Quantral vs LunarCrush: track records or social momentum

LunarCrush and Quantral both read the social conversation about a stock and turn it into a score. They measure different things. LunarCrush measures how much attention an asset is getting across general social media and news, for stocks, crypto and dozens of other topics. Quantral reads finance sources only and asks whether the people posting have been right before.

Which is better, Quantral or LunarCrush?

It depends on what you need the chatter for. Quantral is best for checking whether the accounts behind the chatter have been right. LunarCrush is best for measuring social momentum across many assets, including crypto. Pick Quantral for investment ideas on individual stocks: it weighs posts from finance X, Reddit, Substack and YouTube finance shows by each poster's track record, and adds Congress trades and insider buys. Pick LunarCrush to track attention on stocks and crypto across X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and news, or to feed that data into your own tools.

For both next to the rest of the field, see social sentiment analysis tools compared.

At a glance

Prices and features as of October 28, 2026.

The core difference: reach or record

LunarCrush measures reach. It reads general social media and news, filters out spam and bots, and reports how much people talk about an asset, how they engage with it and which way the mood leans. Its sentiment figure weights posts by engagement, so a post that draws a big reaction counts for more. The Galaxy Score then blends that social picture with market momentum into one number from 0 to 100. Stocks are one category among many: crypto, sports, brands and culture sit on the same dashboard.

Quantral measures record. It reads finance sources, and each account it tracks carries a graded track record. Quantral grades every call it tracks, losers included, and weights the score by the posters' track records. A burst of posts from unproven accounts barely moves a stock's 0-100 score. A handful from accounts with a good record moves it a lot.

The two scores answer different questions. A high Galaxy Score says an asset is drawing strong attention and engagement right now. A high Quantral score says the accounts with the best records lean bullish on that stock today. Neither score predicts the price, and as volume vs signal explains, attention and credibility are separate facts.

Feature by feature

Sources

The two read different sets of sources. Both read X, Reddit and YouTube. LunarCrush covers general social media and news: X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and news sites, for every topic it tracks. That gives it TikTok and Instagram, which Quantral does not read.

Quantral covers curated finance sources: finance X, Reddit, Substack, finance shows on YouTube, selected South Korean investing blogs on Naver and Korean broker research on Telegram. Substack, Naver and Telegram broker research are sources LunarCrush does not list. Quantral also tracks the stock trades members of Congress disclose and open-market buys by company insiders. The full list is on Quantral's sources page.

What the score measures

LunarCrush's Galaxy Score combines social activity, sentiment and market momentum, and a reading above 50 is above average. AltRank ranks every asset by combined social and market momentum, where 1 is the strongest. Around those sit social volume, mentions, engagements, contributors, social dominance and an engagement-weighted sentiment percentage. If you want the shape of the attention, LunarCrush gives you more ways to measure it.

Quantral's score is one number per company, built from the direction of each post and the record of the account behind it. Next to the score you see the bull and bear split, the posts behind it and each poster's graded calls. The Quantral app reads social sources in real time; Congress and insider data arrive as filed.

Stocks and crypto

LunarCrush covers crypto and stocks side by side, plus topic categories that have nothing to do with markets, and it is the stronger tool for crypto. Quantral covers stocks only: US listings on NYSE and Nasdaq, and Korean listings on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. If crypto is part of your watchlist, LunarCrush covers it and Quantral does not.

Insider and Congress data

Quantral adds two non-social sources. It grades the stock trades members of Congress disclose and ranks the members on the Congress stock tracker, and it lists insider buys on the insider trading tracker. LunarCrush covers neither.

API and MCP

LunarCrush sells data access. Every paid plan includes its REST API, an MCP server and a CLI, with JSON and CSV output and request limits that rise with the plan. If you are building a dashboard, a bot or a research pipeline on social data, LunarCrush is set up for that job.

Quantral's MCP server connects Claude, ChatGPT or another agent to your Quantral account, so the assistant can read a stock's score, the posts behind it and the monthly recaps inside the conversation. It comes with every plan and is read-only. You use it to ask questions inside an assistant; for bulk data pipelines, LunarCrush's API fits better. The setup is in how to connect Claude to stock data.

Is LunarCrush worth it?

As of October 28, 2026, LunarCrush has a free account with market data and 1-hour and 24-hour social sentiment on its Discover pages. Paid plans start with Individual at $90 a month, $72 a month billed yearly, or $5 for a single day. Builder is $300 a month and Scale is $900 a month, with higher request limits for developers, and LunarCrush quotes Enterprise on request. Paid plans have no free trial; LunarCrush points people to the daily plan as the low-cost way to try one.

LunarCrush is worth it if you track crypto and stocks together, want engagement and creator metrics, or need social data in your own software. It is a lot to pay if the question you have is narrower: whether the people talking about a stock have been right.

Quantral is $5.99 a week, $14.99 a month, or $119.99 a year ($9.99 a month), and the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Quantral has no free plan. You pay for the grading: a track record behind each account and a score built on top of them. Prices are on the pricing page.

Which one should you use?

Who LunarCrush is best for

LunarCrush is best for measuring social momentum across many assets, including crypto. Traders who hold crypto and stocks get one dashboard for both. Analysts who care about engagement, creators and share of voice get more of those metrics than Quantral offers. Developers get a data API, an MCP server and a CLI on every paid plan. If attention is the thing you trade or study, LunarCrush measures it from more angles.

Who Quantral is best for

Quantral is best for checking whether the accounts behind the chatter have been right. It suits investors who research individual stocks and want investment ideas filtered by the record of the people posting them. Quantral grades every call it tracks, losers included, and weights each stock's 0-100 score by the posters' track records. It also reads finance sources LunarCrush does not, Substack, Naver and Korean broker research on Telegram, and sets Congress trades and insider buys next to the crowd. You can see how it reads a name on the stock pages.

Common questions

What is the difference between Quantral and LunarCrush?

LunarCrush measures how much attention and engagement an asset gets across X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and news, for stocks, crypto and other topics. Quantral reads finance sources and weights each stock's score by the track records of the accounts posting. LunarCrush measures social momentum; Quantral checks who is right.

Does LunarCrush grade the accounts it tracks?

No. LunarCrush filters spam and bots and weights sentiment by engagement, but it does not publish a graded track record for the posters behind a stock's score. Quantral grades every call it tracks, losers included.

Does Quantral cover crypto?

No. Quantral covers stocks on NYSE, Nasdaq, KOSPI and KOSDAQ. For crypto social data, LunarCrush is the better fit.

Is LunarCrush free?

Partly. LunarCrush has a free account with market data and 1-hour and 24-hour social sentiment on Discover. The full metrics, API and MCP start at $90 a month, or $5 for a single day.

Which is cheaper, Quantral or LunarCrush?

For a paid plan, Quantral. Quantral costs $14.99 a month, or $9.99 a month billed yearly with a 7-day free trial. LunarCrush's Individual plan is $90 a month, or $72 a month billed yearly. LunarCrush has a free account and Quantral does not.

Do both have an MCP server?

Yes. LunarCrush's MCP server comes with its paid plans and shares the API's request limits. Quantral's MCP server at https://quantral.com/mcp is included with every Quantral plan and lets Claude or ChatGPT read a stock's score and the posts behind it.

Can I use both?

Yes. You can use LunarCrush to see where attention builds across stocks and crypto, then Quantral to check whether the accounts behind that attention have a record worth following.

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Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell. LunarCrush details and pricing are current as of October 28, 2026, from lunarcrush.com; check LunarCrush directly for the latest.