A StockEdge alternative where the scans answer back
StockEdge's 500 readymade scans are a genuinely good on-ramp — someone named each one and explained it, which is more than most tools bother with. The ceiling arrives when you want a scan they didn't write: custom scans are quota-gated (two on Premium, fifty on Pro), combinations are AND-only, and nothing anywhere can tell you whether any scan has ever worked. If you have hit either wall — authorship or evidence — that is the gap this product was built in.
| 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
Is PatternsRadar a free alternative to StockEdge?
For scanning, yes — the entire screener, all presets, custom queries and backtest replay are free without an account, where StockEdge's scans start on its ₹399/month Premium tier. What you give up: StockEdge's education layer, its analytics dashboards and its mobile apps. Sector, P/E and F&O aggregates exist here as screening fields, not as the curated views StockEdge builds around them.
Can I recreate StockEdge scans on PatternsRadar?
The price/volume/delivery ones, usually — most curated EOD scans reduce to a couple of Sift conditions, and the library's 115 presets cover the common families with a backtest attached. Simple fundamental scans (P/E, growth, promoter holding) and F&O ones (OI change, put-call ratio) now translate too, with partial coverage while the filings backfill completes; anything needing full financial statements does not.
Why switch from StockEdge to PatternsRadar?
Two walls, usually: authorship — StockEdge caps custom scans at two on Premium and fifty on Pro, with AND-only combinations — and evidence, since no StockEdge scan can be tested against history. If neither wall has bothered you, StockEdge's curation may serve you better.