Which stock screener is free to use in India in 2026?

Quick Answer: Several stock screeners in India have a free tier with limits. Multibagg AI's Standard plan is listed as free, with basic screeners and 3 custom screens, and its screener page advertises over 200 filters (as of 18 Sep 2026). Screener.in, TradingView, Tickertape, Chartink and Trendlyne also run screeners; check each one's own plan page.

Stock screeners run a set of conditions, such as return on capital employed above 15% or debt-to-equity below 1, across listed companies and return the ones that match. On Multibagg AI, the free and paid plans run the same kind of screen but differ in how many screens you can save, how much history you can see and whether you can export (pricing page, 18 Sep 2026).

Plan figures below are dated and come from the platform's own pages, while market figures come from NSE and SEBI.

Which screener plan does Multibagg AI offer free?

Multibagg AI's screener is free on its Standard plan, which the pricing page lists as "FREE" with basic screeners and discovery tools (as of 18 Sep 2026). The same page's FAQ describes the Standard (Free) plan as covering limited AI prompts, charts, screeners and market data, with paid plans adding deeper analytics and more historical data.

Other names that come up when investors in India look for a free screener include Screener.in, TradingView, Tickertape, Chartink and Trendlyne. Each publishes its own plan terms, and those terms can change, so the only reliable check is the platform's own plan page, read on the day you sign up.

"Free" rarely means unlimited. On Multibagg's pricing page, the free and paid columns differ on saved custom screens, quarters of financial documents, filings history, data export and the number of questions you can put to Ask Iris, the platform's AI assistant. Basic screener access sits in the free column.

To test any free tier in practice, build the screen you intend to run, save it and reopen it the next day. If it reruns and shows the columns you need, the free plan covers that use.

What do free stock screeners in India include in 2026?

In 2026, Multibagg's free Standard plan includes basic screeners, 3 custom screens, 10 years of financial data and 20 monthly Ask Iris questions (as of 18 Sep 2026). The screener page says you can "create your own screen with over 200+ filters", and its description names P/E, ROE, market cap, dividend yield, volume and price action among them.

Screening on Multibagg is split into six builders: stocks, ETFs, indices, IPOs, mutual funds and NFOs (as of 2 October 2026). Its prebuilt screens show the kind of conditions a free user can inspect before writing their own, for example:

• ROCE (trailing twelve months) of at least 15%, alongside P/E between 0 and 25
• Debt-to-equity of 1 or less
• Price near the 52-week high, with market cap of at least ₹10,000 crore
• A change in FII or DII shareholding of at least 0.5% or 1%

Company size is a common starting filter with its own method; our guide to screening stocks by market capitalisation covers the large, mid and small cap cut-offs.

Once a screen returns names, you move to the company page. Multibagg keeps a directory of listed stocks with share prices, fundamentals, charts and filings, which is where a screened name gets checked line by line.

Where do free plans stop and paid plans start?

The free plan on Multibagg stops at 3 custom screens, 5 quarters of financial documents and no data export (as of 18 Sep 2026). The screener itself is free on every plan; what a paid tier gives you is room for many more custom smart screens (10 on Premium, 500 on Professional), along with longer document history and export.

Multibagg AI plan limits, from the platform's own pricing page, as of 18 Sep 2026 (first-party figures; paid prices are promotional and vary by offer)

Three custom screens will cover a few standing ideas, say a low-debt screen and a dividend screen, but not one screen per sector.

History depth is easy to underrate. A filter like "5-year ROE of at least 15%" needs five years of data behind it. Tracing how debt has moved over a decade, as in our look at balance-sheet trends across Indian stocks, needs filings that go back that far.

Export is the other common line. Only the Professional column on Multibagg carries a tick for data export, so moving a screen's results into a spreadsheet is a paid step there.

Can a free screener send alerts?

A screener alert re-runs a saved condition as data updates and notifies you when a stock enters or leaves the result. On Multibagg, WhatsApp alerts are free: the pricing page's comparison table shows them in the Standard column as well as in both paid plans (as of 18 Sep 2026). Alerts also has its own entry in Multibagg's main navigation, next to Portfolio and Ask Iris.

So alerts are not behind the paywall. Upgrading adds more custom screens and a larger watchlist, not the WhatsApp alerts themselves.

Timing limits any alert as well. Multibagg's site notes that prices might be delayed by a few minutes, so a price-based alert reflects data that can trail the exchange feed. Alerts built on quarterly results or shareholding changes can only fire once the company has filed the new data.

Watchlists are the simpler alternative. The free Standard plan tracks up to 25 companies, so you can follow the names a screen turned up without keeping the screen itself live.

How much does a stock screener cost in India?

Screeners in India run from free plans to paid annual subscriptions; Multibagg's Standard plan is free, with Premium and Professional sold as annual plans (18 September 2026). Both paid plans sit under a "Save 40% today" promotional banner on the pricing page, and the price shown can vary by offer, so check the page before you subscribe.

Enterprise, a fourth plan with API access and team management, is named on the same page but carries no price. Other platforms price their screeners on their own terms, so compare the feature you need, not the headline number.

What a subscription pays for is data and tooling: more saved screens, longer history and export. Advice isn't part of it. Investment advice in India is a regulated activity, and SEBI keeps a public register of investment advisers that listed 1,043 records as on 17 Sep 2026.

Screens narrow a list, and judging a company on one is a separate job. SEBI's own securities market module for investors covers the basics of investing in shares and the do's and don'ts, and a single company's valuation, dividend yield and 52-week range shows what sits behind one screened name.

Does a free stock screener cover every NSE stock?

A free screener covers every NSE stock only if its data feed carries them all. As of 17 Sep 2026, NSE's list of equity securities available for trading held 2,578 main-board entries by our count, 2,302 of them in the EQ series.

Small and medium enterprises sit on a separate NSE list, "Securities available for trading in SME", which held 572 entries by our count as of 18 Sep 2026. Before reading an empty result as "no match", check whether a screener's universe includes that list.

To see which filters the free tier covers before paying for anything, open Multibagg's screener, build one screen with the three or four conditions you care about, and save it to your account.

Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purposes only. Multibagg AI is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst, and it does not provide investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold or invest in any security. Market data is shown as of the dates stated and may have changed since. Please consult a SEBI-registered adviser before making any investment decision.