The Best Brokers for AI Trading
Some of the brokers we review can place trades for you with just a text prompt. Here's the scoop on their AI trading assistants.The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.
You’ve heard of investing in AI — but what about investing using AI? These four brokers reviewed by NerdWallet are working on features that let you place trades with just a prompt. Here's the latest on those products.
Brokers that have AI trading assistants
Interactive Brokers
AI features: Interactive Brokers’ “IBot” assistant can help you place trades and deliver customized investment research to you based on a text prompt. Interactive Brokers also offers AI-powered stock screeners and news summaries.
Other things to know about Interactive Brokers: Interactive Brokers often wins NerdWallet’s Best-of Award for advanced trading platforms, because it’s basically the opposite of the more basic platforms we review (such as Cash App, which is also on this list). It has an incredibly wide investment selection and strong customer service, but its platforms can be intimidating for beginners.
Public
AI features: Public offers “generated assets,” a feature that lets you type an investment theme into a prompt box and get a custom-generated basket of stocks — a made-to-order ETF powered by AI. It also recently released an “agentic brokerage” assistant that can come up with investment ideas, formulate strategies, and even place trades for you when given a text prompt.
Other things to know about Public: Public is the only broker we review that pays you a rebate for trading options, and it offers a high interest rate on uninvested cash. However, it lacks mutual funds and doesn't offer managed accounts or custodial accounts.
Robinhood
AI features: Robinhood’s “Cortex” assistant (currently available to Robinhood Gold subscribers only) can place trades for you based on a text prompt, and deliver you personalized investment research and portfolio insights.
Other things to know about Robinhood: Robinhood all but invented the streamlined, mobile-first brokerage, and its app is still slick — plus it offers free options trades and a wide crypto selection. But it still lacks mutual funds and offers little third-party research.
Cash App
AI features: Cash App’s “Moneybot” assistant (currently in beta) can help you place stock or crypto trades in response to a text prompt. It can also give you insights about your investment performance and saving and spending habits.
Other things to know about Cash App: NerdWallet recently started reviewing Cash App’s brokerage service, and our review so far is… mixed. The app is well-designed and may appeal to beginners, but the investment choices and human customer service offerings are extremely limited.
Here's how these brokers compare side-by-side, along with some other features and promotions the brokers offer:
Company | NerdWallet rating | Options contract fee | IRA Match | Promotion | Learn more |
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Interactive Brokers IBot | 5.0/5 | $0.65 | None | None no promotion available at this time | Learn moreon Interactive Brokers' website |
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Public AI Agents | 4.4/5 | $0 | 1% of contributions or rollovers/transfers | Earn a 1% uncapped match when you transfer your investment portfolio to Public. | Learn moreon Public's website |
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Robinhood Cortex | 4.5/5 | $0 | 1% on contributions (3% for Robinhood Gold members) | 1 Free Stock after linking your bank account (stock value range $5.00-$200) | Learn moreon Robinhood's website |
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CashApp Moneybot | 3.2/5 | $0 | None | None no promotion available at this time | Read reviewon NerdWallet |
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Other brokers that offer AI tools
At the time of writing, the four brokers listed above are the only ones reviewed by NerdWallet that offer or are working to roll out an AI assistant that can place trades for you, but they’re not the only brokers that offer some kind of AI-powered feature.
Below is a list of other brokers we review that offer AI tools beyond just a customer service chatbot or a robo-advisor that automatically allocates your portfolio.
Firstrade: Investment research chatbot that can summarize earnings reports and other filings, and make data-driven projections.
M1 Finance: Basic investment research and portfolio analysis chatbot.
Moomoo: Investment research chatbot and AI-written news briefs.
TradeStation: AI-generated stock-specific news summaries.
Webull: Investment research and portfolio analysis chatbot.
Is it safe to use AI tools to invest?
Not too long ago, even cutting-edge AI models couldn’t reliably perform basic arithmetic, and they still have questionable accuracy on topics like law and taxes. (NerdWallet’s data studies team recently demonstrated this through their experiments with AI tax advice.)
With that in mind, is AI advanced enough to be trusted as an investment copilot yet? The answer isn’t necessarily a universal “yes” or “no,” because there’s a lot of variability from broker to broker and from tool to tool.
TradeStation’s AI-powered stock research summaries provide one example of how unreliable some AI investing tools can be. The screenshot below shows TradeStation’s AI-generated summary of Apple’s (AAPL) financial situation.
Screenshot and commentary below are current as of 3:10 p.m. on Mar. 18, 2026.
The tool seems confused about whether Apple is outperforming or underperforming the market. It lists Apple among the “outperforming” tickers at the top of the page, but then titles its research blurb “Why is stock underperforming the market?” (The title also needs an added “the” to be grammatically correct, but that’s neither here nor there.)
What’s more, TradeStation’s AI summary doesn’t actually answer the question of why the stock is underperforming the market. It lists a bunch of bullish things about Apple and a couple of bearish ones, with no clear indication of what is actually driving the stock’s performance.
Not every broker’s AI tools are necessarily as sloppy as TradeStation’s. The trading agents offered by Cash App, Interactive Brokers and Robinhood and Public may actually have more guardrails against inaccuracy than info-summarizing tools like the one shown above, because the trading agents always ask you for confirmation before executing a trade.
Methodology
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All NerdWallet reviews and lists of the best investing products are created by our editorial team of full-time writers and editors, independent of any business relationships. In this case, our investing team's comprehensive review process evaluates and ranks the largest U.S. brokers and robo-advisors. Our aim is to provide an independent, balanced assessment of investment accounts to help arm you with information to make sound, informed judgements on which ones will best meet your needs. We adhere to strict guidelines for editorial integrity.
We collect data directly from providers through detailed questionnaires, and conduct first-hand testing and observation through provider demonstrations. The questionnaire answers, combined with demonstrations, interviews of personnel at the providers and our specialists’ hands-on research, fuel our proprietary assessment process that scores each provider’s performance across more than 20 factors. The final output produces star ratings from poor (one star) to excellent (five stars).
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