The best congress stock trackers in 2026

August 10, 2026·14 min read

Nine tools, ranked for one job: following what members of Congress disclose. Every price below carries the date we checked it and a link to the page we read it from — and where a vendor would not show us a price, the table says that instead of borrowing a number from somebody else’s list. Four of the nine could not be fully verified on August 10, 2026, which is itself the most useful thing on this page.

The short answer

If you want to browse congressional trades for free and you are happy to open a website, use Capitol Trades. If you want a phone app that pushes you a notification when a specific member files, Capitol Gains is the purpose-built one at $6.99 a month. If you want to ask historical questions of the data rather than read the newest rows, Quiver Quantitative is the deepest — though as of August 10, 2026 it will not show you its price without an account.

How we ranked them

Every listicle ranking for this term puts its own product first without saying it owns it. So the criteria come before the list rather than being implied by it.

• One job, not a general ranking. Everything here is ranked on how well it serves a single task: following what members of Congress disclose. A tool can be excellent and rank low, because it is built for a different job — the last two entries are not trackers at all.
• How much of the job is free. The filings are public records. A tool that puts the disclosures themselves behind a paywall is charging for access to something the government publishes, and is marked down for it. Charging for depth, alerts or analysis is a different matter.
• Whether the data reaches you. A website you have to remember to open loses to a notification that arrives, because the failure mode of every tracker is that you stop checking it. Per-filing push beats a digest; a digest beats nothing.
• Per-politician depth. Most people arrive wanting to follow a named person, not a feed. Tools with member pages, trading histories and committee context rank above tools that only show a chronological list.
• Whether the price is checkable. Every figure on this page carries the date we read it and a link to the page we read it from. Where a vendor does not publish a price, or blocked us, the table says so instead of borrowing a number from someone else's list.
• What we did not weigh. Returns. No entry is ranked on the performance of the trades it shows, because that is a claim about investing and this is a page about software. Nothing here is investment advice.

The nine compared

Figures checked August 10, 2026. Cells reading “not verified” are not gaps in the research — they are the research. Each entry below states exactly what happened when we tried.

The nine, in detail

1. 1. Free browsable database

   Capitol Trades

   A free web database of congressional stock disclosures from 2iQ Research, browsable by politician, issuer, or trade with no account.

   Best at

   Being free and unconditional. No signup wall, no trial, no tier that hides the trades — the default place to send someone who has never opened a Periodic Transaction Report.

   Bad at

   Reaching you. It is a website you have to remember to open, with no push and no app. It also blocks automated access hard, which is why we could not verify a single figure below.

   Price

   Not verified on 10 August 2026 — see note

   Not verified August 10, 2026

   Every request on 10 August 2026 was refused: HTTP 429 with a “Vercel Security Checkpoint” interstitial to browser-identical requests, HTTP 403 to a plain client, including for /robots.txt. No home page, no politician page, no pricing. Every cell is therefore marked unverified rather than filled in from memory or from somebody else's list — open it in a normal browser and judge it yourself.

   Check it yourself

2. 2. Alternative-data platform

   Quiver Quantitative

   An alternative-data platform whose congressional trading dataset sits alongside lobbying, government contracts, insider filings, and a congressional backtester.

   Best at

   Depth. Politician search, a portfolio leaderboard and a backtester built on the congressional dataset — nothing else here lets you ask historical questions of the data instead of reading the newest rows.

   Bad at

   Telling you what it costs. The pricing page shows no price to a logged-out visitor, which is a strange thing for the most-cited paid tracker in the category to do.

   Price

   Platform price not verifiable — redirects to signup. API from $30/mo, or $25/mo billed annually

   Not verified August 10, 2026

   On 10 August 2026, and again on 11 August, quiverquant.com/pricing/ server-redirected to /register/?next=pricing — an account form. The only pricing language visible without an account was a banner reading “50% off your first year of Quiver Premium”: a discount, no base price. The Quiver API is a separate product and is priced openly: api.quiverquant.com/pricing lists Hobbyist at $30.00/month billed monthly or $25.00/month billed annually, and Trader at $75.00/month or $62.50/month billed annually, read on 11 August 2026. Note how easily those two get conflated — a $25 figure attached to “Premium” is the API's annual rate wearing the platform's name, and it is already loose in several published comparisons.

   Check it yourself

3. 3. Dedicated congress-trade phone app

   Capitol Gains

   An iOS app built for one dataset: congressional disclosures, parsed from the House and Senate filings and scored for significance.

   Best at

   Being the congress tracker that lives on your phone. Per-member profiles with committee assignments, a sector heatmap, and push when a bookmarked member trades — a purpose-built app rather than a dataset with an app attached.

   Bad at

   Everything that is not congress: no watchlist of your own holdings, no prices, no market view. The free tier is genuinely restrictive at three member profiles a day and a 48-hour delay.

   Price

   Pro $6.99/mo or $49.99/yr

   Verified August 10, 2026

   Read from capitolgainsapp.com on 10 August 2026: “Pro — $6.99 /month or $49.99/year (save 40%)”, against a Free tier listing “Live trade feed (last 30 days, 48-hour delay)”, “3 member profiles per day” and “Up to 3 bookmarks”. The same page names the House Clerk, Senate disclosures, Congress.gov and the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database as its sources.

   Check it yourself

4. 4. Options-flow platform

   Unusual Whales

   An options-flow and market-data platform for active traders, with politician trade data included on its retail dashboard plans.

   Best at

   Breadth for an active trader. Real-time options flow, dark pool prints, gamma exposure, screeners, an API and a mobile app — congress is one dataset inside a platform that does far more.

   Bad at

   Being bought for congress data. The cheapest dashboard plan is $50 a month for a dataset two other tools here give away, and politician trades arrive as a download rather than as the centre of the product.

   Price

   Retail Basic $50/mo, Retail Pro $75/mo, Retail Max $120/mo, billed monthly

   Verified August 10, 2026

   Read from unusualwhales.com/pricing on 10 August 2026: Retail Basic $50/mo, Retail Pro $75/mo, Retail Max $120/mo, each labelled “Billed monthly”, annual billing stated to save up to $360 a year. Its FAQ says free accounts get 15-minute delayed data. “Politician Trade Information Download” is listed on all three tiers, described as monthly on Pro and Max; no cadence is stated for Basic.

   Check it yourself

5. 5. Options-flow terminal

   InsiderFinance

   A trading analytics dashboard built around real-time options order flow and dark pool prints, with congress and insider trade pages alongside.

   Best at

   Order-flow analytics. The congress pages are real — a dedicated congress trades view and a Nancy Pelosi page — but what people pay for is the flow dashboard and gamma exposure tooling.

   Bad at

   Value for this job. At $75 a month billed monthly it is the most expensive way here to read a disclosure feed, and the free tier covers options flow rather than the congress data.

   Price

   $75/mo monthly, $195 billed quarterly ($65/mo), $660 billed yearly ($55/mo)

   Verified August 10, 2026

   Read from insiderfinance.io/pricing on 10 August 2026: Monthly $75 “Billed Monthly”; Quarterly $65, shown as “$220 $195 Billed Quarterly”; Annual $55, shown as “$900 $660 Billed Yearly”. The page describes the free option as “our free options flow”, and its footer links to Congress Trades and Nancy Pelosi Stock Trades pages.

   Check it yourself

6. 6. Free smart-money app

   StockInsider

   A phone app that puts institutional 13F filings, congressional disclosures and SEC Form 4 insider trades into one feed.

   Best at

   Three filing types at once, for free. If the question is “what is smart money doing” rather than congress specifically, this is the cheapest way to watch politicians, funds and corporate insiders on one screen.

   Bad at

   Telling you what it will cost later. It advertises the app as free to download and publishes no pricing page, so there is no way to know from outside what sits behind an upgrade.

   Price

   No subscription price published on the vendor site

   Not verified August 10, 2026

   stockinsiderapp.com loaded normally on 10 August 2026 and has no pricing page. Its FAQ answers “Is StockInsider free?” with “Yes. You can download StockInsider on iOS and Android and start tracking top investors, Congress trades, and insider activity for free.” That is a statement about download, not about the absence of a paid tier, so the price cell says no more than the site does.

   Check it yourself

7. 7. Daily market-monitoring app

   Our app

   StockPlus

   Our app: a watchlist, a morning AI briefing and price alerts, with congressional and insider filings as feeds inside it rather than as the product.

   Best at

   Congress as one signal among several. The feed is free on both plans, and if a disclosure touches a ticker on your watchlist you can be told without opening anything — which none of the free options above will do.

   Bad at

   Congress depth, and we would rather say so here than have you find out after installing. No per-politician page, no historical or aggregate view, no congress data on the stock detail screen, no dollar amounts. If following named members is why you are reading this, four tools above serve you better.

   Price

   Free; Pro $2.99/mo

   Verified August 10, 2026

   This is our own product, so treat the row as a description rather than an independent check. Two details are easy to oversell and so worth stating precisely: the congress alert is a daily digest limited to tickers already on your watchlist, not a real-time push on every filing, and the data reaches us through a third-party aggregator rather than from the House Clerk and Senate portals directly.

   See what StockPlus does

8. 8. Exchange-traded funds — not a tracker

   NANC and GOP ETFs

   Two Subversive ETFs that hold baskets of the equities disclosed by Democratic (NANC) and Republican (GOP) members of Congress and their spouses.

   Best at

   Requiring nothing of you. No app to open and no feed to read: exposure built from the same disclosures, rebalanced by someone else, inside a normal brokerage account.

   Bad at

   Being a tracker, which it is not. You cannot see who traded what or follow a member, and the funds carry the same disclosure lag plus their own rebalancing schedule. Listed because searches for congress trackers keep landing here.

   Price

   Expense ratio: NANC 0.72%, GOP 0.73%

   Verified August 10, 2026

   Read from the issuer's fund pages on 10 August 2026. NANC, the Subversive Congressional Democrats Trading ETF: expense ratio 0.72%. GOP, the Subversive Congressional Republicans Trading ETF: expense ratio 0.73%. Both inception 6 February 2023. Note the naming: the issuer states “As of 03.21.2025, KRUZ changed its ticker to GOP”, and the funds now sit under the Subversive ETFs brand rather than the Unusual Whales one. Any list still saying “KRUZ” has not been re-checked since March 2025.

   Check it yourself

9. 9. Copy-trading apps — not trackers

   Autopilot and dub

   Two apps that do not show you congressional trades so much as execute them: you allocate money to a portfolio and the app mirrors the disclosed trades in your brokerage account.

   Best at

   Turning a disclosure into a position without you doing anything. Both are regulated — Autopilot Advisers and dub's family of companies are SEC-registered — and both run congressional portfolios.

   Bad at

   Transparency about cost, and about what you are buying. Neither publishes a price we could read, and copying a 45-day-old trade at today's price is a materially different act from reading it. Nothing here is investment advice, and these two least of all.

   Price

   No price published on either vendor site

   Not verified August 10, 2026

   Neither publishes a figure we could retrieve on 10 August 2026. joinautopilot.com/pricing returns HTTP 404, and its FAQ answer to “How do your subscriptions work?” reads in full: “Autopilot offers several subscriptions from in house and third party options. Autopilot Premium offers a variety of portfolio options to customers. Some subscriptions may require additional costs.” — no amount, third-party pilot fees explicitly on top. dubapp.com/pricing returns HTTP 404, and its FAQ question “How much does dub cost?” has no answer text in the delivered page. Secondary write-ups quote numbers for both; we have not repeated them, because a figure we could not see on the vendor's own page is exactly what ends up wrong on every list that copies it.

   Check it yourself

If you just want it free

Start below the tools. The disclosures are free public records published by both chambers, at disclosures-clerk.house.gov and efdsearch.senate.gov, with no account and no fee. They are unpleasant to use — one chamber at a time, by person rather than by ticker, House reports as individual PDFs — but they are the only place to settle a disagreement between two trackers, and every tool here is downstream of them.

Above that, three genuinely free options do different things. Capitol Trades is the browsable database and asks for nothing. StockInsider is the free phone app, and widens the question from Congress to 13F filings and corporate insiders at once. StockPlus keeps its congress and insider feeds on the free plan, which matters only if you want a watchlist and prices around them. Capitol Gains and Quiver have usable free tiers, both deliberately limited.

What none of them can fix is the age of the data. The STOCK Act’s reporting deadline gives a filer 30 days from being notified of a transaction and never more than 45 days from the trade itself, so a fully compliant filing can describe something six weeks old. Free or paid, no tracker is fresher than the deadline the filer was working to.

If you want alerts

The list thins out fast here, because most of these are places you go rather than things that reach you. Be precise about what each one sends.

• Per-filing push, on a named member: Capitol Gains. Bookmark members and it notifies you when they trade, when a large trade lands, or when its scoring flags one as notable — the closest thing here to a real-time alert on an individual politician, on Pro at $6.99 a month.
• Alerts on tracked filers, free: StockInsider advertises real-time alerts when a tracked investor, politician or insider files. We could not test delivery, and there is no published price to tell you whether that stays free.
• Alerts inside a trading platform: Unusual Whales has a mature custom-alert system with push and a mobile app, but built around options flow — politician data arrives as a download rather than an alert stream, from $50 a month.
• A daily digest scoped to what you own: StockPlus, ours. Opt in and it pushes one digest when a new disclosure touches a ticker already on your watchlist — three tickers on the free plan, every one of them on Pro. It is deliberately not a real-time push on every filing, and it will never tell you that a particular member traded, because it has no per-politician view. If your question is “did anyone in Congress touch something I hold”, that fits. If it is “what did this senator do this week”, it does not.
• Nothing at all: Capitol Trades and the two ETFs. Autopilot and dub sit outside the question entirely — they act on the filing instead of telling you about it, which is a different decision with its own costs.

One thing worth knowing before you pay for alerts

An alert on a congressional filing is not an alert on a trade. The event announced is a disclosure; the trade behind it happened up to 45 days earlier. Notification speed decides whether you learn about a filing today or a fortnight from now, but no amount of it makes the underlying information current. Nothing here is investment advice.

Where to read next

• Congress stock trades, explained — what a Periodic Transaction Report contains, what it leaves out, and why the amounts are brackets rather than numbers.
• How to track congress stock trades — the three routes in full: the official portals, the tracker sites, and the apps.
• Quiver Quantitative alternatives — if the depth is right but the terminal is not.
• StockPlus vs Unusual Whales — the full feature table, including where they beat us.