MarketPing vs ScoutQuest
ScoutQuest (FundsMap) sends "ChatGPT-powered" WhatsApp updates for the stocks you track. It says it scans more than a million sources a day — corporate filings, news articles, social posts and analyst reports — across 5,000+ listed companies, ranks what it finds by importance, and delivers summaries within minutes of publication. It is free to start, with paid upgrades (verified 16 Sep 2026).
MarketPing takes the narrower, checkable route: every alert is an official NSE or BSE filing, so the source of each message is the exchange itself. Each alert carries an importance score and the stock's measured price reaction after similar filings, and sits inside a research platform — screener, 10 years of financials, IPO tracker, Nexa AI and an official MCP server. ScoutQuest's public site shows none of those.
Choose ScoutQuest if you want news and social chatter folded into one WhatsApp feed. Choose MarketPing if you want alerts you can trace to the exchange filing, with the market's past reaction attached.
At a glance
| Capability | MarketPing | ScoutQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time filing alerts on WhatsApp | ✓Every NSE & BSE filing for your companies, delivered on WhatsApp within minutes of the exchange publishing it — on every plan, including free (the free plan's WhatsApp allowance is 30 messages a month). | ✓WhatsApp updates for tracked stocks, drawn from filings, news, social posts and analyst reports, "within minutes of publication" (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| AI summary on every announcement | ✓Every alert carries an AI summary in plain English plus an importance score, so you read the two lines that matter instead of the 40-page PDF. | ✓"Complex filings and reports distilled into clear, actionable summaries" (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Importance scoring / noise filtering | ✓Importance scoring on every announcement + AI category and signal tags — routine reg-30 noise is separated from market-moving news. | ◐Says its AI ranks updates by importance and filters out "99% of the noise"; no score is shown on its public pages (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Price-reaction history on announcements | ✓Built-in price-reaction history: how the stock actually moved after past announcements, across 14 horizons from 5 minutes to 3 months. | ✗Not offered on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Earnings-call analysis | ✓AI earnings-call analysis per company: tone trajectory across quarters, guidance tracking, and a said-vs-did comparison against reported numbers. | ✗No dedicated concall analysis on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Custom-formula stock screening | ✓108 metrics, two authoring modes — a visual ALL/ANY builder and a free-text formula language with cross-field arithmetic (e.g. ttm_net_profit / ttm_revenue * 100 > 12) — plus saveable custom metrics and an alerts screener that screens announcements themselves. | ✗No screener on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Financial history depth | ◐10 years of financials (2016–2026) across 5,000+ NSE & BSE companies, quarterly and annual. | ✗No financials database on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Peer comparison | ✓Peer comparison on the company page across fundamentals and valuation. | ✗Not offered on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Macro & market context | ✓Results calendar, economic calendar, NSDL FPI flows and a daily AI market briefing built in. | ✗No macro, FPI-flow or calendar surface on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| IPO tracking & alerts | ✓IPO tracker: 1,150+ mainboard & SME issues since 2020 with live QIB/NII/retail subscription, after-listing performance, bankers ranked by outcome, and AI prospectus read-outs (page-cited risks, fresh-vs-OFS, implied P/E). Free WhatsApp IPO alerts + daily digest on every plan. Deliberately no GMP, no apply/avoid calls. | ✗No IPO tracker on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Stock discovery (catalyst & theme lists) | ✓Discover at marketping.in/discover: 18 catalyst buckets computed from AI-classified filings — contract wins, guidance raised, capacity expansion, promoter buying, demergers & amalgamations, pledges released, CEO & CFO exits, deleveraging, red flags — where every entry is dated, linked to the trigger filing, and carries the stock's measured reaction after it (1 day / 1 week / 1 month), over rolling 90-day windows with mirror views (guidance raised ⇄ guidance cut). Plus evidence-tiered theme lists (AI, EV, defence, data centers…): membership is tiered core / growing / announced / mention-only, each backed by a page-cited quote from the company's own annual report. Deliberately no analyst ratings, no verdict labels. | ✗Not offered on its public site (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| AI research assistant (grounded chat) | ✓Nexa AI at marketping.in/nexa: ask anything about Indian listed companies, answered ONLY from MarketPing's own warehouse — 30,000+ documents / 2.2 million+ pages of annual reports, concall transcripts and investor decks back ~10 years, plus fundamentals and measured price reactions. Every document claim carries a page citation the server VERIFIES against the filing text before you see it; every figure is machine-checked against the warehouse; buy/sell questions are refused by design. Flat monthly allowances, not credits: free sample questions for visitors, 10/month on the free account, 100/month on Investor, 300/month on Trader. | ✗No ask-anything research assistant advertised (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| AI assistant connection (MCP server) | ✓An official remote MCP server at mcp.marketping.in/mcp: connect MarketPing to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, Grok, VS Code or any MCP client by pasting one URL — no API key, no signup, no broker account. 20 read-only tools give the assistant corporate announcements with their measured price reaction, page-indexed annual reports and concall transcripts it can quote with citations, the 108-metric screener, the no-GMP IPO tracker, the daily-rebuilt Stacks, FPI flows and calendars. Free, with generous daily limits. | ✗No MCP server advertised (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Stacks (combine screens, indices and lists) | ✓Stacks at marketping.in/stacks (Trader plan, ₹599/mo): combine any lists MarketPing can make — saved screens (including ones pasted from Screener.in), a hundred built-in screens, an index, a Discover catalyst bucket or theme, companies that announced a given filing in the last N days, your watchlist, broker-imported holdings, even another stack — under ONE rule: how many layers a company must clear today (a layer can also be must-be-in or must-not-be-in). Rebuilt every morning with a daily record of what entered, left, climbed or slipped, and WhatsApp when a stack's members change or a member files. 6 curated stacks are public to browse without a plan. Membership is a fact about screens cleared — never a rating. | ✗No screener, so nothing to combine (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
| Free tier | ✓Free forever for 5 companies — real-time WhatsApp alerts with AI summaries, up to 30 WhatsApp messages a month. | ◐"Free to start" with paid upgrades; paid prices are not published on its public pages (verified 16 Sep 2026). |
Competitor capabilities and pricing verified from their public websites and documentation on 25 July – 6 September 2026 (the MCP-server row was checked on 31 August 2026, the Stacks row on 6 September 2026; the myAlerts.in, FinQ India, ScoutQuest, Wegro and Bullify pages were checked on 16 September 2026); they may change. MarketPing figures are from live product data on the same dates.
What goes into the feed
ScoutQuest's pitch is breadth: it reads filings alongside news articles, social posts and analyst reports, and lets its AI decide what reaches you. That catches stories that never become filings — but it also means a message can originate from a tweet or a third-party report rather than the company.
MarketPing alerts on what the company itself tells the exchange. Every message links back to the NSE or BSE filing, so you can check the source in one tap before acting on it.
Importance you can see
Both products rank what matters. On MarketPing the ranking is visible: each alert carries an importance level and signal tags (order win, guidance raised, auditor resignation and so on), and you set which levels reach WhatsApp. Each alert also shows how the stock moved after similar filings across 14 horizons — a layer ScoutQuest's public site does not describe.
Beyond the alert
MarketPing is also a research platform: company pages with 10 years of financials and peer comparison, a 108-metric screener, catalyst lists with filing evidence, an IPO tracker without GMP, Nexa AI with page-verified citations, and an official MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. ScoutQuest is a WhatsApp feed and does not present itself as more than that.
Pricing compared
| MarketPing | ScoutQuest | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free: 5 companies, real-time WhatsApp alerts + AI summaries (up to 30 WhatsApp messages/month) | Free tier to start |
| Paid plan | Investor ₹199/mo (₹1,910/yr) · 30 companies. Trader ₹599/mo (₹5,750/yr) · 100 companies | Upgrade tiers mentioned; prices not published on its public pages (16 Sep 2026) |
| Alert source | Official NSE & BSE filings | Filings plus news, social posts and analyst reports |
Frequently asked questions
What does ScoutQuest send on WhatsApp?
AI-filtered updates for the stocks you track, drawn from corporate filings, news articles, social posts and analyst reports, summarised and delivered within minutes of publication (per its site, 16 Sep 2026). MarketPing sends official NSE and BSE filings only, each with an AI summary, importance score and price-reaction history.
Is ScoutQuest free?
It is free to start, with paid upgrades whose prices are not published on its public pages (checked 16 Sep 2026). MarketPing is free forever for 5 companies and publishes its paid plans on marketping.in/pricing.
Does ScoutQuest show price reactions to announcements?
Not on its public site (checked 16 Sep 2026). MarketPing shows how the stock moved after each announcement across 14 horizons and aggregates reactions by announcement type in the Reaction Lab.
Why alert only on exchange filings?
Because the source is verifiable. A filing is the company's own statement to the exchange; news and social posts can be wrong or late. MarketPing links every alert to its NSE or BSE filing so you can check it before acting.
Can I use ScoutQuest and MarketPing together?
Yes. ScoutQuest for a broad news-and-social feed, MarketPing for filing alerts with evidence and research. MarketPing's free plan covers 5 companies.
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MarketPing watches every NSE & BSE filing in real time — results, dividends, buybacks, order wins — AI-summarised with likely price impact and delivered to your WhatsApp within minutes.
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