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The free tier tests your own portfolios against the market. Premium unlocks the tools that find better ones.

Why $4.99/mo is cheap for better information

Finding even 0.05%/yr more return — a lower-fee fund, better diversification, or tax-smart placement — turns a $100,000 portfolio (growing ~7%/yr) into about $10,744 more over 30 years. That's roughly 6× the $1,796 the subscription costs across those same years. These tools exist to help you find edges like that.

In retirement terms: a portfolio that takes your plan from 88% to 93% is the difference between one retirement in eight running short and one in fourteen. Premium runs your plan on every portfolio you save, on the model portfolios, and on what the Finder turns up — and tells you when the difference is real and when it is noise.

A hypothetical illustration with round numbers, not a projection of your results. Returns are not guaranteed, can be negative, and no tool can promise an edge.

Your plan on every portfolio

The retirement odds you see on your starred portfolio, run on every portfolio you save, the model portfolios and Finder results — and which one lifts them.

Retire earlier without saving more

Eight levers ranked by what each buys — guardrails, timing, Social Security, a part-time bridge — each judged by whether spending held.

Tax & asset location

Which of your funds are tax-hostile, where to hold each across taxable, traditional and Roth, and what that saves a year. Category estimates, precise enough to rank.

The calendar and the tracking

IRA, 401(k), HSA, 529 and self-employed deadlines and limits for the accounts you hold, with reminders — and your plan's odds tracked week by week.

FeatureFreePremium
Your own portfolios, backtested2Unlimited
Compare head-to-head2 at a timeAll at once
Fund leaderboard5 core fundsAll funds & stocks
History on comparisons and the leaderboardLast 10 yearsFull history (1990+)
Retirement odds on a portfolioThe one you starEvery portfolio, the model portfolios, and Finder results
Which portfolio lifts your retirement odds
The Plan page — levers, stress tests, safe-spend and earliest-retirement solvers
Tax & asset location — where to hold each fund across taxable, traditional and Roth
Finder — goal-based portfolio search, stress-tested
Scenario Lab, Diversify builder and Advanced grid search
Own the stocks — a diversified basket of the index's names
Glidepaths — a portfolio whose mix shifts as you age
Contribution calendar — IRA, 401(k), HSA, 529 and self-employed deadlines, with remindersNext deadlineEvery account, the checklist, and the emails
Plan tracking — your retirement odds week by week
Portfolio performance — year to date, 12 months, since you added it12 months and YTDEvery window, each against the S&P
Sleeve isolation — how much each holding really drives the result
Fund menus — paste your 401(k), 403(b) or HSA lineup and rank what you can actually buy
Weekly reportWhere you placedFull numbers, gaps to close, drift, plan odds
Rebalance watchdog on every card
Price$0$4.99/mo

If you cancel, your portfolios stay — the free tier keeps two of them and their retirement odds.