Options-flow and market-data platform
StockPlus vs Unusual Whales
An options-flow platform for active traders — live full-tape flow, dark pool prints, gamma exposure and screeners, with politician trade data included on the retail dashboard plans.
Choose StockPlus if
Cost and calm, for someone who is not trading options. StockPlus is $2.99/mo against $50/mo for the cheapest Unusual Whales dashboard plan, gives congressional and insider feeds away on the free tier, and replaces a live tape with one morning briefing and alerts that find you.
Choose Unusual Whales if
Being a real trading platform, which StockPlus is not. Real-time options flow across every US exchange, dark pool data, gamma exposure heatmaps, an API with REST, WebSocket and MCP access, prediction-market data, and the largest community in this category. On breadth of datasets it beats StockPlus outright, and on options specifically nothing here is close.
Feature by feature
| Feature | StockPlus | Unusual Whales |
|---|---|---|
| Daily AI market briefing | Yes — one two-minute AI briefing every morning | Mr. Whale, an AI analyst and trade finder, rather than one daily watchlist summary |
| Real-time watchlist | Yes | Yes — 5 watchlists on Retail Basic, unlimited on Retail Pro and Max |
| Price alerts | Yes — price and percent-change alerts | Yes — custom alerts on the flow feeds, 25 on Retail Basic and unlimited above |
| Congressional trade feed | Yes | Yes — politician trade information on the retail dashboard plans |
| Insider trade feed | Yes | Yes — institutional holders and insider trade data |
| Earnings calendar | Yes — with reminders | Not a headline feature of the retail plans |
| Single score per stock | Pulse Score, 0–100 per ticker | No |
| Mobile app | Yes — iOS and Android | Yes — a mobile app for alerts alongside the web dashboard |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes — limited data on a 15-minute delay |
| Paid price | Pro, $2.99/mo | Retail Basic $50/mo, Retail Pro $75/mo, Retail Max $120/mo billed monthly, as of August 2026 |
The verdict
If you trade options, Unusual Whales is a serious tool and StockPlus is not a substitute for any part of it. If you do not, you would be paying $50 a month upward for a live tape you will not read, in order to reach a congressional dataset that StockPlus includes free. The honest split is what you do at 10am: watch flow, or check what moved.
Unusual Whales details last verified August 10, 2026 from their own site. Pricing and features change — check with them before deciding.
Questions people ask
Is Unusual Whales worth it just for congress trades?
Probably not. Politician trade information is included on the retail dashboard plans, but it is one dataset inside an options-flow platform that starts at $50 a month as of August 2026. If congressional disclosures are the reason you are subscribing, a dedicated tracker or a free source will cost far less. StockPlus carries a congress feed on its free tier.
How much does Unusual Whales cost?
As of August 2026 its pricing page lists three retail dashboard plans billed monthly: Retail Basic at $50, Retail Pro at $75 and Retail Max at $120, with annual billing stated to save up to $360 a year. API access and prediction-market data are sold as separate products. There is a free account with limited, 15-minute delayed data. Check their pricing page for current figures.
Does StockPlus have options flow data?
No, and it is not planned. StockPlus is an equities monitoring app — watchlist, prices, a daily AI briefing, price alerts, and congressional and insider filings. Options flow, dark pool prints and gamma exposure are exactly what Unusual Whales is for.
Which one alerts me faster about a congressional filing?
Neither can beat the filing deadline itself — a disclosure can describe a trade up to 45 days old whoever shows it to you. Unusual Whales has the more powerful alert engine overall, but its politician data is presented as a download rather than as an alert stream. StockPlus pushes a daily digest when a filing touches a ticker on your watchlist: three tickers on the free plan, all of them on Pro.
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