OptionVisualizer vs YieldLord, for options sellers

OptionVisualizer is a broad options analytics site — thousands of tickers, public screeners, and an MCP server for AI agents. If you are mostly buying options or exploring the whole market, it covers a lot of ground.

YieldLord is narrower on purpose. It is built for one job: renting out stock you already want to hold, by selling covered calls and cash-secured puts — and then helping you manage the position until it closes.

Where OptionVisualizer runs out of road

• The data is not live. Their own release-notes page carries the line “Options data is end-of-day; stock quotes are delayed,” and the cash-secured-put screen says it is “Updated nightly.”
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• Their cash-secured-put screen defines probability of profit as “the chance the put expires worthless” — the seller’s side. But the values listed sit around 20–32% next to deltas of about −0.20 to −0.33, and a put at −0.30 delta expires worthless roughly 70% of the time. The number on screen is the other side of that trade, so read it carefully before you use it to pick a strike.
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• It is analysis-first: it tells you what a contract looks like now. Their site does not describe a daily briefing on positions you already hold, or a roll / assignment workflow once the trade is on.
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• English only.
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What OptionVisualizer does well

Worth saying plainly, because a comparison where the other side loses every row is not a comparison.

• A genuinely free tier: the pricing page says the account “continues on the free plan” with 61 basic filters, 25 results per search, a watchlist and the earnings calendar, and that you can keep using it for as long as you like.
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• Broad coverage — roughly 6,000 tickers with public pages, far wider than our own shelf.
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• They ship an MCP server too, so an AI agent can query them directly.
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What YieldLord does instead

• Probability is quoted from the seller's side by default. If you sell a put, the number you see is the chance it expires worthless — the outcome you actually want.
• Quotes are live from Schwab during market hours, with Yahoo as a fallback, not end-of-day snapshots.
• The RENT score ranks candidates on 14 factors — earnings dates, liquidity, gamma, trend guardrails — and only surfaces the top slice, instead of sorting by raw yield.
• It stays with the position after you open it: a position coach with delta triggers, an alert-price calendar, a roll matrix, and checkpoints.
• A morning briefing runs every trading day after 9:30 ET and tells you what changed in what you hold.
• Read-only brokerage sync (SnapTrade) fills in positions, cash and equity so you are not retyping them. It cannot place trades.
• An MCP server so your own AI agent can read your positions and run scans, plus a Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese / English interface.

Side by side

Rows with a marked cell on the right are ones where OptionVisualizer does it better. Their column reflects what their public pages showed on 2026-09-09. Products change — follow the source links above and check for yourself.

Pricing

Their prices as of 2026-09-09, from their pricing page. Ours is a limited-time half price and will go back up.

Questions people ask

Is YieldLord a replacement for OptionVisualizer?

Not exactly. They overlap on screening, but the two are built for different jobs. OptionVisualizer is broad options analytics. YieldLord is for selling premium against stock you want to keep, and for managing that position until it closes. If you buy options or want the widest possible coverage, theirs is the better fit.

Why does the same contract show a different probability on each site?

Because the two numbers can be on opposite sides of the same trade. Their cash-secured-put screen defines probability of profit as the chance the put expires worthless, but the values listed line up with the buyer’s side of that trade — around 20–32% next to deltas near −0.30, where the chance of expiring worthless is closer to 70%. We quote the seller’s side. Before you compare any two tools, check which side of the trade each number is describing.

Is there an OptionVisualizer coupon code?

We do not hand out other companies' discount codes. YieldLord is currently half price at $14.99 a month, and both products have a free tier, so you can compare them before paying for either.

Do you connect to my broker and place trades?

No. Brokerage sync is read-only — it reads positions and balances so you do not have to type them in. Orders go through your own broker. Options trading carries a risk of loss, and nothing here is investment advice.