PatternsRadar vs StockEdge
The short version: StockEdge is discovery plus education — curated scans, sector analytics, expert content, a polished mobile app, four million users. PatternsRadar is an authoring tool — write any condition in a readable language, then replay it against a year of sessions to see its hit rate. Both are end-of-day and both take delivery data seriously; what divides them is who writes the scan and whether it gets tested.
| Capability | PatternsRadar | StockEdge |
|---|---|---|
| End-of-day NSE screening | Yes | Yes |
| Scan-level backtesting | Every scan, 250-session replay | No |
| Custom scan conditions | Unlimited — any Sift expression | Quota-gated: 2 custom on Premium, 50 on Pro; AND-only combinations |
| Event conditions (crossed within, has been above for) | Yes | No |
| Delivery % screening | Scannable and backtestable | Scannable — a headline feature, well curated |
| Readymade scan library | 115 presets, each with a backtest | 500+ named scans with explanations |
| Education & expert content | No | Core of the product — Edge Reports, sessions, SEBI-registered ideas |
| Fundamentals, sector & F&O analytics | As screening fields — P/E, sector, futures OI, put-call ratios — not dashboards | Yes |
| Mobile apps | Responsive web | First-class iOS/Android apps, ~4.5★ |
| REST API + MCP for agents | Every plan, including Free | No |
| Free tier | The whole screener, no account needed | News, FII data, watchlists — scans are paid |
| Paid plans | ₹400–2,000/month | ₹399–2,499/month |
StockEdge prices verified on stockedge.com on 2026-08-16 during an active 45% discount campaign — annual figures shown there were promotional (e.g. Pro lists ₹11,989/yr). Verify current pricing on their site. This page is maintained by PatternsRadar. Competitor capabilities as generally available at the time of writing; verify current features on their site.
The differences that matter
Curated scans, or authored ones
Picking from 500 named scans and writing your own are different activities. Curation teaches — each StockEdge scan explains itself, which is genuinely valuable early on. Authorship compounds — the setup you actually trade is rarely exactly the one on the shelf, and a query language with event operators lets you state it precisely instead of approximating it with the two custom slots Premium allows.
Both scan delivery. Only one can test it
StockEdge deserves credit for making delivery analytics famous — its delivery scans are the best-known in India. But a delivery scan there is acted on trust: there is no way to ask what high-delivery days historically led to. Here the same condition carries a replay — whether quiet accumulation actually precedes markups on the NSE is a ninety-millisecond question, not a belief.
The free tiers are different products
StockEdge's free tier is news, FII data and watchlists; the scans that define the product start at ₹399 a month. PatternsRadar's free tier is the product — every scan, the full language, the whole history, the backtest replay, with no account. Paid here adds alerts and limits, not access.
Which should you use?
When StockEdge is the right choice
Choose StockEdge if you want to be shown ideas and taught the vocabulary: curated scans with explanations, sector rotation analytics, fundamentals, F&O and mutual-fund coverage, expert sessions and SEBI-registered recommendations, all in a polished mobile app. For a beginner building intuition, it is the friendlier product by some distance.
When PatternsRadar is the right choice
Choose PatternsRadar once you know what setup you want and have started asking whether it works: unlimited custom conditions in a readable language, a backtest on every scan, delivery as a testable field, and an API for anything you want to automate — free to screen, ₹400/month for alerts.
Common questions
Which is better for delivery analysis, StockEdge or PatternsRadar?
StockEdge popularised delivery scanning and curates it well — delivery quantity against historical averages, high-delivery lists, clean presentation. PatternsRadar treats delivery as a first-class query field: any threshold or baseline you can express, combinable with price and volume conditions, and replayable against 250 sessions to see what followed.
Does StockEdge have backtesting?
No — no scan-level backtesting or historical hit-rate feature exists in the product. Scans are acted on as curated. That is the single largest difference between the two tools: on PatternsRadar the backtest panel is on every scan page, free tier included.
Is StockEdge or PatternsRadar better for beginners?
StockEdge, honestly. Named scans with explanations, education content and a guided mobile experience beat a query language for someone still learning what the setups mean. PatternsRadar's presets are documented and its glossary helps, but its centre of gravity is users who already know what they want to ask.