Scanr vs. Deepvue: which stock scanner is right for you?

If you're shopping for a modern stock scanner, two names that come up often are Scanr.ai and Deepvue. They cover similar ground at a glance — real-time scans, charting, watchlists — but the workflows feel quite different once you actually live in them.

This post is a head-to-head from the team that builds Scanr. We've tried to be fair: Deepvue is a solid product, and there are use-cases where it's the right pick. If you find anything inaccurate, email us and we'll fix it.

TL;DR

• Scanr.ai is built around composable, deeply-configurable scans. You can stack technical study modifiers (slope, correlation, crossovers) on any indicator, mix in fundamentals, generate scans from plain-English prompts, and let an automated system re-scan your saved scans in the background so you can see which ones actually perform. Best for traders who want to express precise ideas as filters — and know which of those ideas are working.
• Deepvue is a more mature platform with an established community and a deep catalog of ready-made presets (including CANSLIM, Minervini, Kell and Weinstein screens). It has instant, live-updating results and a native mobile app. Best for traders — especially CANSLIM/O'Neil style — who want a proven, popular tool that works out of the box.

If you want the deepest, most flexible filter logic, AI-assisted scan building, an API/MCP server, and feedback on which of your scans truly perform — try Scanr. If you want a battle-tested platform with a large community and a big library of established presets — Deepvue is a great pick.

Feature comparison

How the scanners actually compare

1. Scan flexibility & filter depth

Both products ship dozens of built-in scans. The real test is what happens when you want something the built-ins don't cover.

In Scanr, every preset is a typed filter payload you can edit, fork, and combine. You can mix technical conditions ("price closing above 50-day EMA for 3 sessions") with fundamental conditions ("free cash flow yield > 5% and net debt/EBITDA < 2") in the same scan. The scanner runs server-side and supports incremental refinement — narrow a 7,000-symbol universe to 20 without page reloads.

Where Scanr really pulls ahead is modifier depth. Most scanners let you filter on an indicator's value. Scanr lets you filter on how that indicator is behaving: apply a slope to RSI to find momentum that's accelerating, correlate a stock's SMA against its sector, or layer crossovers and divergences on top of any study.

You're not limited to "RSI(70)" — you can express "14-day RSI sloping up while price diverges from the 50-day SMA" as a single, reusable filter. That compositional logic extends across chart patterns, supply/demand zones, relative strength, insider (Form 4) activity, and short interest — and the feature set is growing quickly.

In Deepvue, scans are excellent for momentum and price-action setups, and its built-in screens are well-tuned. But combining serious fundamentals with technicals — or stacking modifiers like slope and correlation on arbitrary studies — is more limited. You can filter by some financial fields, but deep, composable filter logic isn't the Deepvue's center of gravity.

2. Knowing which scans actually work

Most scanners stop at "here are the matches." Scanr keeps going. Its automated scan-performance system re-runs your saved scans in the background and tracks how the symbols they surface actually go on to perform — so over time you get win-rate and edge analytics on each scan, plus per-ticker performance breakdowns.

In practice that means you stop guessing which of your setups are pulling their weight. The scan you thought was your best idea might be quietly underperforming a throwaway you forgot about — and Scanr tells you which is which, automatically, without you re-running anything.

We're not aware of a comparable built-in feedback loop in Deepvue. If "which of my scans is actually making money?" is a question you care about, this is a meaningful differentiator.

3. AI scan generation

Scanr lets you describe a setup in plain English and get back a runnable scan. "Show me small-caps breaking out of a multi-week base on rising relative strength with insider buying in the last quarter" becomes a real, editable filter payload you can run, fork, and refine — no need to hand-build every condition. It's the fastest way we know to go from idea to scan, and it's available even on the free tier (with daily limits).

Deepvue has built-in AI too, though today it's aimed at research — quickly summarizing what a company does or its industry context rather than generating scans. Plain-language screeners are on their roadmap. So if building scans conversationally is what you want right now, Scanr is ahead; if you mainly want AI to explain the names you've already found, Deepvue covers that well.

4. Charts

This is a category where Deepvue has invested heavily. It recently shipped its own proprietary charting system, and it's genuinely good — fast re-draws, hot-key driven, deeply customizable (indicators, colors, fundamental views, dashboards). If a rich, do-everything chart is central to your workflow, Deepvue's is more capable than Scanr's, full stop.

Scanr takes a deliberately different stance. We believe a scanner's job is to scan — to surface the right names — not to reinvent the charting wheel. Our charts are clean and focused: multi-timeframe analysis, indicator stacking, and direct annotation of fundamental events (earnings beats, guidance changes, insider activity) on the time axis, with enough depth to make a decision and not so much that you drown in it. Highly complex, infinitely-configurable charts are also highly subjective, and past a point they add noise rather than signal. We'd rather keep the chart out of your way and put our energy into the part that's genuinely hard: the scan.

So if your day revolves around living inside a chart, Deepvue will feel more powerful. If you want to find setups fast and glance at a clean chart to confirm them, Scanr's simplicity is the point, not a limitation.

5. Maturity, presets & community

Credit where it's due: Deepvue is the more mature product. It has been around longer and has a larger, more active community — it advertises 5,000+ active traders and a 4.8★ rating across 200+ reviews — and it shows in the polish and the depth of its preset catalog.

It's also become a genuine home for CANSLIM and O'Neil-style traders, and is one of the strongest modern alternatives to MarketSmith/MarketSurge. It ships large, ready-made screener libraries for named methodologies — CANSLIM, Minervini, Oliver Kell, Weinstein — plus IBD-style rating systems across multiple timeframes and Non-GAAP fundamentals (the EPS definition O'Neil used). If that's your framework, Deepvue lets you drop in and start running proven screens on day one, and its native mobile app means you can do it from your phone.

Scanr is younger and growing quickly. Our preset library and community are expanding fast, but we won't pretend they're as established as Deepvue's today. Our iOS app is now live on the App Store, with Android on the way. Where we focus instead is filter depth and flexibility — and giving you the tools to validate your own edge rather than relying solely on shared presets.

6. Pricing

Deepvue starts at roughly $49/mo for its standard tier; advanced tiers run higher, and it's paid-only (a trial is available, but there's no permanent free plan). Scanr's paid plans start at $39.99/mo, and there's a genuinely free tier that gives you real-time scans plus a generous number of saved presets and daily AI-generated scans.

Pricing is a moving target — see Scanr pricing for the current numbers and feel free to compare directly.

7. API and automation

This is where Scanr leans into something Deepvue doesn't really offer: a public API and an MCP server. Every scan you can build in the UI you can also run from your own code, or from inside an AI client like Claude or Cursor. If you want a daily cron job that pings you when a specific setup fires across the Russell 2000, that's a few lines against the Scanr API.

For traders building their own dashboards or LLM-driven research workflows, this is often the deciding factor. You can see the rate limits, tiers, and the full list of MCP tools on the Scanr API pricing page.

8. Who each one is for

Pick Deepvue if:

• You want a mature, proven platform with a large, active community.
• You trade CANSLIM / O'Neil style and want a modern MarketSmith alternative with ready-made Minervini, Kell, and Weinstein screens.
• You value instant, live-updating results and a native mobile app.
• You want a big library of established presets to start from on day one.

Pick Scanr if:

• You want the deepest, most flexible filter logic — slope, correlation, crossovers and divergences stacked on any indicator.
• You want to combine technicals, fundamentals, chart patterns, supply/demand zones, relative strength, insider and short-interest data in a single scan.
• You want to generate scans from plain-English prompts.
• You want an automated system telling you which of your saved scans actually perform.
• You want an API or MCP integration so your scans show up in your own tools, scripts, or AI clients.
• You want a useful free tier and paid plans from $39.99/mo.

Final word

There is no objective winner here — these are different tools for different jobs. If you tell us what your workflow looks like, we'll honestly tell you whether Scanr is the right fit. And if it isn't, we'll point you somewhere else.

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