Stockcircle watches every guru. Which ones are worth watching? Stockcircle may be the most tool per dollar in guru tracking: 13F portfolios, insider trades, congressional trades, and ETF holdings in one app, with AI earnings-call summaries and estimated purchase prices, from a capable free tier to Pro at about $16.49 a month. HoldingsIntel spends its effort on a different layer — deciding whose moves deserve your attention: every fund star-rated across 7 record dimensions, every position conviction-rated 0–100, and any tracked portfolio backtestable against the S&P 500.
We build HoldingsIntel. Every number below is sourced and dated so you can check it — and where Stockcircle is the better tool, the table says so.
HoldingsIntel vs. Stockcircle
Stockcircle watches every guru. Which ones are worth watching?
Stockcircle may be the most tool per dollar in guru tracking: 13F portfolios, insider trades, congressional trades, and ETF holdings in one app, with AI earnings-call summaries and estimated purchase prices, from a capable free tier to Pro at about $16.49 a month. HoldingsIntel spends its effort on a different layer — deciding whose moves deserve your attention: every fund star-rated across 7 record dimensions, every position conviction-rated 0–100, and any tracked portfolio backtestable against the S&P 500.
| Dimension | HoldingsIntel | Stockcircle |
|---|---|---|
| Sources in one place | 13F, insider, activist, and congressional filings | 13F, insider, and congressional data, plus ETF holdings |
| Rating the managers | 5-star rating built from 7 dimensions of each fund's record1 | portfolios followed, not rated |
| AI earnings-call summaries | not offered | included, alongside quarterly stock-pick write-ups |
| Price | $19–49/mo, free tier | Pro about $16.49/mo, annual plans from ~$99/yr, capable free tier |
| Reading each position | conviction 0–100 per buy; adds into falling prices flagged | positions and estimated purchase prices as filed |
| Alerts | watchlist email alerts on position changes | instant notifications plus a screener |
| Position cost view | estimated cost basis with P&L since first purchase | estimated purchase prices included |
| Testing a guru before following | Fund Cloner replays any tracked portfolio against SPY, quarter by quarter | not offered |
1The 7 dimensions — track record, conviction, concentration, stability, discovery, risk management, and filing reliability — are published with each fund's rating breakdown.
Following is not ranking
A guru feed answers what they did; the harder question is whose moves are worth copying. Ten funds can buy the same stock and mean ten different things by it. A transaction feed records the purchase and stops there — it can't tell a manager's core bet from a rounding error. That is the layer HoldingsIntel builds where a tracker stops: star ratings say which managers' records hold up across seven dimensions, conviction says how much each position means to the fund that bought it, and the Fund Cloner lets you replay a manager's actual portfolio against the S&P 500 before you borrow a single idea. Stockcircle assembles the feed at a fair price; the ratings, the conviction numbers, and the backtest are what you'd come here for.
Where Stockcircle is the better tool
Judged on breadth per dollar, Stockcircle is the best value in the category. The free tier is genuinely usable, Pro is the cheapest paid plan among guru trackers, and it bundles things nobody else in this comparison bundles — ETF holdings alongside the SEC feeds, AI summaries of earnings calls, estimated purchase prices, a screener, and instant notifications. For a broad, inexpensive daily follow of the gurus, it earns the subscription.
Bottom line
Choose Stockcircle
A broad guru feed at the category's lowest price — four data sources, ETF holdings, and AI earnings summaries in one app.
Choose HoldingsIntel
The judgment layer over the same filings: which funds rate, which positions carry conviction, and how a guru's portfolio would actually have performed — before you follow anyone.
References
- SEC EDGAR full-text filing system — primary source for 13F, Form 4, and 13D/13G data
- HoldingsIntel fund-rating methodology — 7 dimensions, published per fund
- Stockcircle public pricing page, as of 2026-07 (prior verification)
Questions traders actually ask
Do Stockcircle and HoldingsIntel use the same underlying data?
Largely, yes — both are built on public SEC filings, so the raw holdings match. The products diverge on what gets computed from them: Stockcircle adds breadth (ETF holdings, AI earnings summaries, notifications), HoldingsIntel adds judgment (fund star ratings, conviction per position, backtests, and a four-source verdict per stock). Same paper trail, different layer.
What does Stockcircle offer that HoldingsIntel deliberately doesn't?
ETF holdings breakdowns, AI-generated earnings-call summaries, and instant notifications — real features, and at Stockcircle's price, real value. HoldingsIntel stays inside SEC disclosures and moves on a filing cadence, so a quarterly-horizon reader loses little and a faster-moving one should keep Stockcircle.
Is Stockcircle's lower price the better deal?
If a followed feed is enough, yes — at about $16.49/mo with a usable free tier, Stockcircle is the cheaper way to watch the gurus. The few extra dollars here buy the scored layer: 7-dimension star ratings on every fund, 0–100 conviction on every position with results published by band, cost-basis P&L, and the Fund Cloner backtest. Pay for ranking only if ranking changes what you'd buy.
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