the public pricing and feature pages of the leading paid and free services in this category, reviewed October 2026; each comparison page shows its own date. Think we’ve got the market wrong? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
The Gap
What You Only Get Here
A Quality Floor, Enforced in Code
Anything below our impact floor never sends, no matter your settings, and directionless context alerts stay off unless you turn them on. Quiet days stay quiet. Data tables work the other way: they show everything and leave the sorting to you.
A Verified Ticker or No Alert at All
Every ticker is reconciled against the SEC’s official company records before an alert goes out. No match, no send. Pointing you at the wrong stock is the one mistake we refuse to make.
Your Own AI, Connected
A read-only MCP server, a REST API and signed webhooks hand the same source-linked records to the AI you already use. They never place orders and never hold broker credentials.
Activist Stakes and Big-Fund Moves
New 5%-plus activist positions the day they’re filed, with the investor’s stated intent quoted, plus quarterly position changes from about 20 named funds: Berkshire, Pershing Square, Elliott and the rest.
An Insider-Buy Gate That Runs Deterministically
Open-market purchases only, $50,000 minimum, cluster context across the whole company, and a first-buy-in-years check against the buyer’s own SEC filing history. Grants and scheduled plans never reach you.
Washington, Not Just Wall Street
Presidential posts, executive orders, FDA decisions, FTC and DOJ enforcement, Fed statements, Federal Register rules, and the Pentagon’s daily contract awards. Most services in this category track trades; policy moves stocks too.
Free Public Data Pages
Our congress trading tracker, per-stock pages, and insider buying feed are open to everyone, no account needed, alongside the paid workspace.
Head to Head
Compared With Specific Services
One page per service: what it is, what it costs, what it does that we don’t, and the other way round, read off its own public pages with the date we checked.
Fair Questions
Where do the comparison facts come from?
From the public pricing and feature pages of the leading paid and free services in this category, Reviewed October 2026; each comparison page shows its own date. If you think something here misstates what the market offers, tell us and we will correct it.
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InsiderWatch is an informational service based on publicly available information only. It is not financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.