Tijori vs Drishti: Which Indian Market Research Product Fits Your Workflow?

Key takeaways

• Tijori is a ready-made investor research app with financials, operating metrics, screeners, portfolios, and Zerodha integration.
• Drishti is a REST, WebSocket, and MCP platform for Indian stock market data—built for developers, fintech teams, and AI agents.
• Tijori's free plan includes 10 years of financial statements; paid plans start at ₹330/month for deeper metrics and unlimited alerts.
• Drishti's Sandbox offers 1,000 trial credits; Starter is ₹2,000/month with WebSocket support for live NSE and BSE announcements.
• Choose Tijori if you want a finished research product. Choose Drishti if you need to build custom workflows around Indian market intelligence.
• Use both if your team needs a manual research interface plus structured data for agents or internal systems.

At a glance

Tijori: finished research for investors

Tijori is for the investor who wants answers inside a product: What does this company do? How has revenue changed? Which peers matter? What is happening in my portfolio?

Public product includes company and sector research, a natural-language screener, custom sector indices, a personalized Timeline, watchlists, alerts, and portfolio analytics. The free plan advertises 10 years of financial statements, shareholding data, one portfolio, one watchlist, and five alerts. Paid plans add historic data, source links, financial comparisons, Reverse DCF, unlimited alerts, and up to five portfolios. Tijori plans

The deeper research surface is a real strength. Tijori says its free tier includes the latest values for more than 1,000 operational metrics, while paid tiers include historic data across more than 6,000 metrics, plus revenue mix, market share, raw-material, macro, and sector research. Tijori features

You do not design an interface, connect a database, configure a webhook, or write a prompt. Open a company page, compare peers, inspect trends, add a watchlist, move on.

Distribution matters too. Tijori shows up in Zerodha's Console Timeline, stock pages, and other research surfaces. Zerodha's Tijori overview

Drishti: programmable intelligence for teams and products

Drishti is not trying to be a retail research dashboard or a brokerage-linked portfolio tracker.

It is for cases where market information has to move through another system: an internal research console, a fintech app, portfolio monitoring, a Slack alert, an AI copilot, an automated review queue.

Access is REST, WebSockets, MCP, and official JavaScript/TypeScript and Python SDKs. Current docs cover symbols, announcements, news, earnings, conference calls, alerts, daily summaries, and batch summaries. Drishti documentation

That changes what you can build.

A research team can subscribe to announcements for covered names. A portfolio product can pull earnings records and source attachments. An agent can answer from structured records instead of treating every filing as a raw PDF. A fintech app can decide presentation, materiality, and who sees each event.

Paid plans include live WebSocket products for news, announcements, earnings, conference calls, and alerts. Sandbox users can evaluate core REST with 1,000 trial credits. Starter is currently listed at ₹2,000 per month. Drishti pricing

You are buying a building block, not a finished investing workspace.

Same event, two paths

A company on your watchlist publishes quarterly results.

In Tijori

You typically get a Timeline or alert update, open the company page, read the summary, check financial history and peers, then decide what to dig into next. The product owns the experience. Simple for an individual investor.

In Drishti

Your app or agent can receive the earnings event, pull structured details and source material, score relevance against a watchlist or portfolio, and route into your workflow.

A desk might do something like:

1. Flag earnings for covered companies
2. Compare reported figures with the prior quarter
3. Attach the filing to an analyst-review task
4. Ask an internal copilot to list open questions (not to recommend a trade)
5. Notify only the analyst who owns that sector

Tijori helps an investor research inside Tijori. Drishti helps a team build the research process it actually wants.

When Tijori is the better pick

Choose Tijori when you need:

• A ready-made company, sector, and portfolio interface
• Visual historical research without building software
• Natural-language screening and idea discovery
• Portfolio monitoring, watchlists, risk views, family portfolios
• A low-friction path from a company event to a research page

Tijori also has data surfaces that shine for exploratory fundamentals: historical operating metrics, revenue mix, market share, custom sector indices, Reverse DCF. Drishti's public docs lean toward structured event intelligence and delivery, not a comparable ready-made fundamental dashboard. Tijori features

When Drishti is the better pick

Choose Drishti when the sentence starts with "we need this market information inside our own system."

That usually means:

• APIs instead of a manually operated dashboard
• WebSocket delivery for supported live market-event streams
• MCP for an AI assistant or research agent
• Structured earnings, announcements, news, conference-call, and alert records
• Source links that travel with your internal workflow
• Custom alerting, routing, summarization, and portfolio-review logic

A generic research interface becomes a constraint for a PMS, AIF, broker, analyst team, wealth-tech product, or independent builder who needs to decide relevance, placement, priority, and next steps.

Drishti is the intelligence layer for that work. It does not replace product design, research process, or investment judgment.

Pricing and effort are not the same comparison

Tijori's public plans page currently shows a free tier, a ₹330 monthly plan, and a ₹3,500 yearly plan (listed as about ₹292 per month). Paid plans unlock historic datasets, deeper comparisons, more portfolios and watchlists, unlimited alerts, and source links. Tijori plans

Drishti pricing is usage- and infrastructure-oriented. Sandbox: 1,000 one-time trial credits. Starter / Pro / Scale: ₹2,000 / ₹10,000 / ₹25,000 per month, with different credit, request-rate, and WebSocket limits. Drishti pricing

The bigger gap is implementation effort.

Tijori is faster to start because the workflow already exists.

Drishti takes integration work because the workflow is yours. Unnecessary for many individual investors. Valuable for a team building a differentiated product or a specific research process.

Which should you choose?

Tijori if you are an individual investor who wants a finished research product with company dashboards, screening, portfolio views, and alerts.

Drishti if you are building a research agent, fintech application, portfolio-monitoring system, or internal market-intelligence workflow.

Both if your team wants a ready-made interface for manual exploration and automated monitoring or AI-assisted research around structured market data.

Stop asking which product is "better." Ask: do you need a research product to use, or market intelligence to build with?

Frequently asked questions

Is Drishti an alternative to Tijori?

They overlap on Indian stock market research and monitoring, but serve different users. Tijori is an investor-facing application with ready-made dashboards and portfolios. Drishti is an API, WebSocket, and MCP layer for custom workflows—designed for developers, fintech teams, and AI agents building on Indian market data. Drishti does not try to reproduce Tijori's retail research experience.

Does Tijori have an API?

Tijori does not publish a self-serve public developer API. The FAQ states that public developer APIs are "currently limited," with enterprise data needs routed to support. For programmatic access to Indian stock market data, see Does Tijori have an API? or evaluate Drishti for REST, WebSocket, and MCP access.

Can I use both Tijori and Drishti together?

Yes. Use Tijori for manual exploration and portfolio monitoring. Use Drishti to feed the same NSE and BSE announcements, earnings, and news into agents, alerts, or internal systems. Many research desks and fintech teams pair a visual research tool with a programmable intelligence layer.

Does Tijori integrate with Zerodha?

Tijori appears in Zerodha's Console Timeline, stock pages, and other research surfaces. That distribution helps investors discover Tijori's company pages and metrics. It does not provide programmatic access to Tijori data through Kite Connect or similar APIs. Zerodha's Tijori overview

How much do Tijori and Drishti cost?

Tijori's free tier includes 10 years of financial statements, one portfolio, one watchlist, and five alerts. Paid plans are ₹330/month and ₹3,500/year (about ₹292/month), adding historic metrics, unlimited alerts, and more portfolios. Drishti offers a Sandbox with 1,000 trial credits; paid plans are ₹2,000/month (Starter), ₹10,000/month (Pro), and ₹25,000/month (Scale), with API credits and WebSocket support. These are not apples-to-apples: one is an investor app subscription, the other is API infrastructure.

Can Drishti replace Tijori for PMS or AIF desks?

Drishti provides the Indian stock market intelligence layer—structured announcements, earnings, news, concalls—that a PMS or AIF desk can route into internal workflows. It does not provide a finished research dashboard or portfolio interface. Many desks use a visual research tool (Tijori, Bloomberg, internal systems) for manual exploration and an API (Drishti) for automated monitoring and agent workflows. Drishti is infrastructure, not a research product you click through.

Does Drishti support Indian stock screening like Tijori?

No. Tijori has ready-made screeners and custom filters for Indian equities. Drishti surfaces structured announcements, earnings, news, and concalls you can filter and route in your own system. If you need to screen fundamentals visually, use Tijori or Screener.in. If you need announcement and earnings data to build your own screening or monitoring logic, use Drishti.

Do Tijori or Drishti provide investment advice?

No. Tijori says it does not provide PMS, investment-advisory services, or stock recommendations. Drishti is research infrastructure, not a broker or investment adviser. Both can support research. Judgment, verification, and any investment decision stay with the user or institution. Tijori FAQ

If you are building that second category, start with a Drishti Sandbox account, test one real workflow on announcements or earnings, and decide whether structured access changes what your product or team can do. Review the Drishti API documentation, WebSocket setup guide, and current Drishti pricing before you commit to an implementation path.