FinRobot vs TradingAgents
FinRobot (AI4Finance Foundation) and TradingAgents (Tauric Research) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
TradingAgents has 13.5x the GitHub stars of FinRobot (110K against 8,145). TradingAgents shipped 5 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | FinRobot | TradingAgents |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 9 | 36 |
| Overall rank | #212 | #100 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 291 | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 39.2% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 51.9% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 8,145 | 110K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 1 |
| Latest stable release | 0.1.0 · 3mo ago | 0.6.0 · 3d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | 5 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| First released | 2024 | — |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
Trends
FinRobot
An open-source platform that combines model agents with quantitative tools for financial analysis, including a multi-agent equity research system in which valuation numbers are computed in code.
Pricing: Free and open source; users supply their own model and data API keys.
Latest release 0.1.0:
- First public release of FinRobot Desktop — an open-source desktop research & valuation cockpit for financial analysts (macOS, Apple Silicon). Traceable DCF / LBO / comparable-company valuation…
- Install: download FinRobot0.1.0aarch64.dmg below and drag FinRobot into Applications.
- First launch: the app is not yet Apple-notarized, so macOS will report the downloaded app as "damaged". Copy and paste the following command into Terminal, then open FinRobot again
- xattr -cr /Applications/FinRobot.app
TradingAgents
A research framework in which several model agents act as analysts, researchers, a trader and risk managers and debate a market analysis; the project states it is for research only and not financial advice.
Pricing: Free and open source; users supply their own model and market-data API keys.
Latest release 0.6.0:
- HTML report. A saved report also includes completereport.html, the report as one page with its sections listed beside the text, that reads well in a browser, on a phone and in print. Answering the…
- A provider per model tier. The quick and deep models can run on different providers, for example the managers on Claude while the analysts run on OpenAI: set deepthinkprovider or…
- Past decisions settle alongside the analysts. While a run's analysts work, every logged decision whose holding period has passed is settled, for any ticker, not only the one being analyzed. If…
- Crypto on Reddit. For a crypto ticker the Sentiment Analyst reads r/CryptoCurrency and r/CryptoMarkets, plus r/Bitcoin, r/ethereum or r/solana for those coins, instead of the stock subreddits.