Acutic vs Koyfin — data depth meets research workflow

Acutic vs Koyfin — feature comparison

Pricing reflects publicly listed Koyfin tiers as of 2026-05. Acutic figures reflect early-access state.

Where Koyfin leads

Let us be candid. Koyfin is a serious piece of software. The team has spent close to a decade building what amounts to a Bloomberg Terminal for retail investors at roughly 1.7% of the Bloomberg price. If your day-to-day need is data exploration, Koyfin is difficult to top.

Institutional-grade data breadth

Koyfin covers 90,000+ global securities across equities, mutual funds, ETFs, FX, commodities, and rates. It exposes 600+ financial metrics and over 500 screener criteria. That is data breadth a single founder shop simply cannot replicate. For a European investor researching a small-cap on the German Xetra, or a US analyst pulling a yield-curve chart and a commodities composite into the same dashboard, Koyfin is in a different weight class from most retail tools.

Macro dashboards and the cross-asset picture

Koyfin is one of the very few retail platforms where you can see a real cross-asset picture in a single view: equity indices, treasury yields, credit spreads, dollar index, gold, oil, and the economic calendar all on one screen. For investors who think top-down, that is genuinely valuable. Acutic does not provide this and has no near-term plans to. Macro is intentionally out of scope.

Customizable dashboards and Excel-like flexibility

Koyfin's power-user surface — custom dashboards, saved layouts, data exports — rewards the kind of analyst who builds their own research view of the world. Once you have invested an hour or two configuring Koyfin to your style, it becomes very fast to pull a price-to-book vs return-on-equity scatter for a sector, drop in a custom composite, and spot the names that look interesting on first pass. That is hard to beat as a starting point for an idea.

Charting depth

Koyfin's charting is professional-grade — multi-pane, multi-timeframe, technical overlays, comparison overlays, drawing tools. Acutic shows charts as context for a thesis, not as the centerpiece. If charting is the centerpiece of your process, Koyfin will serve you better than Acutic ever will.

Where Acutic leads

Acutic is built around a simple observation. Once an investor has the data, the next three problems are not data problems. They are: turning the data into a written thesis, recording that thesis in a way you can audit later, and evaluating — months afterwards — whether the reasoning was sound or whether the right outcome came from the wrong process. Koyfin does not address those three problems. Acutic is structured around them.

Multi-agent AI synthesis

When you research a candidate in Acutic, five specialised AI agents run on the same name in parallel: a quality analyst, a technical setup analyst, a fundamentals analyst, a news and sentiment analyst, and a risk reviewer. Each writes a structured short report with explicit reasoning, citations to the underlying data, and a confidence note. The outputs are presented side by side. The product never collapses them into a single verdict — that is your job. The methodology page documents how each agent is prompted and how its output is validated.

A real decision journal, not a notes app

Every position you open in Acutic gets a journal entry. The entry is not a free-form text box. It captures: the candidate's scoring snapshot at decision time, the written thesis (why you opened the position), the rule snapshot (which of your own portfolio rules applied), and a structured tag set for later evaluation. Months later, when the position closes, the journal entry is what the evaluation engine reads. This is how Acutic separates good process from good luck.

Process evaluation, not P&L scoring

When a position closes, Acutic does not just compute the return. It runs a 5-window evaluation that asks: was the original thesis written clearly? Did the reasoning match the data available at the time? Were any of your own rules violated during the holding period? Is the closure for a thesis-related reason or for an unrelated one? The grade Acutic produces is on your reasoning quality, not on the chart. A profitable trade with broken reasoning is graded down. A trade that lost money but stayed faithful to a clearly-written thesis is graded fairly. This kind of feedback loop is what most retail tooling lacks.

Rule-based portfolio monitoring

You define your own portfolio rules in Acutic — single-name concentration cap, sector cap, drawdown limit, position-age limit. The portfolio monitoring layer flags rule violations as factual notifications: "Position 7.2% — exceeds your 5% rule." The product never tells you what action to take. It surfaces the observation; the action is yours. That is a deliberate design choice that maps onto how Acutic positions itself legally — research and analysis, not advice. You can read more on how this differs from content-driven research platforms like Seeking Alpha.

Research, not signals

Acutic's tagline is "Research, not signals." That distinction is the core difference between Acutic and almost every other AI investment tool. Acutic does not claim to spot the next breakout. It does not produce a list of names to act on. It produces structured analysis that a thinking human reads, decides on, journals, and later evaluates. Koyfin and Acutic share that respect for the human-in-the-loop — both products treat the user as a peer, not a punter — but they sit at different points in the workflow.

Who picks which — or both

Because the two products live at different points in the investing job, the honest answer for most serious investors is "both, in different weeks of the month." That said, here is how to think about it if budget or time forces a choice.

A note on positioning

Acutic does not present itself as the next Bloomberg Terminal, and it should not be read as one. Koyfin already occupies that space well at retail prices. Acutic is the discipline layer on top of whatever data stack you already use. If your data stack is Koyfin, Acutic plugs into it cleanly — Koyfin tells you what the world looks like; Acutic helps you record what you decided to do about it and grade your own work later.

That is the framing. Research, not signals. Process, not picks.