Kotak KEAT Pro X Vs Zerodha Kite Trading Platform Comparison

Kotak KEAT Pro X is free desktop trading software (installable trading terminal) to trade across NSE, BSE and NSE currency markets. It provides a range of features to traders that gives you complete control over your investment portfolio, provides live streaming market data, access to research calls and charting tools to analyze your trades.

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.

Equity, Derivatives, Currency, Mutual Fund, IPO, Corporate Bond, NCD

NRML, CNC, MIS

Market Order, AMO, SL, GTC

NSE, BSE

Key Features of Kotak KEAT Pro X are:

• Kotak KEAT Pro X provides a single platform to access major exchanges (NSE, BSE and NSE currency) and segments (equities, currencies, and derivatives).
• Create customized watchlists up to 100 scrips each. Create watchlists of scrips across exchanges.
• Unique charting tool to make graphs and track past and future performance of the scrips.
• Live quotes, data on top gainers/losers, most active scrips and more.
• This platform provides complete control to traders/ investors on their portfolio with real-time information and reports.
• Hotkeys for faster trading experience.
• Users can customize the user interface as per their trading preferences.
• It is available free of cost for customers having a trading account at Kotak Securities.

• Invest in stocks, bonds, ETFs, IPOs, government bonds, and gold bonds with zero brokerage fees.
• The Zerodha Kite platform offers powerful trading tools, including charting, analytics for futures and options, investment research, and backtesting.
• Zerodha Kite provides easy-to-read tax reports that can be used to file tax returns without hassle.
• Zerodha Kite portfolio tab gives Filtered and curated updates for the investments.
• Free access to products like Sensibull, Tijori, Streak, Quicko, and more.
• No gimmicks, spam, "gamification," or annoying push notifications.
• Trade futures and options (F&O) on the NSE and BSE, such as Nifty, Sensex, FinNifty, BankNifty, etc.
• Trade from charts and manage positions from the charting window.
• Commodities futures and options (F&O) contracts on MCX, such as Crude Oil and Gold.
• Currency futures and options (F&O) on Dollar (USDINR), Euro (EURINR), Yen (JPYINR) and Pound (GBPINR).
• Option Chain with real-time option prices, Implied Volatility (IV), IV percentile, Open Interest (OI) and OI change.
• Day’s high-low bar on the Kite app- The High-Low bar shows you where the share is trading compared to the high and low of the day
• Take a break from using Kill Switch, which instantly disables trading if you are overtrading and stressed.
• Virtual contract note to get a breakdown of brokerage costs and taxes for the day.

Kotak KEAT ProX key features:

• Keep track on a minute by minute performance of the portfolio, get notifications on transaction made, check profit/loss status and view positions.
• Create multiple watchlists and track your favourite scrips in real-time.
• Get live updates and stock recommendations from Research analysts.
• Use unique charting tools to track the past and future performance of the selected scrips.
• Basket order option to place multiple orders.
• Users can download different types of reports on order status, P&L, Open positions, ledger and capital gains etc.

Kite is Zerodha’s trading platform, with many features that its competitors do not offer. Zerodha brings 100 new functions to the market with every new Kite platform version. Here are a few key new features from Zerodha that make Kite a unique trading experience. 

1. Dashboard, Market Watches Streaming Quotes, Browser Notifications Market Depth View with Streaming Updates
2. Floating Order Window, Exit multiple orders/positions in one click, Multiple chart view (4 charts on the same screen).
3. Order Types: Brackets Orders, Cover orders, GTT Orders, After Market Orders.
4. Apply Mainboard and SME IPO Using BHIM UPI.
5. Universal instrument search: (search more than 90,000 stocks and F&O contracts) Level 3 data: Includes exclusive access to level 3 data, or 20 market depth
6. Advanced charting: Includes hundreds of indicators, studies, and tools on a customisable charting interface
7. Multilingual trading (trade in 11 regional languages).
8. Quick Order WIndow on Kite- Buy and sell securities in just two clicks. Simply enter the amount you want to invest or the number of shares you want to buy.
9. Invest in National Pension Scheme (NPS), Government Securities and SIPs
10. Gift Nifty on Kite-Track the Gift Nifty on Kite by searching for it. It is a futures contract based on the Nifty 50 index and trades for 20 hours on the NSE International Exchange.
11. Zerodha Minor Account Opening-Zerodha now offers free online minor account opening, allowing parents to easily invest in stocks, mutual funds, and bonds for their kids' future.

• Advance trading software for high frequency traders.
• 30+ technical indicator
• 5 chart types
• Customizable watchlist
• Real-time market access
• Facility to invest in IPO and Mutual Fund online

• 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)

• KEAT Pro doesn't offer commodity trading services and API integration.

• 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.