HoldingsIntel vs. OpenInsider
HoldingsIntel
Recommended for holdings research
OpenInsider
Alternative
An insider buy matters more when institutions agree.
HoldingsIntel shows who agrees with the insider: every Form 4 buy checked against fund accumulation, activist stakes and congressional trades.
Reviewed November 8, 2026 · HoldingsIntel Research
Why HoldingsIntel wins
Choose HoldingsIntel to corroborate insider buys against institutional accumulation, activist stakes, and congressional trades in web, REST API, or MCP workflows.
Try the better research workflow
Turn public filings into a ranked research answer
Open HoldingsIntel's alignment view to see where insider purchases and institutional ownership point together. Current through 2026-11-09.
Free to browse. No account required.
Feature-by-feature
Where HoldingsIntel gives you more
HoldingsIntel treats every insider buy as evidence to corroborate. Its Alignment view finds stocks where Form 4 buying and accumulation by the largest institutional managers land in the same quarter, then weighs both against activist and congressional filings. It answers the question that turns an insider buy into a decision: who else agrees?
Form 4 insider trades
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: buys and sells, streamed from EDGAR as filed
- OpenInsider
- Preferred for this criterion: real-time Form 4 data, comprehensively covered
Price of insider data
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: free, with the full suite from $19/mo
- OpenInsider
- Preferred for this criterion: free, no account required
One combined read per stock
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: Smart Money Verdict: four disclosure types in one score
- OpenInsider
- Form 4 data only, by design
Insider buys meeting institutional buys
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: Alignment view: same-quarter overlap of Form 4 buying and 13F accumulation
- OpenInsider
- not covered — Form 4 is the whole dataset, by design
The institutional record itself
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: 13F history since 2014 across the largest managers, with buys rated for conviction
- OpenInsider
- not covered
Activist and congressional context
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: 13D/13G stakes and STOCK Act trades on the same stock page
- OpenInsider
- not offered
Pricing comparison
What you pay, and what the workflow replaces
$19–49 monthly
Holdings-led research, API and MCP workflows in one product.
OpenInsider
Free
OpenInsider's public Form 4 screener is free to use.
An insider buy is one witness
A CEO writing a personal check for company stock is testimony worth hearing — insiders know things. But one witness can be wrong, early, or simply rebalancing. The buys that deserve the most attention are corroborated ones: the same quarter the CFO bought, disciplined funds were adding, or an activist crossed 5%. OpenInsider gives you the first witness in full detail — the others file different forms, outside its scope. HoldingsIntel's Alignment view runs the corroboration automatically — every stock where Form 4 buying and institutional accumulation landed together — and the per-stock verdict adds activist and congressional filings to the record.
Switching from OpenInsider
Keep what you use. Gain the answer.
Coming from OpenInsider, the Form 4 feed stays free here, and every insider buy gains its corroboration: the same quarter's fund accumulation, activist stakes and congressional trades on the same stock.
Bottom line
For serious holdings research, choose HoldingsIntel
Choose HoldingsIntel to corroborate insider buys against institutional accumulation, activist stakes, and congressional trades in web, REST API, or MCP workflows.
See the advantage in the product
Continue from the comparison to current data
Open HoldingsIntel's alignment view to see where insider purchases and institutional ownership point together. Current through 2026-11-09.
Free to browse. Paid plans add 13F watchlist alerts when filings change.
Questions investors ask
Can HoldingsIntel replace OpenInsider?
For investing on insider buys, yes. The same Form 4 filings arrive as they are filed, and each buy sits next to the institutional, activist and congressional record on the same stock, so you see which insider buys have company.
What is HoldingsIntel's Alignment view, and does OpenInsider offer anything like it?
Alignment surfaces stocks where insider buying and institutional accumulation landed in the same quarter — two independent groups with disclosure obligations moving the same direction. OpenInsider doesn't attempt it, because it would need the 13F dataset, which sits outside a Form 4 screener's scope. It is the main thing you'd come here for that a free insider tool can't do.
OpenInsider is free — what am I paying HoldingsIntel for?
The corroboration layer, not the insider data. Form 4 filings are public and free everywhere, including here. The paid tiers ($19–49/mo) buy the full 13F engine around them: complete conviction rankings across the largest managers, the full Alignment view, multi-quarter history, and unlimited four-source Verdicts.
How this comparison was checked
HoldingsIntel Research checked material competitor facts against official first-party pages on November 8, 2026. Product claims use current HoldingsIntel disclosure data, and undocumented competitor facts are qualified. This comparison is not investment advice.
Evidence map
- Comparison overview
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- Research need: Form 4 insider trades
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- Research need: Price of insider data
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: One combined read per stock
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Insider buys meeting institutional buys
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: The institutional record itself
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Activist and congressional context
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Switching from OpenInsider
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- An insider buy is one witness
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Live product proof
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignment
- Can HoldingsIntel replace OpenInsider?
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- What is HoldingsIntel's Alignment view, and does OpenInsider offer anything like it?
- OpenInsider screenerHoldingsIntel insider and institution alignmentHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- OpenInsider is free — what am I paying HoldingsIntel for?
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