Past battle · 2025-05-04 UTC

Research Assistants Showdown — May 4, 2025

From the Research Assistants category. 7 marks placed across 3 fighters. AlphaResearch took the crown.

Final standings

The line-up

The fighters

Profiles of every tool that competed in this battle, ranked by their final score.

1AlphaResearch logo

AlphaResearch

AI search engine for financial filings, transcripts, and market reports.

4.8 (4)
Freemium
AlphaResearch screenshot

AlphaResearch is an AI-powered search platform built for investors, analysts, and researchers who need to extract insights from large volumes of financial documents. It indexes sources such as SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, broker reports, and global company disclosures, making them searchable through natural language queries. The tool uses machine learning to surface relevant passages, trends, and data points across thousands of documents, helping users spot patterns that would take hours to find manually. Results can be filtered by company, sector, time period, or document type to support deeper due diligence and competitive analysis. AlphaResearch is typically used for equity research, thematic investing, market intelligence, and academic finance work, replacing slower keyword-based workflows with contextual AI search.

Criteria breakdown

Ease of use0
Value for money1
Features & power0
Integrations0
Support & docs1
Reliability1
  • AI search across SEC filings and global disclosures
  • Earnings call transcript database
  • Broker and equity research reports
  • Natural language and keyword query support
  • Sector, company, and date filters
  • Export and citation of source documents
2CoinIQ logo

CoinIQ

Advanced portfolio analytics built for serious crypto investors.

4.8 (5)
Freemium
CoinIQ screenshot

CoinIQ is a crypto portfolio analytics platform designed for active traders and long-term investors who need deeper insight than a basic tracker can provide. It consolidates holdings across wallets and exchanges, then layers on performance metrics, risk indicators, and market context to help users make informed decisions. The tool focuses on turning raw transaction data into actionable intelligence, with breakdowns of allocation, profit and loss, and exposure across assets and chains. AI-assisted analysis surfaces trends and anomalies that might otherwise be missed in spreadsheets or simple dashboards. CoinIQ is aimed at users who treat crypto as a real portfolio, offering the kind of analytics typically reserved for traditional finance while staying tailored to the unique structure of digital assets.

Criteria breakdown

Ease of use1
Value for money0
Features & power1
Integrations0
Support & docs0
Reliability0
  • Multi-wallet and exchange portfolio tracking
  • Profit and loss and ROI analytics
  • Asset allocation and exposure breakdowns
  • AI-powered trend and anomaly detection
  • Risk and volatility metrics
  • Historical performance reporting
3Unhosted AI logo

Unhosted AI

AI-powered crypto analytics assistant for smarter, data-driven trading decisions.

4.8 (6)
Freemium
Unhosted AI screenshot

Unhosted AI is a crypto analytics tool that combines on-chain data, market signals, and AI models to help traders make more informed decisions. It surfaces insights about tokens, wallets, and market trends without requiring users to dig through raw blockchain data themselves. The platform is aimed at active traders and crypto enthusiasts who want a faster way to evaluate opportunities, monitor portfolios, and spot patterns across multiple chains. By layering AI on top of analytics, it acts as a research companion that can summarize findings and answer natural-language questions about the market.

Criteria breakdown

Ease of use0
Value for money0
Features & power1
Integrations1
Support & docs0
Reliability0
  • AI-driven market and token analysis
  • On-chain wallet and transaction insights
  • Natural-language crypto research assistant
  • Portfolio monitoring and tracking
  • Trend and signal detection
  • Multi-chain data coverage