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TickerTrust vs TipRanks
Last checked: October 16, 2026. Competitor facts come from each product's own public pages.
TipRanks scores stocks with a Smart Score from 1 to 10. TickerTrust scores from 0 to 100. If you’re comparing them, the useful question is which factors you want in a score and how clearly you can see them.
What TipRanks is great at
The Smart Score rates stocks from 1 to 10 on eight factors: analyst ratings, insider transactions, blogger opinions, investor sentiment, hedge fund activity, news sentiment, technicals and fundamentals. TipRanks also offers an MCP connector, with a free tier, that gives AI tools access to analyst consensus, price targets, the Smart Score, options data, and insider, hedge fund and politician trade signals. If you want those factors and an MCP connector for your own AI tools, TipRanks is built for that and we don’t offer it.
What TickerTrust does that TipRanks doesn't
TickerTrust scores each symbol from 0 to 100 on the pillars that fit the asset: five for stocks, six for ETFs and four for crypto. Each pillar is shown, and a pillar with no data is left out of the score. TrustAI explains the score in plain English, and you can alert on it, paper trade it and backtest it in the same session. Developers can use our documented REST API.
What TickerTrust shows, plainly
- A pillar with no data is left out of the score, not filled with a made-up number.
- Every score shows when it was computed.
- The method is published on the methodology page.
- TrustAI doesn't give buy, sell or hold recommendations.
- The free plan runs the same scoring engine, with three full analyses a day.
Which one fits your job
Want a 1-to-10 Smart Score with analyst, blogger and sentiment factors, and an MCP connector for your AI tools? TipRanks. Want a 0-to-100 score whose pillars you can see, with a paper account and backtesting in the same place? TickerTrust. Plenty of investors keep both.
Side by side
| Feature | TipRanks | TickerTrust |
|---|---|---|
| Single score | Smart Score, 1 to 10 | TrustScore, 0 to 100 |
| Insider transactions | Yes | Included — see pricing |
| Hedge fund signals | Yes, listed on its MCP page | Included — see pricing |
| Politician trade signals | Yes, listed on its MCP page | Included — see pricing |
| Options data | Listed on its MCP page | Included — see pricing |
| MCP connector for AI tools | Yes, with a free tier | No |
| API | API keys with request quotas | Documented REST API, with API keys |
| Backtesting | Not listed on its public pages | Yes |
| Paper trading | Not listed on its public pages | Yes, simulated |
| Entry price | Plus, Premium and Ultimate plans; prices not shown on its plans page | Free plan; see pricing |