# A Chartink alternative that measures what happened next

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/compare/chartink-alternative

Chartink made NSE screening free and shareable, and it is still the better tool for real-time intraday triggers. It has had a backtest since 2019, and it will show you which stocks matched a scan on any past session — but not what those matches did afterwards, which is the part that decides whether a scan is worth trading. PatternsRadar was built around that half: every scan here replays against a year of sessions and reports its hit rate and average return over the next 1, 5 and 20 days.

| Capability | PatternsRadar | Chartink |
|---|---|---|
| End-of-day NSE screening | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time intraday scanning | No — end-of-day by design | Yes |
| Historical replay — which stocks matched a scan on past sessions | The last 250 sessions | Yes, since 2019 — 9 years on daily bars |
| Forward outcomes — what the matches did next | Hit rate and average return at 1, 5 and 20 days | No |
| What testing a scan costs | Free, unmetered, no account | Free; longer history on the paid plan |
| Event conditions (crossed within, has been above for, rising for) | Yes | Partially, via stacked offset comparisons |
| Readable query language | Sift — reads like the sentence you would say | Formula clauses in a form UI |
| Split-adjusted daily history | 30 years | Not published; the daily backtest reaches 9 years |
| Delivery percentage as a scannable, backtestable field | Yes | Not among their documented scan fields |
| F&O fields (futures OI, OI change, basis, put-call ratio) | Per-stock daily aggregates, backtestable | F&O scrips as a universe; scans run on cash prices |
| Fundamentals & sector filters | P/E, market cap, growth, shareholding — point-in-time, coverage filling in | Sector and a few fundamental fields |
| Community scan library | 115 curated scans | Thousands, user-contributed |
| End-of-day email alerts | From ₹400/month | Premium — listed at ₹780/month |
| REST API + MCP for agents | Yes | No published API |
| Free to screen, no account needed | Yes | Yes |

Competitor capabilities as documented on their own site in August 2026; features change, so verify current ones there. This page is maintained by PatternsRadar.

## Outcomes, not just triggers

Chartink's backtest answers “who matched, and when?” — a list of symbols and dates, with no prices attached. That leaves “did this setup work?” to folklore. Open any scan here — the 52-week high breakout, say — and the hit-rate panel replays it across the past year of sessions and reports what the matches did over the next 1, 5 and 20 days. [52-week high breakout](https://patternsradar.com/screener/52-week-high-breakout.md). [How to read the results](https://patternsradar.com/blog/how-to-backtest-a-stock-scan.md).

## Conditions about time, written readably

Setups are sequences — crossed above within 3 bars, has been above for 10 bars, rising for 3 bars, highest in 52 weeks. Sift states them as written; a form-based screener approximates them with stacked offsets. [The language reference covers all of it](https://patternsradar.com/docs/sift.md).

## An API, including for AI agents

Scan results reach your scripts, sheets and pipelines through a REST API, and the MCP endpoint lets agent tools like Claude run scans directly. A screener you cannot call is a website; one you can is an ingredient. [REST API](https://patternsradar.com/docs/api.md).

## Common questions

### Is PatternsRadar a free alternative to Chartink?

Screening is free with no account: all 115 scans, the full query language, 30 years of history and the hit-rate replay, unmetered. Paid plans (from ₹400/month) add end-of-day email alerts, webhooks and higher API limits.

### What does PatternsRadar have that Chartink doesn't?

Forward outcomes are the big one. Chartink's backtest tells you which stocks matched a scan on past sessions; it does not report what those matches went on to do — no returns, no win rate. Here the replay measures exactly that, over the next 1, 5 and 20 days, including for F&O and fundamental conditions, which replay with the values as known on each day. Beyond that: event operators in a readable query language, 30 years of split-adjusted history, delivery percentage and futures open interest as first-class scannable fields, point-in-time P/E and shareholding, and a REST API plus MCP endpoint for programmatic access.

### What is Chartink better at?

Real-time intraday scanning — PatternsRadar is end-of-day by design and nothing here fires while the market is open, and Chartink's backtest reaches back nine years on daily bars against one here. Chartink also has a decade-old community library of thousands of user-published scans, and the familiarity that comes with it.

### Can I recreate my Chartink scans here?

Usually, and often more readably: most Chartink formula stacks collapse into one or two Sift lines — 'rsi(14) crossed above 30 within 3 bars' replaces a tower of offset comparisons. The language reference documents every field, indicator and pattern; the scan library covers the common setups prebuilt.