The honest comparison.
No marketing fluff.
The tools IBs use today were built for someone else — brokers, salespeople, or nobody at all. Here's where we differ, where we overlap, and where we openly lose.
| Feature | IBHQ | Brokeret | B2Core | DIY setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who it's built for | ||||
| Target user | Introducing brokers | Brokers | Brokers | You, at 2am |
| Setup time | < 30 minutes | Weeks | Weeks | Perpetual |
| Pricing starts at | $29/mo | $500+/mo | $1000+/mo | Your time |
| Lead generation | ||||
| Built-in branded website | ||||
| Multi-language (19+) | ||||
| Auto-provisioned subdomains | ||||
| Onboarding Telegram bots | Maybe a basic bot | |||
| Signals & Telegram | ||||
| Multi-source Telegram forwarding | Copy-paste | |||
| AI signal rewriting + watermark removal | ||||
| Auto-generated signal charts | TradingView screenshots | |||
| CRM & automation | ||||
| Purpose-built IB pipeline stages | Spreadsheet columns | |||
| AI outreach messaging | ||||
| Drip email + SMS campaigns | ||||
| Pre-built templates marketplace | ||||
| Billing & operations | ||||
| USDT payment (no fiat required) | n/a | |||
| Pay only for modules you use | n/a | |||
| Built-in analytics | Pivot tables | |||
| Full data export, no lock-in | ||||
The honest part.
Direct broker integration via FIX protocol. Brokeret and B2Core plug into broker back-ends to read live trades and margin. We don't — because IBs don't run the broker back-end. You see commission events via our webhook API, not tick-level trade data.
White-label for other SaaS operators. B2Core sells a full white-label platform to people running their own broker CRM business. We don't. IBHQ is for IBs, not for software resellers.
Regulatory workflow tooling. Large brokers need KYC, AML, and trade-reporting modules. We don't build those — your broker handles them, and we don't duplicate their work.
If any of these are what you need, we'll tell you straight: use B2Core. We'd rather be honest about fit than sell you something that disappoints.