ConvexValue vs Unusual Whales,side by side.
Unusual Whales suits traders who want a broad market feed on the web and on a phone: options flow, dark pool, news and alerts, with a free delayed account and an API sold separately. ConvexValue suits traders who work at a desk and want live options analytics side by side in a desktop app: every option trade with its aggressor side, volatility modules and SPX hedging views, in dashboards built from commands.
Side by side
The same ten rowsfor both products.
| What | ConvexValue | Unusual Whales |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ConvexValue$99.99/month, cancel any time. Or $949 a year. One membership, every module included. | Unusual WhalesA free account, then three paid plans: Retail Basic at $50 a month or $504 a year, Retail Pro at $75 a month or $756 a year, Retail Max at $120 a month or $1,224 a year.[1] |
| Platform | ConvexValueA desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Any single module also opens in a browser. No mobile app. | Unusual WhalesA website and a mobile app.[1] |
| Live data | ConvexValueLive in the Terminal: every OPRA option trade, classified by aggressor side, for 5,000+ stocks. | Unusual WhalesReal-time on every paid plan. A free account sees options flow 2 trading days late, news 15 minutes late and alerts 30 minutes late.[1] |
| What is free | ConvexValueTwo kinds of public page: the daily end-of-day lists of call and put buying at /hot-stocks, and a history page for each listed or most-traded stock at /stock. | Unusual WhalesA free account: the whole platform on delayed data, with watchlists and saved contracts and filters.[1] |
| Options flow | ConvexValueTime and sales of every option trade with its aggressor side (tas), a live stock scanner with 100+ options-based parameters (flow), intraday buying and selling as a chart (flowchart) and an options scanner (opt). | Unusual WhalesA real-time options flow feed, described as the full tape with 100% market coverage, with unusual activity indicators and filters. Also a stock and options screener, dark pool data and news.[1] |
| Volatility tools | ConvexValueIV term structure with historical watermarks (terms), skew term structure (skew), parameters by expiration (olay), a fixed-strike volatility heatmap (grid) and implied probabilities (ip). | Unusual Whales“Greeks and volatility dashboards” are listed on every paid plan. The pricing page does not describe them further.[1] |
| SPX hedging and exposure | ConvexValueHedging views for SPX only: an intraday hedging map (map) and a 30-day surface of estimated dealer delta and gamma (dx). For other symbols, option levels by strike: open interest, gamma, vanna and charm (stks). | Unusual WhalesA real-time GEX heatmap for all US tickers, and SPX market maker exposure updated every 10 minutes (every minute on Retail Max).[1] |
| Dashboards | ConvexValueSplit the window into panes, one module per pane, each set by a typed command or its control panel. Keep each dashboard in a tab; save and share workspaces. | Unusual WhalesCustom dashboards: 5 on Retail Basic, unlimited on Retail Pro and Retail Max.[1] |
| Alerts | ConvexValueNo alerts. | Unusual WhalesCustom alerts on the website, in the mobile app and by push notification: 25 on Retail Basic, unlimited on Retail Pro and Retail Max.[1] |
| API | ConvexValueThe docs describe a scaffold tool for building your own app on ConvexValue data, and no separate data API. | Unusual WhalesSold separately from the dashboard: API Basic at $150 a month (40,000 requests a day) and API Advanced at $375 a month, over REST, WebSocket or MCP. API plans do not include the website or the mobile app.[2] |
A number in brackets leads to the source of a statement, in the list below.
Which one fits
Two different tools.Pick by how you work.
Where Unusual Whales is the better fit
- You want to look before you pay: a free account shows the whole platform on delayed data.[1]
- You want a lower monthly price: its paid plans start at $50 a month.[1]
- You want a phone app and alerts: it has a mobile app, and custom alerts that arrive by push notification.[1]
- You want gamma exposure for single stocks: its GEX heatmap covers all US tickers, where ConvexValue’s hedging views are for SPX only.[1]
- You want data beyond options: dark pool, news, politician trades, institutional holders and insider trades are on its plans.[1]
- You want to write your own code against the data: it sells an API with REST, WebSocket and MCP access.[2]
Where ConvexValue is the better fit
- You work at a desk with several views open: the Terminal is a desktop app where modules sit side by side in split panes, each set by a command, and a dashboard is kept in a tab.
- You want to read the tape yourself: time and sales shows every option trade with its aggressor side, and the flow scanner ranks 5,000+ stocks by 100+ options-based parameters.
- You look at volatility before you trade: term structure with historical watermarks, skew, a fixed-strike grid and implied probabilities are each a module.
- You want one plan: every module is in the one membership, with no tiers to choose between.
Free to look at
See the data first.No account needed.
Two kinds of page on this site are public. The daily lists show where call and put buying was high at the end of the day, compared with each stock’s own recent normal. Each stock that has been on a list has a page with its history.
Sources
Where this comes from,and when we looked.
- [1]Unusual Whales: Plans & Pricing (Dashboard & Tools plans). unusualwhales.com/pricing. Checked .
- [2]Unusual Whales: Plans & Pricing (API plans). unusualwhales.com/pricing?product=api. Checked .
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The Terminal
The ConvexValue Terminal.Every module included.
Live options analytics in dashboards you build, for 5,000+ stocks.
$99.99/month
Get the TerminalCancel any time. Or $949 a year.