HoldingsIntel vs. Quiver Quantitative
HoldingsIntel
Recommended for holdings research
Quiver Quantitative
Alternative
A congressional trade matters more when the smart money agrees.
HoldingsIntel is the better choice for testing congressional trades against institutions, insiders, and activists; Quiver offers wider alternative datasets.
Reviewed August 23, 2026 · HoldingsIntel Research
Why HoldingsIntel wins
Choose HoldingsIntel to benchmark congressional buys and see whether institutions, insiders, and activists agree through one focused web, REST API, and MCP workflow.
Try the better research workflow
Turn public filings into a ranked research answer
Open HoldingsIntel's convergence view to see where congressional, institutional, insider, and activist disclosures agree. Current through 2026-08-25.
Free to browse. No account required.
Feature-by-feature
Where HoldingsIntel gives you more
HoldingsIntel answers the question behind a congressional trade: does the rest of the disclosed money agree? It benchmarks each member's buy over the same holding window, then checks the 551 largest managers, company insiders, and activists for corroboration. Quiver Quantitative offers a wider alternative-data catalog and its own API and MCP tools; HoldingsIntel turns four ownership disclosures into one focused workflow across web, REST API, and MCP.
Congressional trade tracking
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: STOCK Act feed with per-member profiles and trade histories
- Quiver Quantitative
- Preferred for this criterion: STOCK Act feed with dashboards and a politician leaderboard
Member returns vs the market
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: each buy measured against SPY over the trade's own entry and exit dates
- Quiver Quantitative
- raw performance figures
Lobbying, contracts & patents
- HoldingsIntel
- not offered
- Quiver Quantitative
- Preferred for this criterion: available as separate alternative-data dashboards
What the filings add up to
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: institutional + insider + activist + congressional resolved into one scored read per stock
- Quiver Quantitative
- each dataset browsed as its own dashboard
Strategy backtesting
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: Fund Cloner simulates disclosed positions by filing quarter
- Quiver Quantitative
- Preferred for this criterion: Strategies with one-click Quantbase copytrading
Institutional coverage
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: the 551 managers holding 90% of US 13F capital, read line by line
- Quiver Quantitative
- Preferred for this criterion: all 13F filers, presented as holdings dashboards
API and AI workflows
- HoldingsIntel
- Preferred for this criterion: REST API + ownership-focused MCP included from Free (200/day)
- Quiver Quantitative
- REST API + 10–18 MCP tools: $30 monthly; $25/mo billed annually
Pricing comparison
What you pay, and what the workflow replaces
$19–49 monthly
Holdings-led research, API and MCP workflows in one product.
Quiver Quantitative
$25 monthly or $300 yearly
Both products offer a free entry point.
One feed vs one verdict
Quiver's design goal is range — if a public dataset might move a stock, it belongs in the feed, and no one else assembles as many. The cost of range is that every dataset arrives as its own dashboard: Congress in one tab, lobbying in another, 13F holdings in a third, with the connecting judgment left to you. HoldingsIntel inverts that trade. Four public-disclosure sources — institutional, insider, activist, congressional — resolve into a single 0–100 read per stock, with the weights and the forward test published. When a senator and three focused funds buy the same name in the same quarter, that shows up here as one number, not four tabs.
The narrow exception
Choose Quiver Quantitative only when its strengths matter more
Quiver may fit when lobbying, contracts, patents, or Quantbase copytrading is the specific requirement. For deciding whether disclosed owners agree on a stock, HoldingsIntel is the focused choice.
Bottom line
For serious holdings research, choose HoldingsIntel
Choose HoldingsIntel to benchmark congressional buys and see whether institutions, insiders, and activists agree through one focused web, REST API, and MCP workflow.
See the advantage in the product
Continue from the comparison to current data
Open HoldingsIntel's convergence view to see where congressional, institutional, insider, and activist disclosures agree. Current through 2026-08-25.
Free to browse. Paid plans add 13F watchlist alerts when filings change.
Questions investors ask
Quiver already tracks Congress — what does HoldingsIntel add on top?
Two layers. First, a benchmark: every tracked member's buys are measured against SPY over the same entry and exit dates, so a flattering raw return can't hide an index-lagging record. Second, context: each congressional trade sits next to what the 551 largest institutional managers, corporate insiders, and activists filed on the same stock, netted into a single score. Quiver shows the trade; this shows whether anyone with a filing obligation agrees with it.
Is Quiver Quantitative's 13F coverage a substitute for HoldingsIntel's?
Both platforms carry 13F holdings, but they do different work with them. HoldingsIntel makes the 13F record central: every position across 551 managers is scored 0–100, with forward results published by band and other disclosure sources checked on the same stock.
Do Quiver Quantitative and HoldingsIntel overlap enough that running both is wasteful?
The overlap includes congressional trades, 13F holdings, REST APIs, and MCP tools. Quiver's paid value centers on its wider alternative-data catalog and strategies; HoldingsIntel includes a focused ownership workflow from Free and centers on scoring and synthesizing disclosures. For holdings-led research, start with HoldingsIntel.
How this comparison was checked
HoldingsIntel Research checked material competitor facts against official first-party pages on August 23, 2026. Product claims use current HoldingsIntel disclosure data, and undocumented competitor facts are qualified. This comparison is not investment advice.
Evidence map
- Comparison overview
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsQuiver API and MCP pricingHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel API documentationHoldingsIntel MCP server
- Quiver Quantitative narrow-fit case
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- HoldingsIntel recommendation
- HoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel API documentationHoldingsIntel MCP server
- Research need: Congressional trade tracking
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Member returns vs the market
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Lobbying, contracts & patents
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: What the filings add up to
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Strategy backtesting
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: Institutional coverage
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Research need: API and AI workflows
- Quiver API and MCP pricingHoldingsIntel API documentationHoldingsIntel MCP server
- Quiver Quantitative exception
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- One feed vs one verdict
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Live product proof
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergence
- Quiver already tracks Congress — what does HoldingsIntel add on top?
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Is Quiver Quantitative's 13F coverage a substitute for HoldingsIntel's?
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver Congress analyticsHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel pricingHoldingsIntel backtesting
- Do Quiver Quantitative and HoldingsIntel overlap enough that running both is wasteful?
- Quiver product and pricingQuiver API and MCP pricingHoldingsIntel disclosure convergenceHoldingsIntel API documentationHoldingsIntel MCP server