Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 8,357 third-party reviews counted
- 2 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.97
- 18 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 54.6
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Robinhood ranks #2
Robinhood ranks #2 of 4 stock & etf brokers with a TOP SCORE of 54.
The category leader scores 62, a gap of 8 points.
That is 1 points below the category average of 55.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 80; its weakest is AI Authority at 29.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
21 → 54 ↑33.7
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot ↗ | 4/5 | 80 | 8.4k | 30 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude grounded | 50% | 15% | 10% | 5.7 | 20 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| claude parametric | 55% | 10% | 0% | 6.1 | 20 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| claude grounded | 45% | 10% | 5% | 5.0 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
| claude parametric | 50% | 10% | 0% | 5.3 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- ETF Trader App30 Aug 2026
- NerdWallet30 Aug 2026
- Benzinga30 Aug 2026
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission30 Aug 2026
- justETF30 Aug 2026
- U.S. News & World Report – Money30 Aug 2026
- Forbes30 Aug 2026
- Clark Howard30 Aug 2026
- StockBrokers.com30 Aug 2026
- The College Investor30 Aug 2026
- BrokerChooser30 Aug 2026
- Finder30 Aug 2026
- Moneywise30 Aug 2026
- Unbiased30 Aug 2026
- Wise30 Aug 2026
- Kraken30 Aug 2026
- Spocket30 Aug 2026
- Finder30 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Robinhood is a US retail brokerage best known for a mobile-first, commission-free trading experience, with a paid Robinhood Gold subscription layering on margin allowances, cheaper futures pricing and an AI research assistant called Cortex. The dossier for this session was substantially unverified: only a single third-party affiliate page was retrieved, so the core brokerage proposition, ratings, regulatory record and complaint themes are unconfirmed. Treat this entry as provisional pending re-verification against Robinhood's own fee schedule and FINRA/SEC records.
- Category
- Stock & ETF Brokers
- Products
- Robinhood Gold subscription, Margin lending, Futures trading, Cortex AI research assistant
- Markets
- Retail investors
- Countries
- United States
- Pricing
- USD $5/month for Robinhood Gold ($60/year, or $50 on the annual plan) · free tier: Not verified in this session; Robinhood Gold includes a 30-day free trial for new subscribers
- Regulatory
- Not verified. Robinhood's SEC/FINRA registrations, SIPC coverage limits and its well-documented history of regulatory settlements were not retrieved and must be sourced from FINRA BrokerCheck and SEC/FINRA enforcement releases before publication. The absence of verification is not evidence of compliance.
- Official website
- https://robinhood.com ↗
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform54
- Category leader62
- Category average55
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