Cloakroom vs Quiver Quant vs Unusual Whales: Which Congressional Tracker Is Worth It in 2026?

Three platforms dominate the congressional stock tracking space. All three pull from the same underlying STOCK Act data. After that, they diverge significantly in what they do with it.

Here's an honest, side-by-side breakdown.

The Short Version

• Quiver Quant — best for quantitative analysts who want raw data exports and API access
• Unusual Whales — best for options flow traders who want congressional data as one layer of a broader market picture
• Cloakroom — best for investors who want to understand why a trade matters, not just that it happened

Data Coverage

All three platforms pull from House and Senate STOCK Act disclosures. Coverage is roughly equivalent — the underlying filings are public and the same.

Where they differ is depth:

| Feature | Cloakroom | Quiver Quant | Unusual Whales | |---------|-----------|--------------|----------------| | STOCK Act trades | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Real-time feed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Member profiles | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | | SEC 13F (whales) | ✓ (Pro+) | ✓ | ✓ | | Form 4 insider correlation | ✓ (Pro+) | ✗ | ✗ | | Sector flow dashboard | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |

The AI Question

This is where the platforms separate most clearly.

Quiver Quant has no AI layer. You get the raw trade data with aggregate statistics. Good for building your own models; not useful if you want interpretation out of the box.

Unusual Whales has started incorporating some AI summaries, but the focus remains on unusual options activity with congressional trades as context, not the other way around.

Cloakroom puts AI at the centre of every trade. Every disclosure gets an Intent Score and a plain-English reason generated by Claude AI, cross-referencing committee assignments, legislation timing, and disclosure lag. The AI Trading Profile feature (Pro+) generates a full narrative of any member's trading style, sector focus, and risk behaviour from their entire disclosure history.

This is either exactly what you need or completely irrelevant, depending on your workflow.

Pricing Comparison

| Plan | Cloakroom | Quiver Quant | Unusual Whales | |------|-----------|--------------|----------------| | Free tier | ✓ (10 trades, 48hr delay) | Limited | Limited | | Entry paid | $9/mo | ~$25/mo | ~$25/mo | | Full features | $29/mo (Pro) | ~$50/mo | ~$40/mo |

Cloakroom's entry price is lower, though the feature set at $9 is deliberately limited — real-time feed and AI reasons are gated there, but the heavier features (AI profiles, insider correlation, bill correlation) require Pro at $29.

What Each Platform Does Best

Quiver Quant is best for:

• Downloading bulk CSV data for your own analysis
• API access to congressional trade data
• Combining congressional data with other quant signals in a pipeline

Unusual Whales is best for:

• Options flow traders who want congressional context alongside dark pool prints
• Users already subscribed for the broader market intelligence (congressional is a bonus feature)
• Twitter/X-style live commentary on breaking market events

Cloakroom is best for:

• Investors who want to understand the motive behind a trade, not just the mechanics
• Retail investors without a quant background who want interpretation
• Anyone focused specifically on congressional behaviour rather than market microstructure
• Users who want cluster detection, velocity spikes, and insider correlation as first-class features

The Cluster Detection Edge

One area where Cloakroom has no direct competitor: cluster detection.

When 3+ members trade the same ticker in a 7-day window, Cloakroom auto-flags it with a banner in the live feed. You can click to filter the feed to just that ticker and see every member involved. Cross-reference with the Sector Flow dashboard and the Bill Correlation engine, and you start to see structural patterns that neither Quiver Quant nor Unusual Whales surface.

Whether a coordinated buy by 5 members of the Armed Services Committee on a defence contractor the day after a classified briefing is actionable is a separate question. The point is: you'll see it on Cloakroom before you'd notice it anywhere else.

Our Verdict

If you already subscribe to Unusual Whales for options flow, there's no reason to also pay for Cloakroom just for the congressional layer — Unusual Whales covers the basics.

If you're building quantitative models and need raw data at scale, Quiver Quant's API is worth the premium.

If congressional stock tracking is your primary use case — and you want the context, not just the data — Cloakroom's free tier is worth trying first. The intent scores alone will change how you look at a disclosure.

Start free at cloakroomai.com.