Reviews
Broker reviews
Each review publishes the firm’s exact legal entity, CRD and SEC file numbers, its registration status, its full published fee schedule and every field we could not verify. The point is that you can check us.
Interactive Brokers
9.0/10StrongThe widest published market access in our set, with a two-tier commission model and no account minimum.
- Minimum
- $0No account minimums
- Options
- $0.65 per contractIBKR Lite, first 1,000 US contracts a month. IBKR Pro tiered: $0.25 under $0.05 premium, $0.50 under $0.10, $0.65 above. Minimum $1.00 per order either way
- CRD
- 36418
Fidelity
9.0/10StrongA full-service US brokerage with a zero-commission equity schedule and no account minimum.
- Minimum
- $0No minimums to open an account
- Options
- $0.65
- CRD
- 7784
Charles Schwab
8.7/10StrongA long-established US brokerage with $0 listed equity commissions and no account or trade minimums.
- Minimum
- $0$0 account minimum, $0 opening and maintenance
- Options
- $0.65
- CRD
- 5393
E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley
8.2/10SolidA zero-commission equity schedule inside Morgan Stanley, with futures, bonds and crypto on the same statement.
- Minimum
- Not verified
- Options
- $0.65$0.50 with 30+ trades per quarter
- CRD
- 149777
Merrill Edge Self-Directed
7.6/10SolidZero-commission investing wired into Bank of America, with a $49.95 charge to move the account out.
- Minimum
- $0No minimum for general investing accounts
- Options
- $0.65
- CRD
- 7691
tastytrade
7.4/10MixedAn options-first schedule: $1 to open, nothing to close, capped at $10 per leg.
- Minimum
- Not verified
- Options
- $1.00 to open, $0 to closeEquity options capped at $10 per leg. Index options $1 to open, $0 to close
- CRD
- 277027
Vanguard
7.3/10MixedBuilt around long-term fund investing, with the most expensive options schedule in our set.
- Minimum
- Not verified
- Options
- $1.00Under $1m qualifying assets. $0 for the first 25 trades at $1m–$5m; first 100 at $5m+
- CRD
- 7452
Public
7.0/10MixedThe lowest published margin rates in our set, on the narrowest account lineup we publish.
- Minimum
- Not verified
- Options
- $0Stock and ETF options. Index options $0.50 per contract, or $0.35 with Premium
- CRD
- 127818
Webull
7.0/10MixedZero commissions on stocks, ETFs and standard options, with a $75 charge to leave.
- Minimum
- $0No deposit minimum stated in the fee schedule
- Options
- $0Standard contracts. $0.50 on certain index options, $0.10 on oversized option orders
- CRD
- 289063
TradeStation
6.8/10MixedVolume-tiered options and futures pricing, with a $10 monthly inactivity fee if you go quiet.
- Minimum
- $2,000Stated as the minimum to open and maintain a margin position; no cash-account opening minimum published
- Options
- $0.50–$0.80 per contract per sideSingle-leg, by volume tier. Multi-leg $0.25–$0.40 per contract per side
- CRD
- 39473
Robinhood
6.4/10LimitedThe cheapest published options schedule in our set, attached to the heaviest recent enforcement record.
- Minimum
- $0No fees to open or maintain an account
- Options
- $0.04Equity options. Index options $0.35 for Robinhood Gold, $0.50 otherwise
- CRD
- 165998
eToro (US)
6.1/10LimitedNo commissions and no options contract fee for US users, on the narrowest product range in our set.
- Minimum
- Not verified
- Options
- $0US users. Non-US users are charged $0.50 per contract
- CRD
- 298361
Researched, entity-verified, not scored
These firms are real, registered and worth knowing about. We confirmed each one on FINRA BrokerCheck. We could not read their published fee schedules from a primary source, so they carry no score and appear in no ranking.
- SoFi Invest
SOFI SECURITIES LLC · CRD 151717 · SEC 8-68389
Legal entity confirmed via FINRA, but the fee page returned HTTP 403 when we attempted to read it. Re-attempted on 30 August 2026 against the published fee schedule PDF and the SoFi support articles: both returned 403 as well. Secondary summaries of SoFiâs pricing are available and we are not using them â we will not score a firm from anything but its own document.
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