AJ Bell Youinvest vs Revolut compared

AJ Bell Youinvest
Revolut
Key differences
We took 8 criteria of our comparison (fee, account opening, customer service, markets&product, research, trading platform, deposit&withdrawal) and listed the angles with the greatest difference here below.
  • Customer service score
    5.0
    /5
  • Markets and products score
    3.4
    /5
  • Trading platform combined score
    4.1
    /5
  • Customer service score
    1.1
    /5
  • Markets and products score
    2.2
    /5
  • Trading platform combined score
    3.1
    /5
Recommended for
  • Beginners
    3.9
    /5
  • Equity
    4.2
    /5
  • Beginners
    3.6
    /5
You can't open an account in United States
You can open an account in United States

*Data marked with an asterisk contain additional info, expand the relevant sections below to see details.

Basic data of broker

Overall Score
4.6

Recommended for Beginners and investors with small and medium portfolios focusing on the UK market

Overall Score
4.4

Recommended for Beginners looking for free trading and a great mobile-only trading platform

Country of origin

UK

Country of origin

UK

Fees

Fees score
3.1
Fees score
3.7
Fees summary

Average trading fees, low non-trading fees, low fund fees

Fees summary

Low trading and non-trading fees, free stock and ETF trading

Stock and ETF fees

Forex fees

Fund fees

Bond fees

Options fees

Futures fees

Crypto fees

CFD fees

Non-trading fees

Deposit and withdrawal

Deposit and withdrawal score
3.8
Deposit and withdrawal score
3.5
Number of base currencies

1

Number of base currencies

1

Deposit type

Withdrawal type

Account opening

Account opening score
5.0
Account opening score
5.0
Account opening fully online
Account opening fully online
Minimum deposit
*

$0

*
Minimum deposit
*

$0

*
Time to open account

1 day

Time to open account

1 day

Required documents
*

Proof of identity: passport / driver's license Proof of residency: bank statement / utility bill

*
Required documents
*

Proof of identity: passport / driver's license Proof of residency: bank statement / utility bill

*

Trading platform

Web platform score
3.7
Web platform score
-
Mobile platform score
4.2
Mobile platform score
4.4
Desktop platform score
-
Desktop platform score
-

Markets and products

Markets and products score
3.4
Markets and products score
2.2
Stocks
Stocks
*
*
Fractional shares
Fractional shares
*
*
ETFs
ETFs
Forex
Forex
Funds
Funds
Bonds
Bonds
Options
Options
Futures
Futures
Crypto
*
*
Crypto
CFDs
CFDs

Research, education

Research score
3.3
Research score
2.8
Charting quality

Poor

Charting quality

Poor

Education score
3.5
Education score
1.0
Demo account
Demo account

Customer service

Customer service score
5.0
Customer service score
1.1
Phone
Phone
Live chat
Live chat
Email
Email
24/7 availability
24/7 availability

Security

Investor protection amount

£85,000

Investor protection amount

$500,000 (securities up to $500,000, cash up to $250,000)

Banking background
Banking background
Listed on stock exchange
Listed on stock exchange
Foundation date

1995

Foundation date

2015

Country of regulation

UK

Country of regulation

UK, DriveWealth (Revolut's execution partner) is regulated in the US

AJ Bell Youinvest

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Revolut

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Everything you find on BrokerChooser is based on reliable data and unbiased information. We combine our 10+ years finance experience with readers feedback. Read more about our methodology.

AJ Bell Youinvest's service is on par with Revolut's and a comparison of their fees shows that AJ Bell Youinvest's fees are slightly higher than Revolut's.

Account opening takes about the same effort at AJ Bell Youinvest compared to Revolut, deposit and withdrawal processes are about the same quality at AJ Bell Youinvest, while customer service quality is much better than Revolut's.

Our experts rated the trading platform of AJ Bell Youinvest as somewhat better than the platform of Revolut, found that clients have access to slightly more markets and products with AJ Bell Youinvest, while Revolut provides somewhat lower-quality research and education.

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