Why the Nifty 50 is free and the rest is paid

No better signals behind the paywall. The paid tier is the same measurements applied to more stocks.

StockLearn's stock scanner is free for the Nifty 50 and paid beyond it. The mutual fund screener is entirely free. Those aren't arbitrary lines, and since the boundary is the first thing most visitors run into, it's worth explaining what sits on each side and why.

What's free

• The full mutual fund screener — roughly 1,760 direct-plan funds with returns, risk metrics, rolling returns, category comparison and per-fund pages.
• The Nifty 50 subset of the stock scanner, with the same measures the paid tier gets.
• Price and chart history for those Nifty 50 stocks.
• Every guide on this site, including all the research.

No login is required for any of it.

What's paid

The rest of the stock universe — roughly 1,900 NSE symbols beyond the Nifty 50 — plus their chart history and the dashboard views built on the wider set.

Note what the boundary is not. There are no better signals behind the paywall, no additional indicators, no priority data. The paid tier is the same measurements applied to more stocks. A Nifty 50 stock on the free tier gets exactly what a smallcap gets on the paid one.

Why the line sits there

The honest answer is data volume and the cost of serving it.

Each stock carries its own price history file. Fifty of those is a trivial amount of storage and bandwidth. Nineteen hundred is not — and because a scanner is browsed rather than queried once, serving costs scale with how many people look at how many stocks.

The mutual fund side is free because AMFI publishes NAV data at no cost and the whole universe is small enough to serve cheaply. There's no principled reason to charge for it, so we don't.

Why not advertising instead?

We've pursued that too, and at the time of writing the site is not approved to display ads. Even if it were, advertising at our traffic level would fund a small fraction of the data and infrastructure cost. It was never going to replace the subscription.

There's also a conflict worth naming. Ad revenue scales with page views, which creates pressure to generate more pages and more reasons to click. Subscription revenue scales with the tool being useful enough to keep paying for. The second incentive is better aligned with what we want to build.

How index membership affects your tier

Because the free boundary is the Nifty 50, and index membership changes, a stock can move across the boundary at a review. A company added to the index becomes free from the effective date; one removed moves to the paid side.

We handle that with effective-dated membership rather than retroactively, so the transition happens on the announced date instead of silently rewriting what was available before.

What the money actually pays for

Data acquisition and storage, the daily pipeline that downloads and processes end-of-day files, content delivery, and the time to maintain all of it. There is no marketing spend, no sales team, and no external funding.

That's a small operation, and it constrains what we can promise — which is part of why the scope is deliberately narrow and why we're explicit about what the product doesn't do.

This page describes how StockLearn's free and paid tiers are structured. It is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.