Koyfin is a superb data-and-dashboards tool for research. If what you need is the real-time news reflex — market-moving headlines classified by impact, a squawk box and an economic calendar — Trading News Terminal is the news-first companion (or alternative), free on Basic or €40/month on Pro.
Basic plan always free (5-min delay, no credit card) · Pro zero-delay at €40/month
Koyfin is data-first; Trading News Terminal is news-first. If you want the real-time news reflex — market-moving headlines classified by impact, a squawk box and an economic calendar — TNT is the companion or alternative, free on Basic or €40/month on Pro. Koyfin stays the stronger tool for research, dashboards and fundamentals. Many traders run both.
Koyfin wins on data and research; TNT wins on the real-time news reflex. They complement each other.
| Feature | Koyfin | Trading News Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time breaking news + squawk | Aggregated in dashboards | ✓ Yes, squawk + zero delay (Pro) |
| AI impact classification | ✗ No | ✓ HIGH/MED/LOW on every headline |
| Economic calendar (beat/miss) | Macro data | ✓ Yes, with countdown |
| Central bank tracker | Macro charts | ✓ 8-bank tracker |
| Fundamentals, screeners, dashboards | ✓ Excellent | Lighter (markets screener) |
| Data visualization / research depth | ✓ Strong | News-focused |
| Free plan | ✓ Yes (data) | ✓ Yes (5-min news delay) |
| Price | Free–~$99/mo (reported) | Free · Pro €40/month |
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Research depth: fundamentals, screeners, macro dashboards and watchlists in one clean data tool. If your day is analysis and research, Koyfin is excellent and has a free tier.
The live-news layer Koyfin doesn't center on: impact-classified breaking headlines, an audio squawk box, an economic calendar with beat/miss, a central bank tracker and Telegram alerts — for acting on events in real time.
Need to act on market-moving news in real time — impact-classified headlines, a squawk box and an economic calendar — whether alongside Koyfin or instead of it.
Mainly need fundamentals, screeners and macro research dashboards — that is Koyfin's strength (and it has a free tier).
Koyfin is excellent for data, dashboards, screeners, fundamentals and macro — it is a research tool. If your priority is real-time market-moving news, a good alternative (or companion) is Trading News Terminal (TNT): real-time news with HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW impact classification, an audio squawk box, a live economic calendar and a central bank tracker. TNT is free on Basic (5-minute delay) or €40/month on Pro (zero delay). Many traders use Koyfin for research and TNT for the live news reflex.
They are built for different jobs. Koyfin is data-first: charts of fundamentals, screeners, macro dashboards and watchlists for research. TNT is news-first: fast, impact-classified, tagged breaking news with a squawk box and an economic calendar for acting on events as they happen. They complement each other more than they compete.
Koyfin aggregates news within its dashboards but is not built around a real-time breaking-news squawk. Trading News Terminal includes an audio squawk box that reads headlines aloud, zero-delay news on Pro, impact classification and Telegram alerts — the live-news layer, rather than a research dashboard.
Trading News Terminal's Basic plan is free: the real-time news feed on a 5-minute delay, AI impact classification, the economic calendar, central bank tracker and charts. Koyfin also has a free tier for data. If you want free real-time-ish news plus a calendar, TNT Basic covers it; Pro at €40/month adds the squawk and zero-delay feed.
Yes, and many traders do. Koyfin handles research — fundamentals, screeners, macro dashboards — while Trading News Terminal handles the live news reflex: impact-classified breaking headlines, a squawk box and an economic calendar. Running both covers research and real-time news without paying institutional prices.