# A StockEdge alternative where the scans answer back

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

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.

## 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.

## 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.