Zerodha Kite Vs Upstox Trading Platform Comparison

Zerodha Kite is the flagship trading platform offered by Zerodha, India's most popular stock broker. Kite platform has a website and mobile trading app which is developed in-house by Zerodha.

Upstox is a web-based trading platform introduced in 2016. The platform provides a range of features for customers to analyze their trades and trade across stocks, commodities, currencies, futures and options across NSE, BSE and MCX.

Equities, Currency and Derivatives

MIS, CNC, NRML

NSE, BSE, MCX

Omnesys NEST OMS

Omnesys NEST RMS

• Powerful web and mobile trading application
• Works well in low bandwidth
• Charts offered from two providers; TradingView and ChartIQ.
• Extensive charting with over 100 indicators and 6 chart types
• Advanced order types like Brackets and cover
• Build on top of Omnesys OMS and RMS

• Built in-house by upstox engineers from scratch.
• HTML5 browser-based trading platform.
• Mobile trading app for on-the-go trading and monitoring.
• 100+ technical indicators.
• 10 drawing tools to make analysis easy.
• Opens 5 different windows at a time.
• Customizable workspace.
• Easy to use interface
• Doesn't offer installable trading terminal.
• Uses powerful Omnesys API, RMS and OMS in the background.

Kite is superior trading platform loaded with many features which are not provided by its competitor.  As Kite is under active development, Zerodha is bringing in 100's of new features every new version released. Here are few key features which make Kite a unique trading experience. 

1. Dashboard / Account Summary
2. Market Watches
3. Streaming Quotes
4. Browser Notifications
5. Market Depth View with Streaming Updates
6. Floating Order Window
7. Exit multiple orders/positions in one click
8. Multiple chart view (4 charts on the same screen)
9. Trade from charts (place trades from popped out charts)
10. Order Types: Regular, CO, BO, AMO

Key features of the platform are:

• Trade in stocks, F&O, currencies and commodities through a single window.
• Powerful charting tools with 100+ indicators to deeply analyze scrips.
• Real-time data feeds on the scrips.
• Access predefined stock list and indices.
• Universal search tool.
• Prepare a list of stocks with detailed information in quote panel.
• Set price alerts for desired scrips.
• Buy and sell stocks in one click.
• Customizable workspace.
• Add widgets to create a personalised experience.

• Clean & intuitive UI
• ₹0 brokerage for equity delivery and flat ₹20 for F&O trading.
• Universal search for all contracts across all exchanges - NSE, BSE, MCX
• Live Steaming quotes
• Multiple marketwatch and live market depths
• Advanced chart with 100+ indicators
• Advance order types including AMO, BO (Bracket orders), CO (Cover orders)

• Built in-house. New features are added frequently.
• Built using the latest technology.
• Truly zero brokerage for equity delivery (cash & carry) orders.
• Flat Rs 20 per trade for orders in all other segments.
• Advance order type like BO and CO are available.

• Not available as installable trading terminal.
• Option to investing in IPO's online is not available.
• Mutual Funds investment is not part of this platform.
• Reporting is part of a seprate backoffice software.
• Dependency on Omnesys OMS and RMS systems.

• Installable desktop trading terminal is not available.
• Mutual funds are not available as part of this trading platform.
• No trading tips, news or major event alerts in the app.
• GTC/GTD orders are now available.