Moontower records 32,164 monthly visits with +49.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Perplexity records 88,310,223 monthly visits with -3.7% growth and Freemium pricing.
AI-powered volatility intelligence with proprietary options charts, cited answers and an MCP server for your own agent.
Proprietary vol surfaces and charts
Moontower computes its own volatility surfaces, derives downstream metrics and presents them in 52 proprietary charts covering a live dashboard, cockpit, trade ideas and drill-down views.
AI agent with cited answers
The Moontower Agent answers questions like whether NVDA vol is cheap into earnings, grounding every claim with sentence-level citations from market data, research or your firm's own knowledge base.
Trade workflows
Workflow templates for income (covered calls, cash-secured puts), defensive defined-downside exposure and collars including zero-cost collars map market context to concrete structures.
Hosted MCP server
A hosted MCP server exposes 16 typed tools — implied vol, skew, constant-maturity IV, option chains, trade ideas and cockpit statistics — to Claude Code and other MCP clients over HTTP.
Strengths & Pros
+Computes its own volatility surfaces rather than reselling third-party data.
+AI answers come with sentence-level citations, which builds trust for trading decisions.
+MCP server gives Claude Code and other agents direct, typed access to options data.
Frequently Asked Questions: Moontower vs Perplexity
Moontower has 32,164 monthly visits, while Perplexity has 88,310,223. Traffic estimates describe audience size, not product quality.
+Covers multiple asset classes and workflows including income, defensive and collar strategies.
+Serves both individuals and institutional desks, with enterprise audit logging.
Limitations
–Serious options analytics carry a learning curve for beginners.
–Full desk-grade features and the funding suite are aimed at firms and may require a demo or higher-tier plan.
–Output is strictly educational analytics, not investment advice.
Perplexity
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Deep Research Autonomous Reports
Executes multi-step iterative web and document research across hundreds of sources, cross-checking facts and generating structured, citation-backed analytical reports that can be exported as PDFs or shared as interactive Perplexity Pages.
Multi-Model Routing & Model Council
Lets Pro and Max subscribers switch dynamically between Perplexity's in-house Sonar models and top external models (including Claude 4, o3-pro, and Gemini) or compare multi-model reasoning outputs side by side.
Perplexity Spaces & Hybrid RAG
Provides dedicated project workspaces where users upload local PDFs, spreadsheets, and text files, configure custom assistant instructions, and run queries that combine private document retrieval with live internet search.
Perplexity Computer & Comet Assistant
Extends Perplexity from passive Q&A into agentic execution, turning high-level user requests into completed workflows, multi-tab browser actions, and automated data synthesis via the Comet ecosystem.
Strengths & Pros
+Every generated statement links directly to numbered, verifiable web or document sources, drastically reducing ungrounded LLM hallucinations.
+Deep Research mode delivers comprehensive, multi-page synthesis reports at a fraction of the time required for manual desk research.
+Broad model optionality lets subscribers use Sonar, Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models under a single $20/month subscription.
+Focused search scopes (Academic, Finance, Web, Social) and Spaces allow clean separation between general browsing and domain-specific knowledge work.
Limitations
–The Free tier is tightly restricted to 3 Pro Searches per day and just 1 Deep Research query per month with no manual model selection.
–Power users requiring heavy agentic Computer runs or uncapped o3-pro/Opus-level research must jump from $20/month Pro to the steep $200/month Max tier.
–Synthesized summaries can still inherit inaccuracies if underlying top-ranked web sources contain outdated or biased reporting.
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