Option Samurai alternative: who should switch, and who should stay

Who should stay with Option Samurai

If your workflow depends on anything beyond the scan itself, Option Samurai covers more of it. Its public pages describe several capabilities that OptionClaws does not have, and its stated filter count is above ours.

• You want to be notified when a new trade matches a saved scan. Option Samurai's Advanced plan monitors scans intraday and notifies you. OptionClaws has no alerts or emailed scans.
• You want the widest filter set. Option Samurai states over 100 filters on its features page and 170 on its homepage, and a saved scan can hold up to 100 criteria. OptionClaws has 80+.
• You backtest or simulate before you trade. Option Samurai describes a scenario backtester and Monte Carlo simulation. OptionClaws has no backtesting.
• You send orders from the scanner. Option Samurai lists direct transmission to brokers. OptionClaws has a trade journal with broker CSV import but does not sync with brokers or execute trades.
• You work in Excel or Google Sheets. Option Samurai offers a spreadsheet toolbox.
• You want a two-week trial without a card. Option Samurai's trial is 14 days with no card.

Who should consider OptionClaws instead

OptionClaws is built around the scan: pick one of 23 strategies or define your own legs, apply filters, and review ranked trades with a payoff chart and probability of profit for each result. It fits a few specific situations.

• You want to run scans from ChatGPT or Claude. OptionClaws connectors are included in the subscription, so you can describe a scan in plain English, have the assistant run it, price a position, or log a trade to your journal. The same connector works in Grok and Claude Code. We found no AI connector on Option Samurai's features page.
• You scan from your phone. OptionClaws has native iOS and Android apps alongside the web app. Option Samurai describes a full-featured mobile web version, and we did not find a native app.
• You want to go from scan to trade to journal in one tool. The strategy builder shows payoff at expiration and on any date, greeks, chance of profit, and margin; the optimizer ranks trades for a target price and date; the journal tracks P&L and win rate and imports CSVs from 7 brokers.
• You want to reuse curated starting points. OptionClaws ships 29 presets that you can run as-is or adjust and save.

Strategy coverage is roughly equal

Strategy breadth is not a meaningful difference between the two. Option Samurai's homepage says 24 option strategies, its features page says 24+, and its landing page lists 23, including covered calls, naked puts, long calls and puts, vertical spreads, straddles, strangles, iron condors, butterflies, and diagonals; its homepage also names calendars. OptionClaws scans 23 strategies across the same families: covered calls, cash-secured and naked puts, credit and debit spreads, iron condors, straddles, strangles, butterflies, calendars, and diagonals.

Both also handle custom structures: Option Samurai lets you define your own strategy, and OptionClaws runs custom scans of up to 4 legs, calendars and diagonals included.

Price and trial, side by side

Option Samurai's own pages list different prices. As of September 2026 its homepage shows Beginner at $39/mo and Advanced at $59/mo when paid annually, its help center says "starting" at those amounts, and its landing page shows a monthly plan at $49 and a yearly plan at $468. Alerts are on the Advanced plan. Check its pricing page before you decide, since promotions change.

OptionClaws lists $39.99/mo or $399.99/yr, with every feature on one plan. Both let you try the product with no card: Option Samurai with a 14-day trial, OptionClaws with a free trial, then a 7-day free trial when you pick a plan. Neither states an ongoing free tier.

How to decide

Start with the features you would miss. If alerts, backtesting, broker transmission, or a very large filter set are part of your routine, Option Samurai is the more complete tool, and you should stay with it. If you want full-market strategy scans plus a builder, optimizer, and journal, and would like to use them from ChatGPT or Claude or from a native phone app, try OptionClaws free, no card needed, and run the same scan in both products. Comparing the result lists for a strategy you already trade is the fastest way to see which one fits.

Frequently asked questions

Is OptionClaws a replacement for Option Samurai?

For scanning by strategy and journaling, the two overlap closely. OptionClaws does not replace Option Samurai's alerts, backtester, broker transmission, spreadsheet tools, or larger filter set, so it is a replacement only if you do not use those.

Which has more filters?

Option Samurai. Its features page says over 100 filters and its homepage says 170. OptionClaws has 80+, including fundamentals.

Can I use Option Samurai from ChatGPT or Claude?

We found no ChatGPT or Claude connector on Option Samurai's features page when we checked in September 2026. OptionClaws includes connectors for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Claude Code.

Does either tool need a credit card for the trial?

Not to start. Option Samurai states a 14-day trial with no credit card needed, and OptionClaws gives new accounts a free trial with no card. The OptionClaws 7-day trial on paid plans does ask for a card.

Does OptionClaws send alerts when a scan finds a new trade?

No. OptionClaws has no alerts or emailed scan results. You rerun saved scans yourself on the web, in the apps, or from an AI assistant. Option Samurai's Advanced plan offers intraday scan alerts.

Sources

• Option Samurai homepage (checked 2026-09-28)
• Option Samurai features (checked 2026-09-28)
• Option Samurai pricing landing page (checked 2026-09-28)
• Option Samurai help center: pricing plans (checked 2026-09-28)
• Option Samurai blog: backtester (checked 2026-09-28)

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