A StockEdge alternative where the scans answer back
StockEdge's 500 readymade scans are a 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 at two on Premium and fifty on Pro, combinations are AND-only, and nothing in the product can tell you whether any scan has ever worked. If you have hit either wall, authorship or evidence, that is the gap this was built in.
| 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
Is PatternsRadar a free alternative to StockEdge?
For scanning, yes. The entire screener is free without an account, presets and custom queries alike, with the replay at its full depth, where StockEdge's scans start on its ₹399/month Premium tier. What you give up: the education layer, the analytics dashboards, the mobile apps. Sector, P/E and F&O aggregates exist here as screening fields rather than the curated views StockEdge builds around them.
Can I recreate StockEdge scans on PatternsRadar?
The price, volume and delivery ones, usually. Most curated end-of-day scans reduce to a couple of Sift conditions, and the 142 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) translate too, with partial coverage while the filings backfill completes. Anything needing full financial statements does not translate at all.