PatternsRadar vs StockEdge
StockEdge is discovery plus education: curated scans, sector analytics, expert content, a polished mobile app, and four million registered users by its own count. 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; window, horizons, entry, stop and target all configurable | 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 | 142 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) rather than 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; the Pro annual plan 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 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 the credit for making delivery analytics famous, and its delivery scans are the best known in India. But a delivery scan there is acted on trust. Nothing in the product will tell you what high-delivery days historically led to. Here the same condition carries a replay, so whether quiet accumulation actually precedes markups on the NSE becomes a ninety-millisecond question.
The free tiers are different products
StockEdge's free tier is news, FII data and watchlists, and the scans that define the product start at ₹399 a month. Everything here is free to screen without an account; paid plans add alerts and headroom rather than capability.
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, SEBI-registered recommendations, all in a polished mobile app. For a beginner building intuition it is the friendlier product by some distance, and I would send a beginner there before here.
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 replay on every scan that you configure rather than accept, delivery as a testable field, 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, replayable across up to thirty years of sessions to see what followed.
Does StockEdge have backtesting?
No. There is no scan-level backtesting or historical hit-rate feature in the product, and its scans are acted on as curated. That is the single largest difference between the two tools. Here the replay panel sits on every scan page, free tier included, with the window, horizons, entry, stop and target under your control.
Is StockEdge or PatternsRadar better for beginners?
StockEdge, honestly. Named scans with explanations, education content, a guided mobile experience: all of that beats a query language for someone still learning what the setups mean. The presets here are documented and the glossary helps, but the centre of gravity is users who already know what they want to ask.